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Games like The Maw

2009USK 6PC, Xbox83 % positive9.99 €

You guide a hungry purple alien creature on a leash as Frank through short levels, gaining new abilities like fire-breathing or flight by eating objects and enemies. A light, humorous platform-puzzle adventure.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Lots of humour
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Cosy, great for unwinding

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In short: Games like The Maw

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

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Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

96 %Match

2012PEGI 7PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck playable94 % positive10.25 €

Brings what grabs you about The Maw: jumping and platforming, a sci-fi setting as well as plenty of humour.

You play a growing alien blob that rolls through levels devouring everything and getting bigger and more powerful. A humorous B-movie puzzle-platformer with a cartoon look and clever mutation abilities.

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Quantum Conundrum

Puzzles and brain teasers

A first-person puzzle game set in an eccentric professor's mansion where you shift dimensions to change objects' weight, gravity and time to solve test chambers. It has dry humor and a cartoonish look.

Pikuniku

Cosy, great for unwinding

A charming, absurdly funny puzzle-platformer where you play a little red creature who rolls, kicks and swings through a quirky world while uncovering a silly conspiracy. Its bold minimalist look and gentle difficulty make it very approachable.

RoboBlitz

Jumping and platforming

As the little robot Blitz, you must activate an ancient space cannon and save your world from bumbling space pirates. Physics puzzles, gadgets and action keep the linear levels light and humorous.

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.

Grow Home

Cosy, great for unwinding

As the clumsy robot BUD you climb a giant plant with physics-based controls and steer its growth ever higher. Relaxed exploration of floating islands makes it charming and distinctive.

Robots

Jumping and platforming

A family-friendly movie tie-in where you play inventor robot Rodney, platforming through a colorful robot city, solving light puzzles and riding in fast vehicle sections. It follows the animated film's plot and stays simple and accessible.

Angry Birds Space

Cosy, great for unwinding

The classic slingshot formula goes to space, where planetary gravity fields bend your shots and create fresh physics puzzles. Over 300 short, colorful levels with new birds and abilities make for easygoing play.

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