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2025Nintendo Switch

A tight, challenging 2D platformer where you bounce through varied levels as Donkey and Diddy Kong, riding mine carts and rocket barrels along the way. Local two-player co-op makes the trip even more fun.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Lavish presentation
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The closest matches for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD are Sonic Mania, Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Donkey Kong Country Returns HD special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Sonic Mania

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Brings what grabs you about Donkey Kong Country Returns HD: jumping and platforming, combat with precise timing as well as lavish production.

A lovingly crafted return to classic 2D Sonic, with blazing-fast pixel-art stages, inventive remixes of beloved zones and a cracking soundtrack that nails the Genesis-era feel.

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Rayman Origins

Jumping and platforming

A gorgeously hand-drawn 2D platformer bursting with zany humor, tight jumping challenges and frantic treasure-chase levels, playable with up to four friends in chaotic local co-op. It gets seriously demanding in its later stages.

Rayman Legends

Jumping and platforming

A wonderfully fluid 2D platformer with a hand-drawn look, where jumps and attacks feel almost choreographed. The music-driven rhythm levels are especially famous, and it is great fun in co-op too.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Challenging difficulty

A blazing-fast 2D platforming classic where Sonic uses the new spin dash to tear through varied zones, with Tails tagging along as a co-op buddy. Iconic music, tricky special stages and Super Sonic make it a series high point.

Sonic Superstars

Jumping and platforming

A fast-paced classic-style 2D Sonic platformer that adds new Emerald powers and supports up to four players in co-op. Colorful stages and high-speed action are the focus.

Pizza Tower

Challenging difficulty

A frantic, chaotic 2D platformer starring the manic pizza chef Peppino, built around momentum-based movement, score chasing and wildly hand-drawn animation. Its zany humor and driving soundtrack turn every level into a spectacle.

Rayman

Challenging difficulty

A classic 2D platformer starring the limbless Rayman, who hovers with his helicopter hair and throws fists through lush hand-drawn, colorful worlds. Precise jumping and a fairly steep difficulty define the experience.

A Hat in Time

Jumping and platforming

A charming 3D collectathon platformer in the vein of N64 classics, where a tiny girl uses magical hats to bounce through varied, wonderfully weird worlds. Its chapters, from a mafia-run town to dueling bird film studios, overflow with humor and creativity.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Jumping and platforming

A fast-paced 2D platformer where Sonic first meets Knuckles on Angel Island, featuring large branching stages packed with hidden routes, special stages and an iconic soundtrack.

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