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Recompile

A stylish sci-fi platformer-metroidvania set inside a computer system, Mixed across its Steam reviews for a genuinely striking aesthetic and premise — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about clunky platforming and combat controls, a confusing visual style that actively hurts spatial judgement, missing basic accessibility options, and a developer that stopped meaningfully updating the game within weeks of launch.

5 / 10

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ReSetna

Minds trapped in circuits, and in jank ReSetna sends you into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world as the titular robotic warrior, hunting through seven hostile zones and boss encounter

5 / 10

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SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed

A contentious, decade-later sequel to a beloved multiplayer racing-platformer that a large and vocal share of longtime fans describe as a genuine downgrade in movement feel, visual clarity and content volume, sitting alongside a smaller but real core of players who find the new wall-jumping tech and updated presentation genuinely additive, with specific, well-corroborated complaints about netcode, matchmaking with friends, and one detailed reviewer's unverified suspicion that campaign text reads as AI-generated.

5 / 10

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The Siege and the Sandfox

A gorgeous pixel-art stealth metroidvania with a wonderful narrator and a genuinely distinctive Prince of Persia-meets-Mark-of-the-Ninja premise, undone by softlocking bugs that dominate its review corpus and, per an official patch history showing exactly one fix in fifteen months, appear to have gone largely unaddressed.

5 / 10

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Trials Rising

RedLynx's physics-platformer racing is as sharp as the series has ever been, but Ubisoft buried it under loot boxes, a mandatory launcher that locks players out entirely, and server-dependent load times — a textbook case of publisher decisions outweighing the game underneath them.

5 / 10

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Log Riders

A chaotic two-player co-op platformer about balancing on a rolling log — genuinely hilarious with a friend, but held back by twitchy controls, repetitive hazard design, and a level structure that overstays its welcome.

4.8 / 10

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Storm Lancers Review: Fun Movement Undercut by Bugs and Thin Content

ProbablyMonsters' co-op roguelite platformer has genuinely satisfying combat and mobility, but reviewers describe a level-3 bug severe enough to crash runs, a campaign clearable in about an hour, and a launch that feels closer to Early Access than a finished release.

4.8 / 10

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BJORN

A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.

4.5 / 10

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Jumpman

A single-level Super Mario Bros. homage built on the LittleJS engine — run, jump, stomp enemies and reach the castle flag — undercut by a touch jump button that does not work.

4.5 / 10

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Aeon Must Die!

A visually striking brawler-platformer in which an immortal warrior fights while literally dying and reviving mid-combo, Mixed across a small sample of Steam reviews for its distinctive art direction — overshadowed by press-reported allegations from former developers describing the project's completion as built on "abuse, manipulation, and theft," and undercut further by an extremely consistent complaint that the core combat is repetitive and poorly executed.

4 / 10

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Maid of Salvation Review

Orange Popcorn's dark-fantasy top-down metroidvania, a perspective spin on the studio's HunterX lineage, whose Very Positive review sample praises fluid, responsive melee/gun/magic combat and strong boss design undercut by a thin story, inconsistent art direction, an underwhelming skill tree, and a rocky launch-week controller bug.

4 / 10

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

A full-price stealth-platformer built around Middle-earth's most compelling supporting character that arrived so technically broken it became a byword for launch disasters — its Steam player count hit zero within five months, and the studio that made it closed its development arm weeks after release.

3 / 10

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Catburglar

A Godot-engine cat-burglar platformer whose public repository contains only raw engine source - no compiled HTML5 or WebAssembly export exists anywhere in it, so there is currently no way to play it in a browser at all.

1 / 10

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