Video Game BacklogAnalyze your library

Games like Mago

Matched on the Steam tags players give them, the closest first.

30 games alike in Side Scroller, Platformer and Retro, with Sonic Mania, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Rayman Origins closest.

Which of these do you already own?

Your Steam profile link or name: the games here that sit in your library unopened are wrapped and lit. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

Where to start

PlatformerRetro

10 games that share both with Mago

  1. Sonic Mania
    8.5hours

    Sonic Mania

    Loved · 94%

  2. Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
    13hours

    Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

    Loved · 95%

  3. The Disney Afternoon Collection
    3hours

    The Disney Afternoon Collection

    Liked · 87%

  4. DuckTales Remastered
    4.5hours

    DuckTales Remastered

    Liked · 88%

  5. Freedom Planet
    8.5hours

    Freedom Planet

    Loved · 95%

  6. Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
    8hours

    Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

    Loved · 94%

  7. Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
    3.5hours

    Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures

    Liked · 88%

  8. Celeste
    16hours

    Celeste

    Loved · 97%

  9. Cathedral
    14hours

    Cathedral

    Mixed · 73%

  10. Super Cyborg
    3.5hours

    Super Cyborg

    Liked · 86%

PlatformerLocal Co-Op

3 games that share both with Mago

  1. Rayman Origins
    8.5hours

    Rayman Origins

    Loved · 94%

  2. Rayman Legends
    10hours

    Rayman Legends

    Loved · 90%

  3. The Expendabros
    2hours

    The Expendabros

    Loved · 97%

PlatformerSide Scroller

10 games that share both with Mago

  1. Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
    9hours

    Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils

    Loved · 94%

  2. Tembo The Badass Elephant
    3.5hours

    Tembo The Badass Elephant

    Mixed · 75%

  3. Broforce
    9hours

    Broforce

    Loved · 97%

  4. PICO PARK 2
    5hours

    PICO PARK 2

    Liked · 88%

  5. Shank 2
    4.5hours

    Shank 2

    Liked · 82%

  6. Shank
    4hours

    Shank

    Loved · 90%

  7. Headlander
    7.5hours

    Headlander

    Loved · 90%

  8. Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2
    12hours

    Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2

    Mixed · 77%

  9. Touhou Luna Nights
    7.5hours

    Touhou Luna Nights

    Loved · 97%

  10. BattleBlock Theater
    8hours

    BattleBlock Theater

    Loved · 97%

PlatformerCartoon

3 games that share both with Mago

  1. Shu
    3.5hours

    Shu

    Mixed · 76%

  2. Cuphead
    13hours

    Cuphead

    Loved · 96%

  3. PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist
    4hours

    PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist

    Loved · 90%

And more like Mago

Each with the kinds it shares, under its name.

  1. Outland
    4hours

    Outland

    Platformer · Bullet Hell

  2. METAL SLUG 3
    2.5hours

    METAL SLUG 3

    Side Scroller · Retro

  3. METAL SLUG
    2hours

    METAL SLUG

    Side Scroller · Retro

  4. Rabi-Ribi
    20hours

    Rabi-Ribi

    Bullet Hell · Side Scroller

How this list is made

A game is here when it shares the strongest of Mago's Steam community tags, Steam genres and IGDB themes, each shared tag counting for more the fewer games carry it: two metroidvanias are alike, two action games barely. Games of the same series come first, a similar typical length breaks near-ties, and a game sold twice is shown once. Games that share the same kinds with Mago stand together, under those kinds. Up to 30 games are shown, and the list stops where they grow much less alike. Where to start: the closest; the best loved of the closest fifteen with 10,000 reviews or more; the shortest of the ones 80% or more recommend; and a hidden gem, 90% or more but under 10,000 reviews.

The sticker on a case is the hours its own page leads with: half of the game's Steam reviewers had played that long or less when they gave their verdict. It is not a time to beat. Under a case, the share of its Steam reviewers who recommend it: loved at 90% or more, liked at 80%, mixed at 65%.