Games like A Walk in the Dark
In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.
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$2.99The Impossible Game
May 8 · Grip Games
Both: Difficult · Platformer
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.
IndieDifficultGreat SoundtrackPlatformerLevel EditorMusicCasual2DAddictiveSingleplayer👍 1,253
$14.99Vibrant Venture
Jul 24 · Semag Games
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
PlatformerAdventureSide Scroller2D PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerDifficultActionPixel GraphicsCartoony2D👍 575
$9.99Castle In The Darkness
Feb 5 · Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!
MetroidvaniaIndiePlatformerActionDifficultPixel GraphicsAdventureRPGRetro2D👍 1,185
$9.99GravNewton
Jul 26 · JOZGamer, Hatus Quemuel
Both: Difficult · Platformer
Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.
Precision PlatformerDifficultPlatformer2DActionCartoonyFamily FriendlySingleplayerIndieReplay Value👍 378
$14.99Valdis Story: Abyssal City
Oct 30 · Endlessfluff Games
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Assume the role of Wyatt in this Action/Exploration Platformer as you explore the ruins of a holy city that was lost many years ago. Battle various types of demons, angels, and a new threat known only as the “Ferals”, using swordsmanship, martial arts, and sorcery.
MetroidvaniaActionPlatformerRPGIndie2DDifficultGreat SoundtrackSingleplayerExploration👍 2,275
$19.99Pid
Oct 31 · Might and Delight
Both: Platformer · Difficult
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
IndiePuzzle PlatformerAdventurePlatformerPuzzleLocal Co-OpDifficultSingleplayerCo-opGreat Soundtrack👍 296
$29.99Aeterna Noctis
Dec 14 · Aeternum Game Studios S.L
Both: Difficult · Platformer
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
MetroidvaniaDifficultPlatformerSouls-likePrecision PlatformerSoundtrack2DAction-AdventureIndieExploration👍 1,698
$12.99Elemgate
Sep 25 · CWPGames
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Elemgate is a unique precision platformer where you'll need to control your speed, changing of the elements and jump timing and to earn more time that converts into score needed to pass 10 stages per level and ultimately across 15 levels in this 2.5D obstacle course challenge to escape an evil god.
PlatformerDifficult2.5DIndieCasualAdventureActionFast-PacedSide ScrollerPrecision Platformer
-90%$0.99The Purring Quest
Nov 12 · Valhalla Cats
Both: Cats · Platformer
Have you ever wanted to be a cat? You will be able, thanks to the aventure platformer The Purring Quest. Take on the role of Kimchi the cat and meet famous cat of the internet in a journey full of humor.
CatsIndieCutePlatformerSingleplayer2DHand-drawnAdventureGreat SoundtrackAction👍 1,205
$24.99Rain World
Mar 28 · Videocult
Both: Difficult · Platformer
You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.
DifficultAtmosphericSurvivalExplorationIndiePixel GraphicsPlatformer2DOpen WorldPost-apocalyptic👍 46,938
$7.99Gato Roboto
May 30 · doinksoft
Both: Cats · Platformer
Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.
IndieMetroidvaniaActionPixel GraphicsAdventure2DCatsPlatformerRetroSingleplayer👍 4,364
$14.99Mago
Jun 21 · Dream Potion Games
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Mago is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlords' food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
IndieAdventurePlatformerPixel Graphics2DRetroGreat SoundtrackFunnyDifficultSingleplayer👍 933
$9.99Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity
Feb 1 · 2Play, Prasius
Both: Difficult · Cats · Platformer
Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.
Co-opOnline Co-Op4 Player LocalDifficultMultiplayerPrecision PlatformerCatsPixel GraphicsPlatformerLocal Multiplayer👍 824
$4.99The Narrator Is a DICK
Jun 14 · Adam DeLease
Both: Difficult · Platformer
In this narrated platformer there's one man who's always out to get you... The Narrator. He's a real jerk, but with determination and a lot of skill MAYBE you can make it through this crazy adventure.
Precision PlatformerDifficultPlatformerFemale Protagonist2DFunnyParody Psychological HorrorDynamic NarrationCartoony👍 107
$14.99BattleBlock Theater®
May 15 · The Behemoth
Both: Platformer · Cats
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Co-opPlatformerFunnyComedyLevel EditorMultiplayerLocal Co-Op2DOnline Co-OpCats👍 55,793
$9.99Remnants of Naezith
Feb 5 · Tolga Ay
Both: Platformer · Difficult
With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon's body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.
Precision PlatformerIndieActionPlatformerRacingFast-Paced2DAdventureDifficultCasual👍 440
$2.99Spooky Cats
Jun 4 · russpuppy
Both: Cats · Platformer
Oh no! This cute little kitty cat is alone and lost in a haunted house! Only by collecting pennies and defeating monsters can she find the way out! Use your fast fingers to defeat this adorably dark and funny platform game.
CasualActionIndieCatsPlatformerDarkCutePuzzle PlatformerDark ComedyDark Humor👍 370
$12.99Impulsion
Jul 19 · Driving Force Games
Both: Difficult · Platformer
Impulsion is a fast-paced first-person platformer designed to play with your nerves and reflexes! Make your way through 25 levels of increasing difficulty by manipulating physics to your advantage, shooting force fields to slow down or speed yourself up and the environment!
IndieAction3D PlatformerSci-fiParkourCompetitiveDifficultFirst-PersonPlatformerSingleplayer👍 157
$4.99EvilMorph
Feb 3 · ClickGames
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Evilmorph – this is a platform game the main feature of which is a transformation into your enemies after killing them. After slaying the foes you obtain their abilities which gives you one kind of power instead of another. Will you be able to overcome all the obstacles of the grim labyrinth? Will you face against the numerous enemies?
ActionAdventureIndiePlatformerDifficultPuzzle Platformer2DPixel Graphics
$9.99StrikeForce Kitty
Feb 20 · Creepy Brothers
Both: Cats · Platformer
Comedic puzzle-adventure with strong RPG influences. Take away costumes from the foxes, create the most mad combinations of clothes, explore the world, find secrets and save the princess from the clutches of the cunning king!
ArcadeMemesCatsRunnerCasualPlatformerCuteInventory ManagementSide Scroller2D👍 1,003
$7.99Super Win the Game
Oct 1 · Minor Key Games
Both: Difficult · Platformer
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
MetroidvaniaSide ScrollerPrecision PlatformerCasualExplorationOpen WorldDifficultPlatformer2DNonlinear👍 527
$14.99Wuppo: Definitive Edition
Sep 29 · snekflat
Both: Platformer
Play as an exiled 'wum' looking for a new home in this bizarre but charming world, filled with strange creatures, puzzles, monsters and political chaos.
MetroidvaniaExplorationPlatformer2D2D PlatformerCuteGreat SoundtrackPuzzleActionSingleplayer👍 4,950
$12.99UnEpic
Jul 25 · @unepic_fran
Both: Platformer
Daniel was just an average guy. He was a great videogame player, a big fan of sci-fi movies, and a novice RPG player. In the midst of an RPG, he was teleported to a castle. At first, Daniel believed that he was having a massive hallucination.
RPGIndieMetroidvaniaPlatformerActionComedy2DExplorationFantasyAdventure👍 5,385
$10.99CATO: Buttered Cat
Sep 5 · Team Woll
Both: Cats · Platformer
Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!
Puzzle PlatformerCatsCuteAdventurePuzzlePixel GraphicsIndieMultiplayerPlatformerSingleplayer👍 2,795
$19.99Cloudbuilt
Mar 20 · Coilworks
Both: Platformer · Difficult
Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.
ParkourActionCombatFast-Paced3D PlatformerAdventurePlatformerDifficultPrecision PlatformerStylized👍 798
$15.99F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Oct 2 · TiGames
Both: Platformer
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
MetroidvaniaPlatformerActionSteampunkAdventure2D PlatformerSingleplayerStory RichExplorationAction-Adventure👍 6,666









