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An early Superman title for the NES and Famicom that combines platform action with the hero's superpowers. It is a classic 8-bit era game.
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The closest matches for Superman are Codename: Gordon, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Superman special – the reasons are listed right on each game.
91 %
Best match
A free 2D Flash sidescroller that brings Half-Life 2 into a side view: as Gordon Freeman you fight through levels with familiar weapons, enemies and locations, mixed with light puzzles.
91 % 5.89 €
Sci-fi setting
As smuggler Dash Rendar you fight through Star Wars locations between Episodes V and VI, such as Hoth and Mos Eisley. It mixes third-person shooting with vehicle and flight sections, including the famous Battle of Hoth.
91 %
Sci-fi setting
A film tie-in action game where you play as different characters, including a raptor and a T-Rex, fighting and evading dinosaurs through jungle levels with a mix of shooting and platforming.
91 %
Pure single-player experience
A classic 2D run-and-gun platformer based on the original Star Wars film, letting you fight as Luke, Han or Chewbacca from Tatooine to the Death Star. Vehicle stages add variety, and the difficulty is famously high.
91 %
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A classic 1993 run-and-gun platformer where you play Snake Logan, blasting mutants and robot guards with a machine gun and grenades on the way to Dr. Mangle's fortress.
90 %
Pure single-player experience
The first Duke Nukem is a classic side-scrolling platformer with shooting, where Duke takes on Dr. Proton's robot army. A short retro arcade outing that introduces the wisecracking action hero.
89 %
Challenging difficulty
A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.
89 % −70 %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.
88 % 9.99 €
Sci-fi setting
Space Pioneer is a sci-fi shooter with fast action combat and light RPG elements. The available metadata is sparse and inconsistent, so this rating is deliberately conservative.
88 % 19.99 €
Sci-fi setting
A 2D run-and-gun platformer in the vein of classic Mega Man: as the robot Beck you jump through twelve stages, blast enemies and absorb their powers with a dash attack. It is widely regarded as an uneven execution of its promising concept.