Games Like Down Ward

Down Ward

Venture into the haunted wilds with Gable, a little owl, as she sets out to rekindle the dormant relics of a land long abandoned to ruin.

★ PIXEL FODDER ★ SKELETON BOOMERANG ★ PINKMAN ★ NYAN CAT: LOST IN SPACE ★ MANDAGON ★ CELESTE ★ GRAVITY CIRCUIT ★ SHOVEL KNIGHT: TREASURE TROVE ★ BLOODSTAINED: CURSE OF THE MOON ★ CAVEBLAZERS ★ DOWNWELL ★ THE MESSENGER ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Skeleton Boomerang

96% 👍 OF 185
About This Game

Skeleton Boomerang is a platformer where the hero, Hunter, must use an enchanted boomerang to put an end to an army of bony soldiers led by the voodoo master Mr. Saturday. Get high scores, collect upgrades, find secrets, and overcome many skeletal challenges!

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Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

93% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

Play with the most celebrated flying cat in human history. Drink milk, eat ice-cream, collect coins, buy gorgeous boosts, fly like a superhero (sorry... supercat), jump onto platforms made of cake, avoid angry dogs, and discover the infinite space.

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Celeste

97% 👍 OF 145K
About This Game

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

In this game, you can…

  • …welcome your shadow self back and gain a second midair dash.
  • …build momentum with no speed cap, carrying platform speed into jumps and stacking it into ridiculous velocity.
  • …turn on assist options like extra jumps or invincibility to push past a wall and keep the story moving.
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Gravity Circuit

91% 👍 OF 6.0K
About This Game

Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.

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Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

96% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

In this game, you can…

  • …play four full campaigns where each protagonist has totally different movement and combat, and even the stages get rebuilt around them.
  • …jump into a local four-player mode where everyone brawls and scrambles for gems across tons of stages and items.
  • …run into surprise crossover boss fights like Battletoads on PC/Xbox or Kratos on PlayStation.
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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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Downwell

97% 👍 OF 8.6K
About This Game

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

In this game, you can…

  • …shoot only downward in mid-air, using recoil to slow your fall, then stomp to reload and keep descending.
  • …grab enough gems in a burst to trigger a damage-boosting gem high that suddenly speeds the whole run up.
  • …pick up side-cave weapons that can change the rules, like eating enemy corpses for health or recharging ammo with gems.
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The Messenger

93% 👍 OF 13K
About This Game

As a demon army besieges his village, a young ninja ventures through a cursed world, to deliver a scroll paramount to his clan’s survival. What begins as a classic action platformer soon unravels into an expansive time-traveling adventure full of thrills, surprises, and humor.

In this game, you can…

  • …flip between 8-bit and 16-bit eras mid-run, where each timeline changes routes and access.
  • …reset your jump by hitting things in midair, chaining enemies, projectiles, and lanterns into long airborne runs.
  • …earn boots that let you run across still water, lava, or peanut butter, but you can't stop or turn without sinking.