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Games like Run or Die

2014PC87 % positive0.99 €

A fast-paced endless runner built around movement abilities and a huge ion cannon, set in a hazardous city that changes with each run. Quick reflexes and split-second decisions are the core of the experience.

  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat

The closest matches for Run or Die are Bzzzt, Project Mercury and Planet Cube: Edge. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Run or Die special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Bzzzt

97 %Match

2023PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified73 % positive11.79 €

  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty

A fast-paced, retro-inspired 2D platformer in which you play the AI ZX8000 in a robot body, mastering test chambers full of deadly traps.

Project Mercury

Sci-fi setting

A pixel-art run-and-gun platformer set in a sci-fi world, where you fight a mysterious threat on foot and on a hoverbike. The focus is on fast shooting and precise platforming.

Planet Cube: Edge

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast 2D run-and-gun platformer where you shoot, jump and dash through rooms packed with enemies. Precise platforming and shooting are tightly interwoven.

Strider

Sci-fi setting

A fast arcade action platformer where you play ninja Hiryu, slashing with a plasma blade and flipping, climbing and sliding through a futuristic dystopia. Short, brisk and demanding.

Super Cyborg

Sci-fi setting

An old-school, relentless run-and-gun shooter in the vein of 90s classics: as an elite cyborg you blast through aliens on a mysterious island. Fast action and steep challenge are the focus.

Intrusion 2

Sci-fi setting

A fast-paced sci-fi action platformer in the spirit of classic 16-bit side-scrollers, mixing quick shooting with modern physics and animation. You fight through the facilities of a hostile military corporation on a remote planet.

Pixel Gladiator

Sci-fi setting

A pixel-art arcade action game set in a distant future: as a gladiator in a galactic TV show, you fight deadly creatures on an abandoned planet and try to survive as long as you can.

Mechanic Escape

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An indie platformer in which the robot Mech searches for his lost friends while fleeing machines and bosses. Frantic chase sequences and high-voltage hazards test your reflexes.

Skybolt Zack

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

An arcade platformer that swaps pixel-perfect jumping for rhythm-game-style reactions, chaining dashes, rocket punches and charge attacks from enemy to enemy. It tests both dexterity and quick thinking.

Canabalt

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A minimalist one-button endless runner where you sprint across the rooftops of a collapsing city, timing jumps to get as far as possible. Quick runs, pixel visuals and a driving soundtrack define the experience.

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