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Sonic 3D in 2D
A 2D reimagining of Sonic 3D Blast
Sotaknuck
Platformer
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LOVE
$2.99
An accessible platformer with a focus on a fair challenge.
Fred Wood
Platformer
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Speed Squared
Fast Precision Platformer Action
Caster Cat
Platformer
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Ophidia
Consume all life as a serpentine demi-god in Ophidia!
montster27
Action
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WizardWizard
You're a Wizard, you can't do magic but you can jump pretty good!
Crateboy
Platformer
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Binaries
$9.99
Controller-smashingly tough puzzle platformer
AntWorkshop
Platformer
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Portal Mortal
$4.99
Portal Mortal - Hardcore 2D platformer with portals!
Theipe
Platformer
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labrat
$4.99
A challenging 2-button platformer
null
Platformer
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DRUNK
$6
Drunk and Reckless: Unforgiving Neighborhood Kilometer
Teamtyrant
Simulation
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Wellout
Challenging retro 8-bit platform game
Buck
Platformer
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Dooria
$2.99
Find a less lonesome path.
PaperAtom
Puzzle
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The World's Hardest Game: Ultimate Edition
The ultimate fanmade successor to the widely popular 'The World's Hardest Game'.
abho
Puzzle
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No More Kings
A challenging puzzle game based on the rules of Chess
Christian Montoya
Puzzle
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LazinAround
LazinAround is a puzzle game about matching lasers and targets by joining and filtering lasers. Can you match them all?
Isrelo
Puzzle
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A Game About Typing The Alphabet
How fast can you type?
Braska
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Lethal Honor Essence - PreAlpha
Obscure and punishing action-adventure roguelite with a dark, gloomy atmosphere and gothic hand-drawn graphic novel art
Viral Studios
Action
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Atomic Reconstruction
$1.99
Atmospheric Puzzle game about atoms
Teekeks
Puzzle
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Wrap It Up
Arcade Screen Wrapping Action! Can you beat Loop 4?
Harmony Monroe
Platformer
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Destructivator
Retro platform shooter that takes no prisoners
Pug Fugly Games
Action
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Test Chamber
$2.99
Challenging and not-quite-euclidean puzzle game.
Shark Jump Studios
Puzzle
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Banners & Legends
$7.99
Pixel fantasy conquest. Roll one of 2 million+ peoples, raise your banner, and outwit an AI that never cheats.
MentalPenguinGames
Strategy
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Rocket Arm Man
A 2D Rocket Jumping Game
SideCo
Platformer
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Snake 4D
The classic snake game reimagined in four dimensions!
GJ The Game Dev
Action
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GIF
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Clumsy Runners Demo
pixelart, platformer, runner, hardcore
nolike
Platformer
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Roll A Ball
Collect all the cubes and complete every course!
Cody Larkin
Platformer
GIF
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ikenie
Can you change your fate?
Akumu Games
Action
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Furries of Infinity Land
Help Denya find out what happened to his furry friends!
HIJOKE
Platformer
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The Impassable Speed Labyrinth
Top down, fast paced, challenging
Jarrod Hamilton
Action
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Towards Better
Fail, and try again in this challenging 2D platformer.
Blackthornprod Games
Platformer
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Sonic into the Black Sea
A challenging Sonic fan game taking the gameplay of the Dimps games in a new direction with fresh inspirations!
SilverDev
Platformer
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Hoi 1992 platform game re-release
A portable FOSS re-release of the 1992 Hoi Amiga platform game ─ Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Metin Seven
Platformer
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Ally's New Life: It's Your Lucky Day!
It's pronounced Ollie
Some-Crappy-Edits
Adventure
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Rise of the Penguins GB
A penguin platformer with a variety of challenging enemies along the journey
billwoo
Platformer
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8SH
A tiny precision platformer adventure
Buzzard
Platformer
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Pico-Bot
Original retro-style shooting game
Exquisite Bytes
Action
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Star Warmer
A challenging action game mixing up fighting games’ hard-to-master combos and top-down shooter mechanics
Event Horizon School
Action
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