10 Hardcore games like Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® that you should try

With Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® it shares strong narrative focus, single-player focus and 2D presentation. They part company on setting: this one brings fantasy world.

Genre puts it alongside Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus®, and so does punishing difficulty, melee combat and a sci-fi setting. Both also lean on single-player focus and 2D presentation. The distance is in combat and tone — its own ground is cozy, relaxing feel and pixel art.

What brings it close to Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® is strong narrative focus, a sci-fi setting and single-player focus, and the two track each other on genre, game mode and setting. The common ground extends to 2D presentation. Where the two diverge is tone: a casual, approachable feel.

Genre puts it alongside Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus®, and so does punishing difficulty, melee combat and a sci-fi setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus and 2D presentation. Where the two diverge is visuals and setting: cozy, relaxing feel and an anime aesthetic.

With Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® it shares dark, oppressive atmosphere, melee combat and single-player focus. Both also lean on 2D presentation. The distance is in combat.

On paper it is what Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® is — punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. Both also lean on 2D presentation. The distance is in combat and tone — its own ground is cozy, relaxing feel.

What carries over from Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® is strong narrative focus, single-player focus and 2D presentation. Where the two diverge is setting: fantasy world.

What brings it close to Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® is punishing difficulty, melee combat and a sci-fi setting, and the two track each other on genre, game mode and setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus and 2D presentation. Where the two diverge is combat and tone: a casual, approachable feel.

Shelved next to Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® for good reason: punishing difficulty, melee combat and single-player focus. Both also lean on 2D presentation. The distance is in tone and combat.

Held in common with Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus®: punishing difficulty and single-player focus. The distance is in tone — its own ground is a casual, approachable feel.