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357 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
357 reviews
A collectathon 3D platformer about a raccoon stealing everything not nailed down, Funi Raccoon Game backs up its deliberately absurd, meme-heavy presentation with a genuinely well-built platformer underneath, and this review's sample confirms both the near-universal praise and the small, specific complaint that its internet-humor style won't age or land for everyone.
8 / 10
French solo developer Charlie Wagner, a technical game designer with prior credits on Under the Waves and Otherskin, delivers a short, wordless 3D platformer built around a single standout traversal mechanic — a hooked staff used to pole-vault, swing and climb through a crumbling underground megastructure — earning overwhelming praise for its movement feel and atmosphere, tempered by a small but specific minority who found its controls inconsistent and its narrative mystery thinner than its Ico and Lorn's Lure comparisons promise.
8 / 10
Hazelight Studios' GAME OF THE YEAR-winning co-op adventure remains one of gaming's most celebrated couch-co-op experiences, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 266,000 Steam reviews and independently confirmed to have sold over 23 million copies — undercut for a real, recurring minority of players by a genuinely dark, forced late-game "torture" sequence, and by online connectivity friction this review can confirm was substantially, though not entirely, fixed by a documented May 2024 update removing the mandatory EA Launcher requirement.
8 / 10
A "motorvania" blending Trials-style motorbike physics, twin-stick shooting and Metroidvania exploration, wrapped around an emotionally devastating story about motherhood and generational trauma — praised almost universally for its originality, art and soundtrack, held back by a lack of difficulty options and confusing open-world navigation.
8 / 10
Adventure Works L.L.C.'s self-published debut sends a slacker student and his time-travelling professor swinging and climbing through cinematic historical set pieces, and reviewers describe a short but note-perfect Back to the Future-meets-Indiana Jones adventure that leaves them wishing there were more of it.
8 / 10
A retro-styled, top-down action-adventure from Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight), following the thief Mina as she burrows beneath a Gothic haunted island — Very Positive across 7,486 reviews for its genius-level level design, deep trinket and sidearm build variety, and a punishing difficulty that reviewers describe as GOTY-worthy or outright miserable depending on who you ask.
8 / 10
A precision stealth-platformer that won js13k 2020 outright — first of 200 entries overall, and the Mobile category too — built around scaling a corporate tower while dodging security cameras, with alternate routes for speedrunners and a full touch control scheme mapped onto the same input state as the keyboard.
8 / 10
Moon Studios' debut metroidvania platformer draws some of the most emotionally intense reactions of any game reviewed in this lane, with reviewers repeatedly describing it as genuinely tear-inducing art — a reputation earned specifically by this Definitive Edition, since Steam delisted the original 2015 release in its favor the following year.
8 / 10
A visually stunning metroidvania sequel following the spirit guardian Ori through a new, larger forest world, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 31,000 reviews — with a real, specific launch-bug problem including reported save-file corruption, and a recurring, well-corroborated complaint that its frantic chase sequences and busier combat trade away some of what made the original beloved.
8 / 10
One of the finest metroidvanias in years, nearly universally loved on its own merits and just as consistently marked down by its own players for a mandatory Ubisoft Connect launcher — a friction so persistent it's still generating complaints in 2026, on a game whose acclaimed development team Ubisoft disbanded within weeks of release after a sequel was refused.
8 / 10
The sequel that fixed nearly everything wrong with the original — and got criticised for it. Its sharpest reviewers say the classes are now too balanced and every run plays the same. Both things are true, and that's the interesting part.
8 / 10
A Kickstarter-Backed Collect-A-Thon Four Years In The Making RUBATO, a mostly-solo project from developer dconn built with a small team of contributing artists, released on Steam o
8 / 10
A Ball With A Tongue, A Castle Made Of Trials THE CANON OF BALLS, a solo-developed release from Helios Monk, launched on Steam on August 13, 2026, priced at just $3.99. It casts th
8 / 10
A One-Person Precision Platformer Built On A Grim Fairy Tale The Pale Piper released on Steam on February 4, 2026 from solo developer FreeTimeDev, and it wears its influences openl
8 / 10
A stylised 2D Metroidvania whose turn-based combat plays like real-time action — attack combos on your turn, parry and block on the enemy's — wrapped in abstract, philosophical art direction, undercut by navigation that loses players and a difficulty curve with no way to ease it beyond what patches have already softened.
8 / 10
Villa Gorilla's pinball-metroidvania hybrid won a BAFTA for Best Debut and sits at Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam eight years on -- a genuinely inventive idea that a small but consistent minority of players say the traversal design never quite lives up to, in a game its one-off studio never got the chance, or perhaps never wanted, to follow up.
8 / 10
A short, GBC-styled metroidvania about a whip-wielding kid named Alex exploring ancient ruins, with a near-unanimous Steam sample praising its clever level design, charm, and generous accessibility options despite thin combat and dialogue.
7.9 / 10
Read review of Raider Kid and the Ruby Chest Review: A Tiny, Near-Perfect Game Boy Metroidvania
A solo-developed puzzle-platformer that channels Wario Land and La-Mulana through three swappable heroines, backed by a genuinely exceptional accessibility feature set and a rapid, transparent, first-person patch cadence.
7.8 / 10
A tightly-built platformer about jumping on bugs and throwing breakpoints to fix a crashing codebase, runner-up at js13k 2016 — and one of the few platformers on this shelf whose on-screen touch controls were tested and actually move, jump and throw correctly.
7.8 / 10
A solo developer's spiritual successor to Biomass swaps that game's crumbling factory for a sinking, faction-riddled city, wrapping a tight beam-weapon combat system around a branching, choice-reactive world with seven-plus endings.
7.6 / 10
A clever black-world/white-world twin-platformer, now confirmed genuinely playable with real keyboard controls under the desktop tier - move, jump, and an invert mechanic that swaps which of the two characters is highlighted, all verified with real dispatched input.
7.6 / 10
A tight, procedurally-generated run-and-gun platformer packed into a JS13K-competition-sized file - confirmed working correctly with real WASD movement and mouse-aim on desktop, and correctly shipped as a desktop-only title since its LittleJS build predates the engine's touch virtual gamepad.
7.6 / 10
A mouse-controlled grapple-and-thrust platformer that sends players fleeing giant subterranean worms across 30 tightly built levels, earning strong praise for its feel and leaderboard hook, with reviewers split mainly on whether 30 levels is enough.
7.6 / 10
Read review of This Is No Cave Review: A Tiny, Terrifying Speedrun Platformer Worth Chasing
A multiplayer game for exactly one player Ambidextro's pitch is as simple to describe as it is genuinely rare in execution: control two separate characters at once, one with ea
7.5 / 10
