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2023PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified73 % positive11.79 €

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.

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

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In short: Games like Bzzzt

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Bzzzt special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Meganoid: Chronicles

96 %Match

2012PCNintendo Switch4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Bzzzt: jumping and platforming, a demanding difficulty as well as combat with precise timing.

A brutally tough retro platformer with 100 short levels packed with traps, spikes and fire, which you can then replay in reverse. Precise jumping and memorizing hazards are the core of the experience.

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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.

Run or Die

Sci-fi setting

A fast-paced endless runner built around movement abilities and a huge ion cannon, set in a hazardous city that changes with each run. Quick reflexes and split-second decisions are the core of the experience.

Skybolt Zack

Sci-fi setting

An arcade platformer that swaps pixel-perfect jumping for rhythm-game-style reactions, chaining dashes, rocket punches and charge attacks from enemy to enemy. It tests both dexterity and quick thinking.

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.

Standby

Jumping and platforming

A fast, precise platformer where you try to escape a glitched world. The focus is on mastering levels quickly and chasing the best times.

Stardash

Jumping and platforming

A old-school, punishing platformer with unlimited lives and instant restarts. Precise jumps and the rush of finally clearing a level keep you coming back for more.

Bit.Trip Runner

Jumping and platforming

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.

Strider

Sci-fi setting

A fast arcade action platformer where you play ninja Hiryu, slashing with a plasma blade and flipping, climbing and sliding through a futuristic dystopia. Short, brisk and demanding.

Vector

Jumping and platforming

A fluid 2D parkour platformer where you run, vault and slide through a totalitarian near-future world as a freerunner. Precise timing and momentum are the heart of the game.

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