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357 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
357 reviews
A charming, gorgeously realised 3D exploration game about being shrunk down inside an ordinary suburban house, whose near-unanimous acclaim sits on top of a small but consistent minority report that the collecting loop underneath the charm doesn't have much depth once the novelty wears off.
7.5 / 10
A Touhou Project fangame Metroidvania with combat and time-manipulation mechanics good enough to win over players who've never touched the source material — though a detailed minority argues the game barely qualifies as a Metroidvania at all, and that its near-perfect score owes more to fan goodwill than standalone design.
7.5 / 10
Frozenbyte's course-correction after Trine 3's disastrous 3D detour, returning to 2.5D co-op puzzle-platforming with three fairytale heroes -- still Very Positive on Steam seven years on, with the series' oldest, most consistent complaint (the combat) as fresh in this year's reviews as it was at launch.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, movement-first PS1-throwback open-world platformer whose crystal-based traversal system draws rapturous comparisons to Pseudoregalia, undercut by real performance jank and a handful of clumsy interface decisions.
7.5 / 10
A genuinely excellent Donkey Kong Country homage from ex-Rare developers that corrects almost everything wrong with the first Yooka-Laylee — undercut by an unskippable logo sequence that intrudes even on quitting, and a punishing, largely checkpoint-free final gauntlet.
7.5 / 10
A well-built Geometry-Dash-style rhythm platformer with real spike/platform collision, level progression, and three modes (Classic/Remix/Daily) - confirmed genuinely working with a single unified tap/click/Space jump on both desktop and phone.
7.4 / 10
A Sequel That Actually Listened to the First Game's Complaints The original Marsupilami platformer landed as a charming but slight package — reviewers loved its Donkey Kong Cou
7.4 / 10
A time-travel puzzle-platformer built for GameDev.js Jam 2023 (tied 7th, Open Source category) - confirmed working correctly on desktop with real held-key movement and a genuine mid-air jump, and correctly shipped desktop-only since the game is keyboard-only throughout with no touch handling anywhere.
7.3 / 10
Sliding Through Walls, Possessing Enemies, and Chasing a Groove Craving Wisps is a short, tightly focused 3D platformer built around a movement kit that keeps expanding for as long
7.3 / 10
Messhof's platforming spin on the survivors-like genre pairs wall-climbing, chest-hunting movement with a soundtrack and art style fans of Nidhogg will recognise instantly, though a punishing difficulty wall and bloated upgrade pool hold it back from greatness.
7.2 / 10
Fishing Cactus takes the Flash-era Shift games they helped build in 2008 and turns them into a full cyber-noir puzzle-platformer, with a level editor that outlasts the campaign — and a few real rough edges around connectivity and price.
7.2 / 10
A 13-kilobyte js13k 2020 entry that turns swordfighting into a one-finger slingshot — pull back on the screen and release to launch your character, sword-first, through whatever is in the way. The pull-back gesture is the entire game, and once you understand it is a slingshot rather than a flick, it works.
7.2 / 10
A recovered 2007 Flash relic, emulated with Ruffle - a ragdoll physics figure fires wire lines to swing across a level, and since the original had no keyboard input at all, it plays on a phone exactly as it did in a browser eighteen years ago, confirmed with real touch taps.
7.2 / 10
The biggest, most story-driven entry yet from beloved hidden-object studio Devcats, whose ambitious pivot toward metroidvania-style exploration left its die-hard fanbase genuinely torn between loving the scope and mourning a launch that stripped out the hints, fast travel, and map guidance the series was known for, before a rapid string of fixes brought them back.
7.1 / 10
A cute ladybug platformer whose real achievement is a genuine multi-touch control scheme — drag to run, drag up to climb, and a second finger tapped mid-hold to jump — built from the ground up for touchscreens rather than retrofitted onto a keyboard game.
7.1 / 10
Liujiajun's mouse-drift action game turns a time-loop amnesia hook into one of the more original puzzle structures in recent memory, though its combat and an AI-music controversy are the sample's clearest sticking points.
7.1 / 10
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A precision platformer from Asuwawagami starring Lily, an accident-prone Queen of the Underworld, Positive across 31 English reviews for its charming anime presentation, with a widely repeated observation that its brutal difficulty sits sharply at odds with its cute exterior.
7 / 10
A mouse-only physics rage-climber that wears its debt to Getting Over It on its sleeve — genuinely popular, genuinely generous with a free second chapter, and honest about two real problems its own players keep raising: hand strain from the controls, and a 2025 achievement rework that asked its most dedicated fans to grind fifty clears instead of one.
7 / 10
FromDawn Games' Aeruta pairs a 2D action-platformer against monsters with a bakery management sim in a deserted town, released 5 November 2025 after time in Early Access, earning a Very Positive reception for its charming presentation and satisfying combat parries, tempered by a heavily repeated complaint about punishing no-checkpoint boss retries and grindy late-game bakery progression.
7 / 10
A charming, Nintendo 64-inspired 3D collectathon platformer starring a hat-wearing space traveller, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 29,000 reviews for genuine platforming craft and personality — undercut by an extremely consistent, apparently worsening performance complaint including severe stuttering on AMD hardware and Steam Deck, and by real camera and co-op input problems, despite a confirmed DirectX 12/Vulkan update aimed directly at fixing it.
7 / 10
A staff-wielding metroidvania that took six years to reach Steam, changing developer partway through — smooth movement and near-unanimous praise for its pixel-and-3D art sit alongside a shallow combat loop and a reward economy that gives exploration almost nothing to find.
7 / 10
Developer Strayflux, published by Soft Source, delivers a hand-illustrated puzzle platformer following a young girl's journey through the five stages of grief in a dreamlike limbo world, earning consistent praise for its art, music and emotional storytelling from a small but Positive review base, tempered by a specific, repeated complaint about clunky platforming controls and a jarring difficulty spike in its fourth chapter.
7 / 10
Bail, By Way of Precision Platforming ASTRAL COURT DX, released free on August 25, 2026 from solo-flavored developer LUA COMPUTA, opens with a premise as odd as its name: you'r
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded retro platformer that pairs a genuinely charming sports-sentai premise with Mega Man and Shovel Knight-inspired action, consistently praised as competent and polished rather than exceptional — and dogged by a handful of specific, occasionally progression-blocking bugs.
7 / 10
