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Games like The Goonies

1986

A classic 8-bit platformer based on the film, where you explore trap-filled rooms, find keys and items, and free your captured friends. Puzzle-like searching is central, backed by a catchy chiptune soundtrack.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Pixel art
  • Strong soundtrack
  • Interconnected level design
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In short: Games like The Goonies

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

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Horror Turn-based combat High difficulty Roguelike runs Shooter Pixel art Grind Survival PvP Open world Card game

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VVVVVV

90 %Match

2010PEGI 3PC, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified96 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about The Goonies: jumping and platforming, a strong soundtrack as well as pixel art.

A tough retro platformer where you can't jump but instead flip gravity to switch between floor and ceiling. Brutally precise rooms, generous checkpoints and a pounding chiptune soundtrack make it a cult classic.

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Umihara Kawase

Interconnected level design

A physics-driven platformer where you use a fishing line as a grappling hook to swing through surreal stages. Mastering the momentum is tricky but deeply satisfying.

Escape Goat

Interconnected level design

A tight puzzle platformer in which a goat wrongly jailed for witchcraft breaks out of prison using its horns, jumping skills and a magic mouse companion. Room-by-room puzzles with switches, blocks and traps are clever and charming in a pixel-art style.

Escape Goat 2

Interconnected level design

A puzzle platformer where a goat hops and thinks its way through a huge fortress full of traps, using switches, machinery and a helpful mouse. Rooms are cleverly designed, with quirky humor and hidden secrets.

Respawn Man

Strong soundtrack

A darkly comic puzzle platformer where you deliberately use your deaths, turning the bodies of past lives into tools to get past obstacles. It features a soundtrack by VVVVVV composer Souleye.

Sonic CD

Strong soundtrack

Sonic CD sends Sonic through time-travel zones where you alter the past and future to thwart Robotnik's schemes. Blistering speed, branching stages and a beloved soundtrack make it a standout in the series.

You Have to Win the Game

Interconnected level design

A free retro platformer styled after early 1980s PC games, where you explore a small world full of hidden routes and secrets in order to win. It playfully toys with genre conventions and has little story or conventional combat.

Super Lemonade Factory

Strong soundtrack

A charming pixel-art platformer where you switch between two characters with different abilities to get through the rooms of a lemonade factory. Platforming skill and puzzle-solving mix with quirky characters and a small post-war story.

Alwa's Awakening

Interconnected level design

A charming Metroidvania with an authentic 8-bit look, pixel art and chiptune music. You wield a magic staff to explore an interconnected world, solve puzzles and beat bosses.

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