Flinthook similar games & best alternatives

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Flinthook

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2017

Should you play it?

Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

What works

  • Tight and satisfying controls
  • Beautiful pixel art and animations
  • Excellent soundtrack
  • Challenging but fair gameplay
  • Strong meta-progression and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Procedural levels can feel repetitive
  • Some control schemes are unintuitive
  • Background art sometimes obscures traps
  • Grindy progression can feel tedious
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation

  • Atomik: RunGunJumpGun

  • Nightmare: The Lunatic

  • ScourgeBringer

  • Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition

  • Starward Rogue

More relaxing

Games that feels like Flinthook but with a more relaxing feel

  • Copy Kitty

  • Haiku, the Robot

  • Janosik

  • Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

  • Berserk Boy

  • Exit the Gungeon

Less expressive

Games that feels like Flinthook but with less self-expression and customization

  • Terrian Saga: KR-17

  • Rex Rocket

  • Bot Vice

  • Cyber Shadow

  • Cathedral

  • Gunbrella

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Flinthook. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Flinthook. These titles are not in What to play next.

Flinthook: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026