Micro Platformer similar games & best alternatives

Micro Platformer

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

A minimalistic platformer with a 1x1 tileset. No enemies, no bullets, no lasers. Just sheer platforming.

What works

  • Tight and responsive controls
  • Challenging and rewarding platforming
  • Free to play
  • Minimalist and clear design
  • Speedrunning and death counters

Things to keep in mind

  • Lack of music and sound effects
  • Very difficult spikes in later levels
  • Level editor currently disabled
  • Minimal content and short length
  • Some control floatiness and frustration

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Blaite

  • 1 Screen Platformer

  • LOVE

  • The Hardest Game Ever

  • Just Hit The Button

  • The Impossible Game

More fantastical

Games that feels like Micro Platformer but with more imaginative fiction

  • Zexion

  • Duck Souls

  • VVVVVV

  • Death Fungeon

  • Garlic

  • Nohra

Less competitive

Games that feels like Micro Platformer but with less competition against others

  • 100$

  • qomp

  • Öoo

  • Leap Year

  • Elle: Portal

  • You Have 10 Seconds

More violent

Games that feels like Micro Platformer but with more combat and destruction

  • Vox Populi Vox Dei 2

  • Pinkman

  • Super Meat Boy

  • RITE

  • GravNewton

  • Dungeon of Zolthan

Choose your own criteria ->

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.
  • 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).

Micro Platformer: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026