12 bananas similar games & best alternatives

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12 bananas

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Leap over treacherous chasms, navigate past a sea of hazards, and locate all 12 bananas as you embark on an epic quest and travel the patience-testing path that lies ahead in this infuriatingly challenging, unforgiving, puzzling, memey platformer.

What works

  • Challenging and rewarding gameplay
  • Amazing soundtrack and audio experience
  • Deep and moving story
  • Free to play with high quality
  • High replay value and mastery

Things to keep in mind

  • Unforgiving difficulty with no saving
  • Frustrating controls and physics
  • Some bugs and glitches reported
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative modes
  • Steep learning curve may deter casual players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • BLACKHOLE

  • Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike

  • Fly'N

  • Kaze and the Wild Masks

  • Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga

  • Grapple Dog

More violent

Games that feels like 12 bananas but with more combat and destruction

  • They Bleed Pixels

  • Tiny Barbarian DX

  • Volgarr the Viking

  • Super Meat Boy

  • Angvik

  • Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

More expressive

Games that feels like 12 bananas but with more self-expression and customization

  • Wings of Vi

  • SuperTux

  • Camera Obscura

  • Spark the Electric Jester

  • Rat Quest

  • Toree Saturn

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

12 bananas: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026