Games like Tape it or Leave it - Wintermelon Jam 2025

Created for GMTK Jam 2024. The idea was to make an Metroidvania. Sadly, as is usually the case with overscoping, most of the content that makes the game a game couldn't get in. A good chunk of the development time actually went into making the basic mechanics and the level editor, so I made sure to include them in the web version as well (even if without the ability to save your creation). Usage …

Manga Ninja A platformer without a jump button. In Manga Ninja, you cannot jump. Instead, you throw a shuriken into the air, create a grappling point, and pull yourself toward it. Every movement is deliberate. Every mistake is visible. Every success feels earned. Core Gameplay No jump key — only shuriken grappling Precise mid-air movement Skill-based platforming Easy t…

55%Game Brain Score

story, graphics

gameplay, grinding

91% User Score Based on 11 reviews

GatePass is a 2D platformer game with strong puzzle elements. Escape the 100-level labyrinth and return home safely. About Knot The main character, Knot, is a young man of the dwarf race, 30 cm tall. While napping at home, a wild slime invades and transforms into the door of his room, imprisoning him in a different space. The goal of his journey is to understand the natural laws of the l…

77%Game Brain Score

gameplay, music

88% User Score Based on 48 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

Gravity Error is an indie 2D puzzle/platformer about changing gravity. Guide Force in his quest seeking emotional stableness in a set of levels and avoid being crushed. Solve the puzzles in multiple creative ways.

In No Hacker's Sky you're a space enthusiast, who also happens to be a skilled hacker. It's set in the future, where a huge space mining corporation called Extrasolar Mining Corp (EMC) has deployed probes, satellites and manned stations on distant planets and moons. You are contacted by a group called Unknown to hack into the EMC network to find out what is going on. Here's where the game begins. …

Directive 399WH is a… we’re not sure exactly. You are woken by your ship’s AI as there is an anomaly causing time loops aboard ship. The AI has a plan and he has chosen you….. for some reason?The game is kind of a Puzzle/Exploration/Narrative game…. Just play it for a bit and tell us what we have made. Please… we’d love to know  If it feels like two different games jammed together at a certain p…

Aim with mouse, click to shootDidn't get around to making layouts for the levels but levels 1-5 should have there mechanics shownAssets: shooter, ball, bricks: https://opengameart.org/content/breakout-brick-breaker-tile-set-free Background image: https://opengameart.org/content/space-background-2 music: https://opengameart.org/content/platformer-game-music-pack Sound Effects: https://kenney.nl…

74%Game Brain Score

gameplay, graphics

grinding

72% User Score Based on 127 reviews

Critic Score 80%Based on 1 reviews

"In the glade, there grew a tree. Merry, Merry king of the woods was he. Deep in his heart lived spirits, three. Dark secrets had this family." In Where is my Heart? you play the story of a family of forest spirits. Their world gets broken up into fragments which you have to piece back together in your mind. Each of the three characters can transform into a magical creature along the wa…

89%Game Brain Score

gameplay, music

stability, grinding

97% User Score Based on 296 reviews

Critic Score 75%Based on 5 reviews

Tetrobot is the world's most popular and reliable robot, but he's not perfect. That's why I, Maya, have built him a microscopic little brother, Psychobot. Help me guide Psy through Tetrobot's cogs and circuits: by swallowing blocks of matter and spitting them out, we can repair anything. Learn how pipes, lasers, fans and other electronic devices work, learn how to alter the chemical properties of…

30%Game Brain Score

gameplay, emotional

graphics, music

30% User Score Based on 77 reviews

Phat Stacks is puzzle platformer, physics based addictive arcade game that is all about collecting crystals by building platforms and controlling an alien lifeform across these platforms