Games Game Genres Platformer

Platformer

One of the oldest genres of video games — the platformer — is characterized by a unique gameplay experience. The player controls a character that moves through levels, jumps on "platforms," climbs ladders, collects items, and battles enemies. The intelligence of opponents is usually either weak or completely absent. Some platformers focus on speed and reaction, others resemble puzzles more, while others require the player to execute the correct combination of movements to overcome obstacles. The genre diversity of platformers is very wide.

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2020 (Game released)

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Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time

Action, Third-person view, Platformer, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PC → 2 October 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is a continuation of the cult game from the 90s, telling about the next adventures of Crash and his younger sister Coco. The plot...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS, Android → 23 June 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 69/100

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom — Rehydrated is a re-release of the classic SpongeBob game from 2003 in an updated form. You will have a...

Cuphead

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view

Game released: Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 29 September 2017

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 87/100

A hardcore action platformer made in the style of classic animation from the 30s. The main character lost his life to the devil at dice, and is now forced to run...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S → 11 March 2020

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Ori and the Will of the Wisps — the continuation of the colorful side-scrolling platformer Ori and the Blind Forest. The forest spirit Ori embarks on a journey once...

Flash Bear - Adventure Platformer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Arcade

Game released: Android → 16 December 2020

Players: 4.8/10

Flash Bear — Adventure Platformer is an arcade platformer with adventure elements and a side view. In this game, you play as a bear who needs to make his way...

Risk of Rain 2

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC, Stadia, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 11 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Risk of Rain 2 is a dynamic action platformer with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In the second part you will find a full three-dimensional environment...

Little Nightmares

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia, iOS, Android → 27 April 2017

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A dark tale in which the main character Six must find a way out of an underwater vessel filled with creepy creatures. The inhabitants of the in-game world also...

Fall Guys

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Online, Platformer, Free game

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 → 4 August 2020

Players: 6.6/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Fall Guys is a free-to-play, cute arcade action game about falling colorful people. A unique “battle royale” awaits you, where many players will take on the roles...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Android, PlayStation 5 → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Death's Gambit

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S → 13 August 2018

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Death's Gambit is an arcade side-scrolling action platformer with RPG elements. You have to act as an agent of death, whose goal is to rid the world of “immortals...

Journey

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

Game released: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS → 13 March 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Brawlhalla

Arcade, Action, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Xbox One → 17 October 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Brawlhalla is a free-to-play side-scrolling multiplayer fighting platformer that supports up to 8 players. The game features a wide variety of heroes with unique...

Ninja Arashi 2

Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS, Android → 2 March 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Ninja Arashi 2 is a side-scrolling RPG adventure platformer. You play as an enraged Arashi who finally escapes from a frozen prison created by Dosu, a brutal evil...

Sky: Children of the Light

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

Game released: iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC → 18 July 2019

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Multiplayer adventure from the creators of Journey and Flower. Players take control of the Children of Light, who bring light from the heavens to where it is...

FAR: Lone Sails

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS → 17 May 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

FAR: Lone Sails is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer set in a post-apocalyptic setting. The main character will have to cross the dry ocean in an amazing...

Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Adventure, Platformer, Arcade, Action, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC → 12 November 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a spin-off of the LittleBigPlanet series, dedicated to sackboy — a small toy man. The game is a 2.5D platformer in which sackboy...

Huntdown

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 12 May 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Huntdown is an arcade side-scrolling pixel shooter with platforming elements in a sci-fi setting. You will go to a dark world of the future, where the police have...

Noita

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Noita is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find procedural generation of levels, the irreversible death of the hero, as well...

Spelunky 2

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S → 29 September 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Spelunky 2 is a sequel to the fun side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. This time you have to embark on an adventure as the child of...

Evergate

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

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 1 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Evergate is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The events of the game take place in an amazing afterlife, where two souls have to change their fate and...

Haydee 2

Action, Shooter, Indie, Platformer, Puzzle, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 24 November 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Haydee 2 is the sequel to the sexy action puzzle game with a third-person view. Once again you will play as a sexy heroine who is locked in a strange complex...

Astro's Playroom

Arcade, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Educational game (Education), Action, Platformer, Combat robots, Free game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 November 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

A fun action-platformer featuring the main character known from the virtual reality game Astro Bot Rescue Mission. The game is pre-installed and available for...

My Friend Pedro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 20 June 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer that will remind many of Max Payne. You will play as a heavily armed hero who kills hundreds of...

Iconoclasts

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: Linux, PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One → 23 January 2018

Metacritic: 86/100

Iconoclasts is a side-scrolling arcade action-platformer adventure game. You have to get used to the role of the brave girl Robin, who is engaged in the destruction...

Neversong

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One → 20 May 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Neversong is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The game will tell the story of a little boy named Pete. Waking up from a coma, he discovers that his...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

Gunslugs

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Shooter, Action

Game released: PC, Android, PS Vita, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Ouya, Mac, Nintendo Switch → 2 June 2015

Metacritic: 81/100

Gunslugs is a side-scrolling tactical arcade action game where you take control of an elite squad of soldiers trying to destroy the Black Duck Army and stop their...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

Inmost

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

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS → 21 August 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Inmost is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. The events of the game take place in two parallel worlds in which three brave main...

Collapsed

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 1 August 2019

Players: 7.8/10

Collapsed is a post-apocalyptic action platformer with Rogue-lite elements. In the game you will play the role of Hunters, forced to hunt down their enemies for...

Foregone

Platformer, Side view, Action, Slasher

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 13 October 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Foregone is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer in which the main character is trying to save the city of Kalagan from complete destruction. The game has a...

Mad Rat Dead

Music game, Platformer, Action, Side view, Arcade

Game released: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 6 November 2020

Metacritic: 79/100

Mad Rat Dead is a side-scrolling arcade rhythm platformer with a very dynamic soundtrack. The plot of the game reveals the story of a mad rat who died as a result...

Arise: A Simple Story

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 3 December 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Arise: A Simple Story is an adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell an atmospheric story of two people in a world...

3000th Duel

Action, Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Slasher, Role-playing game

Game released: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch → 13 December 2019

Metacritic: 71/100

3000th Duel is an indie adventure platformer with slasher elements and a side view. The hero sets off towards the unknown, remembering almost nothing about himself...

Indivisible

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Linux → 26 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Indivisible is a colorful action-RPG platformer with turn-based combat and a side view. You have to try on the role of the girl Ajna, who goes on a journey around...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 18 June 2019

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of an 18-year-old girl...

Melbits World

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4, iOS, Android → 14 November 2018

Players: 7.7/10

Melbits World is a fun puzzle platformer with an isometric camera view for a fun company. In the game, you have to coordinate with your friends to solve various...

Levelhead

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Combat robots, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PC → 30 April 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Levelhead is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to control the GR-18 delivery robot through various levels with...

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