Best Platformer Games
1,170 Platformer games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 • 161 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 • 110 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.
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.
Jet Set Radio
Released: Sep 18, 2012
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Sport, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360
Tag, grind, and trick to the beat in SEGA’s hit game Jet Set Radio!
Rise of the Tomb Raider: Baba Yaga - The Temple of the Witch
Released: Jan 26, 2016
Critic rating: 77.2 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Xbox One
Game modes: Single player
Lara Croft enters the Wicked Vale and comes face-to-face with Baba Yaga, a supernatural entity described in Slavic folklore.
The NewZealand Story
Released: Aug 1, 1988
Critic rating: 76.6 / 100 • 23 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.
Sonic Adventure 2
Released: Jun 19, 2001
Critic rating: 79.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Nintendo GameCube, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360, Dreamcast
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Sonic Adventure 2 is the sequel to Sonic Adventure.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Released: Aug 18, 2010
Critic rating: 78.9 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Google Stadia, PlayStation 3, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a platform action video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and iOS as part of the Tomb Raider series through digital distribution.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Released: Dec 17, 2011
Critic rating: 81.0 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation Vita
Game modes: Single player
Uncover the dark secret behind the 400-year-old massacre of a Spanish expedition as Nathan Drake tracks the murderous trail of an ancient and secret Spanish sect.
The Impossible Game
Released: Nov 23, 2009
Critic rating: 75.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Music, Platform, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Linux, Windows Phone, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game!
Concrete Genie
Released: Sep 26, 2019
Critic rating: 81.9 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR
Game modes: Single player
Concrete Genie is a game about Ash, a young boy who is bullied but discovers a magical paint that might save his home town.
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!
Super Mario Bros. 2
Released: Oct 9, 1988
Critic rating: 76.5 / 100 • 555 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Arcade, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
Super Mario Bros.
Gravity Rush Remastered
Released: Dec 10, 2015
Critic rating: 78.7 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure
Platforms: PlayStation 4
Game modes: Single player
Gravity Rush is an action-adventure video game developed by SIE Japan Studio and Project Siren, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.