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1988

A landmark 2D platformer where Mario soars with the Super Leaf, dons transforming suits and storms Koopaling airships across eight inventive worlds packed with secrets. Its overworld map with bonus games adds freedom and variety to tight, precise jumping.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Fantasy setting
  • Lots to discover
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The closest matches for Super Mario Bros. 3 are Shovel Knight, Adventures of Pip and A Hat in Time. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Super Mario Bros. 3 special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Shovel Knight

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Brings what grabs you about Super Mario Bros. 3: jumping and platforming, combat with precise timing as well as a fantasy setting.

A lovingly crafted NES-style platformer where a shovel-wielding knight pogo-bounces through varied stages, digs up treasure and battles a colorful cast of rival knights. Tight controls, charming humor and a superb chiptune soundtrack make it a modern classic.

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Adventures of Pip

Fantasy setting

A retro platformer where you play a single-pixel hero who absorbs defeated enemies to switch between three forms. You use those forms for jumping challenges and light puzzles, backed by a catchy chiptune soundtrack.

A Hat in Time

Lots to discover

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 Mania

Jumping and platforming

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.

Rayman

Jumping and platforming

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.

Spyro the Dragon

Lots to discover

A vibrant 3D platformer where little dragon Spyro charges and flames his way through open, collectible-packed realms to free his crystallized elders. Charming, breezy and carried by Stewart Copeland's memorable score.

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.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Jumping and platforming

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.

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.

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