Best Cartoony Nostalgia Games on PC

Cymatically Muffed

The good:

Lots of fast fun frenetic action, plenty of game modes.

Audio track is decent.

Good menus, extensive controls and customization.

Responsive, capable developer.

The bad:

Hard to see some items, visual style is lacking and can make things unclear sometimes.

– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game

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I’ve played the local multiplayer several times with friends and have had a great time playing. The variety of game types and settings provide a lot of options for replayability. I can’t wait to play the campaign once it is released, especially since it can be played coop. Cymatically Muffed is reminiscent of older classics while still providing new and exciting mechanics of it’s own. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game

Cymatically Muffed on Steam

Poi

I’ve been playing this game since the very, very early versions of the Early Access release, before cameras and costumes were a thing, but I’ve taken a long, long time to write a review, mostly because I’m having a hard time to fully express my feelings about this game. There are way too many things to talk about, which means this is going to be a rather lengthy review, and it might also be all over the place due to the amount of stuff that comes to mind, but let’s dive right in.

I’ve spent most of my teenage years and all of my early adulthood wishing for the “perfect” 3D platformer, one that combined most of the things I like in a single, awesome package. I dreamed of a game with a rich, vast world to explore. It had to have a lot of secrets and tricks to discover, but it also had to have well designed platforming and action to boot, and the atmosphere had to evoke feelings of childlike wonderment and adventurous endeavors in boththe soundtrack, the visuals and the story. The characters had to be adorable and stylish, and the gameplay had to be smooth and thrilling.

– Real player with 84.1 hrs in game

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Poi is a good Mario clone. End of story now get out of the review section and buy the game if you want to kill a good 32 hours collecting things.

okay that’s not entirely true so read this instead

PLOT

You and your sister run away from the city in order to find Adventure. On your adventure to find adventure you meet up with Mario in his mid 80’s who asks you to get his sonic ring with ribbons attached to it down from a tall stump due to him being a crotchety old man who can’t do it himself. So you jump to the top of the stump, grab his ring and when you bring it back to him he tells you that the ring is called an “Explorers Medallion” and they are foudn all over the world. So he asks you and your sister if you want to get on his magic flying whale blimp to find him and since choice matters as much as it did in TellTale’s Walking Dead Season 1 in this game, you say yes and off the three of you go to go get the Medallions and save the world or something

– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game

Poi on Steam

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!

A Funky Fourth Installment & A Best-Of The Previous Three

Some of the Good

Remarkable Replay-Value.
Age-Proven Local Multiplayer.
Stable Cross-Region Multiplayer.
A Variety of unlockable features including characters and power-ups.
Highly Approachable Difficulty.
Loyal development team addressing bugs & updates.

Some of the Bad

Low Online Population.
Chat Requires Keyboard while most comfortable play is through Gamepad/Controller, requiring the use of both.

– Real player with 103.7 hrs in game

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ToeJam and Earl: Back In The Groove is a wonderful and super fun game and amazing for multiplayer co-op. This is a remake of the original in terms of gameplay but with extra content and a new story, new characters and new presents. There are lots of new earthlings as well and some new world types (biomes?).

First Impressions / Gameplay Video

https://youtu.be/hiIEJQ8rG9Y

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This game is as close to being as good as the original as you can get while coming up just shy of it. I think the thing I found that I liked the least were the new sound effects. It took a while to figure it out but I think if I was able to use the original sound effects in the new game I would enjoy the experience more. The sound effects from new content however are no issue, but all the new versions of the old sound effects are not as good.

– Real player with 38.1 hrs in game

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! on Steam

TY the Tasmanian Tiger

TL;DR

It’s an amazing blast from-the-past from the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era of 3D Platformers. Very charming, with solid (but easy) platforming, great music, and with some good graphical and camera improvements.

Positives:

A classic brought back from the dead! This game is (considered by me and others) a classic from the PS2 era!
It’s a solid platformer! Nice tight controls, nothing to horribly hard, and good level design!
Quirky characters! From Shazza, to Maurie, to even Ty himself! They all have there own personality and, sometimes they are even funny! (Especially Maurie!) Boss Cass is a legendary villain in my eyes!

– Real player with 29.6 hrs in game

Ty The Tasmanian Tiger is essentially a 3D platformer in the style of classics like Super mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot and Croc, just to name a few. The game clearly takes inspiration of those and even wears some of the design decisions on its sleeve. Ofcourse there is absolutely nothing wrong with that when its done well.

And well they did!

Let’s look at the pros and cons!

Pros:

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Fun and varied gameplay
Great and fitting soundtrack for each individual level
Cute characters and simple story

– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game

TY the Tasmanian Tiger on Steam

JUMANJI: The Curse Returns

Not what I expected being honest, I was envisioning more interactivity such as those in mario party games, it’s not a bad game but it does feel lacking. After playing for around 11 hours roughly I can say I have adapted to the game-play of dragging the corresponding item to either another character or the enemy at hand, it can be somewhat challenging, especially trying to get the save every location achievement which I had to enlist the help of a friend as the Ai was not working out, this is as far as core game-play goes however.

– Real player with 11.9 hrs in game

finally! a jumanji game that is actually a JUMANJI game!

why did it take over two decades for someone to make this??

doesn’t matter, it’s here now, i love it ♥

– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game

JUMANJI: The Curse Returns on Steam

Maze Qore Arena

Your game overall is really fun! i didn’t have time to play it with my friends but even just playing against the bots on multiplayer / campaign was fun! I have a few suggestions: Improve the AI a bit sometimes when i played multiplayer against they wouldn’t fight each other at all. Maybe add like armor or that is like an extra health bar or something. Bigger maps would be good the maps now are a bit too small imo and can get a bit to chaotic. But yeah overall really fun game.

– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game

This is a fun game and will keep you busy for a long time.

– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game

Maze Qore Arena on Steam

ShapeShifter

It feels nostalgic to jump, swim, fight, dodge and collect coins and power ups - a true old-school platforming sensation. With that in mind, the visuals, sounds and physics-based platform movement are modern and slick.

Female protagonist in a world where the living beings are shapes, in a rescue mission for her kidnapped boyfriend.

Ling comes to the rescue of her kidnapped boyfriend all the way from their home in the pleasure island, through the jungles, volcano, haunted island, winter island and eventually - the daungan - where her boyfriend is kept locked.