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354 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
354 reviews
A gorgeously hand-painted metroidvania with a genuinely demanding secondary difficulty mode, undercut by combat its own players call brainless, visual clutter that hides incoming attacks, and crashes some report wiping out map progress entirely.
6.5 / 10
A hand-drawn, ambitiously huge metroidvania set in a ruined fantasy world -- reviewers are close to unanimous that the art is gorgeous, but well over half the negative reviews sampled for this piece raise the same specific complaint: a map so large and under-signposted that players spend hours lost rather than exploring.
6.5 / 10
A Nostalgic Sequel With a Sharp Second Act Aggelos 2 launched August 27, 2026 from developer WONDERBOY BOBI, published by PQube and PixelHeart, picking up centuries after the origi
6.5 / 10
A charming, expanded sequel to the cult indie roguelike platformer Angvik that keeps its predecessor's build variety and humour while dropping much of its difficulty, leaving several reviewers wishing for a harder mode to match the challenge fans of the first game remember.
6.5 / 10
A turn-based RPG built around a distinctive wooden-puppet aesthetic and a deliberate, loving homage to Super Mario RPG's timed-hit combat, pitched by its own fans as a genuinely harder successor to that formula — and criticized by an equally vocal minority for demanding precise reflexes over strategic depth, with a lack of an in-game map drawing complaints from both camps.
6.5 / 10
A loving, self-aware tribute to the infamous Zelda CD-i games, built by the same developer behind fan-made "fixed" remakes of the originals, whose charming cutscenes and surprisingly solid metroidvania mechanics win real converts even as a large, consistent complaint argues its combat trivializes itself once a key defensive ability is unlocked, and its short runtime leans heavily on repetitive backtracking.
6.5 / 10
A Greek-and-Roman-mythology action RPG that plays like Immortals Fenyx Rising crossed with a lighter Dark Souls — strongest in its opening hours, and still missing basic quality-of-life features four years and nine patches later.
6.5 / 10
A tiny, no-combat runner/metroidvania about a cat who can't fight and can only sprint past danger — a nearly five-year-old Early Access project the developer just released for free after its funding fell through, reviewed on its complete review sample old and new.
6.5 / 10
Inti Creates bundles all three mainline Gunvolt games into one PC collection with a genuinely great loading-screen skip and a rocky launch that got patched fast, but reviewers argue the 'Enhanced' label oversells changes that barely touch two of the three games.
6.5 / 10
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A physics-driven puzzle-platformer built around a genuinely inventive object-swapping mechanic, drawing constant and earned Limbo/Inside comparisons for its opening hours — before a large, independently-corroborated share of its own admirers say the same handful of skills get tested over and over for six to eight more hours than the ideas actually support.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous, Japanese-folklore-inspired metroidvania built almost entirely around an aerial pogo-combat system, whose stunning art and genuinely inventive movement earn it comparisons to Hollow Knight and Ori, undercut for a substantial share of players by punishing checkpoint resets, bloated boss health pools, and a steep late-game difficulty spike — several of which the developers have directly patched since launch.
6.5 / 10
A charming, colorful 3D platformer set inside a working computer, built on genuine Unreal Engine 5 visual ambition and co-op-friendly level design — hit at launch by severe performance problems, broken achievements and unstable co-op that a small Polish debut studio has spent more than two years methodically working through, patch by named patch.
6.5 / 10
A penguin, a mountain, and a chicken named Wilson But Why? drops a small group of players into the role of penguins trekking across an arctic landscape toward a distant, indifferen
6.5 / 10
An N64-style collectathon platformer starring a young dragon rescuing his siblings' eggs, whose devoted recreation of Banjo-Kazooie and Spyro-era atmosphere is undercut by floaty, imprecise jumping that a large share of its own reviewers say fails the one thing the genre can't compromise on.
6.5 / 10
The Steam remaster of Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya's legendary freeware metroidvania, Very Positive across nearly 3,850 reviews for one of indie gaming's most beloved single-author achievements — sold for years by publisher Nicalis in a state a striking share of reviewers describe as neglected, undercut by long-running allegations about how the original creator was treated, though a major 2026 update appears to have finally addressed much of the technical criticism.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous, hand-drawn metroidvania about a paintbrush-wielding artist escaping a decaying inner world built from her declining mental health — whose art, music and premise draw near-universal praise, sitting alongside a majority-of-negative-sample complaint about spongy, repetitive boss fights and platforming precision the movement itself doesn't reliably support.
6.5 / 10
Core Descent is a solo-developed puzzle-platformer that drops players into a colorful, loading-screen-free world of 81 hand-crafted logic puzzles across nine interconnected zones, and this review's sample finds a focused, low-pressure metroidvania-lite with real accessibility care, undercut only by how little there is to say about it beyond the puzzles themselves.
6.5 / 10
A lovingly crafted N64-style 3D collectathon platformer soaked in early-2000s emo nostalgia, praised for its distinctive art, animation and humor — and just as consistently criticized for faithfully reviving the genre's worst period-accurate flaws, from imprecise platforming and inconsistent hit registration to a punishing save system with no fixes in sight.
6.5 / 10
A two-person team's 2D Metroidvania with Souls-like combat, launched into Early Access on 5 August 2026 with a full campaign already playable, an equipment-driven build system, and a planned 6-to-12-month road to 1.0.
6.5 / 10
A Halo Fan's Big-Headed Answer to Metroidvania Combat Cube Crusaders is the solo project of a developer working under the studio name Frentwick Indie, who has been building the
6.5 / 10
A genuinely inventive golf-precision-platformer whose own most enthusiastic players keep arriving at the same specific verdict — the game is excellent, and the roguelite structure wrapped around it is a mismatch that makes hours-long runs punishing rather than replayable.
6.5 / 10
A Chinese-developed dungeon survivors-like roguelite from Bunny Moon Shady, built around a deep weapon-fusion "build" system and an oppressive dark-fantasy dungeon, earning a Very Positive launch reception, tempered by honest reviewer complaints about AI-generated character art, a brutal early boss difficulty spike, and a detailed accusation of close similarity to another specific title.
6.5 / 10
White Rabbit's 2D souls-like metroidvania launched thin and unpolished in 2018, then got a genuinely massive free overhaul three years later -- and while Afterlife fixed a lot, its own recent reviews show real, specific problems (balance spikes, no fast travel until late, a six-year-old unfixed framerate bug) that never fully went away.
6.5 / 10
A moveset-driven 3D platformer with genuinely praised, deeply customizable movement and Wind Waker-style open-ocean traversal, undercut for a vocal minority of reviewers — including fans of its predecessor Demon Turf — by camera and wall-run jank, widely criticized cringe-inducing dialogue, and a specific reported bug that wipes progress in one challenge room.
6.5 / 10
