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2012 PC free 👍 93 % Very positive, 5,675 reviews on Steam

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.

What defines You Have to Win the Game:

  • Lots to discover
  • Open world
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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Alwa's Awakening

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2017 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch 9.75 € 👍 80 % Very positive, 841 reviews on Steam

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  • Pure single-player experience
  • Bright, upbeat tone

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Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

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Super Kiwi 64

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A charming 3D collect-a-thon platformer in a low-poly late-90s style that revives the spirit of Nintendo 64 classics. You hop through colorful levels as a kiwi bird hunting for collectibles.

VVVVVV

Distinctive, stylised art style

A tough retro platformer where you can't jump but instead flip gravity to switch between floor and ceiling. Brutally precise rooms, generous checkpoints and a pounding chiptune soundtrack make it a cult classic.

Supraland

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A first-person metroidvania built around clever puzzles and exploration. Secrets and new abilities are tucked everywhere, constantly opening new paths, all delivered with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.

Jungles of Maxtheria

Gameplay comes before story

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.

Treasure Island Dizzy

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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.

Minit

Distinctive, stylised art style

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Webbed

Distinctive, stylised art style

Play as a little spider swinging through lush forests on webs to rescue your boyfriend from a bowerbird. A gentle, charming platform adventure built around exploration and light puzzles.

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