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Games like Respawn Man

2015PC2.29 €

A darkly comic puzzle platformer where you deliberately use your deaths, turning the bodies of past lives into tools to get past obstacles. It features a soundtrack by VVVVVV composer Souleye.

Jumping and platforming
Puzzles and brain teasers
Lots of humour
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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Best alternative overall: Escape Goat 94% match – Jumping and platforming
Newest alternative: Bomb Chicken 88% match – released 2018

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Escape Goat

94 %Match

2011PCXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified95 % positive4.99 €

A tight puzzle platformer in which a goat wrongly jailed for witchcraft breaks out of prison using its horns, jumping skills and a magic mouse companion. Room-by-room puzzles with switches, blocks and traps are clever and charming in a pixel-art style.

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Escape Goat 2

Pure single-player experience

A puzzle platformer where a goat hops and thinks its way through a huge fortress full of traps, using switches, machinery and a helpful mouse. Rooms are cleverly designed, with quirky humor and hidden secrets.

Super Rude Bear Resurrection

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A tight, precise platformer where your corpses stay behind after each death and can be used as platforms or shields, letting the difficulty adapt to your comfort level. It features a grime soundtrack and a graffiti-flavored look.

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Lots of humour

A charming silent-film-style puzzle platformer where you record and replay your own actions with time-travel clones to collect as much pie as possible. Its darkly comic black-and-white look gives it a distinct personality.

Bomb Chicken

Lots of humour

You play a chicken that lays bombs after a freak accident and blast your way through tricky platforming stages. Its appeal lies in clever bomb-based puzzles and the goofy charm of its pixel art.

Spoiler Alert

Lots of humour

A comedy platformer you play in reverse, tackling levels from the end backwards, which turns jumping challenges and puzzles upside down.

Umihara Kawase

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A physics-driven platformer where you use a fishing line as a grappling hook to swing through surreal stages. Mastering the momentum is tricky but deeply satisfying.

A Pixel Story

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A tricky 2D puzzle platformer that walks through the history of video game graphics: with a magical teleport hat you hop through worlds that evolve from simple pixels to richer visuals.

Shobon no Action

Lots of humour

You guide a cat through a deliberately cruel Super Mario parody where nearly every expectation gets subverted. Its humor comes from traps you can only beat through trial and error, which makes the masocore experience so memorable.

Replay: VHS Is Not Dead

Pure single-player experience

A puzzle platformer set in a movie-inspired world where you record your characters' movements and bend time with a remote control. You solve tricky puzzles by layering the recorded actions of multiple characters.