Games similar to Commander Keen

[ALMN]

Any apogee platformer. I'd give Hocus Pocus a go.

i fckn love hocus pocus

[StupidBunny]

Hocus Pocus is a great game and one of my childhood favorites...my only problem with it is how wandery some of the levels can be where you have to backtrack long distances without getting to kill anything.

At least in the first episode. To this day I've never played any of the others...

[kuliwil]

I believe that the others have now been released as freeware?

I always liked the fact that it had long backtracks - no level was an easy ride and you actually had to NAVIGATE in a way! NOTHING was just handed to you... except in wizard dude clues.

[Dynamo]

Well what other Apogee platform is decent other than hocus pocus?

I watched a playthrough of the hocus pocus demo a while back, it looked nice. Maybe I should play it.

[RoboBlue]

I just played a bit of Hocus Pocus, and it seems to have a very Xargon-like feel for some reason, so that might fit as well.