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357 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
357 reviews
Ubisoft Montpellier's hand-drawn platformer is widely regarded as one of the finest 2D platformers ever made, praised for its art, music and four-player co-op chaos — but this specific Steam port draws an unusually large, consistent cluster of serious technical complaints on modern systems, from broken menus and missing textures to crashes tied to simply unplugging a controller.
6.5 / 10
A hand-drawn 2D soulslike RPG that folds Dark Souls-style combat and progression into a Metroidvania structure, Very Positive across more than 20,000 reviews — undercut for a large share of players by the total absence of an in-game map, and stirred up again eight years after launch by a difficulty-altering patch whose true authorship reviewers and press coverage don't fully agree on.
6.5 / 10
Attu Games' debut is one of the most visually distinctive indies of the year — every character sprite is literally embroidered by hand — wrapped around a Slavic folk-horror story about a mother searching for her missing children. The presentation is close to flawless; the platforming, torch-lit cave sections, and launch-week bugs are where it stumbles.
6.5 / 10
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A Bite-Sized Metroidvania That Knows Exactly How Long It Wants To Be Sealed Bite: Extended, a solo project from developer Ruben S. Luis published by Pineapple Works, released on St
6.5 / 10
A visually breathtaking sci-fi puzzle-platformer from ex-Playdead developers whose gorgeous atmosphere and sound design are undercut by controls and collision detection a large share of its own reviewers call janky, measured constantly against the Inside and Limbo pedigree its creators can't escape.
6.5 / 10
A free two-player co-op puzzle-platformer about a scrapped robot and a wandering soul escaping a dreamlike, post-collapse world, whose short, wordless story and striking atmosphere earn real affection undercut by widespread, specific complaints about performance, glitches, and a runtime measured in minutes rather than hours.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art metroidvania whose launch-week balance and bugs split its own playerbase into "before the patch" and "after the patch" camps, with a major June 2022 rework drawing as much detailed criticism from players who liked the original difficulty as the original release drew for being unbalanced.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 pixel-art sci-fi platformer whose energy-sword combat and moody planet-hopping presentation earn genuine, specific praise across its small but positive Steam corpus, undercut by a purchase-gated weapon ladder several reviewers call grindy and linear, five worlds that read as more similar than different, and a name that at least two players say oversells how much of a roguelike it actually is.
6.5 / 10
A charming, genuinely creative co-op puzzle-platformer with hand-drawn art and skill-based teamwork, badly undercut by punishing checkpoint scarcity in its back half.
6.5 / 10
A gross, hilarious, brutally difficult physics-platformer about controlling the two flailing arms of a squishy abomination — genuinely inventive and gorgeously scored, with a specific, corroborated gap where a real online co-op mode should be.
6.5 / 10
A Dead Cells-and-Rogue-Legacy-flavoured action roguelite spun off from the acclaimed Aeterna Noctis, praised by many as a criminally underrated hidden gem and criticized by others for currency-bloated progression, missing key remapping, and a developer some reviewers accuse of dismissive community conduct.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$30.99 hand-drawn metroidvania from Jotun developer Thunder Lotus that has held Very Positive across roughly 4,090 Steam reviews since July 2017 — some of the most consistently praised art direction in the genre, wrapped around a randomized horde-combat system that a large share of its own reviewers argue actively fights the exploration-driven genre it belongs to, worst of all in a final act public achievement data confirms most players never finish.
6.5 / 10
A Metroidvania-flavoured platformer about a shaman bargaining with the God of Death to bring his father's spirit back, built around switching between a melee Sun mask and a ranged Moon mask — praised by critics for its story and presentation, but met on Steam by a smaller, more linear game than its own marketing promised and a launch clouded by controversy that had little to do with combat at all.
6.5 / 10
Massive Monster's debut -- a Flash-game-turned-commercial platformer about a boy, his pet rock and a giraffe with a helicopter tongue -- is Very Positive on Steam, but the studio's own next game, Cult of the Lamb, became the actual hit; eight years of reviews explain the gap with one word repeated more than any other: repetitive.
6.5 / 10
Ron Gilbert's Double Fine puzzle-platformer sends three chosen adventurers, out of seven available, into a talking, wish-granting cave to confront their own dark pasts — reviewers consistently praise its charm and writing, while a specific, well-documented complaint argues the advertised co-op mode barely functions as co-op at all.
6.5 / 10
A Side-Scroller Grows Into A 3D Collect-Athon The Grinch 2: Saving Christmas is a $39.99 licensed family platformer from developer Casual Brothers Ltd. and publisher Outright Games
6.5 / 10
A gothic, Bloodborne-and-Blasphemous-inspired metroidvania soulslike praised for its striking pixel art and genuinely deep build variety — hit at launch by real, specific complaints about sluggish combat feel and at least one serious progress-destroying softlock bug, backed by an unusually long, still-ongoing patch and free-DLC support record that directly contradicts claims the developer abandoned the game.
6.5 / 10
Lunar Ray Games' Kickstarter-funded, Castlevania-inspired metroidvania is Very Positive on Steam, but its negative review sample splits into two genuinely different arguments -- one about real, specific shortcomings in combat, length and writing craft, and a separate, unusually large one objecting not to mechanics but to the game's prominent queer and trans representation.
6.5 / 10
Aspyr follows its well-received Tomb Raider I-III Remastered with a trickier trio, and the results are strikingly uneven: a lovingly polished Chronicles, a Last Revelation that fades after a strong start, and an Angel of Darkness remaster reviewers call barely more than a texture refresh.
6.5 / 10
Justin Roiland's improvised, Rick and Morty-flavoured comedic platformer, playable in VR or on a flat screen — beloved by fans of his specific brand of rambling absurdist humour, and a genuine slog for anyone who isn't.
6.5 / 10
A genuinely addictive, viral Foddian rage-platformer starring a pogo-stick skeleton, widely praised for charming retro presentation and satisfying "easy to learn, hard to master" physics, undercut by a near-total absence of control remapping options that multiple reviewers describe as physically uncomfortable, and specific reports that core physics interactions feel inconsistent rather than purely skill-based.
6.5 / 10
A budget-priced 'foddian' climbing game built entirely around pole vaulting physics wins over patient players who master its unusual control scheme, while others find the same pole mechanic too inconsistent to ever click.
6.4 / 10
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A no-checkpoints physics rage platformer about the simple, doomed act of walking to a meeting, whose brutal difficulty curve is corroborated almost exactly by its own achievement data.
6.3 / 10
A stylish, PS2-flavored spectacle fighter about a mercenary in a witch-themed mech suit, whose sharp combat ideas and striking atmosphere are undercut by stiff, frustrating platforming.
6.3 / 10
