Games like Velocity 2X
Looking for games like Velocity 2X? Here are top arcade platformer recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with RIVE: Wreck, Hack, Die, Retry!, Mr. Shifty or Flinthook.
1 80%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyreplayability, grinding80% User Score 548 reviewsRIVE is the metal wrecking, robot hacking shooter you've been waiting for! This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style. Endless variety: fight on land, underwater, in zero gravity or on a moving train! Gather hacks…
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85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storyoptimization, grinding87% User Score 980 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsShift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty! Mr. Shifty follows a teleportation-fueled heist to break into the world's most secure facility.
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73%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability71% User Score 592 reviewsCritic Score 75%19 reviewsFlinthook is a fast action-platformer with “roguelike” elements. Become space’s greatest pirate with your hookshot, pistol and slowmo powers!
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77%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storystability, character development86% User Score 697 reviewsCritic Score 68%12 reviewsA game of speed, precision and freedom, use all the abilities of your rocket-powered suit to avoid fatal hazards, dodge hostile robots and reach not just the finish line, but the top of the worldwide leaderboards. Carve your own path through a multitude of mysterious floating ruins high above the clouds and show everyone you're the best!
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View Game79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicreplayability, grinding79% User Score 788 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsYou play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability75% User Score 1,668 reviewsCritic Score 86%4 reviewsOutland is a fast-paced, dynamic platformer where the player uses powers of light and dark in an epic journey to save the world from forces of chaos. In-between Balance and Chaos stands one man, whose efforts will either bridge the ancient divide or doom the world to destruction. Outland is an ambitious 2D-platformer with a beautiful visual style and a unique, polarity-switching gameplay syst…
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89%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, grinding87% User Score 1,241 reviewsCritic Score 100%1 reviewsFrom the collaboration between Housemarque (Resogun, Alienation, Matterfall), and Robotron and Smash TV legendary creator Eugene Jarvis comes Nex Machina, an explosive arcade experience created with competition in mind.
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90%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgrinding, stability90% User Score 1,914 reviewsExperience the full evolution of the award-winning Geometry Wars franchise and battle through waves of enemies on 3D grids in this frenetic arcade shooter! Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved includes all of the great content & features from Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions and more.
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86%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicstability, grinding86% User Score 519 reviewsGet back to some serious Old-School gaming with Syder Arcade! A love letter to Amiga games of the 90′, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders. Syder Arcade is a free scrolling, multi directional shoot ’em up, an uncompromised old-school experience, furious, challenging, straightforward. This game will bring you back in time, when bulky starships were …
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76%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstability, grinding83% User Score 777 reviewsCritic Score 63%4 reviewsCapsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
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