Games like Hardcore Circus
Games like Hardcore Circus include Super Meat Boy, Celeste, Jump King, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and My Friend Pedro. We matched them by the tags players give Hardcore Circus on Steam (Difficult, Violent, Gore, Precision Platformer, and Indie): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Super Meat Boy
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Platformer

Celeste
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Indie

Jump King
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Indie

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Shared: Difficult · Psychological Horror · Funny

My Friend Pedro
Shared: Gore · Indie · Violent

Geometry Dash
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Platformer

People Playground
Shared: Gore · Violent · Funny

Blasphemous
Shared: Gore · Violent · Difficult

Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Platformer

Hollow Knight
Shared: Difficult · Platformer · Indie

Super Meat Boy Forever
Shared: Difficult · Indie · Precision Platformer

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Shared: Gore · Violent · Difficult

A Difficult Game About Climbing
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Platformer

Hotline Miami
Shared: Violent · Indie · Gore

Hollow Knight: Silksong
Shared: Difficult · Indie · Platformer

The End Is Nigh
Shared: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Indie

Paint the Town Red
Shared: Violent · Gore · Funny

I wanna be the Creator
Shared: Difficult · Platformer · Precision Platformer

Ben and Ed
Shared: Gore · Parkour · Difficult

Katana ZERO
Shared: Platformer · Indie · Violent

Nine Sols
Shared: Difficult · Platformer · Indie

Rain World
Shared: Difficult · Indie · Platformer

VVVVVV
Shared: Precision Platformer · Difficult · Indie

Pizza Tower
Shared: Indie · 2D Platformer · Platformer