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Games like Platformines

2014PC76 % positive0.79 €

A 16-bit 2D platformer that blends run-and-gun shooting with exploration and light RPG upgrades. You customise your character and delve through a sprawling underground world.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Lots to discover
  • Strong character progression

The closest matches for Platformines are Xeodrifter, Cally's Caves 3 and One Gun Guy. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Platformines special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Xeodrifter

94 %Match

2014PCPlayStationNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable75 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Platformines: jumping and platforming, good gunplay as well as lots to discover.

A compact retro space Metroidvania: you hop between four small planets, blast aliens, find new abilities and beat bosses. It is short, accessible and built around exploration.

Cally's Caves 3

Strong character progression

A fast run-and-gun platformer where you blast through caves as Cally and Bera, hunt for secrets, and keep levelling up your weapons and abilities. Tough bosses and new moves like the triple jump and dodge roll keep things fresh.

One Gun Guy

Jumping and platforming

One Gun Guy is a no-frills action platformer set in one big interconnected level packed with upgrades, hazards, enemies and a final boss. Multiple difficulty settings let players tune the challenge.

The Terrian Saga: KR-17

Jumping and platforming

An indie action platformer where you play a military drone that suddenly gains sentience. You blast through drone hordes with upgradable weapons and explore intricate levels to uncover the true enemy.

Rocketron

Action-packed real-time combat

A side-scrolling Metroidvania-style shooter where you fly with a jetpack and rain fire on enemies from above. Exploration is simple and non-linear, with the focus on solid combat.

BioGun

Jumping and platforming

A metroidvania shooter where you are injected into a dog's body as a microscopic vaccine and fight viral threats to save dogs from extinction. Exploration and shooting unfold in an unusual microscopic world.

Axiom Verge

Jumping and platforming

A retro-styled Metroidvania in which a scientist wakes up in a strange biomechanical world. It thrives on a labyrinthine map, offbeat weapons and abilities, and the thrill of uncovering secrets.

Blaster Master Zero II

Jumping and platforming

A retro action adventure that mixes side-scrolling tank platforming with on-foot top-down dungeons. It adds Metroidvania-style exploration, boss fights and upgrades in an 8-bit-inspired style.

MindSeize

Jumping and platforming

A sci-fi 2D Metroidvania where you play a father exploring alien planets and blasting through enemies to rescue your daughter from a mysterious organization.

Mini Ghost

Action-packed real-time combat

A short mini Metroidvania with the look and feel of 1980s MSX computers, serving as a small prequel to Ghost 1.0. It offers compact exploration and classic platforming action.

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