Games like The Way Back Home
Looking for games like The Way Back Home? Here are top casual platformer recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Way Back Home, Pid or Planet of the Eyes.
1 View GameYou area two kids who are out in the woods exploring, but when a blizzard starts up, you must get home as soon as possible! Light campfires to stay warm, or else you may freeze to death! Avoid spikes and pits to try and get home! If you die, you will respawn at the most recent campfire. If even just one kid dies, they both will respawn at the fire, "nobody left behind". The Way Back Home is a…
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67%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, optimization69% User Score 318 reviewsCritic Score 63%3 reviewsPid was developed by Might and Delight for PC, Mac, X-Box, and PlayStation and released in 2012. It is a story-driven platformer that includes a variety of puzzles. It was praised for the artwork, presentation, and soundtrack; and received the 2012 European Games Award in the Innovate Newcomer category.
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81%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsreplayability, grinding81% User Score 408 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsExplore the mystery of an unknown world. You’ve crash-landed on the Planet of the Eyes in an escape pod. Discover what lies beneath through puzzle solving, exploration, and audiologs from another survivor. Turn down the lights, put on your headphones and grab your controller to experience the atmospheric journey of a lone robot in a dangerous world. Planet of the Eyes will keep you on the edge a…
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82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, grinding84% User Score 1,010 reviewsCritic Score 80%18 reviewsA challenging, atmospheric and hand-drawn platformer.
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92%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsoptimization, stability92% User Score 276 reviewsPLAY THE FULL GAME ON STEAM NOW! Lose yourself in the relaxing solarpunk breeze of Re:Fresh, a 3D exploration-platformer game where you play as a robot collecting materials to help repair your town after a torrential storm. Explore at your own pace in the open-ended environment and collect solar cells to upgrade your movement options, forging your own path to get the town up and running again. …
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64%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, optimization66% User Score 200 reviewsCritic Score 63%7 reviewsRun, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!
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86%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, replayability91% User Score 2,254 reviewsCritic Score 79%6 reviewsPixel art action-puzzler
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37%Game Brain Scorehumor, emotionalgraphics, gameplay37% User Score 712 reviewsTake Canyon Capers, and add football to it... an all new way to play a classic retro platformer.
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76%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstory, grinding79% User Score 2,086 reviewsCritic Score 74%28 reviewsWelcome to Snake Pass; a physical action-puzzle game that sees the player slither, curl and climb their way through increasingly challenging worlds filled with evermore intricate obstacles and fiendishly mind-bending objectives! Snake Pass is the wriggling brain-child of Seb Liese, who originally came to Sumo from Holland to work on the LittleBigPlanet team. His prototype of ‘real snake physics’ …
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76%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, replayability78% User Score 850 reviewsCritic Score 75%12 reviewsIn Alwa's Awakening you play as Zoe, a heroine sent from another world to bring peace to the land of Alwa. Equipped only with a magic staff she awakens in a distant land and must set out to help the people. Traverse dangerous dungeons, meet interesting and fun characters and explore the world in this 8-bit adventure game. Just like the old classics you won't have a flashing arrow telling you exact…
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