Games like Shovel Knight
Looking for games like Shovel Knight? Here are top platformer recommendations with a fantasy and comedy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Shovel Knight, Infernax or The Messenger.
1 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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89%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, stability93% User Score 866 reviewsCritic Score 85%24 reviewsInfernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
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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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89%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storystability, grinding95% User Score 8,714 reviewsCritic Score 79%5 reviewsTrine is a fantasy action game where the player can create and use physics-based objects to beat hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. Set in a world of great castles and strange machinery, three heroes are bound to a mysterious device called the Trine in a quest to save the kingdom from evil. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics - each character's different abilities help the…
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90%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storystability, grinding94% User Score 4,036 reviewsCritic Score 85%7 reviewsTrine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics – each character's different abilities and tactics can be used to invent new ways to overcome obstacles and save the kingdom.
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74%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability74% User Score 1,572 reviewsCastle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
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96%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability96% User Score 917 reviewsPlay as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
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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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84%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability88% User Score 1,568 reviewsCritic Score 72%3 reviewsA legendary series returns with a grand new adventure
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91%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgrinding, stability96% User Score 54,365 reviewsCritic Score 86%65 reviewsThe original Cuphead game plus The Delicious Last Course DLC on a single disc/cart.
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