Games like Forced?

[Randyman - Big Boss]

Me and my friend just completed forced, and we both really loved it! It had really great puzzles, and I really like the whole ball thing. And now I wonder if someone here knows a game that is like Forced?

[Shadowspaz]

Following in the genre of pick-up-and-play ARPGs, there are also Gauntlet and Hammerwatch.

Neither one of those really have the same puzzle element that Forced does, but they're both excellent games with a group of friends. Gauntlet is really all about combat- The most puzzle-esque it gets is finding hidden rooms here and there. Hammerwatch has a bit more of the puzzle feel to it, just because it's much more open-ended and exploration-based. And there are actually some simple puzzles here and there, but they're just bonus areas, really.

[cFox]

One of the bigger inspirations for Forced was Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
and subsequent to the release of Forced also the new Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35130/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289690/

Both are excellent games that we highly recommend, especially if you enjoy the whole action combined with puzzles thing. :)

[Browsar]

Try Torchlight 2, is a beast. It has a demo to play

[Randyman - Big Boss]

Originally posted by cFox:

One of the bigger inspirations for Forced was Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
and subsequent to the release of Forced also the new Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35130/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289690/

Both are excellent games that we highly recommend, especially if you enjoy the whole action combined with puzzles thing. :)

Thanks for the answere! I've already looked into does 2 games, and I think they will be the next games to play :)

[Randyman - Big Boss]

Originally posted by Sirius:

Try Torchlight 2, is a beast. It has a demo to play

I already got TL2 and its fun, but it isnt what im looking for! :)

[Mertaan Dinosaur]

Magicka?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/42910/

Less puzzles but it has the same feel to it.

[KevVv2]

Sounds like you might like Portal2

[Randyman - Big Boss]

I got magicka and I didnt like it that much, but i maybe should give it a try again. I actually bought both portal 1 and 2 not long ago and I have completed both, and I liked them alot :)

[GreenChaos]

For a puzzle/Co-op game can only think of Trine. Magicka is a nice co-op action game, not really any puzzles. Hammerwatch has no puzzles just secrets.

Anyways look at the Trine games see if that might interest you and your friend.

[IImayneII]

I'm still hoping the sequel to Forced is going to be very similar and equally local-coop oriented or I will be very dissapointed. Me and my friends loved to play this game, defenitly one of the best local coop games on steam in my opinion.

You can try Gauntled, it is similar to forced but not nearly as good. Expect to get bored with it fairly soon since the game doesn't ramp up the difficulty by itself but requires you to just grind to level your character until you reach certain goals (kill X of this guy and now deal +30% damage to them) After that you set it to a harder difficulty and repeat everything all over again. Very boring after a few playtroughs since the passive leveling is a grind.

I really wanted Gauntled to be good since it is very similar to Forced in characters/basic skills but some things where very badly implemented in my opinion. (you get 2 basic attacks you can't change, 2 skills you can choose from a pool that's not character specific and most are useless, no real feel of progression, potions needed to use skills during games, little variation in content for the amount they want you to replay/grind to level)

[Draktok]

I was hoping forced would get some dlc... or a force 2 - friends and i played this one all the way through - what a SUPER FUN game to play! loved every minute of it!!!

[Randyman - Big Boss]

Force 2 will soon be out i think!

[IImayneII]

Originally posted by StekloVata:

Force 2 will soon be out i think!

Yes but from what I have seen it will not be the same. I highly doubt it is as high local-coop focussed as this one. Wich would be a shame.

[IImayneII]

So...I just checked and found the sequel on steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/265000

So far they are only focussing on single player. From a dev:

Originally posted by UncleOwnage:

There's a lot of thought behind what we did, but for brevity's sake I'll say this;
We decided to try a different approach which was single-player first, expecting it to move into multiplayer in new and interesting ways.
As we developed the game we had some interesting ideas that we wanted to pursue, and they led to an even greater singleplayer focus.
We've heard from a lot of people that they'd really like multiplayer to be in the game, and I can assure you we're always listening to the feedback of our fans, but for now we're focusing on making a solid core for the game so that we have the opportunity to later expand with completely new types of gameplay.

[KickdenFlo]

Forced 2 upcoming :D