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2023PlayStation77 % positive24.50 €

You play an Atari programmer who jumps into 1970s game worlds in VR to stop a villain from rewriting history. It's a funny, nostalgic love letter to the arcade era, mixing retro mini-games with an interactive office environment.

  • Pixel art
  • Lots of humour
  • Jumping and platforming
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

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In short: Games like Pixel Ripped 1978

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Pixel Ripped 1978 special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Tick Tock Isle

83 %Match

2015PC86 % positive0.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Pixel Ripped 1978: pixel art, jumping and platforming as well as plenty of humour.

A puzzle platformer where young horologist Strike is thrown into the past and must solve puzzles, talk to quirky characters and experiment to mend a dysfunctional island family and fix the time machine.

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Lifted

Bright, upbeat tone

A cinematic 2.5D puzzle-platformer where a slacker student rides a time-hopping elevator through different eras to steal a legendary tiara. Its light comedic tone and presentation shaped by a former Disney ride designer give it charm.

Little Orpheus

Strong, story-driven narrative

A humorous side-scrolling adventure set in the Cold War, in which a Soviet cosmonaut recounts his outlandish journey to the centre of the Earth. It focuses on witty storytelling, playful visuals and light platforming and puzzle sections.

A Pixel Story

Pixel art

A tricky 2D puzzle platformer that walks through the history of video game graphics: with a magical teleport hat you hop through worlds that evolve from simple pixels to richer visuals.

The Plucky Squire

Jumping and platforming

A charming adventure where a storybook hero leaps off the page into the 3D world of a child's desk. Switching between 2D and 3D drives inventive puzzles, playful humor and frequent changes of genre.

Stick it to the Man!

Strong, story-driven narrative

A quirky 2D paper-craft adventure where Ray, with a pink spaghetti arm sprouting from his brain, reads minds, places stickers and folds the world to solve humorous puzzles.

Yupitergrad

Jumping and platforming

A VR platformer set in a Soviet-flavored dieselpunk space, where you swing through zero gravity with grappling hooks. Quirky humor and tricky skill-based puzzles define the experience.

Haimrik

Jumping and platforming

You play the scribe Haimrik, who brings words to life and uses them as puzzle and platforming mechanics. This medieval adventure comes with dry humor and a distinctive illustrated look.

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