Games like Shift Happens on Xbox
Closest overall match: Spelunky (★ 3.7). Highest rated: Hollow Knight at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: BUTCHER at about 2 hours.
We compared Shift Happens against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. The strongest common threads are Great Soundtrack, 2D and Full controller support.
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61%
1. Spelunky
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 28%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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59%
2. TowerFall Ascension
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 6 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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58%
3. Celeste
Shares 2D, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 73%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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57%
4. Alwa's Awakening
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 71
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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56%
5. BUTCHER
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.0
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 35%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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55%
6. 20XX
Shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Online multiplayer, Split Screen and Online Co-Op and 8 more tags.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- Indie
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55%
7. Slain: Back from Hell
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Achievements and 1 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 44%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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55%
8. Super Meat Boy
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 2 more tags; rated 0.5 higher.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 39%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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55%
9. Hollow Knight
Shares Controller, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and steam-trading-cards and 3 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 65%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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55%
10. Risk of Rain
Shares Split Screen, Online Co-Op, cooperative, Great Soundtrack and 2D and 3 more tags; rated 0.4 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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55%
11. Cuphead
Shares cooperative, Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 52%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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54%
12. Electronic Super Joy
Shares Great Soundtrack, 2D, Full controller support, steam-trading-cards and Steam Cloud and 2 more tags.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 46%
- Shared genres
- Indie, 83
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Shift Happens on Xbox?
On our similarity model, Spelunky is the closest match to Shift Happens on Xbox — shares Controller, Local Multiplayer, Split Screen, cooperative and Great Soundtrack and 5 more tags.
Which game like Shift Happens is rated highest?
Hollow Knight holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 2,778 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Shift Happens on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.