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Games like The Goonies

1986 Classic

A classic 8-bit platformer based on the film, where you explore trap-filled rooms, find keys and items, and free your captured friends. Puzzle-like searching is central, backed by a catchy chiptune soundtrack.

What defines The Goonies:

  • Puzzles and brain teasers

The closest matches for The Goonies are Jungles of Maxtheria, Umihara Kawase and Escape Goat. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Goonies special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Jungles of Maxtheria

90 %

2020 PC 16.79 €

  • Gameplay comes before story
  • Pure single-player experience
  • Bright, upbeat tone

An indie platformer where you pick one of four characters and hunt for a lost treasure in the jungle. Tools like knives, grappling hooks, oxygen tanks and torches help you get past obstacles, fight enemies and collect keys.

Escape Goat

Puzzles and brain teasers

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.

Elasto Mania

Bright, upbeat tone

A 2D physics-based motorbike game where you use precise weight shifting and throttle control to collect every apple and then reach the flower. Easy to grasp but hard to master, with a dedicated speedrunning community.

Roll Away

Puzzles and brain teasers

A 3D platform puzzler where you roll a beachball through levels, collecting keys to unlock exits while dealing with shifting gravity.

You Have to Win the Game

Bright, upbeat tone

A free retro platformer styled after early 1980s PC games, where you explore a small world full of hidden routes and secrets in order to win. It playfully toys with genre conventions and has little story or conventional combat.

Ballance

Puzzles and brain teasers

You roll a ball through twelve linear, surreal levels, switching between paper, wood and stone at transformers to overcome obstacles. A calm physics-based skill and puzzle game with a memorable atmosphere and music.

Treasure Island Dizzy

Bright, upbeat tone

A classic retro platform adventure where the egg hero Dizzy collects and uses items on an island to solve puzzles. Charming humor and tricky inventory puzzles define the experience.

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