Games like The Long Tale
Looking for games like The Long Tale? Here are top casual platformer recommendations with a fantasy focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Minit, Goblin and Coins or Shovel Knight.
1 84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability91% User Score 934 reviewsCritic Score 78%29 reviewsMinit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, humorgraphics, story88% User Score 72 reviewsRun and jump, collect coins, confront enemies and avoid traps, open gates and find secret stashes. It's a simple 2D platformer with a twist: You're not a hero from the castle about to slay an evil dragon, you're a goblin cook working for the dragon! It starts slowly but things get more and more complicated as you go.
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90%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability93% User Score 838 reviewsCritic Score 88%14 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 multipurpose we…
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsgrinding, replayability94% User Score 528 reviewsCritic Score 69%4 reviewsTsioque is an animated adventure game inspired by classic 80s and 90s point and click titles. Craftily mixing influences of games like Day of the Tentacle, Dragon's Lair or Humongous Games' Pajama Sam, it offers its own, original narrative experience, which can be described as both dark and adorable.
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98%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding98% User Score 636 reviewsBZZZT is a fast-paced "jump-dash-run" platformer game combining a nostalgic pixel-art look with a modern gameplay design. It was almost single-handedly made by one developer – Karel Matejka, known as Ko.dll, as a tribute to beloved classic games. Inspired by the 80's tech revolution, this insanely detailed, pixel-art precision platformer transports you back in time, where you’ll get to …
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View Game67%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability75% User Score 476 reviewsCritic Score 45%3 reviewsInspired by the demanding gameplay of 8-bit action/platformers, Oniken pits your agility and swordplay against a gauntlet of enemies, traps, and challenging bosses.
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74%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding72% User Score 127 reviewsCritic Score 80%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…
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding79% User Score 1,578 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsRemember when games were tough? Return to the Golden Age of arcades with an all-NEW hardcore action experience that pulls no punches. Volgarr the Viking possesses all the hallmarks of the true classics - simple controls, high challenge, and meticulous design - combined with hand-made pixel
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60%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstability, atmosphere62% User Score 143 reviewsCritic Score 58%8 reviewsA Platformer like nothing seen before in games, explore this open-world puzzler in multiple dimensions on a journey to find your maker. Poncho is a new kind of game where the player navigates by switching between 3 "layers" in 3D in order to explore a 2D world. "Poncho" is a robot who wakes up in a post-post-post apocalypse world, where humanity has been wiped from the face of the earth many centu…
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76%Game Brain Scoregraphics, storygameplay, stability76% User Score 447 reviewsAge of Barbarian Ex is an action hack 'n 'slash game inspired to 80s, fantasy and sword-and-sorcery genre. Muscular barbarians, scantily clad girls, hordes of bloodthirsty monsters, a lot of gore, a pretty epic story and an addictive soundtrack! What's best in life?
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