Games like Bolt & Whalington
If Bolt & Whalington is your kind of game, the closest matches are CHASM SHIFT, Chronoscript: The Endless End and Dorc — 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 Bolt & Whalington: Bolt & Whalington is a Metroidvania game where you play as Bolt, a Siamese cat exploring the floating ruins of Whalington. Reshape abilities and rewrite world rules with the "Setting Machine," switch mecha forms to craft weapons, battle enemies, and uncover the secret of Whalington.
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CHASM SHIFT
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Top pick for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bolt & Whalington.
A 2D pixelated platformer journey through a mysterious and vast maze of puzzle box dungeons. Solve puzzle-infused platforming challenges and uncover new abilities as you plunge into an atmospheric adventure.
Chronoscript: The Endless End
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Second-strongest match for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Bolt & Whalington.
“Chronoscript: The Endless End” is an exploration-based action-adventure game where you, an editor trapped within a manuscript, must unravel a thousand-year story that writes itself beyond its end—across 2D pages and a 3D manor.
Dorc
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Third-strongest match for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
In a world ruled by »them«, Dorc's grandpa has a plan: a time machine. But when a jump goes wrong, Dorc is stranded across time. Change the past to shape the future in this story-driven adventure platformer with cute characters and clever time mechanics.
Crown Of Silence
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Ranked #4 for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
Crown Of Silence is a 2D Metroidvania adventure with Souls-like mechanics set in a gothic world. Forge your own combat style with diverse equipment, challenge ruthless bosses, and uncover the dark secrets of a silenced kingdom through environmental storytelling.
Torii: Beyond The Gates
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Ranked #5 for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
The spirit realm has broken. Your brother has gone missing. Forge the path you were destined for. Explore the gates and find out why there has been broken links inside the spirit realm. Battle, discover and find the secrets, and make new connections in a beautiful hand-drawn 2D style.
Echo Weaver
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Ranked #6 for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
Time is your greatest resource and secrets are your only upgrades. Master an unraveling time loop in this knowledge-based Metroidvania. As the last Weaver, exploit time-altering anomalies and use what you learn to break the cycle. Explore what remains. Uncover the mystery. Perfect the loop.
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey
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Ranked #7 for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Bolt & Whalington.
isekizima: Ruins and Tails Journey is a 2D action game. Kijino, a cat-eared adventurer with two tails (Nekomata), embarks on a journey to Isekizima (Ruins Island of dreams and romance: as it was written in the tourist brochure). Explore ruins buried in the forest while enjoying folk music.
Tails of Fate
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Ranked #8 for Bolt & Whalington fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
Fulfill this tale, as darkness swarms the fantasy lands of Fauna. Venture epic kingdoms and treacherous dungeons in a 2D action platformer, with Metroidvania elements in a hand-crafted pixel art world filled with souls-like boss fights, dungeon platforming, and dynamic enemy combat design.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bolt & Whalington.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bolt & Whalington.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Bolt & Whalington.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Bolt & Whalington.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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 Bolt & Whalington.
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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- What games are most similar to Bolt & Whalington?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bolt & Whalington are CHASM SHIFT, Chronoscript: The Endless End, Dorc.
- Who developed Bolt & Whalington?
- Bolt & Whalington was developed by Orca Studio and published by OKJOY.
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