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2016PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified80 % positive6.89 €

You play a damaged robot rolling across a post-human Earth, chaining momentum, speed and parkour-style movement to get back to your ship. The focus is on flowing movement rather than combat or heavy story.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Cosy, great for unwinding
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

The closest matches for Defunct are Jet Island, Robots and Hover: Revolt of Gamers. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Defunct special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Jet Island

88 %Match

2018PC96 % positive19.99 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Bright, upbeat tone
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A VR game where you rocket across floating islands using hand jets, grappling hooks and frictionless boots. The physics-based high-speed locomotion is the main attraction.

Robots

Sci-fi setting

A family-friendly movie tie-in where you play inventor robot Rodney, platforming through a colorful robot city, solving light puzzles and riding in fast vehicle sections. It follows the animated film's plot and stays simple and accessible.

Hover: Revolt of Gamers

Sci-fi setting

A fast parkour game set in a colorful, futuristic open-world city where you rebel against the mayor's ban on video games. Running, jumping and exploring take center stage, wrapped in neon retro style and plenty of gamer humor.

Time Loader

Sci-fi setting

You play a small robot traveling back to the 90s to prevent a tragic accident, solving physics-based puzzles around your creator's house. Everyday household objects as obstacles and an emotional time-travel story give it its charm.

Skatebird

Cosy, great for unwinding

You play a skateboarding bird rolling through a charming miniature world built from cardboard, tape and office clutter. Laid-back trick skating with a whimsical, humorous tone.

Jet Set Radio Future

Distinctive, stylised art style

Skate at high speed as a graffiti artist through a cel-shaded future Tokyo, tagging turf and dodging the police, all to an unmistakable soundtrack of funk, electronica and hip-hop.

Star Overdrive

Sci-fi setting

Star Overdrive has you glide at high speed on a hoverboard through a large, colorful world split into four biomes. Along the way you fight enemy swarms and bosses and uncover secrets.

Size Matters

Accessible and relaxed

As a shrinking scientist, you hunt through a laboratory against the clock for the ingredients and formulas needed for a life-saving antidote. The world grows larger and more hazardous every second.

Retrowave 2

Cosy, great for unwinding

A moody retro racing game with a synthwave look: you drive 80s supercars down endless neon highways lined with palm trees, backed by a pulsing soundtrack. The focus is on atmosphere and laid-back driving rather than story or depth.

Blueshift

Accessible and relaxed

An indie game about soaring across vast landscapes at high speed with wings and rocket boosters, gliding, jumping and pulling off tricks. The focus is on free-form movement and speed rather than story or combat.

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