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Games like Metal Slug 1996
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Metal Slug
Games closest to Metal Slug
Metal Slug 3 2000Also relentless, classical in form and unpretentious
Metal Slug 2 1998Also relentless, classical in form and unpretentious
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 2002Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Shadow Warrior 1997Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
MDK 1997Also unpretentious, relentless and resolved
Shoot Many Robots 2012Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
Rise of the Triad: Dark War 1994Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project 2002Also unpretentious, classical in form and resolved
Rise & Shine 2017Also unpretentious, relentless and nostalgic
Platypus 2002Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
Dynamite Headdy 1994Also relentless, unpretentious and resolved
Wario Land 4 2001Also unpretentious, classical in form and resolved
The same feel, in other forms
Series
Ash vs Evil Dead 2015Also unpretentious, classical in form and relentless
Black Monday 2019Also relentless and unpretentious
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. 1993Also unpretentious and resolved
Books
Flashman and the mountain of light 1990Also classical in form
Queen Victoria 2009Also relentless and unpretentious
Flashman and the redskins 1982Also classical in form
Albums
- The Terror Tapes 2013Also relentless, unpretentious and classical in form
- B-Day 2002Also unpretentious, relentless and classical in form
- Saints of Los Angeles 2008Also classical in form, unpretentious and relentless
Films
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 2024Also resolved, relentless and classical in form
The Toxic Avenger Unrated 2025Also unpretentious, resolved and nostalgic
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 2003Also classical in form, unpretentious and relentless
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