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2018USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable79 % positive8.19 €

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.

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  • Sci-fi setting
  • Challenging difficulty
  • Shooting and gunplay
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Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition

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2011USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified85 % positive9.99 €

Fits your focus: Systems like Flashback and Combat like Flashback.

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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Tomb Raider

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The classic sends Lara Croft through perilous tombs full of traps, puzzles and wildlife. Precise platforming, exploration and a lonely atmosphere define the experience.

Tomb Raider II

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Lara Croft hunts the Dagger of Xian across Venice, an offshore oil rig, a sunken wreck and Tibetan monasteries. This classic demands precise jumps, solves tricky environmental puzzles and adds more gunfights against human foes than its predecessor, plus vehicles like a speedboat and a snowmobile.

Blackthorne

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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.

Impossible Mission

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A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.

Tomb Raider

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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.

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus

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A quirky puzzle-platformer where Abe sneaks, possesses enemies and uses GameSpeak to rescue enslaved Mudokons. Dark humor and an odd industrial dystopia meet unforgiving, trial-and-error puzzles.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

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A helpless Mudokon slave escapes a grotesque meat-processing plant using cunning, chanting and possession instead of weapons, rescuing fellow workers along the way. Its blend of black humor, punishing puzzle-platforming and striking art makes it a cult classic.

Secret Agent

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A classic DOS platformer where you infiltrate an island as Agent 006, take out enemies and recover plans for a satellite laser weapon. Small puzzles and switches break up the levels.

Lunark

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A cinematic 2D platformer in the spirit of classics like Another World and Flashback, with fluid rotoscope-style animation and a sci-fi tale spanning alien ruins and futuristic cities.

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