Platformer 2012 — top best games in the Platformer genre / Page 3

Scribblenauts Unlimited - a game in the Platformer genre

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Arcade, Side view, Casual game

Game released: Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC, iOS, Android → 6 December 2013

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Scribblenauts Unlimited — side-scrolling arcade adventure puzzle game. Welcome to an adventure in a vast world where your most powerful tool is...

Nyan Cat: Lost In Space

Arcade, Indie, Side view, Platformer, Adventure, Casual game

Game released: PC, iOS, Android, Linux → 4 December 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

An arcade platformer about Nyan Cat flying through endless space. The player collects coins and food, jumps across cake platforms, and dodges enemies...

Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Game Gear, Nintendo 3DS → 1994

Players: 10/10

Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming from Aspect Co., Ltd., published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd...

Nihilumbra

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Linux, PS Vita, Wii U, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS → 27 June 2012

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Nihilumbra is a platform puzzle game developed by BeautiFun Games that will take you into a world of unusual adventures and abstract inclination. You...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, Nintendo Switch → 30 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a...

Draw Rider Plus

Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Motorcycle racing, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: iOS, Android, PC, Mac → 6 April 2013

Steam: 70/100

Draw Rider Plus is a side-scrolling racing platformer. This is not an ordinary race, here you will find treacherous challenges with many hardcore...

King Oddball

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Casual game, Puzzle

Game released: iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Amazon Fire TV, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 3, Mac, Linux → 27 September 2012

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This arcade puzzle game follows a king who swings a boulder with his tongue and uses it to destroy targets. The player chooses when to release the...

NiGHTS into Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 2, SEGA Saturn, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 21 February 2008

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 74/100

NiGHTS into Dreams is an arcade adventure action-platformer with a side view, set in the World of Dreams. This world is divided into Nightopia and...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: PC, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Mac, Linux → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of...

Disney Epic Mickey

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Wii → 15 March 2012

Metacritic: 73/100

This fantasy action-platformer combines a third-person perspective with puzzles in an adventure starring Disney’s rodent mascot. The game has a dark...

AvatAAAH!!!

Arcade, Platformer, Isometric

Game released: Xbox 360 → 17 August 2012

AvatAAAH!!! is an isometric arcade game with platforming elements from the masters at Milkstone Studios. The game is published by Milkstone Studios...

Cortex Command

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Tactics

Game released: PC, Mac → 28 September 2012

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 44/100

A tactical arcade game with strategy and platforming elements, Cortex Command centers on mining gold from deformable pixel terrain. The resources can...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 → 18 October 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This side-scrolling action platformer with puzzles is set in Albatropolis, a land ruled by a totalitarian penguin regime. Hardboiled Chicken sets out...

Skylanders Giants

Arcade, Adventure, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U → 19 October 2012

Metacritic: 75/100

Skylanders Giants is an adventure platformer built around the existing Skylanders toys. It adds 20 characters to the roster, including eight...

Chickens Can't Fly

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: iOS, Windows Phone, Android → 3 October 2013

Chickens Can't Fly is an arcade game with platformer elements from developers from the Amused Sloth studio. The game is published by Amused...

Shifting World

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Logic, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 24 April 2012

Metacritic: 55/100

Shifting World is a 3D puzzle game that brings the familiar gameplay of the SHIFT series into full 3D. It is the first entry in the series to adapt...

Revenge of Shinobi (1989)

Action, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Genesis, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC → 1991

Revenge of Shinobi (1989) is a third-person action game with a mixture of fighting and platforming from the developers of SEGA Enterprises Ltd.. The...

Zombie Tsunami

Action, Platformer, Free game, Side view, Runner, Casual game, Zombies

Game released: Android, iOS → 10 September 2013

An arcade runner with simple controls where the usual fight against zombies gives way to controlling a whole horde of the living dead. The crowd...

Gravity Guy

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Amazon Fire TV → 8 December 2010

Metacritic: 79/100

A futuristic platformer about an escapee who can reverse gravity. Imprisoned for breaking the rules, Gravity Guy flees from pursuing Gravity troops...

Vector (2012)

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Stunts, Parkour, Indie

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 3 December 2013

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 90/100

This arcade platformer follows a freerunner escaping a totalitarian society while pursued by Big Brother. The character crosses rooftops using...

Madagascar 3: The Video Game

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS → 5 June 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 45/100

This adventure platformer, based on Madagascar 3, follows Alex, Marty, Gloria, and Melman as they try to find their way home through Europe. To stay...

Ice Age: Continental Drift - Arctic Games

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Sports game

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC, Xbox 360 → 29 June 2012

Players: 5.8/10

Metacritic: 43/100

A sports game based on Ice Age: Continental Drift, in which Manny and the herd compete with seafaring pirates for hidden treasure. To decide who gets...

Papo & Yo

Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Mac, Linux → 18 April 2013

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Papo & Yo is an unusual platformer, which is based on the author of his childhood fear of an alcoholic father. You play for the little boy KVICO, who...

NightSky

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Mac, Linux → 1 March 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 75/100

NightSky is an atmospheric 2D action-puzzle game about guiding a sphere through picturesque worlds using realistic physics. Each world is divided...

Paper Mario: Sticker Star

Arcade, Platformer, Mario Game, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 8 December 2012

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Paper Mario: Sticker Star — the player controls a paper cut-out version of Mario in a 3D paper world with landscapes ranging from snowy areas...

Street Fighter X Mega Man

Arcade, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 December 2012

Metacritic: 71/100

This 8-bit-style crossover brings together Mega Man and characters from Street Fighter. The Blue Bomber stars as the protagonist, while Street...

Crazy Machines Golden Gears

Platformer, Puzzle, Arkanoid, Logic

Game released: Android, iOS → 17 December 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 18/100

Crazy Machines Golden Gears is a platformer with puzzle and arcanoid elements from the Viva Media studio. The game is published by Viva Media. There...

Abobo's Big Adventure

Action, Shooter, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view

Game released: Browser → 11 January 2012

Players: 5.5/10

Abobo's Big Adventure is a third-person action game with a mixture of shooter, fighting and platformer from the Team Bobo studio. There has still...

PixelJunk Eden

Action, Platformer, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 3, PC → 31 July 2008

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

PixelJunk Eden is an organic platformer set among vast gardens of vibrant otherworldly plant life. The agile Grimp swings, climbs and jumps through...

Disney/Pixar A Bug's Life (2012)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Android, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 12 April 2012

Disney/Pixar A Bug's Life (2012) is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming from developers from the studio Travelers Tales (Uk) Ltd...

Akane the Kunoichi

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, iOS → 3 May 2014

Players: 3.9/10

Steam: 60/100

This arcade platformer follows Akane, a kunoichi who sets out to rescue her master Goro after he is kidnapped by Hiromi. Along the way, she faces...

Tumble Pop

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sandbox

Game released: Game Boy, Nintendo 3DS → 20 November 1992

Tumble Pop is an arcade game with a mixture of action, platformer and sandbox from the Data East Corporation studio. The main publisher of the game...

Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 3 → 27 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming from the developers from the studio Idol Minds L.L.C.. The...

Stickman Base Jumper

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV → 8 September 2012

Stickman Base Jumper is an arcade game with a dash of action and platforming from the Djinnworks studio. The game is published by Djinnworks. Perhaps...

Worms (Facebook)

Arcade, Online, Strategy, Platformer, Mini-game / browser-based

Game released: PC → 6 September 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Worms (Facebook) is an arcade game with elements of an online game, strategy, platformer and browser or mini-game from the developers from the Team...

Knightmare Tower

Arcade, Action, Hack and slash, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Slasher

Game released: PC, Browser, iOS, Ouya, Android, Mac, Linux → 16 June 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

A fantasy action arcade game in which a hero fights upward through a tower, rescuing princesses and escaping rising boiling lava. The ascent is...

Anger of Stick 2

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: Android, iOS, Nvidia Shield → 8 November 2012

Players: 8.8/10

Anger of Stick 2 is an arcade game with action, beat 'em up and platformer elements from the developers of the J-Park studio. The main publisher of...

Sleepwalker's Journey

Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: Android, iOS → 16 November 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Sleepwalker's Journey is a colorful platformer with puzzle elements for mobile platforms. The hero of the game finds himself in fantastic dreams...