Games like Hometime
Looking for games like Hometime? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Bit.Trip Runner, FOX n FORESTS or PONCHO.
1 View Game85%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, grinding86% User Score 1,132 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviews"BIT.TRIP RUNNER is a single-player Science Fiction Platformer game with perfect mechanics, fantastic graphics, and a phenomenal soundtrack. As CommanderVideo, players race, jump, slide, and kick through over 50 levels of exhilarating music/rhythm-based action, with the chiptune group Anamanaguchi making a guest appearance. Leaderboards and achievements add to the excitement on Steam, along with Easy and Hard Modes for an extra challenge."
View Game2 View Game69%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstory, grinding67% User Score 69 reviewsCritic Score 71%17 reviews"FOX n FORESTS is a 2D action platformer with puzzle elements, featuring pixel-perfect graphics and a magic crossbow that lets you switch between two seasons in each level. Inspired by 16-bit classics, the game offers challenging platforming, screen-filling bosses, rich bonus levels, and upgrades for your shots and crossbow. Explore the mystical forest, uncover secrets, and test your skills in this love letter to retro gaming."
View Game3 View Game60%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstability, atmosphere62% User Score 143 reviewsCritic Score 58%8 reviews"PONCHO" is a single-player, open-world science fiction game with phenomenal mechanics and good graphics/soundtrack. As a robot in a world of post-humanity, you'll explore a 2D world with 3D thinking, solving puzzles and overcoming obstacles by moving back and forth through layers of the world. With a philosophical storyline and many challenges, Poncho's journey is one of discovery, meeting his maker, and potentially saving humanity.
View Game4 View Game54%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstory, grinding51% User Score 75 reviewsCritic Score 57%22 reviews"SolSeraph is a single-player fantasy platformer game with great graphics and music, combining action and strategy elements. As the guardian of humanity, players build and defend cities, explore various landscapes, and battle monsters in both side-scrolling and top-down perspectives. Developed by ACE Team, SolSeraph evokes the spirit of 16-bit era classics."
View Game5 View Game75%Game Brain Scoremusic, storycharacter development, grinding74% User Score 234 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviews"Rosenkreuzstilette is a single-player fantasy shooter action-platformer game with a sensational visual style and exceptional music. As Spiritia Rosenberg, players must navigate treacherous stages and defeat bosses to acquire new magical abilities. With the addition of new codes for special stages and modes upon completing Rosenkreuzstilette Grollschwert, the game offers increased replayability and difficulty levels, though some codes may disable the Replay function."
View Game6 View Game76%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, replayability78% User Score 850 reviewsCritic Score 75%12 reviewsIn Alwa's Awakening, play as Zoe, a heroine from another world, and bring peace to Alwa with your magic staff. Explore the open world, solve puzzles, and navigate through 400 unique rooms in this 8-bit adventure game. With its authentic 8-bit look, catchy chiptune soundtrack, and challenging gameplay, this retro-style game is sure to bring you back to the NES era.
View Game7 View Game78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, music78% User Score 83 reviews"MoonQuest is a procedurally-generated adventure game where each playthrough features a new world with diverse regions, resources, wildlife, and enemies. Gather resources to forge weapons, build structures, and uncover secrets in caves, ancient ruins, and lost cathedrals. With its unique worlds and inviting strangeness, MoonQuest offers an engaging and immersive experience."
View Game8 View Game45%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, stability50% User Score 40 reviews"Astral" is a 2D puzzle-based game set in a post-apocalyptic world where 95% of the population has mutated into monsters. As a survivor with immunity, you must use a device to control these monsters and solve puzzles to reach a bunker of survivors and save humanity. The game features atmospheric music and an emphasis on exploration and examination of documents.
View Game9 View Game91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicreplayability, optimization91% User Score 82 reviews"Cubicolor" is a single-player musical puzzle game with good mechanics and soothing piano music that accompanies the player through 50 different levels. The objective is to match color patches and reach the exit on a single path, with tiles only able to be touched once. A recent update fixed music volume issues and added a dark background option. The game takes around 2 hours to complete.
View Game10 View Game82%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability87% User Score 372 reviewsCritic Score 78%11 reviewsAlwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, magical items and ancient secrets. By upgrading your magic, any way forward is right in this non-linear adventure game full of exploration.
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