The Best 2.5d Games

Update : Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary added at rank #12.
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Heian City Story (2024)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Android Nintendo Switch

A city-building sim with a historical twist


  • city-building
  • 2.5d
  • effects-strategy
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • building
  • simulation
  • casual
  • colourful
  • top-down
  • cute
  • strategy
  • platform
  • historical
  • demons

2

Withering Rooms (2022)

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early access Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows

Withering Rooms is a challenging 2.5D horror RPG set in a procedurally generated Victorian mansion that changes each night. Explore Mostyn House to collect the perfect items for your build and face a huge cast of overgrown undead, invisible ghosts, devious witches, and more.


  • horror
  • 2.5d
  • rogue-like
  • survival-horror
  • procedural
  • rpg
  • mystery
  • stealth
  • action

3

Into The Dead: Our Darkest Days (2025)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.

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  • zombies
  • survival-horror
  • survival
  • psychological
  • 2.5d
  • perma-death
  • immersive
  • stealth
  • scroller
  • crafting
  • simulation
  • post-apocalyptic
  • management
  • atmospheric
  • choices

4

Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation - The Endless Seven-Day Journey (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4

Shin-Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- is an adventure game with a heartfelt summer vacation vibe. Join Shin-Chan and his family as they explore Japan, meet unique characters, collect bugs and plants, and help the mad scientist bring dinosaurs to life. Experience a peaceful world filled with stunning scenery, funny dialogue, and time travel.

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What we like:
  • Fun dialogue
  • Beautiful scenery
  • Engaging side quests and activities
  • Time travel elements
What could be improved:
  • Repetitive tasks at times
  • Not all lines of dialogue are voiced

  • simulation
  • 2.5d
  • collector
  • creature
  • anime
  • 3d
  • cartoony
  • life
  • dinosaurs
  • farming
  • immersive
  • battler
  • atmospheric
  • adventure
  • story

5

KinnikuNeko: SUPER MUSCLE CAT (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

A cat with the body of a bodybuilder fights against aliens in this 2D platformer with anime aesthetics.

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  • anime
  • platform
  • comic
  • 2d
  • 2.5d
  • scroller
  • cartoony
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • metroidvania
  • arts
  • aliens
  • colourful
  • hack-and-slash

6

My Lovely Empress (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows Nintendo Switch

My Lovely Empress is an empire management sim inspired by Asian mythology. As the Emperor of the Crimson Empire, you will build relations with neighboring rulers, balance internal factions, and ensure the prosperity of your people, all before you reap their souls to resurrect your beloved empress.


  • visual-novel
  • 2.5d
  • immersive
  • simulation
  • fantasy
  • point-and-click
  • political
  • management
  • hand-drawn
  • stylized
  • romance
  • dark
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • empire

7

Slap City (2020)

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Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Slap City is a Seriously Fun platform fighter with a perfect mix of characters from the Ludosity universe. Play Locally or Online. Slap it hard in Ranked or fast and loose in Slap Ball game mode. We are the original inventors of Clutch Technology.


  • 2.5d
  • art
  • fight
  • funny
  • action
  • platform
  • multiplayer
  • 2d
  • local
  • 4-player

8

Jumping Quest (2022)

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PC Windows Android Nintendo Switch

The most BRUTAL Platforming-Action-Multiplayer-RPG in THE WORLD with NO Game-Over, only falling down… Defy the fiends of The Heights TOGETHER or alone to rise as KING on your Quest to The Smoking Hot Babe at the Top!


  • souls
  • metroidvania
  • precision
  • platform
  • nonlinear
  • 2.5d
  • pvp
  • character
  • pve
  • customization
  • psychological
  • funny
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • exploration

9

Seekers Notes: Hidden Objects (2022)

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The girl struck the match. What you see in the flame is the picture of LXNS`Live


  • 2.5d
  • tps
  • visual-novel
  • dystopian
  • hidden-object
  • anime
  • drama
  • third-person
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • cute
  • shooter
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • detective

10

Born of Bread (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5

Born of Bread is a wacky and joyful RPG Adventure, revisiting turn-based combat tropes. Play as Loaf, a flour-golem discovering this enchanting world full of humor, along with a colorful cast of buddies.


  • turn-based
  • rpg
  • 2.5d
  • soundtrack
  • party
  • 3d
  • comedy
  • exploration
  • funny
  • character
  • colourful
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • customization
  • combat

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