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You Have to Win the Game

You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

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VVVVVV

96% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

In this game, you can…

  • …enter a secret area that dares you to grab a trinket, climb a spike shaft by flipping gravity, then descend the same gauntlet with no checkpoint.
  • …take on a survival room that demands you survive for 60 seconds with nothing but gravity flips.
  • …use a built-in level editor to build your own gravity-flip challenges and play community-made stages that push the mechanic in new ways.
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Electronic Super Joy 2

87% 👍 OF 726
About This Game

Electronic Super Joy 2 is a brutally hard platformer, set in a world of brain-smashing electronic music. Run, jump, smash, & slice your way through 55+ weird & different levels, with giant monsters, swarming missiles & secret areas.

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1 Screen Platformer: Prologue

88% 👍 OF 225
About This Game

FREE DEMO features 1 playable character and 1 complete level with leaderboards. Try, die, retry in this challenging but fair precision platformer that takes place on 1 screen. Ultra tight controls, dozens of traps. Great for speedrunning, and 100% completionists. Also, no water levels!

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Xeodrifter

75% 👍 OF 862
About This Game

Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

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Wings of Vi

79% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Wings of Vi is a challenging 2D platformer in which the player controls the angel Vi, tasked with defeating the Demon Lord Jeh’oul after he is freed from captivity. While inspired by masochistic retro platformers, Wings of Vi aims to cut out arbitrary difficulty in favor of skill based gameplay.

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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2

85% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.

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Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

94% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

Battle with swords and whips in this retro-style action game brought to you by game creator Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates! Play as Zangetsu, a demon slayer bearing a deep grudge, who must travel through perilous lands to defeat a powerful demon lurking in a dark castle.

In this game, you can…

  • …freeze enemies and even candles, then walk on them as platforms to reach places you couldn't otherwise.
  • …kill your allies to power up and gain moves like double jump, air dash, and mid-air slashes.
  • …cast a fire shield, switch to another character, and keep the shield effect active.
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Guns of Fury

88% 👍 OF 938
About This Game

Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!

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Castlevania Advance Collection

91% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

Count Dracula is once more back from the dead... Join the fight against Evil in the Castlevania Advance Collection, a compilation of timeless action-exploration masterpieces!

In this game, you can…

  • …kill monsters and absorb their souls to steal their abilities, passives, and new ways to fight and move
  • …combine action and attribute cards into 100+ different spell effects, then chase specific monster drops to finish a build
  • …swap between two nearly identical castles and solve puzzles where changing something in one version affects the other
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Alwa's Awakening

80% 👍 OF 935
About This Game

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.