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We filtered the 50 games similar to Phantom Abyss down to the 9 that fit the “Platformer” category. Metroid Prime Hunters, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Phantom Abyss.

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The best platformer games like Phantom Abyss

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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Phantom Abyss. Each one has been evaluated across 15 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Metroid Prime HuntersClosest overall match

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SoloMultiplayerExplorationFirst PersonSci-Fi

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Year 2006Dev Nintendo Software Technology · Nintendo

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: Metroidvania exploration and setting scifi, while skipping roguelike runs

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: setting.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 18 years, with what that implies technically.

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#2Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

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SoloMultiplayerExplorationFirst PersonSci-Fi

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Year 2004Dev Retro Studios · Nintendo

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with Metroidvania exploration and setting scifi, while skipping roguelike runs

The darkest and hardest of the Prime games: a light and dark world where the dark one drains health continuously, so exploration runs on a clock. Boss design is excellent. The ammo system for beams is the divisive part — it turns experimenting with weapons into a resource decision, and backtracking for keys late on is genuinely tedious.

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: setting.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 20 years, with what that implies technically.

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#3Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

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SoloMultiplayerExplorationFirst PersonSci-Fi

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Year 2007Dev High Impact Games · Sony Computer Entertainment

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with setting scifi and visual third person, while skipping roguelike runs

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: setting and visuals.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 17 years, with what that implies technically.

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#4Metal SlugClosest on combat

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SoloMultiplayerMeleeCo-opOffline

Steam👍 89%· 5.1K

Year 1996Dev Nazca Corporation · SNK PlaymoreOn PlayStation 3 · Linux · Android

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: co op, offline and visual 2d, while skipping roguelike runs

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: visuals.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 28 years, with what that implies technically.

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#5Ratchet: Deadlocked

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SoloMultiplayerExplorationFirst PersonCo-op

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Year 2005Dev Insomniac Games · Sony Computer Entertainment

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Where it differs: brings setting scifi, co op and visual third person, while skipping roguelike runs

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: setting and visuals.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 19 years, with what that implies technically.

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#6The Expendabros

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SoloMultiplayerMeleeCo-opOffline

Steam👍 97%· 18KRAWG👍 70%· 391IGDB80· 1

Year 2014Dev Free Lives · Devolver DigitalPlaytime ~1hOn PC · Apple Macintosh

✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling

≠ Its own twist: ranged combat, co op and offline, while skipping roguelike runs

The Expendabros is a crossover game based on Broforce gameplay and featuring characters from The Expendables 3 movie. In the basis of both games lays the roast of the 90s movie cliches about unstoppable warriors, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and the others.

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: visuals.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 10 years, with what that implies technically.

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SoloMelee

Steam👍 93%· 43

Year 2015Dev Ivan Zanotti's MyMadnessWorks · Gamera GamePlaytime ~4hOn PC · iOS

✓ Nearly identical: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling.

≠ Missing: roguelike runs.

Follow usWant to know how the game is progressing? Follow us here: DiscordWeibo About the GameFirework is an oriental horror puzzle game. The story takes place in a remote mountain village. An accidental fire at a funeral forces the police to re-investigate a closed case of massacre.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 9 years, with what that implies technically.

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#8Unreal

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SoloMultiplayerFirst PersonSci-Fi

Year 1998Dev Digital Extremes · GT Interactive SoftwareOn PC · Mac

✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Stands apart with setting scifi, while skipping adventure storytelling

Its opening hour still holds up as atmosphere: you wake on a crashed prison ship and the alien world outside is quiet and strange in a way shooters of its era rarely were. Weapons have real alt-fire identity. It is long and uneven — the middle stretch of similar corridors runs well past its ideas, and enemy AI outside the Skaarj is basic.

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: setting.

It predates Phantom Abyss by 26 years, with what that implies technically.

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MultiplayerMeleeRanged2D

Year 2020Dev draggonairOn Web

✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming

≠ Its own twist: fighting mechanics, ranged combat and visual 2d, while skipping adventure storytelling

This game was made for Ludum Dare 47. The theme was "Stuck in a loop". Belzeebub was feeling peckish so he decided to step out from hell and picked your world as his snack! Unfortunately, you’re too weak to face him, but you don’t want to die yet.

Where it drifts furthest from Phantom Abyss: visuals.

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