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BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition

Nintendo Switch • 2015

Should you play it?

With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.

What works

  • Beautiful atmospheric art and sound
  • Challenging and addictive gameplay
  • Local co-op and multiplayer modes
  • Large amount of levels and community content
  • Intuitive controls with varied power-ups

Things to keep in mind

  • Can become repetitive over time
  • Some technical bugs and crashes reported
  • Lack of online multiplayer
  • Minimal narrative or story depth
  • Price considered high without discount

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Vellum

  • Full Mojo Rampage

  • CounterAttack: Uprising

  • Onirism

  • GODBREAKERS

  • Strike Force Heroes

Less competitive

Games that feels like BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition but with less competition against others

  • Drake Hollow

  • Primal Planet

  • Trine Enchanted Edition

  • Abyssus

  • Astral Ascent

  • Shape of Dreams: Prologue

Choose your own criteria ->

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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.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • 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).

BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026