Games like Headlander
Looking for games like Headlander? Here are top platformer recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Ghost 1.0, Out There Somewhere or Gato Roboto.
1 84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, stability87% User Score 878 reviewsCritic Score 77%4 reviewsA mysterious agent, capable of becoming a digital ghost, sneaks aboard the Nakamura Space Station. This is where the fun begins: the station is well-protected with its heavy defences, never-ending arsenal of weapons, and mysterious artifacts. It will all have to be destroyed.
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91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, optimization92% User Score 5,600 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsYou play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
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89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability95% User Score 3,634 reviewsCritic Score 76%4 reviewsPounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
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88%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability91% User Score 7,404 reviewsCritic Score 79%32 reviewsExplore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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84%Game Brain Scorehumor, gameplayreplayability, grinding91% User Score 1,160 reviewsCritic Score 75%7 reviewsMarooned on the desolate planet Gravoria, the trio of adventurers finds the only method of escape awaits at the top of a tower - a tower renowned for its deadliness and its propensity to be filled with monsters! Lizard-men! UFOs! Nuclear ants! Dinosaurs! Robot Apes!
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86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability96% User Score 4,344 reviewsCritic Score 75%11 reviewsSupraland is a first-person metroidvania puzzle game. Explore, solve puzzles, beat up monsters, find secret upgrades and new abilities that help you reach new places.
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability75% User Score 1,668 reviewsCritic Score 86%4 reviewsOutland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos. In-between Balance and Chaos stands one man, whose efforts will either bridge the ancient divide or doom the world to destruction. Outland is an ambitious 2D-platformer with a beautiful visual style and a unique, polarity-switching gameplay syst…
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78%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability80% User Score 1,231 reviewsCritic Score 76%19 reviewsTeslagrad is a 2D puzzle platformer developed by Rain Games. Released in 2013, it is set in a steampunk-inspired world and revolves around the use of magnetism and electricity to solve puzzles. Players control a young boy who must navigate through a mysterious tower, using magnetic powers to manipulate the environment and overcome obstacles. The game is characterised by its lack of dialogue, relyi…
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90%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, optimization93% User Score 8,102 reviewsCritic Score 87%31 reviewsAs a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, replayability97% User Score 1,574 reviewsCritic Score 86%29 reviewsYoku has arrived on Mokumana and he’s ready for the easy life, soaking up the sun and delivering parcels on a tropical paradise! However, an ancient Island deity is trapped in a restless sleep - and it’s all down to Yoku to traverse the island using a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration, in an amazing adventure to help those in need! Flip and bump our pint-siz…
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