Games like Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum
If Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Super Retro World, ZADETTE and Lost Caves — 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.
Get personalized picks →About Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum: Garbage Pail Kids are back in this Long-Lost, All-New platforming adventure. Featuring four playable characters, six secret-filled levels, and a trading-card system, Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is a throwback to the golden era of 80s gaming.
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Super Retro World
WHY THIS
Top pick for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Super Retro World is a 2D platformer which is based on the idea of classic platform handheld console games like Super Mario Land.
ZADETTE
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
A great 2D retro-action-platformer! To the lovers of big pixels and screeching synthetic sounds we dedicate this masterpiece to you.
Lost Caves
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Spelunk, plunder, and pickaxe in Lost Caves, A 2D collect-a-thon all about exploration and treasure hunting! Venture through 4 expansive labyrinthine levels to find over 80 unique treasures to amass your wealth, and use your trusty pickaxe to defeat anything in your way!
JACK 'N' HAT
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
The sinister Dr. Voo Doom has kidnapped the Princess of Ririland and incited a civil war! It's up to repairman extraordinaire, Jack and his boomerang hat to save her and restore peace! Jump through 20+ huge levels, collecting Crystals, Stars and more! Can you save Ririland?
Cash Cow DX
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Holy cow, it’s all about the moooney! Run, jump and slide in this udderly moo-velous adventure to reclaim your fortunes from those sneaky Pig Pockets. Tough as nails and no continues! Are you up for the challenge?
Project: Artificial Legacy Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Embark on journey through the "Project: Artificial Legacy Saga" a four-part series, crafted to feel as if it was released across four console generations. Follow Kirana on her heroic journey, as she protects her family and her homeland from a mysterious evil force.
Belle Boomerang
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
A fast-action platformer packed with beautiful pixel art and exciting variation in every level!
Flippin Kaktus
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Flippin Kaktus is an action-driven vendetta with 80s vibes, featuring a spiky hero with the thorny past and rage-outbreaks combat style.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
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.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
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.
Half-Life: Opposing Force
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum on Steam right now. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Return to the Black Mesa Research Facility as one of the military specialists assigned to eliminate Gordon Freeman. Experience an entirely new episode of single player action. Meet fierce alien opponents, and experiment with new weaponry. Named 'Game of the Year' by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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More from Retrotainment Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Retrotainment Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
HAUNTED: Halloween '85 (Original NES Game)
WHY THIS
Another title from Retrotainment Games, the studio behind Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
A brand new NES homebrew game independently developed by Retrotainment Games and released on an NES cartridge. This game adheres to all NES hardware restrictions... all graphics, color palettes, data processing and audio fully comply regardless of how maddening it was to achieve :) HH85 is a classic, 8-bit beat' em up / platformer that...
HAUNTED: Halloween '86
WHY THIS
Another title from Retrotainment Games, the studio behind Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum. Shares Action with Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
A brand new NES game independently developed by Retrotainment Games and released on an NES cartridge. This classic style beat 'em up / platformer adheres to all NES hardware restrictions and pushes the limits of game play on the console. '86 now includes the Spirit Halloween Exclusive edition!
Full Quiet
WHY THIS
Another title from Retrotainment Games, the studio behind Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum.
In this open-world game of survival, mystery and adventure you must learn how Pap and his radio buddies maintained their radio grid, protected the lands they now walk and silenced the forest in order to find your missing son.
Frequently asked about Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum
- How much does Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum cost?
- Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum are Super Retro World, ZADETTE, Lost Caves.
- Who developed Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum?
- Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum was developed by Retrotainment Games, Digital Eclipse and published by iam8bit Presents.
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