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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, Bochi Collection 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. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability
    100% User Score Based on 18 reviews

    Bochi Collection is an anthology of short narrative experiences. Each story offers a unique world, art direction, and tone, from unsettling to heartwarming, designed to be experienced in just a few minutes. Though brief, these experiences aim to linger in your mind long after they end. Every story holds its own atmosphere, emotions, and hidden details waiting to be discovered. Each experience in… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bochi Collection.

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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. 99%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
    99% User Score Based on 74 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. 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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  8. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 838 reviews
    Critic Score 88%Based on 14 reviews

    Shovel Knight is a sweeping classic action adventure game with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and an 8-bit retro aesthetic. It's a hot mashup of new and old! You play as the eponymous Shovel Knight, a small knight with a huge quest. Shovel Knight has come to this land with two goals: to defeat the evil Enchantress and quest for his lost beloved. He wields a Shovel Blade: a multipurpose we… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shovel Knight.

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    92%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    92% User Score Based on 103 reviews

    Alpacalypse is a 2.5D action platformer where you control Pancake The Llama, fighting to rescue your wife, The Mrs. Kick and spit your way through hordes of alpacas, collecting coins, and platforming your way to victory. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Alpacalypse.

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    88% User Score Based on 33 reviews
    Critic Score 90%Based on 1 reviews

    More than a platform game, it’s a journey in search of glory. More than a comprehensive editor, it’s the opportunity to create your own adventures. Join Epicus and Chronos on thousands of feats to prove that you can beat the odds and become a Million to One Hero. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Million to One Hero.

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  13. 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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    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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  16. 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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    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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  18. 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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  19. --- 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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  20. 60%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, emotional
    89% User Score Based on 18 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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  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 stealth survival horror game about a lab-created beast that escapes and burrows deep into a cave. Rachel is a young woman who works at the lab and wakes up hanging from a rope facing the beast where her goal is to survive and enter the facility and find the exit where she can quickly escape before things go off the rails. 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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    82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 42 reviews

    An American provincial town has seen better days. Now it slowly withers away, shrouded in fog and surrounded by endless fields. Time feels frozen, and it seems nothing can awaken life in Riverwood. But one day, a group of teenagers discovers a strange, unmarked VHS tape. Driven by curiosity, they decide to watch it, which sets off a chain of terrifying events. The tape seeps into their minds,… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Pink Noise.

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  28. 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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  29. ABOUT THE GAMEAn invasion of androids from outer space has reached Earth. Zion and Eerie find themselves surrounded by these strange androids who relentlessly capture humans. Faced with this situation, Zion is forced to use his martial arts skills to fight the enemies. With the help of cosmic armor obtained from one of the invading androids, he will embark on a crusade to save Eerie and the other … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cosmo Knight Zion.

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  30. 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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  33. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    85% User Score Based on 156 reviews

    Shantae is back in a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game 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… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution.

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  34. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    96% User Score Based on 614 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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  38. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
    94% User Score Based on 18 reviews

    Join Mickey & Friends on a quest to explore the mysterious island of Monoth and recover three mystical books to save the world from disaster! Disney Illusion Island Starring Mickey & Friends includes the base game plus the Keeper Up, Mystery in Monoth, and brand new C.A.S.H. update featuring Scrooge McDuck. Play as Mickey & Friends Choose your favorite character and unlock special a… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Disney Illusion Island Starring Mickey and Friends.

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  40. 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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    91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    91% User Score Based on 1,147 reviews

    Join our Discord About the GameRatatan 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! … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Ratatan.

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  42. 95%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    95% User Score Based on 1,097 reviews

    Welcome to Happyhills, the place where you can indulge your deepest desires, make your wildest dreams come true, and slaughter anyone in any way you want. In this case, all three of these are... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to The Happyhills Homicide.

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  43. BeefarenaAliens have invaded the planet, and they seem to have taken special interest in earth's livestock!  Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help MeggaCorps rid the planet of this mutant menace by venturing out into the world and defending its people from the deadly herd. While on tour, you'll meet new people, find weapons, and face the most fearsome boss cows on the ranch.  … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to BeefArena.

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  44. 82%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, music
    82% User Score Based on 135 reviews

    Escape if you can in the darkness with a geometry cube! Spin-off Sqube game If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sqube Escape.

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  45. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay
    100% User Score Based on 10 reviews

    The second installment in the 2000s era styled anime-themed Kokoro Clover series! A visual novel paired with boss battles! Our heroes' next adventure is in...dinosaur times?! This time the bad guys are trying to destroy the future! The only way to fight back is with dino-transformations! This installment includes: - 5-minute recap of the story so far - Special feature episodes 1-4 ◆V… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kokoro Clover SUN - Prehistoric Invaders!.

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  46. 70%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, replayability
    77% User Score Based on 164 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 7 reviews

    A sudden Titan attack prompts massive evacuation efforts-but not everyone makes it to safety before the devastation ensues. Caught in the crossfire between battling monsters, many residents become trapped in the collapsing city—your only daughter among them! Kong: Survivor Instinct is a 2.5D action-adventure game that combines realistic platforming, challenging combat, and metroidvania-style expl… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Kong: Survivor Instinct.

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  47. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    62% User Score Based on 480 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 4 reviews

    Sharpen your axe, string your bow, brew your potions! Ancaria needs heroes like you. Grab your friends to join the resistance! The once peaceful land of Ancaria is in grave danger. The evil Ashen empire has enslaved its population and is using the orc-like Grimmoc to wipe out the Seraphim, who swore to protect it. In order to defeat the empire you will have to prove yourself as a warrior by rid… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sacred Citadel.

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  48. 96%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    96% User Score Based on 266 reviews

    The ultimate 2D horror is back! Dive deep into the diverse world of horror movies! Nothing can prepare you for the R-rated challenges you will face! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lakeview Cabin 2.

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