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2005PlayStation

In Ape Escape: On the Loose you chase a time-travelling monkey villain through eras of history, catching more than 200 apes with quirky gadgets. Its playful tone and mini-games for multiplayer make it a light, charming platformer.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Lots of humour
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Ape Escape: On the Loose are Pikuniku, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake and Lucky's Tale. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Ape Escape: On the Loose special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Pikuniku

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2019PCXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified96 % positive12.79 €

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Lucky's Tale

Easy to pick up

A bright 3D platformer built for VR where you guide a little fox named Lucky through jumping, running and collecting. The camera is designed around virtual reality, making the classic genre easy to pick up.

Grow Home

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As the clumsy robot BUD you climb a giant plant with physics-based controls and steer its growth ever higher. Relaxed exploration of floating islands makes it charming and distinctive.

De Blob 2

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As a colorful blob you bounce and roll through drab cities, painting them back to life with color and music. A light, humorous mix of platforming and puzzle challenges against the color-stealing Inkies.

LocoRoco 2

Jumping and platforming

A bright, cheerful platformer where you tilt the landscape to roll, bounce and sing blobby creatures through stages. Charming music and a gentle pace make it a warm, feel-good experience.

Pac-Man World Re-Pac

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You hop through bright, three-dimensional stages as Pac-Man, collecting dots and outwitting ghosts with jumps and special abilities. This remake polishes the 2000 original with updated visuals and features while keeping its charming, lightly silly platforming core.

Ratatouille

Jumping and platforming

A family-friendly movie tie-in where you play Remy the rat, running, gliding and sneaking through the sewers and streets of Paris. Multiplayer mini-games add some extra fun.

DuckTales: Remastered

Jumping and platforming

A lovingly rebuilt Disney platformer in which Scrooge McDuck pogo-bounces his cane through hand-drawn levels hunting for treasure. Voice acting, humor and music true to the cartoon series deliver plenty of nostalgia.

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Distinctive, stylised art style

An absurd, hand-animated comedy adventure platformer set in a bizarre Northern English town, where you take on ever stranger jobs for the locals. Its British humor and slapstick gags are the real star.

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