Best Platformer Games
1,170 Platformer games, ranked by the Rank and Play community.
Electronic Super Joy
Released: Aug 23, 2013
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Shooter, Music, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music.
Far: Lone Sails
Released: May 17, 2018
Critic rating: 77.5 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Simulator, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Far: Lone Sails is a vehicle adventure game.
Earthworm Jim 2
Released: Nov 15, 1995
Critic rating: 76.4 / 100 • 119 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Game modes: Single player
From Evil the Cat’s’Circus of the Scars’ to the planet of Meat, join Jim on a madcap chase across the galaxy.
Rabbids Go Home
Released: Nov 1, 2009
Critic rating: 79.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Platforms: Wii
Game modes: Single player
A comedy adventure.
Super Mario 3D All-Stars
Released: Sep 18, 2020
Critic rating: 84.9 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Discover three of Mario’s grandest 3D adventures with Super Mario 3D All-Stars on Nintendo Switch!
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Released: Aug 7, 1997
Critic rating: 76.4 / 100 • 24 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo 64
Game modes: Single player
The story follows Goemon's struggles to prevent the Peach Mountain Shoguns gang from turning Japan into a Westernized fine arts theater.
Gonner
Released: Oct 12, 2016
Critic rating: 82.8 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
"Gonner is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world—a giant landbound whale named Sally—by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
Pseudoregalia
Released: Jul 28, 2023
Critic rating: 76.4 / 100 • 32 votes
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Sybil finds herself in a distorted castle and must find her own way out.
Earthworm Jim
Released: Oct 1, 1994
Critic rating: 75.5 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform
Platforms: Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Game modes: Single player
A crow is chasing a worm named Jim while in outer space Psy-Crow is chasing a renegade ship.
Gunman Clive
Released: Apr 2, 2012
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Nintendo 3DS, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
In the year of 18XX, the west is overrun by thugs and outlaws.
Mercs
Released: Dec 31, 1990
Critic rating: 76.3 / 100 • 24 votes
Rating: E10+
Genres: Shooter, Platform, Arcade
Platforms: Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Wii, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Sega Master System/Mark III
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The players are members of a covert counter-terrorist team of mercenaries known as the "Wolf Force".
Narita Boy
Released: Mar 29, 2021
Critic rating: 76.8 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
The retro-futuristic pixel game Explore and fight in a retro-futuristic world. Swim deep into a oneiric, poetic and unique experience across dimensional planes. The aesthetic of the game was inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
Sonic Colors
Released: Dec 11, 2010
Critic rating: 76.2 / 100 • 23 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
An extraordinary amusement park has been seen orbiting around the home planet of Sonic the Hedgehog, and rumors are spreading that an alien race of Wisps, who have a unique colorful energy, are being held captive there by the evil Dr.
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land
Released: Oct 25, 2002
Critic rating: 70.0 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Wii U, Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
A remake of the original Kirby's Adventure for the NES.
Hob
Released: Sep 26, 2017
Critic rating: 72.1 / 100
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows)
Game modes: Single player
Hob is set on a beautiful and dangerous unknown world, with buzzing life above and the whirrs of mysterious machinery below.
Battletoads
Released: Jun 1, 1991
Critic rating: 76.2 / 100 • 152 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platforms: Amiga CD32, Amiga, Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Battletoads is the first game of the Battletoads series.
Buster Bros.
Released: Nov 29, 1989
Critic rating: 76.2 / 100 • 47 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.
Pepper Grinder
Released: Mar 28, 2024
Critic rating: 82.3 / 100
Rating: E10+
Genres: Platform, Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Pepper Grinder is an action-packed pirate adventure starring the titular Pepper, a seafaring soul with a passion for prospecting, and Grinder, her super-powered drilling device.
Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition
Released: Apr 8, 2008
Critic rating: 80.0 / 100
Rating: M
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows)
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.
World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
Released: Dec 1, 1992
Critic rating: 76.1 / 100 • 39 votes
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
Game modes: Single player, Co-operative
Alakazam!
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Released: Jun 6, 2002
Critic rating: 76.1 / 100 • 120 votes
Rating: T
Genres: Platform, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure
Platforms: Wii U, Game Boy Advance
Game modes: Single player
Nearly fifty years has past since Simon Belmont rescued the land from the curse of Dracula.
Sonic Generations
Released: Nov 1, 2011
Critic rating: 75.1 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo 3DS, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Game modes: Single player
Celebrate 20 years of Sonic in an all new adventure that delivers a definitive experience to Sonic fans new and old!
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
Released: Feb 17, 2010
Critic rating: 81.3 / 100
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Arcade
Platforms: PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360
Game modes: Single player
Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie.
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Released: Sep 1, 1990
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100 • 23 votes
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Family Computer, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
Little Nemo: The Dream Master is a platform game that revolves around a young boy in his own surreal dreams as he journeys to Slumberland.
The Lost Vikings
Released: Apr 29, 1993
Critic rating: 76.0 / 100 • 91 votes
Rating: E
Genres: Platform, Puzzle, Strategy
Platforms: Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Famicom
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
The Lost Vikings is a puzzle-platform video game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay.