The Best 2D Games - Page 2

Update : Boulder Dash 40th Anniversary added at rank #49.
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UDONGEIN X (2021)

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PC Windows

Help Reisen Udongein Inaba navigate through 14 action packed stages in this exhilarating 2D Bullet Hell Platformer based on Touhou Project!

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  • bullet-hell
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • platform
  • scroller
  • mythology
  • pixel
  • action
  • old-school
  • retro

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The Witch's House (2018)

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PC Windows

A young girl, Viola, is drawn inexorably to a mysterious manor that seems to change behind her back. It is a place of pain, turmoil and death. Plumb its detestable depths and abominable history. Untangle riddles that bar your perilous path. And flee the hellish halls of The Witch’s House.


  • horror
  • 2d
  • rpgmaker
  • perma-death
  • rhythm
  • survival-horror
  • atmospheric
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • puzzle
  • platform

13

Webbed (2021)

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Android Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you've always wanted to be.


  • platform
  • physics
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • cute
  • pixel
  • nature
  • collectathon
  • family-friendly
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • adventure

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Marsupilami: Hoobadventure (2021)

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

Discover the Marsupilamis as you have never seen them before in an adventure full of surprises!


  • platform
  • colourful
  • comic
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • book
  • family-friendly
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • funny
  • cartoony
  • dinosaurs
  • comedy
  • anime
  • exploration

15

Dad's Monster House (2021)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows IOS iPhone Mac OS

Dad's Monster House is a hand-drawn puzzle game featuring horror and fantasy. It tells the story of Carlos' journey after he receives a distress call from his father, pleading for him to return to his old home and rescue his dad.

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  • 2d
  • adventure
  • puzzle
  • rpg
  • fantasy
  • hand-drawn
  • seek-and-find
  • wonderland
  • frankenstein
  • featuring
  • casual
  • comic-book
  • surrealist
  • horror
  • platform

16

One Hand Clapping (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Android stadia Xbox Series X PC Windows IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One

One Hand Clapping is a vocal 2D platformer. Solve puzzles, by singing or humming into your microphone, and find confidence in the power of your voice as it changes the world around you.


  • platform
  • rhythm
  • 2d
  • music
  • puzzle
  • voice
  • control
  • experience
  • education
  • family-friendly

17

Level Devil (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android web browser

“Troll” is such a strong word for this 2D platformer with nearly 200 uniquely inventive levels. Don’t let screaming YouTubers convince you that this game is unfair. It’s fair. Sure, there are buzzsaws but they’re NICE buzzsaws. You will curse the guy who made Level Devil (Me😈) then ask for more.


  • platform
  • humor
  • 2d
  • minimalist
  • funny
  • dark
  • pixel
  • retro
  • colourful
  • puzzle
  • local

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Pizza Tower (2023)

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PC Windows Android

Pizza Tower is a fast-paced, 2D platformer game that puts you in the shoes of Peppino Spaghetti, an Italian pizza chef who embarks on a wild adventure to save his pizzeria from being destroyed. Inspired by Wario Land, the game is filled with funky, pixelated art and an energetic soundtrack that will have you fighting monsters and collecting toppings across five floors. With creative level design and secrets to uncover, Pizza Tower offers a unique platformer experience that is sure to leave you wanting more.


What we like:
  • Creative level design and secrets
  • Versatile moveset for the protagonist
  • Inventive and challenging bosses
  • Vibrant and lively pixel art
  • Energetic and catchy soundtrack
What could be improved:
  • No multiplayer mode
  • Relatively short gameplay
  • Some might find the humor too absurd
  • Can only play certain power-ups in a few levels
  • No story

  • platform
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • funny
  • boss-fight
  • epic
  • comedy
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • boss
  • inventive
  • reflexes
  • indie-platform
  • retro
  • pixel

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Beeny (2022)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A vertical 2D platformer featuring a round bee in an early 90s prerendered environment.


  • platform
  • 2d
  • precision
  • 1990s
  • cartoony
  • colourful
  • vertical
  • nature
  • dark
  • cute
  • atmospheric
  • old-school

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Castlevania DominuS Collection (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Three incredible action adventure games from the Castlevania series have finally returned, for the first time! But wait, there's more! Haunted Castle Revisited, a redesigned version of the very first Castlevania arcade game, makes its debut!

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • vampire
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • dark
  • remake
  • compilation
  • arcade
  • piracy
  • time-consuming

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