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Rising Islands

Rising Islands is an adventure game where you’ll have to combine fast-paced action with quick thinking. Jump, shift, grind, dash and wallrun through a fantastic world that is fraying at the edges. New challenges await around every corner.

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A Story About My Uncle

92% 👍 OF 29K
About This Game

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

In this game, you can…

  • …strap on your uncle's suit in a normal workshop and get launched into a hidden world of floating rocks.
  • …recharge your suit while you're still in the air, letting you keep momentum and stay airborne longer.
  • …unlock a mode that turns you into a goat and makes goat sounds while you play.
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Big Hops

91% 👍 OF 564
About This Game

Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, and Mountain worlds and collect bugs, upgrade your backpack, and meet animal friends along the way.

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Pseudoregalia

97% 👍 OF 18K
About This Game

Deep within the realm of sleep, Sybil finds herself pulled to a distorted castle. Grow strong, and unlock new abilities to build up a deep movement system, fight enemies, find secrets, and free the weary soul of Castle Sansa, in this retro-inspired 3D Platformer Metroidvania.

In this game, you can…

  • …chain a slide jump into a sideflip into a wall kick into a pole cancel backflip to reach ledges.
  • …sequence break by combining movement tricks to bypass ability gates and reach areas you weren't supposed to access yet.
  • …get upgrades from the exit side of rooms, and the game still lets it count.
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Refunct

96% 👍 OF 17K
About This Game

Refunct is a peaceful, short first-person platformer about restoring a vibrant world.

In this game, you can…

  • …raise new chunks of the island by hitting glowing red buttons.
  • …dive underwater and use submerged routes to reach platforms that don't seem possible from above.
  • …do challenge runs like touching every platform, touching as few as possible, or finishing under four minutes.
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Yoku's Island Express

96% 👍 OF 5.3K
About This Game

Meet Yoku, the pint-sized postman protagonist of Yoku's Island Express! Use a unique blend of pinball mechanics, platforming and open world exploration to unlock the secrets of Mokumana Island, help the locals, awaken ancient deities and much more in this amazing new tropical adventure!

In this game, you can…

  • …roll around as a dung beetle permanently stuck to a big ball.
  • …vacuum up explosive slugs, then detonate them to blast yourself over gaps and barriers.
  • …control multiple pinballs at the same time in sections that split your actions across parallel interactions.
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SteamWorld Dig

94% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

SteamWorld Dig is an action-adventure puzzler with strong Metroidvanian influences set in the SteamWorld Universe. You’ll need to dig deep into the earth, gather resources to upgrade your tools and abilities, take on enemies, solve challenging puzzles and uncover the secrets to save a dying town.

In this game, you can…

  • …carve your own tunnels and have the mine stay permanently changed, so your route back up depends on what you dug.
  • …use dynamite and falling rocks as weapons, collapsing boulders to crush enemies while you keep digging.
  • …place a teleporter exactly once, locking in a permanent return point that can save future expeditions or strand you if you choose wrong.
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Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures

88% 👍 OF 3.2K
About This Game

"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.