Tomato Jones similar games & best alternatives

Tomato Jones

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2016

Should you play it?

It’s just a red tomato wearing a silly hat. He tries to look like a cool tomb raider, rolling and jumping across the maps. Help him find all the treasures in the mystic castle, or watch him meet a variety of painful ends.

What works

  • Challenging and skill-based platforming
  • Unique tomato physics and humorous theme
  • Low price and accessible on low-end pcs
  • Thoughtful level design with variety
  • Some manual camera control options

Things to keep in mind

  • Frustrating controls and camera issues
  • Poor optimization and bugs reported
  • Short game length with limited content
  • Repetitive music and visuals
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

  • WarriOrb: Prologue

  • Prison Run and Gun

  • Tomb Raider I (1996)

  • Evil Tonight

  • Jelly Killer

Less violent

Games that feels like Tomato Jones but with less combat and destruction

  • AtmaSphere

  • GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right!

  • Cat Burglar: A Tail of Purrsuit

  • Lorn's Lure

  • Crow Story

  • Boris and the Dark Survival

More expressive

Games that feels like Tomato Jones but with more self-expression and customization

  • Pseudoregalia

  • Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair

  • Dark Roll

  • Tomb Raider II (1997)

  • Fallback

  • Heaven Dust 2

More exploratory

Games that feels like Tomato Jones but with more exploration of areas and secrets

  • Tomb Raider III (1998)

  • Spark in the Dark

  • PowerSlave Exhumed

  • La-Mulana 2

  • Crow Country

  • Indiana Jones® and the Emperor's Tomb™

More relaxing

Games that feels like Tomato Jones but with a more relaxing feel

  • Angeline Era

  • Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas

  • Heaven Dust

  • Pharaoh Rebirth+

  • Little Big Adventure 2

  • Chasm

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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.
  • 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).

Tomato Jones: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Value, Competence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026