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More about this game →We filtered the 29 games similar to The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure down to the 17 that fit the “Adventure” category. Kid Icarus, Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure.
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Within the “Adventure” category, the closest game to The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure is Kid Icarus — scoring 75/100 on our similarity scale. Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse follow close behind.
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Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure. Each one has been evaluated across 5 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.
✓ Both are 2D platformers — sharing precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Where it differs: brings shooter and ranged combat
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 40 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of 2D platformers: precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Where it differs: brings melee combat and visual pixel
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of 2D platformers: precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Where it differs: brings vibe casual and visual third person
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 13 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Same family of 2D platformers: precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: deep RPG systems, dark, oppressive atmosphere and loot and gear systems
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 19 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are 2D platformers — sharing precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: melee combat and visual pixel
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 38 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the 2D platformers cluster, with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: dark, oppressive atmosphere, ranged combat and horror setting
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 35 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the 2D platformers cluster, with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: melee combat, stealth mechanics and historical setting
On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against mostly positive for The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure.
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 10 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the 2D platformers cluster, with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Its own twist: historical setting, setting scifi and setting medieval
Where it drifts furthest from The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure: setting.
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 28 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are 2D platformers — sharing precision platforming, adventure storytelling and fantasy world
≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, deep RPG systems and cozy, relaxing feel
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Where it drifts furthest from The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure: setting.
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 16 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are 2D platformers — sharing precision platforming, adventure storytelling and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with vibe casual and melee combat, while skipping fantasy world
Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart. Pinkman is set in deadly fantasy world called "The Mind", where many traps will try to cut your body in half when you struggle to discover what happened, and keep yourself alive.
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 9 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Both are 2D platformers — sharing precision platforming, adventure storytelling and single-player focus
≠ Where it differs: brings melee combat, while skipping fantasy world
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 32 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Nearly identical: precision platforming, adventure storytelling and single-player focus.
≠ Missing: fantasy world.
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 44 years, with what that implies technically.
✓ Fits the 2D platformers cluster, with precision platforming, adventure storytelling and single-player focus
≠ Stands apart with racing gameplay, while skipping fantasy world
It predates The NewZealand Story: Untold Adventure by 16 years, with what that implies technically.
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