Games like Micro Mages
Looking for games like Micro Mages? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations with a fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Rayman Origins, Shovel Knight or 8BitBoy.
1 91%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgrinding, stability94% User Score 4,310 reviewsCritic Score 88%5 reviewsBubble Dreamer, Rayman, his best friend Globox, and some Teensy friends are chilling out at the Bubble Dreamer's resting grounds, the Snoring Tree. However, their snoring disturbs an old granny from the Land of the Livid Dead, who retaliates by sending an evil army of horrendous creatures and the Darktoons across the world, capturing the Electoons that inhabit the world, imprisoning Betilla the Ny…
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94%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 19,114 reviewsCritic Score 90%9 reviewsShovel 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 multipurpos…
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68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicreplayability, stability68% User Score 943 reviewsCritic Score 65%1 reviewsBig classic platformer with tons of power-ups and 12+ hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration. 8BitBoy is a tribute to all the greatest platformers of the 80s and 90s and a symbol of my endless love and passion for gaming.
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91%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsmonetization, stability91% User Score 3,867 reviewsSword of Xolan is an action platformer game
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82%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, stability95% User Score 3,970 reviewsCritic Score 83%35 reviewsN++ is a fast-paced, action-packed puzzle platformer set in the distant future. You play as a ninja -- darting through obstacles, narrowly evading a slew of inadvertently homicidal enemy robots, and collecting gold in a minimalist, sci-fi world. You know, traditional ninja stuff.
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93%Game Brain Scoremusic, storystability, grinding98% User Score 55,522 reviewsCritic Score 71%3 reviewsA Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights
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90%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgrinding, stability87% User Score 2,811 reviewsCritic Score 93%9 reviewsThe Glade of Dreams is in trouble once again! The nightmares multiplied and spread, creating new monsters even more terrifying than before!
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, monetization93% User Score 1,944 reviewsCritic Score 83%13 reviewsFight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay features that makes this genre one of the best from its time!
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85%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability90% User Score 648 reviewsCritic Score 81%17 reviewsThe Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. So in a nutshell, pest control with machine guns in space. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter “Super Pang” where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash and tenacious exterminator who has a knack for decimating bugs.
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80%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, optimization82% User Score 382 reviewsCritic Score 65%1 reviewsThe Eternal Castle: Remastered is a remake of the original "Eternal Castle" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design. Numerous outlets have questioned the title's "lost game" backstory as almost no corroborating accounts have been found to verify the title's development backstory.
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