Games like Escape Zolstar
If Escape Zolstar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Juno's Darkest Hour, Zolg and 1 Screen Platformer — picked from the ranked list below. 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.
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Juno's Darkest Hour
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Top pick for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Juno’s Darkest Hour is a simple but challenging 2D action adventure platformer game inspired by the side-scrollers of the past. Explore the secrets of a vast monochromatic world. Will you succeed against all odds, or will you die over and over again?
Zolg
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Zolg is a minimalist top-down shooter where you explore, fight enemies, collect powerups, and defeat bosses.
1 Screen Platformer
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.
Odallus: The Dark Call
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Ranked #4 for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.
DOOMBLADE
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Ranked #5 for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
Cyber Shadow
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Ranked #6 for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight
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Ranked #7 for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda
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Ranked #8 for Escape Zolstar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
You are the ultimate weapon with an ultimate sidekick – Collect secret items and get power ups to become the perfect weapon.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Escape Zolstar at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Zolstar.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Escape Zolstar.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Escape Zolstar on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Escape Zolstar.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Escape Zolstar.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Escape Zolstar.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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More from Robert Alvarez
Other recommendable Steam games by Robert Alvarez, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dungeon of Zolthan
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Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar. Shares Action and Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Dungeon of Zolthan is a casual, arcade-style metroidvania platformer where your goal is to defeat Zolthan; a powerful mage that lives inside the dungeon. Using an array of powerups and your own wit and guile, guide your character through Zolthan's Dungeon!
Chessformer
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Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar.
Chessformer is a grid-based puzzle platformer with Chess pieces. The goal in each level is to capture the opposing king, who is lazy and never moves, so don't worry about losing any pieces.
Isotiles - Isometric Puzzle Game
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Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Isotiles is an isometric puzzle game played on a grid. The goal of the game is to turn all of the blue tiles red and then reach the exit tile. There are 50 levels to play through with increasing difficulty and added obstacles.
Kombine
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Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Kombine is a minimalist puzzle game played on a grid. The goal is to remove all of the blocks that have borders by matching three or more of the same blocks together.
Puzzle Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Puzzle Tactics is a turn-based and grid-based tactics game played in various small levels. You play as the blue team with the goal of defeating the red team's units before losing your own. Later levels are more difficult and introduce more unit types in battle.
Isotiles 2
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Another title from Robert Alvarez, the studio behind Escape Zolstar. Shares Indie with Escape Zolstar.
Isotiles 2 is an isometric puzzle game and the sequel to Isotiles. Like the first game, the main goal of each level is to remove all the blue tiles and then get to the exit tile. The game features all new levels and some new tile types as well for more interesting puzzles.
Frequently asked about Escape Zolstar
- How much does Escape Zolstar cost?
- Escape Zolstar is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Escape Zolstar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape Zolstar are Juno's Darkest Hour, Zolg, 1 Screen Platformer.
- Who developed Escape Zolstar?
- Escape Zolstar was developed by Robert Alvarez.
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