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24 alternatives to Templar 2

Templar 2 is a 2D indie game for android

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Templar 2 launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Archero 2▲116

    The new era of the legendary roguelike mobile game

    2025 · its alternatives →

  2. 2H0

    Hello, Hacker News! My name is Lillian (see: http://about.lillian.link/), and I just released version 0.2 of my MIT-licensed game engine, Hypatia(http://lillian-lemmer.github.io/hypatia/). Hypatia is a game engine for single player 2D action adventure games. You can use it to make a game like Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. Hypatia is aimed at non-programmers and programmers alike. I'm seeking any sort of feedback. Hypatia supports FreeBSD first, but has great support for just about any platform…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Sequel to the Apple Game of the Year 2014

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Extensive library of game art for indie devs

    2018 · its alternatives →

  5. 5BG

    I made this 10 level Game. Excited for people to try it. :) Stay Balanced :)

    2024 · balanc3dgame.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6BW

    Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…

    2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →

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    Discover the endless desert. A beautiful game for mobile.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    A mounted combat challenge

    2016 · its alternatives →

  9. 9MA

    A few months ago (82 days to be exact!) I posted a link on HN to my game, Meatshields. A bunch of you commented and played my game and gave me some wonderful feedback. Over the last few months I've been playing with many of you and implementing the best of everybody's suggestions. So, thank you, HN for all your help! I feel this is an extreme overhaul I couldn't have done without your input. Since then, I have: Dramatically improved our hosting platform (So it HOPEFULLY won't go down this time (oops.)), Added two new units, Rebalanced all existing units, Added many more maps, Improved the…

    2017 · its alternatives →

  10. 102P

    Hi HN! On Sunday I spent a couple of hours building a short 2d platformer ("Prince of Persia" style). What's interesting is how I built it. I went for a zero-code approach, and built the whole thing using OpenAI Codex CLI and agent skills (with the progressive disclosure paradigm). You can play the game here: https://acatovic.github.io/gothicvania-codex-demo/ You can see the full code, agent skills and a complete writeup here: https://github.com/acatovic/gothicvania-codex-demo Some takeaways: * This was one of the most enjoyable experiences ever! *…

    Feb 2026 · its alternatives →

  11. 11AO

    I made a game (https://polyfight.io/) which revolves around a player (a tank) leveling up and upgrading by killing shapes and other tanks (partially inspired by https://diep.io). It has a bunch of features, a vast number of tanks, an inbuilt chatting system, clans to make teams with your friends, a colour scheme maker, controllable sandboxes which can be public or private, a last man standing gamemode, and an inbuilt 1v1 system with its own ELO rankings and a global leaderboard. The game has a few players right now, and I'd hope to spread the joy players have with…

    2024 · polyfight.io · its alternatives →

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    none*2▲87

    A mysterious game of riddles, episode2

    2015 · its alternatives →

  13. 13MP

    I have been working on this game somewhat sparsely for the past three years or so. However, it is still in a very early stage, and there is a lot of work to do. One of my friends encouraged me to post about it here, since he felt people might find interesting how I don’t use any libraries for it. The game can be played on a browser by virtue of WebAssembly. There are native ports using either MiniFB or SDL2, but you have to build those yourself. I decided to write the game in C because I feel like it is a simple language that a lot of people can understand well enough, and I didn’t think I…

    2023 · zamfofex.neocities.org · its alternatives →

  14. 14AD

    This is something that I've been working on on-and-off in my spare time for the last few years. I started in 2020 during Covid trying to do a Mount and Blade style map in UE4, and it grew from there until where it is now - I would just add a feature, then another, until it came together. Since the start of the year I've really been trying to polish it some more. I've got the full thing planned for a Q3 25 release. Github release if you don't have Steam: https://github.com/joe-gibbs/fall-of-an-empire-release

    2024 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

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    The worlds first play-2-mint game for iOS and Android

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Puzzle adventure where you control 2 characters.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Hero up and defend the land from impending darkness

    2015 · its alternatives →

  18. 18MF
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    I'll start by copying the comment I left on the Reddit post where I originally shared this project and then go into some more detail for this audience. (https://www.reddit.com/r/nes/comments/1umrnd5/i_made_an_inte...) """ Castlevania II has always held a special place in my heart. I didn’t own it myself as a kid but I had a family member who did. This meant that I only got a few chances to actually play it, but that left a big impression on me anyway. I recently beat it for the first time and along the way I decided I wanted to build the most over-the-top…

    Jul 2026 · theultimatesimonsquestguide.com · its alternatives →

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    Castlevania creator Kickstarting his next game (pre-launch)

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    An Esher-inspired medieval strategy game — now in AR!

    2017 · its alternatives →

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    Cataloging the best mobile games, funding mobile indie devs.

    2022 · its alternatives →

  23. 23AP

    So, after years of abandoning Rust after the hello world stage, I finally decided to do something substantial. It started with simple line rendering, but I liked how it was progressing so I figured I could make a reasonably complete PSX style renderer and a game with it. My only dependency is SDL2; I treat it as my "platform", so it handles windowing, input and audio. This means my Cargo.toml is as simple as: [dependencies.sdl2] version = "0.35" default-features = false features = ["mixer"] this pulls around 6-7 other dependencies. I am doing actual true color 3D rendering (with Z buffer,…

    Sep 2025 · totenarctanz.itch.io · its alternatives →

  24. 24IM

    It's free and open source. The aim is to have more transparent access to wine prefixes and the surrounding tooling (winetricks, proton configuration, etc...) per game in comparison to Lutris. Same features like statistics (time played, times launched, times crashed, and so on) per game is available in the app.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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