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VVVVVV is described as 'In VVVVVV, the player controls Captain Viridian, who is lost in an alternate dimension, in search of the missing members of his spaceship's crew. Instead of jumping, the player is able to control the direction of gravity, allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors' and is a Platform Game in the games category. There are more than 25 games similar to VVVVVV for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Steam, Linux and Nintendo Switch apps. The best VVVVVV alternative is Limbo. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try I Wanna Be The Guy or Knytt Stories. Other VVVVVV like games are Hollow Knight, Super Meat Boy, Braid and Ori.

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    Limbo

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    Limbo (stylized as LIMBO) is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along...

    46 Limbo alternatives

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    • Limbo is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & iPhone alternative to VVVVVV.

    • Limbo is the most popular commercial alternative to VVVVVV.

    • Limbo is Paid and ProprietaryVVVVVV is Paid and Open Source
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    Hollow Knight

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    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

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    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Humble Bundle
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  4. Super Meat Boy icon

    Super Meat Boy

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    Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October 2008.

    95 Super Meat Boy alternatives

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  5. Braid icon

    Braid

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    Braid is a platforming game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.

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  6. Ori icon

    Ori

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    Embark on an all-new adventure in a vast and exotic world, where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to discover Ori’s true destiny.

    68 Ori alternatives

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    • Pay once
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    • Windows
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  7. Frogatto & Friends icon

    Frogatto & Friends

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    Frogatto & Friends is an action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog. A quiet errand run turns into a battle to fend off an invading army, and only Frogatto is foolhardy enough to sleuth out why.

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    • Pay once
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  9. Teslagrad icon

    Teslagrad

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    Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle-platformer with action elements where magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are the key to go throughout the game, and thereby discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower.

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    • Pay once
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  10. I Wanna Be The Guy icon

    I Wanna Be The Guy

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    I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid, a youthful, vaguely Megaman-esque protagonist on a quest to become The...

    31 I Wanna Be The Guy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • I Wanna Be The Guy is the most popular free alternative to VVVVVV.

    • I Wanna Be The Guy is Free and ProprietaryVVVVVV is Paid and Open Source
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    Knytt Stories

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    In Knytt Stories, each level is its own little adventure. One level is included with the game, where you have to stop a machine that draws the life out of the planet. To find more levels to play, download the expansion pack or go to .

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    • Free
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    • Windows
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    The Last Campfire

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    The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way home.

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    • Pay once
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    • Mac
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    • Apple TV
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  13. Alex the Allegator icon

    Alex the Allegator

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    Alex the Allegator is a series of games that I, Johan Peitz, usually use for game coding challenges like Speedhack and Ludumdare.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Alex the Allegator is the most popular Open Source alternative to VVVVVV.

    • Alex the Allegator is Free and Open SourceVVVVVV is Paid and Open Source
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    spaceBOUND

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    spaceBOUND is a difficult puzzle-platformer game, in which players guide two astronauts through an abandoned mining facility.

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