Games like Jump King
If Jump King is your kind of game, the closest matches are Diamond Hands: To The Moon, Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends and Wizard's Warp — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community maps extend replayability, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Jump King is a 2019 precision platformer developed and published by Nexile, available for $12.99. The game tasks players with ascending a treacherous vertical world through momentum-based jumping and charge-jump timing, with environmental hazards and fall recovery mechanics creating high stakes with each attempt. Players describe it as challenging, contemplative, and tense, with the punishing difficulty creating a lifestyle-challenge dynamic that reviewers highlight. The short burst session design accommodates play in brief intervals, while community maps extend the experience considerably. Smooth controls receive consistent mention despite the unforgiving nature of the gameplay. Jump King is verified on Steam Deck and holds a 91% positive rating from over 5,000 Steam reviews.
About Jump King: Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...
Players who liked Jump King also play
Steam players who put hours into Jump King also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Diamond Hands: To The Moon
WHY THIS
Top pick for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jump King.
A game with one objective - to get to the moon. A game for apes by apes. A game as frustrating as stock market manipulation, a game that will make you want to hold on for dear life...
Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Jump King.
Second-strongest match for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jump King.
Get ready to rage with your friends in this co-op precise platforming adventure! You're stuck in Hell. You can only jump upwards and all you have to do is escape … it can't be that hard, right?!
Wizard's Warp
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Always wanted to learn how to teleport? Try not to get stuck in a wall! Wizard's Warp, a platformer that challenges those who are not afraid of hard challenges. Get to the top to save your favorite cat! But if you fall down, be ready for a rough landing.
rock climbing
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
It's a difficult game but it should be easier than real rock climbing.
The Misadventures of Spaceman Biff
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jump King.
Help Biff, the unluckiest pilot in the galaxy, get home after he crash lands on an alien rock in this punishing platformer. Use his trusty jetpack to climb up mountains, the remains of his ship, and into the many secrets of this strange alien world - slip once and tumble for eternity.
A Difficult Game About Climbing
WHY THIS
Shares environmental hazards and a stressful mood with Jump King.
Ranked #6 for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Jump King.
This is a difficult game about climbing.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Jump King.
Ranked #7 for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Jump King.
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
Egging On
WHY THIS
Shares environmental hazards and a tense mood with Jump King.
Ranked #8 for Jump King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
This game is hard-boiled. Face the challenge of being a real, fragile egg. Escape the hen-house and jump, roll and climb your way through a farm shop, factory and other perilous environments. With some determination, you might just reach your freedom.
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Stick It!
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jump King.
Swing, spin, and launch your way to victory in Stick It!, a fast-paced physics-based platformer where angular momentum is your greatest tool. Master the art of movement, conquer dynamic environments, and challenge your friends in chaotic multiplayer races to the top!
Super World War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The world has gone mad, it's time to unleash chaos! Super World War is a turn based strategy game for up to 4 players. Take control of wild leaders and wage war in solo, local multiplayer or online.
Baby Steps
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other.
Joshua's Legs
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Joshua's Legs is a unique game with devious controls about a two-legged arachnid hoping to find his long lost prosthetic legs collection. Venture in a world that will only reveal its secrets to the true hardened climbers.
A Difficult Game About Climbing
WHY THIS
Shares environmental hazards and a stressful mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Jump King.
This is a difficult game about climbing.
Boxman's Struggle
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
What's better than climbing mountain in a cardboard box? Getting deep frustration every time you fall from it.
I Am Bread
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
Get To Work
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Jump King.
Reviewers of Jump King cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Jump King.
You are poor and bald. Get to Work.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jump King at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jump King.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jump King.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jump King.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jump King.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jump King.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jump King.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Jump King on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jump King.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Jump King.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jump King.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Jump King.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jump King.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jump King.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about Jump King
- Is Jump King verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Jump King is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Jump King cost?
- Jump King is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Jump King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jump King are Diamond Hands: To The Moon, Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends, Wizard's Warp.
- Who developed Jump King?
- Jump King was developed by Nexile.
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