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Games like Within the Woods

Looking for games like Within the Woods? Here are top platformer recommendations with a horror focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Bee My Samurai, Until the Morning Breaks or SyRec.

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  • What is it? This is my short platformer game for the Samurai Game Jam 2024. You should help samurai fight evil bees. I was looking for a game idea for this jam and suddenly it all started to come together. I hope you will like it. I borrowed some mechanics from an old NES game called "Doki! Doki! Yūenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen".  The fewer lives a player has, the stronger his projectiles become, s…

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  • 50%Game Brain Score
    50% User Score Based on 2 reviews

    "Don’t let the fire go out" - so said the last person who let their fire go out. A procedural survival thriller. Coax woodland creatures into the light; collect the Morning Stones; avoid night beasts Web support for this game is currently experimental. If you are having performance issues please use one of the download options below. From my testing it works much better in Chrome than Firefox.  Ro…

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  • Take SyRec the plucky little robot and navigate puzzles of logic, timing and physics to advance to the next level. Controls Right/left - move right or left Up - jump Down - activate switch or terminal r - restart level q - quit to menu Progress is saved after completing each level. Why this project? After my last project CASE snowballed into something huge, I wanted to …

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  • 46%Game Brain Score
    46% User Score Based on 11 reviews

    Observer and the Observed is a short tale about a mysterious house in the woods. According to the locals, the owner would offer visitors highly intriguing tapes, and that guests are guaranteed to leave with a great deal of insight into their own lives. CONTENT WARNING [SPOILER] You might find the theme disturbing. Jam Observer and the Observed was made in 5 days for the Wanderjahre Game Jam 3.…

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  • 61%Game Brain Score
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    100% User Score Based on 12 reviews

    AstroViking is a wave-based survival shoot em' up! Play as a superpowered female viking fending off endless hordes of aliens! Combine 60+ upgrades to construct your own ultimate warrior!

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  • Harmony is a dungeon crawling puzzle adventure created in 7 days for Dungeon Crawler Jam 2023 . The theme is Duality. We hope you enjoy your journey in purgatory! Developer's Note: This game automatically saves progress in both the browser and desktop versions. If you experience a glitch in which you get stuck, restarting the game and selecting "Continue" will bring you back to the entrance with a…

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  • Works on Mac & Windows Browsers!Theme:  It's Spreading Cat Food is a comfy Isometric 2D tuna delivery game. We play as Rhino the cat with a Backpack and Skateboard. Navigate the town and deliver everything on-time and avoid the day’s dangers. Inspiration Paper Boy -  A game about delivering the daily newspaper and causing chaos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_(video_game) Player Exper…

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  • You're a young wizard, practicing with his new machine that generates magic tokens, but you end up opening a portal to another realm, where an aberrant wendigo sorcerer finds you and tries to capture you. Use your tokens to regain control of the door and close the portal before it's too late. (Made for the Acerola Jam 0) The theme of this game jam was "Aberration", so I tried to create a kind of …

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  • 84%Game Brain Score
    84% User Score Based on 64 reviews

    "Satiety" is a horror-escape room game where you try to figure out what happened to you in a eerie room. Gameplay lasts 5-10 minutes, involving finding objects, reading notes, and solving puzzles. The game is a submission for Synty Game Jam and has basic controls of WASD for movement, F for interaction, T for flashlight, C for crouch, and Tab for back/pause.

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  • ***This game was created by in 37 days by Team 5 for the Game Dev Field Guide 2024 Team Jam. Use WASD to move, and mouse to point and click when using a power-up.*** Power-Up Key:  Dash - click in the direction you want to dash. Stun - click another player to stun them. Pull - click a chair to pull it closer to you. Swap - click a chair to swap places with it and keep it away from another pla…

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