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Games like Contra 1987
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 Contra
Games closest to Contra
Psyvariar 3 2026Also relentless, classical in form and grave
Deathsmiles 2007Also relentless, classical in form and grave
R-Type 1987Also relentless and grave
Sin and Punishment 2000Also relentless, classical in form and grave
DoDonPachi Resurrection 2008Also relentless, classical in form and nostalgic
Descent II 1996Also relentless, classical in form and epic
Defender 1981Also relentless, classical in form and grave
DoDonPachi 1997Also relentless, classical in form and grave
Espgaluda II 2005Also relentless, classical in form and grave
Project-X 1992Also relentless, classical in form and resolved
Truxton Extreme 2026Also relentless, classical in form and nostalgic
Alien Soldier 1995Also relentless, classical in form and nostalgic
The same feel, in other forms
Books
The God of the Hive 2010Also classical in form, relentless and grave
The Conqueror 1931Also classical in form, relentless and grave
The last Dickens 2009Also classical in form, relentless and grave
Albums
- Ride Forth 2016Also relentless, grave and classical in form
- Brotherhood of the Snake 2016Also relentless, classical in form and grave
- Endgame 2009Also relentless, classical in form and grave
Films
Where Eagles Dare 1968Also classical in form, grave and epic
Steamboy 2004Also classical in form, grave and earnest
Foreign Correspondent 1940Also classical in form, relentless and earnest
Series
SAS Rogue Heroes 2022Also classical in form, earnest and epic
Golden Kamuy 2018Also classical in form
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan 2021Also grave, classical in form and earnest
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