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357 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
357 reviews
A competent, well-liked dark-fantasy metroidvania sequel whose own fans argue it's a step down from the original in atmosphere and platforming, undercut further by a game-corrupting boss softlock that reviewers report as unfixed years after a patch was supposed to address it.
7 / 10
A chaotic, destructible-terrain run-and-gun starring parody action-movie heroes, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 20,500 reviews for its explosive, comedic co-op mayhem — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that random, unchosen character selection ruins runs at the worst moments, alongside persistent, well-documented multiplayer bugs and unfair off-screen deaths.
7 / 10
A 3D collectathon platformer from Fabraz, the studio behind Demon Turf, that reboots one of gaming's most infamous mascots with a genuinely fluid new moveset across three planets, Very Positive across 642 English reviews for finally making a good Bubsy game — with a widely repeated complaint that its roughly four-to-five-hour campaign felt too short at launch, since substantially addressed with a free content update.
7 / 10
A cozy 3D platformer from Neutronized in which you play a frog chasing a UFO across wholesome levels to recover stolen fruit, Positive across 15 English reviews for its charming art style and satisfying aim-and-jump mechanic, though this review notes its English review sample is thin and treats its conclusions as more provisional than usual as a result.
7 / 10
Phobia Game Studio's reverse-horror Metroidvania makes controlling a tentacled mass of gore feel genuinely great — and pairs that with a navigation problem so consistently reported across its own review base that the developers patched around it without ever adding the map players kept asking for.
7 / 10
A Grapple-Swing Platformer Built for a Specific, Devoted Audience Cattopia's entire identity rests on one piece of source material: Umihara Kawase, the cult Japanese fishing-li
7 / 10
Migami Games channels its Castlevania fangame roots into an original, richly atmospheric metroidvania built around the legend of the Beast of Gevaudan, undercut only by stiff controls and a punishing instant-death checkpoint system.
7 / 10
A solo-developed, Touhou-inspired 3D collectathon platformer earns an Overwhelmingly Positive reception for its chill atmosphere, charming presentation, and satisfying ability progression, though its own review sample repeatedly flags a short runtime and limited horizontal movement as the price of that relaxed pace.
7 / 10
A solo-developed, SNES-style turn-based JRPG that swaps generic fantasy kingdoms for real-world cities and ancient ruins — reviewed on launch day, when its entire public review corpus is zero, against what the developer has actually built and documented.
7 / 10
A charming, exploration-first metroidvania about a deceased cat sentenced to clean up the afterlife forever, whose gorgeous art, generous accessibility options, and rewarding sense of discovery earn wide praise, tempered by a large and specific chorus finding its combat and challenge content thinner than its exploration.
7 / 10
A solo-developer's loving, NES-styled cyberpunk ninja platformer published by Yacht Club Games -- Very Positive on Steam for its pixel art and soundtrack, with a specific, years- consistent complaint that its controls and difficulty never quite match the genre touchstones it invites comparison to.
7 / 10
A Fighting-Game Studio's Detour Into Isometric Action-Adventure DAMON and BABY, from Arc System Works, the studio best known for Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, released on Steam on
7 / 10
A remaster of the 2014 first-person speedrun-platformer cult favourite wins over most of its returning fanbase with rebuilt visuals, sound, and a new final level, but a Very Positive Steam sample is candid about real technical rough edges and split on whether the upgrade justifies its price over the cheaper original.
7 / 10
A 2-4 player co-op mining game about sharing one wallet, one pool of light and one simple goal — go deeper than your last run — where gas pockets, earthquakes and radiation punish anyone who pushes past what their gear can survive.
7 / 10
A wordless, gorgeously atmospheric narrative platformer about a runaway boy and the fawn he befriends, with real emotional power for many players, held back by simple puzzles and platforming that borrows heavily from its genre predecessors without quite matching them.
7 / 10
A Die That Destroys Itself to Climb DICEASTER is a $2.99 precision platformer with an unusually mean-spirited central gimmick: you play as a die, and each of its six faces represen
7 / 10
Why Be Alone When You Can Be By Yourself Divider Dave opens on its title character waking up in a pod with exactly one skill and no memory of how he got it: he can copy himself. Th
7 / 10
A small five-person team led by former Thunderful game director Sebastian Larsson delivers a tiny, SteamWorld Dig-inspired digging platformer about a bird drilling for ore to hatch its egg, earning warm, near-universal praise for its charm, sound design and tightly designed one-hour loop, tempered by a consistent, honest debate within its own review base over whether that length justifies its price.
7 / 10
A genuinely loving, beautifully realised tribute to PS2-era 3D action platformers like Jak and Daxter, Kingdom Hearts and Ratchet & Clank, with movement, level design and a widely praised 40-track soundtrack that reviewers consistently single out as the game's clearest strength, badly let down by combat a large share of the same review base describes as flat, weightless and unrewarding, compounded by a missing key-rebinding option and no in-game map.
7 / 10
A day-old precision speedrunner that makes you spend your own health bar as a resource — slow time, cut down enemies mid-air, and burn "Echoes" for shortcuts and boosts across fifteen handcrafted courses, each chasing a five-rung Bronze-through-Par medal ladder.
7 / 10
Emeteria's debut turns into a fluid, chain-reacting sphere and reshuffles reality around you, and that idea alone is worth the price. The kicking-things-off-ledges combat underneath it never catches up.
7 / 10
This vehicle-adventure game sends a lone traveler across a dried-out seabed in a strange, cobbled-together vehicle, telling its entire post-apocalyptic story through environment and machinery rather than a single word of dialogue. Its atmosphere earns near-universal praise, while a substantial, specific thread of criticism argues the actual moment-to-moment experience is shorter, more repetitive, and more frantic than its cozy road trip reputation suggests.
7 / 10
A landmark perspective-shifting puzzle-platformer letting players rotate a 2D view around a 3D world, Very Positive across more than 6,200 reviews for genuinely inventive design and an exceptional soundtrack — undercut by a specific, repeated warning that the perspective mechanic causes real discomfort for some players, a notoriously obtuse late-game cryptography puzzle that famously required community collaboration to crack, and persistent technical issues reported even a decade after release.
7 / 10
A solo-flavored, lore-dense action platformer that drops an amnesiac hero into an abandoned space station to relearn who they are through fighting-game-style combat and a stat system that grows from what you actually do, undercut for at least one reviewer by a save-destroying random crash with no autosave to fall back on.
7 / 10
