Platformer

One of the oldest genres of video games — the platformer — is characterized by a unique gameplay experience. The player controls a character that moves through levels, jumps on "platforms," climbs ladders, collects items, and battles enemies. The intelligence of opponents is usually either weak or completely absent. Some platformers focus on speed and reaction, others resemble puzzles more, while others require the player to execute the correct combination of movements to overcome obstacles. The genre diversity of platformers is very wide.

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Best Games in the Platformer genre

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Terraria

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike

May 16, 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Terraria is an adventure sandbox game with platformer elements and a side view. You will embark on a colorful world where you can create various items, build...

Hollow Knight: Silksong

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

September 4, 2025

VGTimes: 8.2/10

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 91/100

A sequel to the hardcore action platformer Hollow Knight. The game takes you to a new world — the fallen kingdom of Pharlum, where silk and song rule. Here, Hornet...

Roblox

Arcade, Action, Online, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

May 26, 2011

Players: 6.9/10

Roblox — огромная сетевая песочница для творчества, игрушки в которой — это мини-игры всевозможных жанров с аркадным геймплеем и не обремененным графическими...

Mewgenics

Role-playing game, Arcade, Platformer, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view

February 10, 2026

VGTimes: 7.6/10

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 88/100

A crazy cat-breeding RPG from the creator of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy. This turn-based roguelike with draft simulator elements is a new challenge...

Hollow Knight

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

February 24, 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

An atmospheric action-platformer about a journey through the dying underground kingdom of Hallownest, inhabited by mysterious insects and strange creatures. A dark...

Risk of Rain 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

March 28, 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Risk of Rain 2 is a dynamic action platformer with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In the second part you will find a full three-dimensional environment...

Geometry Dash

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Sandbox, Side view

November 23, 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Geometry Dash is a fast-paced arcade platformer where you have to jump and dodge over various obstacles. The game has many levels that will bring many challenges...

It Takes Two

Arcade, Adventure, Online, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op)

March 26, 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 87/100

It Takes Two is a co-op platformer where you and your friends become toys. At the center of the game are two dissimilar heroes Cody and May, who were turned into...

Cuphead

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view

September 29, 2017

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 87/100

A hardcore action platformer made in the style of classic animation from the 30s. The main character lost his life to the devil at dice, and is now forced to run...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival

July 22, 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Split Fiction

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy

March 6, 2025

VGTimes: 9.5/10

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Cooperative action from the creators Its Takes Two and a way out, where magic is intertwined with technology, and unexpected turns change reality in the eyes. The...

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

Action, Third-person view, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

October 2, 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is a continuation of the cult game from the 90s, telling about the next adventures of Crash and his younger sister Coco. The plot...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

March 11, 2020

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Ori and the Will of the Wisps — the continuation of the colorful side-scrolling platformer Ori and the Blind Forest. The forest spirit Ori embarks on a journey once...

REANIMAL

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

February 13, 2026

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A dark game from the authors of Little Nightmares 1 and 2 with a cooperative mode. Brother and sister must save their missing friends and get off the creepy island...

Craft The World

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Platformer

November 24, 2014

Players: 8.7/10

Noita

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

September 24, 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Noita is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find procedural generation of levels, the irreversible death of the hero, as well...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

June 18, 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

Blasphemous 2

Arcade, Platformer, Role-playing game, Side view, Action, Horror, Gothic

August 24, 2023

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 84/100

The sequel to the hardcore action platformer that continues the story of the Penitent. The character will take part in epic battles with bosses, each of which has...

Rayman Legends

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

August 29, 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Rayman Legends is a continuation of the exciting side-scrolling arcade platformer Rayman Origins. Rayman and his friends find a mysterious tent in the magical...

Replaced

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Side view

April 14, 2026

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 77/100

The game transports you to a dark cyberpunk metropolis, where neon reflects in puddles and human organs have become currency. The world is controlled by the...

Rogue Legacy 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

August 19, 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...

30XX

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Futurism (Future), Action, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Online

February 17, 2021

Metacritic: 84/100

Dynamic action-platformer inspired by the Mega Man series. The game is a direct sequel to 20XX. The events of the game begin with the protagonist awakening after a...

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view

January 18, 2024

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 87/100

A reimagining of the Prince of Persia series, the main character of which is the Persian soldier Sargon from the elite group of warriors “Immortals”, who is able to...

Darksiders

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic

January 5, 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Darksiders is a third-person action game with some platforming and puzzle elements from the developers at Vigil Games. The game is published by THQ Inc. and THQ...

Haydee

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

September 26, 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Haydee is a hardcore action puzzle game with a third-person perspective. In this game you control Gyde, a half-woman, half-robot, in search of a way out of a...

Spelunky 2

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

September 15, 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Spelunky 2 is a sequel to the fun side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. This time you have to embark on an adventure as the child of...

BlazBlue Entropy Effect

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania, Procedural generation, Cyberpunk

August 16, 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A dynamic action roguelike in the BlazBlue universe. Familiar characters from the series team up to overcome various challenges and fight hordes of enemies who want...

Trine 2

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

December 7, 2011

VGTimes: 9.0/10

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Trine 2 — is a 2D platformer in which the player controls three playable characters (the thief Zoe, the wizard Amadeus and the knight Pontius), solving...

Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Role-playing game, Medieval era

April 17, 2025

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

The game takes place in a world where humanity has fallen due to an attack by monsters. Now people have to hide behind brick walls and distraction fences that...

Blasphemous

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Fantasy

September 10, 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 79/100

A hardcore action platformer made in the spirit of the Castlevania series, but in a bloodier and more brutal form. The player explores the dark world of corrupt...

Risk of Rain Returns

Roguelike, Action, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Space

November 8, 2023

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 84/100

A completely revamped version of the original 2013 game. After a spaceship crash, the main character and their team find themselves on a hostile planet. To survive...

Salt and Sacrifice

Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Metroidvania, Action

May 10, 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Continuation of Salt and Sanctuary, which tells the story of a condemned criminal who becomes an inquisitor hunting mages in a whimsical fantasy world. The events...

Little Nightmares 2

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

February 11, 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Little Nightmares 2 is a continuation of the horror platformer with quest elements. This time a co-op has appeared in the game and the two of you will have to...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Platformer

June 11, 2021

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Continuation of the Ratchet & Clank series. Familiar heroes set off on a new journey through amazing worlds. Ratchet and Clank will visit a universe with dinosaurs...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

February 19, 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a side-scrolling pixel platformer. People have attacked the demon fortress and are trying to destroy their leader. Most of the inhabitants...

Celeste

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

January 25, 2018

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

July 23, 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

Side view, Metroidvania, Action, Platformer, Fantasy

March 25, 2024

Players: 9.8/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Continuation of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. The great kingdom of mages flourished, and the created beings known as "homunculi" were meant to aid in...

Have a Nice Death

Arcade, Side view, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Slasher, Indie, Fantasy

March 8, 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character is the mortally bored director Death, whose subordinates have completely lost their shores and turned the balance of the coming and going of...

Sonic Generations

Action, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view

November 1, 2011

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 74/100

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