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More about this game →We filtered the 50 games similar to Rainbow Cotton down to the 11 that fit the “Platformer” category. Metal Slug, The Expendabros and Broforce top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to Rainbow Cotton.
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Within the “Platformer” category, the closest game to Rainbow Cotton is Metal Slug — scoring 79/100 on our similarity scale. The Expendabros and Broforce follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to Rainbow Cotton. 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.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Its own twist: visual 2d and visual pixel, while skipping vibe casual
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 28 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: ranged combat, visual 2d and visual pixel, while skipping vibe casual
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 Rainbow Cotton: visuals and combat.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 10 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Where it differs: brings dark, oppressive atmosphere, ranged combat and setting scifi, while skipping cozy, relaxing feel
Broforce is a parody run-and-gun game made in a 2D side-scrolling manner. Players are offered to take control of a Bro – one of the soldiers of the special Broforce unit. Actually, players are going to assume roles of several protagonists (all are Bros) while completing game levels.
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and adventure storytelling
≠ Its own twist: visual 2d and visual pixel, while skipping cozy, relaxing feel
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Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Where it differs: brings setting scifi, exploration and discovery and visual first person, while skipping vibe casual
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 19 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Its own twist: Metroidvania exploration, setting scifi and exploration and discovery, while skipping vibe casual
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 18 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Stands apart with Metroidvania exploration, setting scifi and exploration and discovery, while skipping vibe casual
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 Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 20 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Stands apart with setting scifi, exploration and discovery and visual first person, while skipping vibe casual
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 17 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Its own twist: competitive edge, ranged combat and PvP competition, while skipping adventure storytelling
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Win over the crowd and gain a following by blasting your feathered friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and pretty much anything else a duck could use as a weapon.
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: visuals and tone.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are first-person shooters — sharing shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Where it differs: brings fighting mechanics, dark, oppressive atmosphere and online features, while skipping adventure storytelling
Where it drifts furthest from Rainbow Cotton: tone and visuals.
✓ Fits the first-person shooters cluster, with shooter, first-person shooting and precision platforming
≠ Stands apart with setting scifi and visual first person, 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 Rainbow Cotton: setting and visuals.
It predates Rainbow Cotton by 26 years, with what that implies technically.