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Games like Mario's Great Nightmare

Games like Mario's Great Nightmare

Games like Mario's Great Nightmare

Looking for games like Mario's Great Nightmare? Here are top platformer recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Cruel World, Uncle Kenny The Game or Super Meat Boy 3D.

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  1. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    92% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    Cruel World is a mingleplayer masocore platformer set in a game world that degrades based on player choice. It is only available on April 1, 2021. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cruel World.

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  2. 71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 22 reviews

    Uncle Kenny The Game is a throwback 2D platformer with fun, fast-paced action gameplay and a variety of mechanics and weapons at your disposal.  BASED OFF OF THE ANIMATED WEB-SERIES ON THE "MAGIK CHEESE" YOUTUBE CHANNEL! Full Controller support Fully voiced dialogue! A complete 5-6 hour story experience unfolding over three distinct acts A varied and energetic OST: Made most… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Uncle Kenny The Game.

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  3. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, stability
    87% User Score Based on 469 reviews
    Critic Score 78%Based on 26 reviews

    Super Meat Boy 3D is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a tux – IN 3D! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Super Meat Boy 3D.

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  4. 98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    98% User Score Based on 82 reviews

    Soul of Roses is a 2D rogue light action game. Absorb the abilities of your enemies, fight, die, revive, and repeat to advance the story. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gregory Horror Show Soul of Roses.

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  5. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, music
    100% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    DEV NOTE: This game is not meant to be played in full screen.You play the role of a game developer tasked by a secret organization to repair a lost platformer game from 1976 that seems way too advanced for its time. But is it really just a game? A chilling homage to retro gaming – Rediscover the magic of classic games and retro platformers with a terrifying twist. SPOOKY PIXEL HORROR combines the… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Spooky Pixel Hero.

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  6. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    96% User Score Based on 7,943 reviews
    Critic Score 95%Based on 1 reviews

    Survive five nights of terror in this chilling adventure game. Travel between time periods to solve puzzles, gather clues, and outrun the threat relentlessly pursuing you. Move swiftly and stay hidden, and you may just survive. But be careful—it's not just your own life that’s on the line this time. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FNAF Into The Pit [Old Edition].

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  7. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    94% User Score Based on 383 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 2 reviews

    Our feather-shelled heroes were swept away by a storm, and they need your help! In this '90s-inspired platforming adventure, take on over forty handcrafted stages to discover the secrets of their world, the moon and beyond! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Windswept.

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  8. Jessica's Uncomfortable Hanukkah Adventure is a retro platformer set in the world of Dog and Spider Private Investigations. Never read the books? No big deal! How many of us even care about the back story behind Mega Man or Castlevania? Be a cop out to rescue her family! Swing your baton at the jerks, shoot them, learn to be a spider that inexplicably cannot stick to walls, who knows what's ahe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Jessica's Uncomfortable Hanukkah Adventure.

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    82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
    82% User Score Based on 134 reviews

    Groundbreaking research is encrypted on a computer from the 80's. Look through the computer and search the internet to crack the encryption in this fully Kickstarter backed augmented reality puzzle game. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to After Hours.

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  10. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability
    95% User Score Based on 222 reviews
    Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

    Pixel Ripped is back with a brand new nostalgia-fueled virtual reality game-within-a-game, this time in 1995! Help our hero Dot face challenging throwbacks to all your favorite 16-bit and 32-bit classics while surviving the struggles of a typical nine-year-old kid. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pixel Ripped 1995.

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  11. 98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    98% User Score Based on 113 reviews

    The year is 20XX, the earth has been ravaged by nuclear wars and our only hope is the research shuttle Nostrami. Unfortunately the ship has been incommunicado for 48 hours now. That's were you... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alien Scumbags.

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  12. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    88% User Score Based on 131 reviews

    Bloo Kid 2 is a classic 2D retro-style platformer experience with lovely designed pixel-graphics and a full chiptune soundtrack. Run, jump and swim your way through five huge worlds with twelve levels each. Master brutal bossfights and discover lots of secrets in the world of Bloo Kid 2. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bloo Kid 2.

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  13. After the invention and uncontrolled use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II, humanity almost destroyed itself in endless conflicts. Dust eclipsed the sun, and global warming caused all the glaciers to melt. The remnants of the scarred land turned the ocean into a muddy slush, in which the evolutionary process began under the influence of radiation. In the poisonous water, a parasite app… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unlife.

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  14. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    95% User Score Based on 278 reviews

    Save the galaxy in this exciting and challenging platform adventure game If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Juiced!.

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  15. 59%Game Brain Score
    100% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    They called it the Pandora Virus. At first, just a fever. Then, the world began to rot. Governments fell within weeks. Cities burned. Streets filled with the dead, and something worse. What’s left of humanity is scattered, starving, and hunted. The old world is gone, buried beneath ash and blood. You weren’t a soldier. You didn’t ask for this. But now, survival isn’t enough. There’s a signal. A… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HellFull - The Last Hope.

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    50%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, gameplay
    63% User Score Based on 30 reviews

    Battle Cube - is a 2D platformer with surviving elements and unusual bonus system. Having them, a player gets unique abilities to prevent all obstacles on the way. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Battle Cube.

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    Forgotten is an indie horror whit side view. The game has the atmosphere of a nightmare. The game will make you feel a shiver on your back. In the game you will play for a guy named Jerry, who had an accident, but after that, he ended up in an abandoned mansion. You need to escape from the mansion at any cost. Find different things, use them wisely. But sometimes the action may not be obvious… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Forgotten.

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  19. After surviving the train crash at the end of ACT 2, Joey finds herself stranded and alone.  Alternia's deadly sun is rising, the empire is hunting for dissidents, and the scattered pieces of her portal home could be anywhere.  Fortunately, the young "seadweller" Fiamet arrives to show her the way forward: deep underground, into a network of ancient tunnels left behind by the adults who … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to HIVESWAP: ACT 3.

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  20. --- THE OVERLAP --- The Overlap is a survival-cosmic-horror 2D sandbox game in which you'll be able to explore procedurally generated wastelands, scavenge resources, craft, build (or should I say 'rebuild'?), customize and upgrade your survivor, face eldritch horrors, survive the post-cataclysmic world, go through hell alongside friends online, rise from the ashes and find out the truth behind it… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Overlap.

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  21. 49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, gameplay
    82% User Score Based on 11 reviews

    Story driven Metroidvania-ish challenging platformer with cute hand-drawn graphics and a focus on exploration. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Trapers Platformer.

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  22. "Surreal Nightmare" is a 3D horror game with first-person gameplay. Upon finding a doll in the trash and taking it to her house, the doll is possessed by an evil entity. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Surreal Nightmare.

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    41%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    70% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    Gleeb Glob is a physics-based 2D precision platformer, following a fatigued employee who's lost their head. Climb the corporate ladder by racing to the top through a series of challenging platforms. Run solo or race with others in competitive multiplayer matches. Collect and unleash a variety of unique power-up items to get ahead in the journey to the top. The stakes are high and so is the competi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gleeb Glob.

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  25. 60%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    100% User Score Based on 11 reviews

    THE STELLAR ARMADA MOVES FORWARD WITH ITS PLAN ... With our main hero temporarily unable to continue his quest and a great mantle of ignorance covering the planet Earth, the possibilities of interplanetary armed conflict grow exponentially and the Stellar Armada prepares for its final attack. In this second installment of Stellar Mess, it will rest upon "the four", a group of self-assemb… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Mess: Operation Kush.

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    93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, replayability
    93% User Score Based on 596 reviews

    Help a pink-clad office lady find a missing document so the boss doesn't get angry in this free spin-off minigame to Kero Blaster. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pink Hour.

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  28. 99%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    99% User Score Based on 70 reviews

    [THIS IS THE DEMO OF THE GAME] Wishlist the full version coming soon™ https://store.steampowered.com/widget/3963520/ Unusual Tales is an episodic psychological horror game that follows a main character through what seems like a never ending nightmare. Will they make it to the end in one piece? GAME The city you once knew and grew up in isn't safe at all anymore after recent events. You, a r… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Unusual Tales: Deep Below.

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  29. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    93% User Score Based on 68 reviews

    Overview A solo-developed short horror experience shot on VHS. You wake up in an endless yellow maze. No items, no fights—just a camcorder and LIMINAL SPACE! Key Features - VHS Filters: Grain, scanlines and tape distortion The effect. - LIMINAL SPACE: Contains many LIMINAL SPACE scenarios - First-Person Immersion: Footsteps echo, lights flicker, walls never end. - Solo Dev, UE5: Created b… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Backrooms: Liminal Space.

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  30. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    100% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    PUZZLES, MYSTERIES, AND ACTIONStep into the twisted, magical universe of Creepy Tale—a world packed with eerie secrets, original brainteasers, and minigames that'll test your wits, agility, and stealth. To survive, you'll need to leap over deadly traps, dodge sinister foes, and crack puzzles like they're no big deal. Meet the mysterious—and downright dangerous—inhabitants of the otherworldly real… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Creepy Tale: Snow Child.

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  32. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, optimization
    96% User Score Based on 106 reviews

    Saint Slayer is an NES-style 2D action game, featuring loads of stages, enemies, and gore set against the backdrop of late-17th century Europe. Play as the ex-soldier Rudiger and wield the Spear of Sacrilege as you save the Holy Roman Empire from the corrupt Catholic priest Father Pacer. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Saint Slayer: Spear of Sacrilege.

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  33. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    95% User Score Based on 21 reviews

    CAPPA, a hero from capybara legend, needs your help! Your mission: free every capybara in the world from the evil clutches of Capy Land. But wait... who is that mysterious Stream-Bara lurking in the corner of the screen? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Super Stream-Bara.

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  34. 100%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, graphics
    100% User Score Based on 61 reviews

    "That game is called Retro Endurance 8bit. It's on Steam... I think you should give it a look. I think it's really neat. It's really neat." - Jeff Gerstmann (former editorial director of Gamespot, co-founder of Giant Bomb) About Retro Endurance 8-bit:Retro Endurance is a really neat one-of-a-kind retro game collection with an exciting and fun shuffler story mode featuring 52 differe… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Retro Endurance 8bit.

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    49%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    75% User Score Based on 16 reviews

    Welcome to the Hunters Guild! You’re not the hero slaying dragons, you just decide who's foolish enough to try! While the guild's reputation is in shambles, every hunt you approve could rebuild its glory... or bury it further. Hunter's Seal is a medieval fantasy job simulator where your observational skills and keen memory will be put to the test. WISHLIST ON STEAM Approve and Reject … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Hunter's Seal.

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  37. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    85% User Score Based on 156 reviews
    Critic Score 78%Based on 8 reviews

    Shantae is back in an adventure 20 years in the making! The nefarious pirate Risky Boots has a “groundbreaking” new plan that will leave Sequin Land spinning — by rotating the continent, she can move any town right to the coast for easy plundering! As Shantae, turn the tectonic tables on Risky by taking control of the land itself: shift, twist, navigate, and explore by swapping between mix-and-mat… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.

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  38. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, character development
    96% User Score Based on 681 reviews

    Wires and Whiskers is a fast-paced, two-player local co-op game where you control a cybernetic lab gerbil and its armed exosuit through tactical combat and magnetic puzzles. Each player takes on a unique role: one handles agile movement and melee dashes (the gerbil), while the other manages long-range attacks and magnetic interaction systems (the exosuit). You must rely on precise coordination to… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Wires And Whiskers.

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    Narcalid is a cooperative enlightenment journey emphasizing peaceful exploration that teaches real-life meditation skills as you decipher cryptic messages from the past. Immerse yourself in the beautiful and broken remains of once great civilizations, but stay aware… the Narcalid is a powerful threat that should not be underestimated! Features 4 Unique Characters Unique Skills and Powers Seamless … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Narcalid.

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    92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding
    92% User Score Based on 349 reviews

    STORYHaving recognized Minaduki Kashou’s talents in running his patissiere, Beignet felt her role was over. So she closed La Soleil in France and entrusted Fraise, the catgirl she raised, to him. Fraise feels a fondness towards Kashou but becomes bewildered in the face of his 6 catpanions. She turns to Shigure for advice but she too harbors a hidden love for him. Fraise feels that the relationshi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to NEKOPARA After.

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  45. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 27 reviews

    Recall: Empty wishes is a story-driven game based in Taiwan. The story centers around the desires and memories shared by a brother-sister pair. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Recall: Empty wishes.

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  46. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    88% User Score Based on 2,182 reviews

    'That's not my Neighbor' is a 2D Indie horror game based on the job simulator genre with an unique twist created by Ignacio Alvarado Monge AKA NachoSama. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to That's not my Neighbor.

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  47. 92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability
    92% User Score Based on 167 reviews

    Grab your weapons and delve into this action side-scroller intense adventure. Jump around and explore the insane levels. Shoot and dodge your way through enemies. Fight to find your friend and solve the disappearance! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Missing Banban.

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  48. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    Most mentioned negative aspects:character development
    90% User Score Based on 21 reviews

    "Paper Bride 6 Nightmare” is the sixth work to the Paper Bride series. Dive into a bewitching dream and immerse yourself in yet another immersive Chinese horror puzzle game! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Paper Bride 6 Nightmare.

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    63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 14 reviews

    A 2D fast-paced platformer with action elements and cartoon-style graphics. As a Reptilian, you must traverse numerous levels, avoid traps, and battle enemies along the way. Your goal is to rescue your fellow tribesmen and defeat the evil corporation that seeks to enslave your home planet! StoryOn a distant planet at the edge of the galaxy, a friendly reptilian race lived in peace. Everythi… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to I am Reptile.

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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 1,147 reviews

    Ratatan is a rhythm roguelike action game that combines rhythm games and side-scrolling action, with online co-op gameplay supporting up to 4 players. An intense battle unfolds with over 100 characters fighting in a massive melee. Defeat the enemies by riding the rhythm of Ratatan’s catchy, toe-tapping soundtrack in this delightful, heartfelt adventure! Welcome to Rataport! In the vast and tranqui… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ratatan.

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