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1993

A tough 16-bit run-and-gun platformer retelling The Empire Strikes Back with multiple playable heroes, lightsaber combat and vehicle sections such as the snowspeeder battle against AT-ATs.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
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The closest matches for Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back are Intrusion 2, Super Cyborg and Project Mercury. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Super Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Intrusion 2

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2012PCSteam Deck playable89 % positive7.99 €

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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.

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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.

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.

Mega Man X6

Sci-fi setting

A fast 2D action platformer with robot bosses, selectable stage order and swappable armor parts. Known for its steep, sometimes unfair difficulty and the Nightmare system.

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.

Azure Striker Gunvolt 2

Sci-fi setting

A fast, old-school 2D action platformer where you play as Gunvolt and his rival Copen, tagging enemies and unleashing flashy lock-on attacks. It emphasizes tight stages, boss fights and score chasing with an anime flavor.

Mega Man 10

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A deliberately NES-style 8-bit run-and-gun platformer where you pick stages in any order, beat robot bosses and take their weapons. Tight controls and a demanding, old-school difficulty.

Super Contra

Challenging difficulty

Konami's arcade run-and-gun where you fight an alien invasion solo or with a friend. Alongside classic side-scrolling stages there are overhead levels, all with typical punishing arcade difficulty.

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