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2016PC4.15 €

A retro-styled side-scrolling platformer where you fight your way through a world of good and evil demons. You jump, battle enemies and solve a few light puzzles along the way.

  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for NightmareZ are Job the Leprechaun, Rising Runner and Alice's Mom's Rescue. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes NightmareZ special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Rising Runner

Focus on a single character

A pixel-art puzzle platformer where you guide Anette Harper through Purgatory to win back her soul. A built-in level editor lets you create your own levels.

Alice's Mom's Rescue

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A small pixel-art puzzle platformer in which Alice rescues her mother from a giant raven. Magic mushrooms change her size, which shapes both the puzzles and her abilities across 25 levels.

Candlelight

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A small indie action platformer where you play as a lone candle, jumping, shooting and burning your way through varied lands such as islands, deserts and volcanoes.

Kamiko

Action-packed real-time combat

Kamiko is a short, snappy pixel-art action adventure inspired by Japanese Shinto mythology. As a priestess you slash through demons, hunt for keys to unseal torii gates, and defeat a boss at the end of each stage.

Akane the Kunoichi

Action-packed real-time combat

An indie action platformer in which you play the kunoichi Akane, leaping and fighting your way through levels to rescue your kidnapped master Goro from the villain Hiromi.

Proto Raider

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An indie puzzle platformer where your character runs automatically across single-screen levels, with a world built entirely from ASCII characters. You ride waterfalls and tornadoes, solve puzzles and fight monsters to gather treasure.

Keatz: The Lonely Bird

Focus on a single character

A classic 2D platformer where you play a flightless bird hunted by a society of flying birds. The story of exclusion gives the retro-style jumping action a more serious undertone.

Schism

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

Schism is a short action-platformer meant as a quick burst of fun with a modest challenge. It is a compact experience built for a brief session.

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