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Best Platformer games
Top platformer games, ranked by review score and popularity — drawn from 5,759 titles in our index.

Terraria
97% · 1,373,979 reviews
Dig, Fight, Explore, Build: The very world is at your fingertips as you fight for survival, fortune, and glory. Will you delve deep into cavernous expanses in search of treasure and raw materials with

Portal 2
99% · 427,835 reviews
Portal 2 draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay, story, and music that earned the original Portal over 70 industry accolades and created a cult following. The single-player portio

Hollow Knight
97% · 403,641 reviews
Hollow Knight Expands with Free Content Godmaster - Take your place amongst the Gods. New Characters and Quest. New Boss Fights. Available Now! Lifeblood - A Kingdom Upgraded! New Boss. Upgraded Bosse

Geometry Dash
93% · 401,026 reviews
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer! Prepare for a near impossible challenge in the world of Geometry Dash. Push your skills to the limit as you jump, fly and f

Fall Guys
81% · 385,154 reviews
You’re invited to dive and dodge your way to victory in the pantheon of clumsy. Rookie or pro? Solo or partied up? Fall Guys delivers ever-evolving, high-concentrated hilarity and fun. Prefer to be th

Tomb Raider Game of the Year
96% · 238,239 reviews
Tomb Raider is a critically acclaimed action adventure that explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw ins

It Takes Two
95% · 208,042 reviews
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two, a genre-bending platform adventure created purely for co-op. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a

Cuphead
96% · 179,894 reviews
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.

Portal
98% · 175,024 reviews
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers ho

Dead Cells
97% · 163,549 reviews
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
89% · 140,485 reviews
A galaxy-spanning adventure awaits in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order , a new third-person action-adventure title from Respawn Entertainment. This narratively driven, single-player game puts you in the r

Crab Game
92% · 139,538 reviews
Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you fight for the ultimate cash price in different minigames based on children's games, until only one player is left to claim it all. Definitely not

Ori and the Will of the Wisps
97% · 131,989 reviews
ORI AND THE WILL OF THE WISPS IS A MUST PLAY*: • 98/100 GAMESBEAT “…an exhilarating, emotional masterpiece” • 9.5/10 GAMEINFORMER “the story is fantastic, the world is breathtaking” • 9/10 IGN “the be

Celeste
97% · 117,545 reviews
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight, hand-crafted platformer from the creators of multiplayer classic TowerFall. A narrative-drive

Little Nightmares
95% · 104,472 reviews
The Little Nightmares series has been captivating millions of players worldwide since 2017. Now it’s your turn to try to survive the first entry in most charming horror series ever made. Take on the r

GRIS
96% · 80,404 reviews
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate

Split Fiction
98% · 79,546 reviews
Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op action adventure from the studio behind 2021 Game of the Year Winner, It Takes Two. M

Katana ZERO
98% · 69,672 reviews
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic displa

BattleBlock Theater®
97% · 69,617 reviews
Shipwrecked. Captured. Betrayed. Forced to perform for an audience of cats? Yes, all that and more when you unlock BattleBlock Theater! There’s no turning back once you've started on your quest to fre

INSIDE
97% · 65,954 reviews
Hunted and alone, a boy finds himself drawn into the center of a dark project. Try Playdead’s award-winning indie adventure game. INSIDE is a dark, narrative-driven platformer combining intense action

Pizza Tower
98% · 65,599 reviews
Pizza Tower is a fast paced 2D platformer , with an emphasis on movement, exploration and score attack. Featuring highly stylized pixel art inspired by the cartoons from the '90s, and a highly energet

Gorilla Tag
91% · 64,966 reviews
Reject Humanity. Run, climb, and jump in VR using a unique locomotion method that only needs the movement of your hands and arms. No buttons, no sticks, no teleportation. Push off of surfaces to jump

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
95% · 63,788 reviews
NEW IN THE DEFINITIVE EDITION • Packed with new and additional content: New areas, new secrets, new abilities, more story sequences, multiple difficulty modes, full backtracking support and much more!

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
82% · 63,479 reviews
A game I made For a certain kind of person To hurt them. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is a punishing climbing game, a homage to Jazzuo's 2002 B-Game classic 'Sexy Hiking'. You move the hammer wi

Broforce
97% · 57,080 reviews
When evil threatens the world, the world calls on Broforce - an under-funded, over-powered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force. Brace your loins with up to four players to

Portal
98% · 56,620 reviews
Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers ho

Ori and the Blind Forest
94% · 54,150 reviews
The forest of Nibel is dying. After a powerful storm sets a series of devastating events in motion, an unlikely hero must journey to find his courage and confront a dark nemesis to save his home. “Ori

LIMBO
93% · 53,043 reviews
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Skul: The Hero Slayer
93% · 51,218 reviews
The Demon King's Castle in Ruins The human race attacking the Demon King's castle is nothing new and has happened countless times before. What makes this time different though, is that the Adventurers

A Hat in Time
98% · 50,577 reviews
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers. A little girl and her spaceship In A Hat in Time you play as a tiny space-travelling girl wit

Chained Together
91% · 48,180 reviews
Dive into the epic adventure of 'Chained Together' Begin your journey in the depths of hell, chained to your companions. Your mission is to escape hell by climbing as high as possible. Each jump requi

Blasphemous
90% · 46,393 reviews
A foul curse has fallen upon the land of Cvstodia and all its inhabitants - it is simply known as The Miracle. Play as The Penitent One - a sole survivor of the massacre of the ‘Silent Sorrow’. Trappe

Ultimate Chicken Horse
96% · 46,319 reviews
Ever wish you were a wall-jumping, arrow-dodging, trap-setting horse, besting your animal pals in a race through a peril-laden obstacle course that you all built together? Wish Granted! Ultimate Chick

Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
95% · 44,192 reviews
What will you leave behind? Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. You play Stella, ferrymaster to the deceased, a Spiritfarer. Build a boat to explore the world, then befriend and care f

Little Nightmares II
94% · 40,494 reviews
A boy wakes up alone in the woods surrounded by the husks of burnt-out televisions. After stumbling through traps and pitfalls in the wilderness, he finds a girl locked in the basement of a dark and t

Rain World
94% · 39,787 reviews
You are a slugcat. The world around you is full of danger, and you must face it – alone. Separated from your family in a devastating flood, you will need to find food and shelter between terrifying to

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons
94% · 38,721 reviews
Guide two brothers on an epic fairy tale journey from visionary Swedish film director, Josef Fares and top-tier developer Starbreeze Studios. Control both brothers at once as you experience co-op play

Duck Game
97% · 37,172 reviews
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Win over the crowd and gain a following by blasting your feathered friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind C

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
94% · 36,999 reviews
Bloodstained®︎: Ritual of the Night is the FULL game experience, an exploration-focused, side-scroller action RPG packing all of the best features you've come to know and love from the Metroidvania ge

SANABI
97% · 35,011 reviews
You, a legendary retired veteran, are called upon for one last operation: to ascend a mega-city ruled by a corrupt conglomerate. You were chosen for this mission because of your signature chain-hook p

ROUNDS
95% · 34,893 reviews
Wave your noodle arms around to assert dominance! Experience hype-filled dueling! Shoot, block, and jump your way to victory with your shotgun-rocket-launcher-that-shoots-heat-seeking-bouncy-missiles

SpeedRunners
94% · 34,525 reviews
In a city filled with superheroes, getting to crimes becomes a competition on its own. Fortunately there are enough rockets, bombs, grappling hooks, spikes, and other goodies lying around -- to make t

Rivals of Aether
96% · 34,357 reviews
Overview RIVALS OF AETHER is an indie fighting game set in a world where warring civilizations summon the power of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. Choose a Rival to bring into the battlefield and manipul

Super Meat Boy
95% · 33,571 reviews
Super Meat Boy is a tough as nails platformer where you play as an animated cube of meat who's trying to save his girlfriend (who happens to be made of bandages) from an evil fetus in a jar wearing a

DDNet
89% · 33,440 reviews
Prepare for the hardest cooperative 2D precision platformer! Get up to 64 friends together, meet new people from all over the world, and help each other through thousands of maps! Play with your best

Mirror's Edge™
88% · 32,983 reviews
In a city where information is heavily monitored, agile couriers called Runners transport sensitive data away from prying eyes. In this seemingly utopian paradise, a crime has been committed, your sis

Hi-Fi RUSH
97% · 32,441 reviews
Feel the beat as wannabe rockstar Chai and his ragtag team of allies rebel against an evil robotics enhancement megacorp with raucous rhythm combat! From Tango Gameworks, the studio that brought you T

BlazBlue Entropy Effect
95% · 28,794 reviews
BlazBlue Entropy Effect is a spin-off of the BlazBlue series, featuring an original storyline and setting that is separate from the main plot of the BlazBlue series. Charismatic character designs with

DmC: Devil May Cry
93% · 27,949 reviews
In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action, fluid combat and self-assured protagonist that have defined the i

Risk of Rain (2013)
93% · 27,648 reviews
Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements . With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet w

Nine Sols
95% · 27,488 reviews
Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of Asian fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race

UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection
90% · 26,740 reviews
Are You Ready To Seek Your Fortune? Seek your fortune and leave your mark on the map in the UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection. Uncover the thrilling cinematic storytelling and the largest blockb

A Story About My Uncle
92% · 26,479 reviews
A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. Take help of your uncle’s mysteriou

My Friend Pedro
96% · 26,344 reviews
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana. The strategic use of split aiming, slow m

Crab Champions
98% · 26,307 reviews
Crab Champions is a fast paced roguelike shooter. Travel solo or with friends across exotic islands defeating hordes of enemies, collecting loot and becoming as powerful as possible creating game brea

PICO PARK
91% · 25,879 reviews
* If you are connecting more than 5 Xbox controllers, please enable 'Xbox Extended Feature Support' in Controller Settings. PICO PARK is a cooperative local/online multiplay action puzzle game for 2-8

CARRION
95% · 25,814 reviews
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origin. Stalk and consume those that imprisoned you to spread fear and panic throughout the facility.

LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes
95% · 24,959 reviews
LEGO® Marvel™ Super Heroes features an original story crossing the entire Marvel Universe. Players take control of Iron Man, Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, Wolverine and many more Marvel chara

Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™
96% · 24,888 reviews
“CHARMING AND DEEPLY MOVING” – IGN “INTRIGUING AND EVOCATIVE” – DESTRUCTOID “A GORGEOUS AND EMOTIONAL JOURNEY” – “VALIANT HEARTS IS TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING” - XBOX ACHIEVEMENTS “UBISOFT’S LATEST BIG PUS

Transformice
88% · 24,320 reviews
Transformice is an MMO Mouse Simulator platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese, trying to avoid pitfalls, leading to unexpected and hilarious situations! You have less than tw