6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed They Always Run. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed They Always Run.
Release Date: 12/04/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Rusted Moss is an exploration traversal game where you swing your way to finding a balance between human and fae realms. You play by shooting and grappling your way through witches and rusted machine enemies. It stands out from other Metroidvania games...
Release Date: 20/04/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mr Sun's Hatbox is a slapstick running, jumping and shooting game about retrieving a stolen hatbox at any cost. Play is Spelunky-style platforming and shooting, but with characters who have problematic traits that must be offset with hat abilities. It...
Release Date: 12/01/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a running, jumping and fighting game like 90s classics Shinobi and Hagane: The Final Conflict. You play the Moonrider guardian that was created to defend a totalitarian state, racing through levels, attacking enemies and...
Release Date: 19/10/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Pixels
Laika: Aged Through Blood is a fast-paced shooting and traversal game where you ride a bike through a post-apocalyptic world on a path of vengeance. Viewed side-on, you race along the ground and jump through the air, exploring the labyrinthine world and...
Release Date: 15/10/2015, updated in 2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Broforce Forever is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play characterised familiar masculine heroes who use excessive force to defeat enemies. It's a frantic, brash adventure with many weapons and characters to play around with. It's a...
Release Date: 20/06/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
My Friend Pedro is a running, jumping, and shooting game where you perform parkour stunts as you shoot enemies in super slow motion, at the behest of a sentient banana. It's a bizarre concept, where you're encouraged to creatively kill enemies with...
26 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed They Always Run. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed They Always Run.
Release Date: 05/04/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Cartoon
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the latest in a series of Star Wars-themed games where you run, jump, break and build worlds made of Lego. You work your way through all nine of the Star Wars films unlocking new locations and characters as you go...
Release Date: 23/05/2023
Out Now: PC, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Planet of Lana is an adventure where you play a young girl Lana and her loyal animal friend Mui, on a rescue mission. Set on a planet under siege by old machines and unfamiliar creatures. Rather than the war, though, this is a game about a vibrant...
Release Date: 10/05/2017, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dead Cells is a running, jumping and fighting game where you are escaping a prison. In a bright pixelated world you must accurately time attacks and dodges to defeat a wide range of enemies. It's intentionally hard, and you will die a lot. But each time...
Release Date: 08/10/2021
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Metroid Dread, the latest Metroid game, is a running, jumping, exploring and fighting game where you progress through levels, fight challenging bosses and uncover secrets. It returns the franchise to the 2D side-scrolling style of...
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: 29/06/2016, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Inside is from the same developer as Limbo. As such, you play another boy in a dark dream-light and horrific world. Here though, it's more modern-day and realistic.
Release Date: 05/06/2013, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding. As the age rating suggests, he is killed in all manner of gruesome ways. But this is...
Release Date: 11/03/2020, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is an action platform game that places you in control of a diminutive elfish spirit called Ori. As in the previous game, you run, jump and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world. As you do, new powers...
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: Coming soon
Coming Soon: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Savior is an action-adventure game with hand-animated pixelated graphics. You play as Sam, a mysterious woman with hidden powers and innate acrobatic skills who has lost her memory and all possessions. Use diplomacy, parkour, and intricate combat to...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Knight of Exile is a running, jumping and combat game where you play Cormac, the commander of the royal guard fighting to return from exile to restore order to the kingdom. It's unusual because of the combat mechanics that require players to react...
Release Date: 19/02/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Skul: The Hero Slayer is a running, jumping and fighting game where you play a lone skeleton in a fight against the overpowered human heroes with his unique ability to swap his head, Worzel-Gummidge-style. Each of the heads grants different powers and...
Release Date: 21/01/2021, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Components: 2D Side-On
Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a platform game based in a fictional world called Land's End. Rainfall has transformed all living things into monsters known as the Blighted. You control Lily, a bright white figure, who awakens as the last...
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: 12/09/2014, updated in 2014
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita and PS4
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Nidhogg is a fast two-player duelling game whose simple visuals belie the skill required to defeat your opponent. The novelty is that upon death you reappear in the next screen. The player to advance through the most screens wins.
Release Date: 26/01/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Cyber Shadow is a retro running and jumping game where you defeat enemies and dodge obstacles. It combines classic 90's platforming games with modern controls and checkpoints that make it more enjoyable and approachable. Dodge and attack midair to...
Release Date: 30/03/2023
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox 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: 18/03/2021
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Dogworld is a running and jumping game where you play a solitary human fighting through a dog-infested world to defeat an evil computer. You perform tricky jumps and battle mutant dogs by sliding, dodging, and shooting. Along the way you gain weapons...
Release Date: 04/06/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Adventures of Pip is a running and jumping where you play Pip, who can transform between three different of himself (1-bit, 8-bit and 16-bit), each with different abilities. As you fight monsters and traverse the deadly terrain, you need to pick the...
Release Date: 24/08/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Islets is a running and jumping game about a small mouse exploring a sky kingdom to reunite a fragmented world. You play be defeating enemies in each area to gain powers that let you delve further into the world. It's like other Metroid-style games with...
Release Date: 11/05/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Kero Blaster is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play a frog working for Cat & Frog, a teleporter company. Starting with an underpowered gun, you clean the teleporters of strange black monsters.
Release Date: 03/03/2015, updated in 2020
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch, Wii U and iOS
Components: 2D Side-On
Tallowmere is a series of running, jumping and fighting games. You aim to get a high score as you journey through a vast, randomly generated 2D retro-style dungeon, dodging traps and killing enemies in gory and unusual ways. Its unique combination of...
Release Date: 30/08/2019, updated in 2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
The Messenger is a platform game where you play as a young ninja after his village is attacked by a demon army. You must deliver a scroll, fight enemies and pull off complex acrobatic manoeuvres along the way. The game is inspired by the classic Ninja...
Release Date: 14/08/2018, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On
Death's Gambit is a running, jumping and fighting game where you defeat enemies, collect weapons and progress through levels. Drawing on the platforming of games like the Castlevania and Metroid games, it adds difficult and...
Release Date: 14/04/2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Flinthook is running, swinging and shooting game where you get around using a grappling hook. It stands out for its focus on movement flow. As you learn how to move around quickly, you progress through a series of three ship-based levels to find and...
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 15+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Katana Zero is a noir-styled fighting game where you are a samurai assassin. At (literally) breakneck speed you slash, dash and jump your way through side-on missions. The twist is if you die the game rewinds time and you try that loop again.
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