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Games like Shiny

2016PC, PlayStation, Xbox9.99 €

You guide the little robot Kramer 227 across a dying planet, collecting energy to keep your battery alive. A classic platformer mixing exploration, light puzzles and time pressure.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like Shiny

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

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Mushroom 11

87 %Match

2015PC84 % positive

Brings what grabs you about Shiny: jumping and platforming, a pure single-player experience as well as a focus on a single character.

You guide a shapeless organism by erasing its cells, and that is how you move through a ruined world. The unusual control scheme turns each puzzle into a creative experiment.

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Laraan

Vast, open spaces

Laraan sends you exploring a deserted science-fiction world where jumping challenges and puzzles blend together. Its minimalist low-poly look and strong soundtrack make the loneliness of the landscape palpable.

Scrap Garden

Pure single-player experience

A charming puzzle-platformer where you guide a small robot named Canny through an abandoned, frozen city, uncovering the mystery of why everything stopped.

Magnetic By Nature

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast-paced indie platformer where you play the last robot and use magnetism to swing through forgotten ruins instead of hopping across traditional platforms. Fluid movement, split-second decisions and light puzzles define it.

Hypogea

Pure single-player experience

A short, atmospheric 3D platformer about escaping a mysterious underground megastructure. It focuses on mood, exploration and platforming challenges.

Lunark

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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.

Overloop

Pure single-player experience

You wield a cloning gun to duplicate yourself and solve tricky platforming puzzles in a dystopian world. Cloning is your key tool, but it comes with its own dangers.

Bionic Bay

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A physics-driven 2D platformer where a swap mechanic lets you trade places with objects to leap and puzzle your way through an eerie, alien sci-fi world. Precise timing and inventive puzzles define the experience.

Out There Somewhere

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A stranded space explorer must reach the core of a hostile alien planet with limited fuel. The game blends clever puzzles with platforming action in an otherworldly setting.

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