Games like Cave of Past Sorrows
Looking for games like Cave of Past Sorrows? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Black Future '88, Downwell or Flinthook.
1 71%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, optimization71% User Score 390 reviewsCritic Score 76%1 reviewsClimb a procedural tower in an alternate version of 1988 to kill its insane owner. Then do it again, and again. The constantly evolving world is influenced by other players as you experience this bold and wildly exciting dungeon crawler.
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94%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability97% User Score 9,682 reviewsCritic Score 79%2 reviewsDownwell is a curious game about a young man with guns for boots venturing down a well in search of untold treasures. Make your way further and further down into a darkness filled with nasty creatures and mysterious secrets and collect the spectacular red gems scattered about the rocks. Step into an oddly placed shop to buy some helpful items or level up between caverns to battle well dwelling mon…
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73%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability71% User Score 592 reviewsCritic Score 75%19 reviewsFlinthook is a fast action-platformer with “roguelike” elements. Become space’s greatest pirate with your hookshot, pistol and slowmo powers!
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84%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability84% User Score 2,692 reviewsThey Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror. Rendered in a distinct visual style that blends pixel art with paper and ink textures, They Bleed Pixels is a singular mix of intense platforming and fierce beat-em-up action. At the core of its fighting system is a simple one-button combat scheme with surprising depth and versatility. Butt…
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86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding86% User Score 142 reviews"Taking up arms solo or with a friend, you must dance with death in a brutal and addictive arcade platformer shooter inspired by Super Crate Box and stuffed to the brim with unlockables. Fight through rapid fire single screen levels each with a random combination of platform layout, objective, vending machines and enemies. Dodge and weave amongst the aliens to stay alive but don’t leave them stan…
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85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding95% User Score 7,125 reviewsCritic Score 74%10 reviewsInspired by 1990s FPS and arcade games, Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can. Compete for precious seconds with Steam Friends or on global leaderboards.Your spirit and skill will be tested.
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67%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstability67% User Score 258 reviewsUltionus is a love-letter to the home computer arcade games of the late 80s and early 90s, with colorful 2D visuals, catchy chiptune music by the legendary Jake 'Virt' Kaufman, and 7 stages of hard-as-nails gameplay.
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74%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, optimization79% User Score 2,746 reviewsCritic Score 70%22 reviewsExit the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon climber immediately following the adventures of the misfit ‘Gungeoneers’ and their journey for personal absolution in Enter the Gungeon. The Gungeon has become a paradox and is collapsing! Armed with an ever-changing weapon, an insatiable need to loot, and the trusty dodge roll, each of our heroes must ascend and escape via their own unique route of increa…
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View Game79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicreplayability, grinding79% User Score 788 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsYou play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.
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72%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, grinding67% User Score 270 reviewsCritic Score 77%14 reviewsIt's a twin-stick vertical scrolling Shooter hybrid with a cinematic flare: An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes Cygni the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups.
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