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Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Flinthook. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Flinthook.
Release Date: 12/04/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
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Release Date: 30/05/2019
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
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Gato Roboto is a running, jumping and shooting game about a cat in a mechanical suit that needs to save her space commander master. Play involves exploring the levels to take on enemies, discover new weapons and use them to access more of each area. It...
Release Date: 18/07/2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Roto Force is a shooting game where you battle enemies as a slug who is permanently attached to the inside wall of each box-like level. As you frantically dash through the stages the whole room twists and turns accordingly, meaning not only do you...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Minishoot Adventures is, as its name suggests, a shooting adventure. You play a miniature spaceship on a mission to save its friends from invaders. In the small craft, you traverse lush caves, arid deserts, and ancient dungeons and shoot down enemy...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Pepper Grinder is an action adventure game about a hero with an unusual weapon: a super-powered drill. Play is all about using this drill in interesting ways, combining running and jumping with tunnelling through the dirt of the terrain. It's a novel...
Release Date: 14/12/2020, updated in 2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Trigger is a retro running, jumping and shooting game. You play a space adventurer answering a distress call from a planet overrun with alien robots. It's a love letter to classic pixelated platform games with a mix of cave adventure, combat, and...
35 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Flinthook. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Flinthook.
Release Date: 05/10/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a role-play adventure where you save the world from colourless darkness. Unusually, battles are won through listening and conversation rather than traditional attacks. It combines the excitement and strategy...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Celeste is a platform game that requires players to use jumping and climbing moves to ascend an increasingly challenging two-dimensional mountain. You play Madeline, who is, perhaps unsurprisingly, haunted by self-doubt at the task at hand. She presses...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Open World
Hollow Knight: Silksong is an action platform game and the sequel to Hollow Knight. The game provides similar gameplay to its predecessor where you run, jump, and battle your way through a kingdom inhabited by bugs. Unlike...
Release Date: 29/09/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Spelunky 2 is, like the classic Spelunky, a running and jumping game where you explore mysterious caves on the moon looking for your missing parents. On your journey, you will find unique environments, treasure, and people to join you as you delve...
Release Date: 18/07/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Eagle Island is a running and jumping adventure where you play Quill and his owl companion Koji as they uncover the secrets of Eagle Island. You work your way through levels using falconry-inspired attacks to take down enemies.
Release Date: 12/06/2018, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Hollow Knight is a game where you run, jump, and battle your way through the underground kingdom of Hallownest. It’s not uncommon for platform games to invest in the environments through which you pass, but the haunting depths in this game contain...
Release Date: 23/01/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dandara: Trials of Fear is a running, jumping and puzzle-solving game where you play Dandra, the Afro-Brazilian warrior of the colonial period of Brazil. You can defy gravity to jump from wall to wall and ceiling to ceiling. This combines the action of...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Beard Blade is a running and jumping game where you use your beard to climb, swing, glide and defeat enemies. It sounds like a silly concept, but along with the day-night cycle that completely changes levels, introduces fresh mechanics into this...
Release Date: 05/03/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Wunderling is a jumping game controlled by just two buttons: jumping and boost. The levels scroll automatically so you have to think ahead to decide how to get past each section. It's a combination of time reactions and forward planning.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Aurascope is a retro running and jumping game that combines elements from other genres. The platform action is central but you also have a lot of collecting and exploration to do. As much as the gameplay, the game stands out for its fast skill-based...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rog & Roll is a running and jumping game where you fight enemies and avoid traps. Unusually, you play a former henchman on a quest to save his friends from re-emerging tyranny. It features retro-inspired graphics and a humorous story where characters...
Release Date: 26/03/2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Kaze and the Wild Masks is a running and jumping game where you play as rabbit Kaze who is rescuing friends from a curse. Drawing inspiration from classic 1990's platforming games like Donkey Kong Country, you explore levels and battle enraged...
Release Date: 20/12/2004, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, Mac, PC, Switch and Wii
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cave Story is a running and jumping game styled after classic Metroid and Castlevania games of the 1980's. Unusually, it was initially overlooked until it gained popularity on the internet and then received widespread critical acclaim. The simplicity,...
Release Date: 01/01/1989, updated in 2009
Out Now: PS2 and Xbox
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 is a running and jumping game where you play a character who can create rainbows to traverse levels and attack enemies. The game followed up Taito's hit Bubble Bobble from the previous year. As well as...
Release Date: 07/09/2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sigi is a retro-styled running, jumping and attacking game. You are on a Knight’s quest to locate Melusina, his true love that he inadvertently scared away with a bout of bad gas. Like games from the 80s you have to work through levels to find keys,...
Release Date: 28/04/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Haiku, The Robot is a running and jumping game set in a world full of corrupt robots and machinery. You explore, fight fierce machines, and befriend quirky robots as you search for answers to the mysteries of the world around you. It's a really...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lunark is a platform game with simple pixelated graphics that tell a cinematic story. It's similar to games like Flashback that were popular in the 80s and 90s. You run, jump, hang, climb, roll, and shoot your way through mysterious alien ruins, a...
Release Date: 11/01/2010, updated in 2017
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Web and iOS
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
VVVVVV is a running and jumping game, without the jumping. Not having the ability to jump may seem like a disadvantage, but instead you can flip gravity to get around the various rooms of the abandoned space station. It looks like a 1980's game for the...
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Harlow is a rolling and jumping game about two clumsy robots planning a surprise party for the frozen colonists. You play by directing your round droid through the levels, jumping swinging and bashing into things. It stands out for the gentle feel,...
Release Date: 26/01/2012, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mutant Mudds is a retro platform video game. It's unusual because it is unforgiving and hard to play so presents a substantial challenge. Also, playing to the 3D feature of the Nintendo 3DS console, the game allows you to jump into the background of the...
Release Date: 14/03/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Grid and Pixels
Pompom is a running and jumping game where you are a hamster on a mission to save your owner from an evil cat. However, you don't control the hamster but place platforms (and springs, whips, umbrellas, cannons) to ensure he can progress.
Release Date: 01/10/2021
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Tres-Bashers is a running jumping and ghost-batting game. You play a ghost busting mouse on a mission to find and dispatch ghouls. The retro visuals are designed to look like a Game Boy game and adds to the nostalgic action.
Release Date: 02/08/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gun Devil is a retro running, jumping and shooting game about traversing hell to rescue your kidnapped wife. Drawing on 90's arcade games like Ghosts and Goblins and Gargoyle's Quest, this is a frantic battle with no moment to rest.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Kick Bot is a pixelated platform game you play with just two buttons. An evil computer is out for revenge. You must stop its giant robot from kicking Earth into oblivion. As Kick Bot, you jump, dash and collect your way through each level to infiltrate...
Release Date: 06/09/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Lucky Luna is a running and jumping game without the jumping. You swipe the screen to dodge obstacles and use the environment to get around. As you explore the world you uncover secrets about the past like hidden temples, dungeons, and ancient...
Release Date: 25/03/2014
Out Now: PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition is a running and shooting game. You control an army character, craft a wide arsenal of weapons and take on bosses that retreat when they are nearly beaten. It's unusual because it leans into gaining familiarity of its...
Release Date: 10/06/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Poinpy is a jumping and bouncing game where you play a green monster and work your way up a well. You play by directing each leap to avoid enemies and collect the fruit. It's exclusive to Netflix subscribers and from the developer of [link game/downwell...
Release Date: 15/06/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Super Ember Kaboom is a fast-but-approachable running and jumping game. You play by controlling Ember as they work through levels, collecting fruit and killing cartoon enemies. The novelty is the bright visuals and the friendly learning curve that is...
Release Date: 12/09/2001, updated in 2018
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Android, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii, Wii U and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Toki Tori is a puzzle game where you traverse 2D levels and use limited resources to rescue all the eggs. Similarly to the Mario vs. Donkey Kong games, you can build bridges over gaps. Here though, you can also unlock...
Release Date: 20/10/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
They Always Run is a pursuit game where you run, jump, fight and shoot your way to catch escapees. You play Aiden, a three-armed hero chasing the most dangerous bounties in the galaxy. You catch, slice, dice and destroy enemies while working through the...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Animal Well is a platform puzzle game where you explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth. Play involves collecting items that let you manipulate the world in unexpected ways. It's a layered experience that works as a platform game but also hides...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...
Release Date: 13/09/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gunbrella is a retro running, jumping and shooting game set in a world dependent on a rapidly diminishing natural resource. You play a gruff woodsman on a quest for revenge, armed with the mysterious Gunbrella that shoots, glides and lets you interact...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
PokeyPoke is a retro running and jumping game where you use a bendy spear to acrobat your way around the world. It sounds complex and awkward but once the simple controls are mastered you can move fluidly through the levels.
Release Date: 02/05/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
TumbleSeed is an action puzzle game where you guide a seed to the top of a mountain. However, you can't control your seed direction, but have to roll it from side to side to avoid pitfalls, destroy enemies and collect crystals. The combination of a...
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