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Games like Nebulus

1987PEGI 3

A retro platformer where a little green creature climbs rotating towers to blow them up. The twist is the tower spinning around the player, making jumps and timing on moving ledges tricky.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Pixel art
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Challenging difficulty

In short: Games like Nebulus

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

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Mutant Mudds

93 %Match

2012PEGI 3PC

Brings what grabs you about Nebulus: jumping and platforming, pixel art as well as combat with precise timing.

A tight retro platformer where you hover with a jetpack and blast mutant mud monsters while hopping between three depth layers in each level. Its pixel art and precise controls evoke the 8- and 16-bit era.

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Icy Tower

Jumping and platforming

A simple arcade freeware game where you hop up an endless tower from platform to platform, chaining combos and momentum to climb as high as possible. Easy to grasp, highly addictive score chasing.

Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball

Jumping and platforming

Sonic becomes the pinball as you roll through Eggman's Veg-O-Fortress, completing table objectives and collecting the Chaos Emeralds. A quirky mix of platformer and pinball with tricky stages.

Crystal Caves

Jumping and platforming

A classic 1991 Apogee platformer where space miner Mylo Steamwitz works through caves full of crystals, traps and light puzzles. Its colorful EGA look and arcade feel recall Commander Keen.

Flix the Flea

Jumping and platforming

A charming retro platformer where you guide a tiny flea out of monster-filled caves with carefully charged, well-timed jumps, back to his dog and spaceship home. It pays homage to the 8-bit classic La Pulga.

Blitz Breaker

Jumping and platforming

You guide the tiny robot Blitz through a hostile factory using nothing but jumps and four-directional air dashes. The minimal control scheme turns every stage into a satisfying test of precise timing.

League of Evil

Jumping and platforming

A fast, pixel-art platformer where you play a bionic agent leaping and punching through trap-filled levels. Precise timing and quick retries deliver tongue-in-cheek arcade fun.

Celeste Classic

Jumping and platforming

The original tiny platformer made for the PICO-8 fantasy console: you climb a mountain with precise jumps and eight-direction dashes. Short screens and instant restarts make it tough yet compelling.

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