Rank 01Why this
Shares environmental hazards with Jump King.
- $9.99 (Price checked Nov 3)
- Deck Playable
- 2024
The closest matches to Jump King: A Difficult Game About Climbing, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends, Egging On, and Unrooted. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
Rank 01Why this
Shares environmental hazards with Jump King.
Rank 02Why this
Same stressful mood as Jump King.
Rank 03
Why this: Also Philosophical and Precision Platformer, like Jump King.

Why this: Shares fall recovery with Jump King.

Why this: Same challenging mood as Jump King.

Why this: Shares momentum based jumping with Jump King.


Players highlight
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

Why this: Same stressful mood as Jump King.

Why this: Same challenging mood as Jump King.

Why this: Same contemplative mood as Jump King.





Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

Why this: Same stressful mood as Jump King.


Why this: Shares environmental hazards with Jump King.

Why this: Same challenging mood as Jump King.

The closest matches to Jump King: A Difficult Game About Climbing, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends, Egging On, and Unrooted. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Jump King is your kind of game, the closest matches are A Difficult Game About Climbing, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, contemplative and stressful, and single out its charge jump timing and community maps. 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.
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 recommend it
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People who play it also play: A Difficult Game About Climbing, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
Jump King is also on App Store. What the store pages declare:
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.
Jump King is listed on Steam at 2.98 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jump King are A Difficult Game About Climbing, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends.
Jump King was developed by Nexile.