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1994PEGI 12PC

A grim cinematic platformer in the vein of Prince of Persia: as Kyle Blackthorne you climb, take cover and shotgun your way through mines and fortresses on the planet Tuul. Precise timing, cover-based gunfights and light puzzles define its unforgiving pace.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Interconnected level design
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Pixel art

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In short: Games like Blackthorne

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Blackthorne special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Will You Snail?

86 %Match

2022PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified97 % positive10.79 €

Brings what grabs you about Blackthorne: jumping and platforming, pixel art as well as interconnected level design.

A punishing precision platformer where you play a snail dodging traps from a malicious AI that anticipates your moves. Tight jumps, optional puzzles and a dark simulation mystery drive the experience.

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MO:Astray

Pixel art

A pixel-art platformer where you guide the slime-like MO through hazardous levels full of traps and strange enemies. Precise jumping and the character's special abilities drive the challenge.

Tomb Raider

Interconnected level design

The classic that made Lara Croft famous: precise grid-based jumping and climbing through vast, lonely tombs, mixed with lever puzzles and gunfights against wild animals and mythical creatures. The quiet, eerie atmosphere of ancient ruins defines the experience.

DeadCore

Interconnected level design

DeadCore is a fast first-person platformer with guns, in which you climb a massive, fog-shrouded tower. Precise jumping, timing and speedrun appeal take center stage, wrapped in a dreamlike sci-fi atmosphere.

Intrusion 2

Pixel art

A fast-paced sci-fi action platformer in the spirit of classic 16-bit side-scrollers, mixing quick shooting with modern physics and animation. You fight through the facilities of a hostile military corporation on a remote planet.

Flashback

Challenging difficulty

Flashback is the remake of the 1992 classic: a cinematic sci-fi platformer with fluid, rotoscoped-style animation, hand-drawn backdrops and an agent trying to recover his lost memory. Precise jumping, shooting and light puzzles define the experience.

Abuse

Shooting and gunplay

A 1996 side-scrolling shooter where you move with the keyboard and aim freely with the mouse. You battle swarms of mutants and solve simple switch puzzles across dark sci-fi levels.

Tomb Raider

Interconnected level design

You explore sprawling tombs, make precise jumps over chasms and solve tricky puzzles, fighting off enemies with dual pistols along the way. This remaster lets you switch between original and updated graphics and includes the Unfinished Business expansion.

Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition

Interconnected level design

An iconic, minimalist sci-fi adventure: you are stranded on an alien planet as a scientist and survive without a word of dialogue through puzzles, precise jumps and desperate escapes. The anniversary edition adds reworked visuals that you can switch back to the original look at any time.

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