Best Games Like The Plucky Squire

September seems like a month for creativity in the fall gaming release schedule. Astro Bot brought forth a lot of imagination in its levels and power-ups, and now, The Plucky Squire is seemingly changing how games can be made by incorporating a heavy meta-textual narrative and gameplay gimmick.

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The Plucky Squire may look like a Zelda game combined with a Paper Mario game, but it is so much more than that. It’s a relatively short adventure, but it's certain to be one indie game fans won’t soon forget. After players are done, they may be hankering for their next jolly adventure. Luckily, there are many games like The Plucky Squire for them to check out.

6 Eastward

EarthBound Meets Secret Of Mana

Eastward is more of a recommendation for starving EarthBound fans waiting for Nintendo to release Mother 3 in the West officially. Since that has yet to happen, indie developers have been making fan-like tributes to EarthBound for years now. Eastward will fit into the needs of fans of The Plucky Squire also, as it is a top-down action RPG.

It follows a quiet man who finds a girl while exploring some ruins one day, and a malevolent force is trying to get her back. The game is filled with quirky characters, inventive puzzles, brilliant visuals, and a decent combat system. The graphic style alone should appease fans of The Plucky Squire, but it is so much more than a simple visual treat for the eyes.

5 The Legend Of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

Link’s Most Picturesque Adventure

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is the best Zelda game to recommend to fans of The Plucky Squire. It re-invented the series on a small scale before The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild re-invented things on a bigger one. It’s also the sequel to one of the best games on the SNES, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

Every Zelda game has a gimmick, and this one happens to have two. First, instead of earning equipment through dungeons, players can choose to rent items, which makes the game less-linear than normal. The bigger gimmick is that Link can turn into paintings on walls and walk around in a new dimension. It’s not quite as fourth-wall-breaking as The Plucky Squire, but it certainly comes close.

4 Nobody Saves The World

A Top-Down Action RPG About Transformation

Nobody Saves the World is a bizarre indie game about a white husk of a human with no name. They somehow wind up with the magical ability to transform into different beings and animals, and now they must save the kingdom in place of the true hero. The setup is bizarre, but the weird characters help sell the world.

Also, the transformation gameplay loop of Nobody Saves the World should have players hooked from minute one, whether they are inhabiting the body of a giant knight or becoming a tiny mouse. Each form can get past certain barriers, and there is a branching skill tree that dictates what players can turn into next. It’s a meaty game, offering gamers tons of reasons to stick around and come back to it for a second go. The game even features co-op.

3 Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

A Classic That Received A Deserved Remastered

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the second game in the series, but it’s the newest game players can get on the Switch. It was originally released on the GameCube before Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door got remastered in 2024 and is often heralded as the best entry in the series. Upon coming to a new town, Mario discovers Princess Peach has been kidnapped.

Gaining new allies, Mario embarks on an epic quest across this new land to find her. Battles are turn-based but also active, as players can power up their attacks or boost their defenses with well-timed button prompts. Mario and all other characters are made of paper, while the rest of the world is made from other materials, including more paper, cardboard, bricks, and so on. The game has a DIY feel to it, which would fit in perfectly with The Plucky Squire world.

2 Retro Game Challenge

Reliving Your Childhood Through Fake Games

• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Released: February 10, 2009 (NA)
• Developer: indieszero

Retro Game Challenge was a unique DS game that was like a celebration of gamers who grew up in the 80s and 90s. Players assume the role of a young kid who keeps getting new games for their new NES-like console. There are platformers, shooters, an RPG, and more available to check out.

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If players get stuck, they can look at magazines in their room. Also, there’s a fourth-wall-breaking polygonal head that is challenging this kid to games. There was a sequel as well for the DS, followed by a final 3DS game and a Switch remaster of the first two titles. Sadly, none of these sequels ever left Japan, and it may be hard to track down Retro Game Challenge, too, but it’s well worth the hunt.

1 RPG TIME: The Legend Of Wright

A Direct 1:1 Comparison To The Plucky Squire

RPG TIME: The Legend of Wright is the number one game that The Plucky Squire fans should jump into first. It’s not that it’s better than the other examples as much as it is a 1:1 example of what The Plucky Squire is doing. The framing device is that a little kid wrote his own RPG in a notebook, resulting in everything having a rough pencil quality.

Each area is minimal, giving players a task to accomplish, like trying to move a boulder in a cave. This can lead to different gameplay styles, from a side-scroller action level to a top-down tank mission to a game of whack-a-mole. The changes to the gameplay help keep everything fresh, and the visual style, which utilizes things from the desk, too, is just too good. RPG TIME: The Legend of Wright is, without a doubt, a companion piece to The Plucky Squire, and it would be cool to see the two indie studios collaborate on something from DLC to a brand-new experience.

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