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2019PC87 % positive

You guide a ragtag team of space bounty hunters through a brutal platformer where every jump has to land. The temple traps react instantly, and one mistake can send you back to the start.

Jumping and platforming
Challenging difficulty
Sci-fi setting
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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The closest matches for 1 Screen Platformer are Bit.Trip Runner, Mutant Mudds and Airscape: The Fall of Gravity. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes 1 Screen Platformer special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Bit.Trip Runner

90 %Match

2010PCNintendo Switch86 % positive7.99 €

Jumping and platforming
Challenging difficulty
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast rhythm platformer where the hero runs automatically and you jump, slide and kick through obstacles in time with the music. Retro pixel visuals and a driving chiptune soundtrack make it a demanding test of reflexes.

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Mutant Mudds

Jumping and platforming

A tight retro platformer where you hover with a jetpack and blast mutant mud monsters while hopping between three depth layers in each level. Its pixel art and precise controls evoke the 8- and 16-bit era.

Airscape: The Fall of Gravity

Jumping and platforming

A tough precision platformer where you play a kidnapped deep-sea octopus, leaping and swimming through 60 levels of floating islands and water formations while dodging robotic enemies.

Super Meat Boy

Jumping and platforming

A brutally tough precision platformer with hundreds of bite-sized, sawblade-filled levels where instant respawns keep you hammering away until you nail every jump. Its gross-out humor and replays showing all your failed attempts at once make every victory feel earned.

Kid Chameleon

Jumping and platforming

A classic Sega Genesis platformer where you collect masks to transform into different forms, each with its own abilities. With a huge number of levels, hidden warps and steep difficulty, it is a tough test for retro fans.

Bloo Kid 2

Jumping and platforming

You run, jump and swim through five large worlds of twelve levels each, in a classic retro platformer style. Pixel graphics and chiptune music set the mood, while brutal boss fights and plenty of hidden secrets reward careful exploration.

Mega Man 10

Sci-fi setting

A deliberately NES-style 8-bit run-and-gun platformer where you pick stages in any order, beat robot bosses and take their weapons. Tight controls and a demanding, old-school difficulty.

Bzzzt

Jumping and platforming

A fast-paced, retro-inspired 2D platformer in which you play the AI ZX8000 in a robot body, mastering test chambers full of deadly traps.

Blitz Breaker

Sci-fi setting

You guide the tiny robot Blitz through a hostile factory using nothing but jumps and four-directional air dashes. The minimal control scheme turns every stage into a satisfying test of precise timing.

I Wanna Be the Guy

Jumping and platforming

A notoriously brutal 2D platformer where nearly everything is designed to kill you through trial and error. Packed with retro references, cruel traps and dark humor, it became a cult classic of the genre.