Best Platformer Games
1,190 Platformer games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!
Released: Dec 18, 1992
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100 • 28 votes
Genres: Platform, Sport
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player
A platformer based on the Tiny Toon Adventures cartoon series by Warner, where you play as Buster.
Inmost
Released: Oct 11, 2019
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Inmost is an atmospheric, story-driven puzzle platformer, following three playable characters within one dark, interconnecting story.
Trials Fusion
Released: Apr 16, 2014
Critic rating: 79.4 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Racing, Sport, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Take on an unlimited array of platform-racing challenges in the unreal world of Trials Fusion.
MDK
Released: Jan 1, 1997
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100 • 111 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, PlayStation
Game modes: Single player
The game tells the story of Kurt Hectic, a janitor who reluctantly must attempt to save Earth from an alien invasion of gigantic strip mining city-size vehicles named "Minecrawlers".
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider
Released: Sep 14, 2001
Critic rating: 77.1 / 100 • 22 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation
Game modes: Single player
Stealth, humour and tactical skills - the scene is set for the ultimate showdown between Sam Sheep-dog and a greedy wolf whose only thought is where his next meal is coming from.
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Released: Apr 18, 2017
Critic rating: 81.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
A modern version of cult classic Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap!
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes
Released: Jun 19, 2012
Critic rating: 80.7 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Wii U, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
The Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin join other famous super heroes from the DC Universe including Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to save Gotham City from destruction at the hands of the notorious villains Lex Luthor and the Joker.
Timespinner
Released: Sep 25, 2018
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Timespinner is a 2D metroidvania platformer about a young woman who travels through time to destroy the empire that killed her family.
Assassin's Creed
Released: Nov 13, 2007
Critic rating: 80.8 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced through the Animus by his 21st century descendant, Desmond Miles.
Shantae: Risky's Revenge - Director's Cut
Released: Jul 15, 2014
Critic rating: 78.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Wii U, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut brings hair-whipping, belly-dancing to your PC!
Skylanders: Trap Team
Released: Sep 30, 2014
Critic rating: 79.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Android, iOS, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
In Skylanders Trap Team, Kaos continues his ongoing quest to rule over Skylands.
Mega Man 5
Released: Dec 4, 1992
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100 • 106 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
In the fifth chapter of the original Mega Man series, the battle is closer to home as Mega Man fights to save the world from further destruction.
Buster Bros.
Released: Nov 29, 1989
Critic rating: 77.0 / 100 • 48 votes
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari ST/STE, DOS, Amiga, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Amstrad CPC
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Pang, originally released in Japan as Pomping World and in North America as Buster Bros., is a 1989 arcade action game developed by Mitchell Corporation.
Castlevania Chronicles
Released: May 24, 2001
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100 • 33 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Game modes: Single player
The 2D whip-wielding action game Castlevania returns with a classic version never before seen in America with Castlevania Chronicles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
Released: Aug 30, 2022
Critic rating: 79.3 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Fighting, Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Arcade
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is a 2022 compilation developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Konami.
Solar Ash
Released: Dec 2, 2021
Critic rating: 81.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Journey through a surreal, vivid and highly stylized world filled with mystery, wild high-speed traversal, endearing characters, and massive enemy encounters.
The NewZealand Story
Released: Aug 1, 1988
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100 • 25 votes
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Arcade, Sharp X68000, FM Towns
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Tiki, a sneaker-wearing kiwi who must save his lover Phee Phee and several of his other kiwi chick friends who have been kiwi-napped by a large blue leopard seal.
Bit.Trip Runner
Released: May 14, 2010
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Music, Platform, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: Linux, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Bit.Trip Runner is the fastest, most exhilarating music/ rhythm-platformer to hit Steam!
Mega Man 4
Released: Dec 6, 1991
Critic rating: 76.9 / 100 • 135 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
For a year the city has been quiet, but a new robotic terror has gripped the city!
Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2
Released: Dec 31, 1987
Critic rating: 76.8 / 100 • 34 votes
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Amiga, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD, Amstrad CPC
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Rainbow Islands is a 1987 arcade game developed and published by Taito.
Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2
Released: Mar 2, 2018
Critic rating: 78.5 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 revives the good, old, action platform run & gun genre but this time with a bunch of humor and a bucket of blown of body parts.
American McGee's Alice
Released: Dec 6, 2000
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100 • 165 votes
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
Shortly after her second adventure, Through the Looking-Glass, Alice's house is burnt down by an accidental fire, killing her family and leaving her as the only survivor.
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Released: Mar 17, 1994
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100 • 111 votes
Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Game modes: Single player
Time refuses to forget the Belmont family's horrifying, bloody destiny.
Jump King
Released: May 3, 2019
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Jump King is a platforming challenge about struggling upwards in search of the legendary smoking hot babe!
Felix the Cat
Released: Oct 1, 1992
Critic rating: 76.7 / 100 • 39 votes
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
The game involves the player controlling Felix the Cat as he sets out to defeat the evil mad Professor who has kidnapped Felix's lovely girlfriend, Kitty.