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357 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
357 reviews
A goblin who robs dungeons by night and haggles over the loot by day, split between a genuinely good pixel-art Metroidvania and a shopkeeper sim that keeps overriding it — the game is at its best exactly when it lets you forget the rent is due again in three days.
7 / 10
DrinkBox Studios' Mexican-folklore metroidvania sequel raised the difficulty on everything the beloved original was praised for -- and eight years of Steam reviews show a real split between players who call it the best the genre has to offer and a large minority who say the harder platforming and unresponsive controls broke what made the first game fun.
7 / 10
A noir-western action-platformer whose fluid movement and art draw strong, consistent praise — reviewers compare its platforming favourably to Celeste — undercut by a title weapon gimmick that a large share of players say never gets used in genuinely interesting ways, and a story that leans heavily on narrative weight it hasn't earned.
7 / 10
A physics-based rage-platformer from solo developer SkorpionDev, casting players as a literal coin charging up flips to navigate handcrafted, secret-filled environments, Positive across 44 English reviews with a unanimously enthusiastic reception for its tight controls and rewarding difficulty curve — with a fair complaint that its content, now closed out with a final update, is thin for players who master it quickly.
7 / 10
A Love Letter To Symphony Of The Night, Not A Replica Of It Infinitevania, developed and published by JHT Games, released on Steam on July 24, 2026, at $14.99. It's a 2D metroi
7 / 10
A Kickstarter-backed, Game Boy Color-era Zelda-like from solo developer desertcucco, earning a Very Positive launch reception for its puzzle-dense dungeons and pixel-perfect homage to Link's Awakening and the Oracle games, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about a constrictive, maze-like overworld and a handful of controller and audio bugs.
7 / 10
A solo developer's three-years-in-the-making cosmic-horror action roguelite that draws passionate praise for its atmosphere and combat feel, while a consistent thread of its own fans worry it's chasing Dead Cells a little too directly to fully stand on its own.
7 / 10
Roach Games, a debut studio formed by two real-life janitors who self-funded development for years before a successful 2019 Kickstarter, delivers a lovingly crafted SNES-style JRPG about a world built from garbage, earning some of the year's most enthusiastic comparisons to Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG, undercut for a large and specific share of players by a back half that arrives genuinely unfinished.
7 / 10
A genuinely strong 2.5D Metroidvania whose anime character-focused presentation causes many reviewers to expect shallow fanservice and then be repeatedly, pleasantly surprised by fluid movement and satisfying combat depth, undercut by a specific, well-corroborated camera stutter complaint, a serious cross-device save bug, and real platforming design criticism that led the developers to add a skip option for jump puzzles.
7 / 10
An atmospheric horror puzzle-platformer following a small child named Six through a nightmarish, oversized vessel called the Maw, Very Positive across more than 19,000 reviews for genuinely exceptional art direction and sound design — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint about imprecise, depth-perception-dependent controls, a well-corroborated length-for-price concern, and a specific, unresolved CPU compatibility issue affecting older AMD processors.
7 / 10
A Free Platformer With Old-School Bones Lost Light, released free on Steam August 29, 2026 by Woofle Studios, casts players as a young soul tasked with carrying the primordial Flam
7 / 10
Alkacer Game Studio's debut is a top-down Metroidvania built around five-element spell combat and a Combo Counter that rewards chaining attacks rather than turtling behind a single favorite spell. Its first week of reviews are unanimously positive but few and short, so this is a read on a promising opening rather than a settled verdict on the whole adventure.
7 / 10
A genuinely inventive fusion of Metroidvania exploration and Pokémon-style monster taming with real tactical depth, undercut for a large share of its own fans by a late-game boss-scaling system that turns an excellent first twenty hours into a grind many never finish.
7 / 10
Mr. Sleepy Man is a solo-developed 3D platformer-collectathon soaked in N64-era nostalgia, and this review's sample shows a game whose music and surprisingly emotional writing consistently win people over even as the same handful of camera and control complaints show up again and again, in glowing reviews and critical ones alike.
7 / 10
A neon-pixel run-and-gun roguelite that wears its Binding of Isaac influence openly and well enough to earn Strong critical reviews and a Very Positive Steam score, though a real share of players say the grindy unlock structure and a shrinking item pool wear thin faster than the genre's best.
7 / 10
A cat-girl metroidvania sequel to the cult-favourite Nyakori's Rabbit Doll, praised for charming art, creative environmental puzzles and genuinely strong music — hit at launch by harshly criticized boss design and a controversial story ending, both of which this review's research confirms the developer directly reworked, first shortly after launch and again with substantial free content two years later.
7 / 10
A gorgeous, warmly-written 2.5D skateboarding platformer that earned its Very Positive score on the strength of the game itself -- and has spent the years since fighting a genuinely documented publisher controversy that has nothing to do with skating.
7 / 10
A famously nine-years-in-development pixel-art platformer following a mute flying owl who carries companions into battle, Very Positive across 2,400 reviews for genuinely exceptional art and music — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent complaint that its clumsy carry-and-throw combat and disproportionately punishing boss fights fail to match the presentation, alongside a reported softlock bug and an unaddressed screen-shake/flashing-light discomfort issue.
7 / 10
A long-awaited psychic-adventure platformer sequel from Double Fine Productions, Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 8,400 reviews for its outstanding writing, art, and humour — undercut by a consistent, well-corroborated complaint that its level design and combat feel formulaic compared to the original, a story that loses coherence in its second half, and persistent bugs that this review confirmed have gone unpatched for years.
7 / 10
A small frog, a big collect-a-thon Sapo 3D asks a simple question and answers it well: what if a cheap, cheerful 3D platformer starred a frog collecting golden flies across increas
7 / 10
A Tunnel Designed to Break Your Brain, on Purpose Sensory Overload, from solo-flavored studio Pancake Studios, launched on August 20, 2026, after a public demo period that reported
7 / 10
A faithful, technically excellent remaster of the 1999 voodoo-horror action-adventure cult classic by Nightdive Studios, Very Positive across 804 reviews for its craftsmanship and dark atmosphere — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the underlying game design has aged very poorly, with confusing, maze-like levels and heavy backtracking that no amount of remastering fully resolves.
7 / 10
A solo-developed, top-down bullet-hell action-RPG with souls-like combat, built over nearly two years of near-weekly Early Access updates before a full 1.0 release in April 2026 that the developer's own devlog explicitly frames as "officially departing Early Access."
7 / 10
Arrest Satan, one shotgun blast at a time Shotgun Cop Man sends a literal thumb-shaped cop to Hell to arrest the devil himself, using a shotgun both as a weapon and as a means of p
7 / 10
