Games like Shovel Knight

90%Game Brain Score

gameplay, music

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…

89%Game Brain Score

story, music

grinding, stability

93% User Score Based on 866 reviews

Critic Score 85%Based on 24 reviews

Infernax 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.

93%Game Brain Score

music, story

stability, grinding

98% User Score Based on 55,522 reviews

Critic Score 71%Based on 3 reviews

A 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

96%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 917 reviews

Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!

91%Game Brain Score

story, music

stability, grinding

96% User Score Based on 4,778 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 3 reviews

Freedom Planet is a combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragon girl and her friends against an alien attack force. There's trouble around every turn, from insects to giant robots to sheer explosive destruction, but you'll have a variety of special fighting abilities to blast your way through each stage. As Lilac, you can use Dragon powers to whip enemies with your hair, spin like a…

90%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, optimization

93% User Score Based on 8,102 reviews

Critic Score 87%Based on 31 reviews

As 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

83%Game Brain Score

graphics, music

grinding, stability

87% User Score Based on 764 reviews

Critic Score 68%Based on 2 reviews

Odallus is a NES inspired exploration game with lots of action. It brings elements of classics such as Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania while subverting some modern twists.

83%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, replayability

86% User Score Based on 1,182 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 37 reviews

The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps, and nimbly navigate the ruins of Mekacity.

92%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

96% User Score Based on 2,942 reviews

Critic Score 84%Based on 5 reviews

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.

84%Game Brain Score

music, gameplay

grinding, stability

88% User Score Based on 1,568 reviews

Critic Score 72%Based on 3 reviews

A legendary series returns with a grand new adventure