Games like Running Late
If Running Late left you wanting something fast-paced and hand-drawn, you have options. These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Tardiness Girl
A game about a high school student who's late for class and must overcome a series of ridiculous obstacles to get to school on time. Navigate a gauntlet of familiar anime tropes.
Fast-paced, Colorful, Cute
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Kitsune Tails
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between kitsune and humans through classic platforming action.
Fast-paced, Colorful, Cute
95% of 841 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Last Time I Saw You
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan. Explore a haunted forest hiding a terrible secret, and interact with a vast cast of friendly and deceitful characters in this beautifully hand-drawn story with some light action elements.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
95% of 268 Steam reviews are positive$9.99School Runner
学生制作の３Dパルクールランニングゲーム！ 障害物を駆け抜けてスピードを上げ、最速でゴールへたどり着け！
Fast-paced, Colorful, Cute
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positiveFreeLate Homework | 遅れた宿題
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors. Explore the dilapidated halls, find your missing homework, and avoid whatever's lurking around the corner in this bite-sized, retro survival horror experience.
Cute, Tense
95% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$5.99PIXEL DASH: Toast of Destiny
Haruka Ran is a high school girl who runs with a piece of bread in her mouth. She is searching for her fated encounter in a side-scrolling, furious JK anime action game! Let's go meet the man of your dreams with the anime-style story and slapstick sprinting action!
Fast-paced, Hand-drawn, Colorful
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath
Amaterasu and her yokai army rule over feudal Japan. Switch in real time between Kensei and Ayame to defeat the goddess in this intense, 16-bit action platformer with Metroidvania elements and gorgeous pixel art.
Fast-paced, Hand-drawn, Colorful
63% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Rising Dusk
An Anti-Coin Collection Platformer inspired by Japanese folktales. Befriend an assortment of ghosts and ghouls as you explore the world hidden in the dusk.
Hand-drawn, Colorful, Cute
91% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
A hand-drawn metroidvania steeped in Japanese folklore, where you bounce off enemies midair to stay airborne. Play Bō, a celestial blossom with a shapeshifting staff, explore a haunted interconnected world of yokai, and earn every inch of progress through acrobatic platforming and mythic boss fights.
Fast-paced, Hand-drawn, Colorful
82% of 1,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99Yuzi Lims: anime runner
Endless runner in the anime style.
Fast-paced, Hand-drawn, Colorful
32% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Yomawari: Night Alone
A little girl walks her dog at dusk and comes home holding only the leash. That night her sister vanishes too, so she goes out into a town where spirits stalk the dark. Yomawari pairs the cutest pixel art with genuine dread: you hide, run and listen to your own heartbeat as it speeds up when something gets close.
Hand-drawn, Cute, Tense
74% of 1,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Saiko no sutoka
Trapped in a school by a yandere who loves you just enough not to kill you yet. Saiko no sutoka is survival horror with a stalker who plays with her food: she hides, baits and ambushes you while you hunt numbers for the safe and run for the exit key. Cute anime look, sharp teeth.
Fast-paced, Cute, Tense
91% of 3,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Cheaper than Running Late
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou
Hikikomori No Chuunibyou is a pseudo 8-bit platform-adventure game with beat-em-up, puzzle, and stealth elements.
62% of 47 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Run or Die
Run or Die is a fast paced Endless Runner that focuses on movement based abilities (and a huge Ion Cannon)!
87% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Shu
Shu is a stylish 2.5D platformer set in a beautiful and engrossing world.
76% of 92 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Run, Vivian Run
Vivian starts running to change her fate――― A simple and rhythmic 2D side-scrolling action game.
89% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Umihara Kawase
The original Rubbering Action game comes to Steam! Play as Umihara Kawase, an adventurer traveling through a world in search of ingredients.
91% of 218 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Daily Run
We all have a "Daily Run" in our schools and jobs, like in every race there will be obstacles and triumphs.
77% of 129 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Magical Girl Dash
Magical Girl Dash is a retro arcade where you fight against the forces of evil in a runner style game.
94% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
幽幽子大人食欲不振 Yuyuko is suffering from lack of appetite
You will play the role of Youmu, moving forward and unlocking new abilities, using close and long-range attacks to break through enemy obstacles…
75% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser
Cutie anime girl realizes her cool big bro is missing?? Cheese it up with Chizuru and SHOOT TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG in this top down bullet hell…
96% of 745 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Run Run Boy
Run Run Boy game is a casual game based on the idea to run as fast as possible and so that no one can catch you.
75% of 8 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
The Running Man
If you want to relax, this game is not for you, this game is made to make you rage. go through challenging and hard levels and run to the finish…
67% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Hidden gems like Running Late
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
Roam a frozen lake, grow strong enough to lift the boulder, and poke into every snowy corner on the way.
97% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.99
Yuki「清醒梦」
Explore an abandoned school where memories linger longer than the living. Uncover the mystery of your best friend’s disappearance. Dodge bullets.
98% of 502 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Late Homework | 遅れた宿題
Highschool student Haneko has forgotten her class assignments and must retrieve them by traversing a world of haunted horrors.
95% of 437 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Kitsune Tails
Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self…
95% of 841 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Last Time I Saw You
First loves. Family issues. Yokai. 'Last Time I Saw You' is a coming-of-age adventure set in 1980s Japan.
95% of 268 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
SANAE's Sylphid Breeze
"SANAE's Sylphid Breeze" is 2D Platformer game with cute pixelart.
84% of 181 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Nine-Tailed Okitsune Tale
Fluffy x Kawaii! A Japanese-style action RPG where the character changes into various forms to solve anomalies that occur in the capital!
96% of 304 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$17.99
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
Guide a celestial blossom through a hand-drawn land of yokai, chaining midair bounces and mythic boss fights to earn your way forward.
82% of 1,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
CRAYON SHINCHAN The Storm Called! FLAMING KASUKABE RUNNER!!
The action-packed "Crayon Shin-chan" runner anyone can casually play is here!
95% of 174 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.99
KamiYaba: Destiny on a Dicey Deadline
“If you don't tie the knot with the person of your dreams within the next year, you'll be in big trouble.”
91% of 396 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$24.99
City Zoomer
A movement focused endless anime runner. Jump till you're dead.
93% of 162 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$4.99
Saiko no sutoka
Trapped in a school by a yandere who loves you just enough not to kill you yet.
91% of 3,659 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.99
Newest games like Running Late
Hamayumishi ～Night Parade of a Hundred Yokai～
The Hamayumishi uses their intense powers of concentration and skills with the bow to protect the villages from the gamboling yokai!
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
School Runner
学生制作の３Dパルクールランニングゲーム！ 障害物を駆け抜けてスピードを上げ、最速でゴールへたどり着け！
70% of 10 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
Roam a frozen lake, grow strong enough to lift the boulder, and poke into every snowy corner on the way.
97% of 1,063 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$5.99
School Ghost Stories
In this adventure game, play as a young boy, Boku, who accidentally releases vengeful spirits from a local shrine.
82% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Reach to Tsukuyomi
"Reach to Tsukuyomi" is an exhilarating short action game on a 2D platform.
72% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
PIXEL DASH: Toast of Destiny
Haruka Ran is a high school girl who runs with a piece of bread in her mouth.
82% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Yuki「清醒梦」
Explore an abandoned school where memories linger longer than the living. Uncover the mystery of your best friend’s disappearance. Dodge bullets.
98% of 502 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Ai & the Demon & the Curse of Lust
As the rumors about a brand new, revolutionary (and absolutely NOT cursed) website DemonComm start to spread, students belonging to the local…
94% of 71 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$12.99
Tardiness Girl
A game about a high school student who's late for class and must overcome a series of ridiculous obstacles to get to school on time.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
JustRun
"Just Run" is a very simple platform jumping game that only requires movement and jumping to complete the entire process.
82% of 45 Steam reviews are positiveFree
SANAE's Sylphid Breeze
"SANAE's Sylphid Breeze" is 2D Platformer game with cute pixelart.
84% of 181 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Great Yokai of the Haunted Halls
After venturing into the old campus building, you and your friend Yua encounter a mysterious fox spirit that turns your lives upside down!
87% of 45 Steam reviews are positive$7.99