6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 12 Orbits. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 12 Orbits.
Release Date: 01/02/2023
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Floripondis is a party battle where you use just left/right thrusters to move your flower around a level and collect sweets to win. Play is a simple fight to get to sweets first. However, other players and the dynamics of each level get in your way and...
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Out Now: PC and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
HyperDot is a dodging game, where you control a small circle and must move to avoid collisions with other shapes. It sounds too simple to be fun, but the cover design and variation in challenge make it a really enjoyable game.
Release Date: 03/07/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Ghost Grab is a puzzle game where you shoot a beam of light at ghosts to chain them together before popping them to score points. It's simple to start with but soon gives way to a frantic score-attack challenge with its unique way to score points.
Release Date: 29/05/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Open World
Yoku's Island Express combines pinball and running and jumping games. You run, bounce and collect special items, engage in battles with fantasy enemies and explore a large open-world. Just like a classic pinball machine you use paddles and bumpers...
Release Date: 20/10/2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Spinfrog: All aboard the Frogcopter is a traversal game where you help Geru the frog ride a log through tricky waters. Slip, squeeze and spin the Frogcopter through over 60 levels all while trying to avoid the walls and hazards in your flight path.
Release Date: 25/06/2013, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
TowerFall Ascension is a running, jumping and archery game where each player selects a pixelated knight and fights to eliminate opponents by shooting them with arrows or jumping on their heads. Play is about quick reactions and second-guessing what your...
13 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed 12 Orbits. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed 12 Orbits.
Release Date: 28/08/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Rocket League is a sports action game where you drive futuristic cars to score goals with an oversized football. It's a game that sounds ridiculous but is actually a huge amount of fun to play and requires a lot of expertise. What's not obvious from the...
Release Date: 12/12/2018
Out Now: Android, PC, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Soccer Physics is a super simple football game you play by pressing one button. Made by Otto-Ville Ojala who also made the similar one-button games Wrestle Jump and Tank of Tanks, it's designed to be silly and fun. The matches are 2-on-2 and you time...
Release Date: 23/08/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Worms is a long-standing turn-based multiplayer combat game. The twist is that all the players are worms. With bizarre attacks on opponents that range from exploding sheep to self-deploying ninja rope, the battle is on the far end of crazy.
Release Date: 28/08/2000, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, GameCube, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Mario Tennis Aces is the latest in the series of tennis game. These games recreate a relatively traditional game of tennis, although you play as Nintendo characters who each have special moves and powers.
Release Date: 01/12/2012
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Text
Spaceteam is a puzzle communication game where players pilot a spaceship, each with their own control panel on their smartphone or tablet screen. The switches, dials, sliders and levers are labelled with randomly-generated peculiar names: ‘Astral...
Release Date: 27/08/2015
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On
Runbow is an unusual racing game where each player controls a coloured figure who must run and jump their way through the platform levels ahead of their opponents who are trying to do the same thing.
Release Date: 07/11/2010
Out Now: Wii
Components: 2D Side-On
Fling Smash is an action-throwing game where you direct a ball-shaped hero by flicking the controller.
Release Date: 14/12/2018
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Ear Hockey is a bat and ball competitive game played by listening to the in-game audio alone; no screen is required. It uses spatial audio cues to signal to the player where they are in the play space and where the main game object, the ball, is...
Release Date: 12/06/2016
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Videoball is a minimalist sports game for up to six players. The aim is to get one of the balls into the opponent’s goal by shooting it with triangles. It’s highly skilled, frantic and works brilliantly in a competitive family setting.
Release Date: 14/10/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Pixel Cup Soccer is a fast and fun sports game where you play with up to eight friends in all sorts of football competitions and teams. The controls are simple but how you use your team requires practice and skill. It stands out for bringing back the...
Release Date: 11/02/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
StarCrossed is a breakout-style game where you shoot a projectile between two players to hit and destroy enemies. You play one of a cast of 5 space-faring heroes, each with unique abilities. Each level pits you against enemies that shoot at you with...
Release Date: 19/03/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dino Galaxy Tennis is a sports game where two dinosaurs play tennis stood on the surface of various planets. To play you move left and right to get to the ball then jump, spin and hit to get the right angle and bounce it into the opposing planet.
Release Date: 06/01/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Cow Runner is a survival racing game. Steer a cow around a course avoiding the electric fences and other obstacles. The catch is that the cow can only turn left and every time he completes a circuit he gets faster. The more you play the more you unlock...
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