Platformer 2016 for Mac — top best games in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 1 November 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Owlboy is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with a pixel art style. The main character is an owl boy, capable of both running around locations and flying. In the...

Starbound

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

Game released: Mac → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

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...

Salt and Sanctuary

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 17 May 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Salt and Sanctuary is a fantasy platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a sailor who is shipwrecked off the shore of an unknown...

Pankapu

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

Game released: Mac → 21 September 2016

Steam: 73/100

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who once...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

Game released: Mac → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Collection, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Mac → 12 February 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action-adventure platformer brings together the events of all six Star Wars films in a world built from LEGO bricks. Its campaign spans 36 story levels, from...

SpeedRunners

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Racing, Indie

Game released: Mac → 19 April 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpeedRunners is a co-op arcade action platformer that puts running at the center of the game, challenging players to compete in speed races online. Your task is to...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 4 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Seasons after Fall

Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

Hue

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

Game released: Mac → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

League of Evil

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: Mac → 25 October 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a bionic super agent on a mission to stop the League of Evil, an alliance of evil scientists. The agent fights through...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

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

Game released: Mac → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

Clustertruck

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie, Parkour

Game released: Mac → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

Trial by Viking

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Trial by Viking is a side-scrolling action role-playing platformer in a fantasy setting. As a brave Viking, you have to conquer many dangerous dungeons, fraught...

My Night Job

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Survival horror, Indie

Game released: Mac → 21 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

My Night Job is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Players have to go to an abandoned building where nightmarish monsters are rampant. And over 60 types of...

Melodys Escape

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

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2016

Steam: 90/100

A side-scrolling rhythm runner where the obstacles and the heroine’s actions adapt to the beat and energy of music from the player’s own library. Melody runs along...

Bug Butcher

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 19 January 2016

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Bug Butcher is a futuristic side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Over the course of more than 50 levels, you will have to face countless hordes of aliens alone...

ICEY

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Action, Anime / Manga, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 17 November 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

ICEY is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action platformer. At first glance, this game is a regular platformer where you follow directions and go where you are told...

Dinocide

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: Mac → 21 January 2016

Players: 1.4/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Dinocide is a side-scrolling prehistoric indie platformer. Players will have to take on the role of an ancient man and, together with the animals of that era, cope...

SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Parkour

Game released: Mac → 28 July 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view that combines the ideas of Quake 3 and the complexity of Super Meat Boy. The...

Cobalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 2 February 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Cobalt is a side-scrolling co-op action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will take on the role of robot agent Cobalt, who discovers the lost colonization...

Candle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 11 November 2016

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candle is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to take on the role of the brave young man Teku, who is trying to save the shaman from...

Butcher

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 5 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Butcher is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game is based on the best shooters from the 90s. You have to get used to the...

Soulless: Ray of Hope

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

Game released: Mac → 18 October 2016

Steam: 71/100

Soulless: Ray of Hope — a dark puzzle-platformer in the spirit of Limbo about a "ray of hope," a lonely white creature. The game tells the story of Elin's...

Between Me and The Night

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Point & Click, Puzzle

Game released: Mac → 22 January 2016

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This surrealist action adventure follows a young boy exploring a mysterious house on the thin line between sanity and madness. The player searches its rooms and...

Headlander

Arcade, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Science fiction, Action, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 26 July 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This side-scrolling action-adventure is set in a retro-futuristic world where humanity has transferred its minds into robotic bodies and is ruled by a deranged...

Shadow Complex Remastered

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

Game released: Mac → 3 May 2016

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Shadow Complex Remastered is a re-release of the arcade action platformer Shadow Complex, the original version of which appeared on the Xbox 360 in 2009. The plot...

Scrap Garden

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

Game released: Mac → 6 May 2016

Players: 7/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Scrap Garden is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. The game tells about the adventures of the little robot Kenny, who wakes up in a world where there is...

Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found

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

Game released: Mac → 21 September 2016

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 71/100

ToyQuest: The Lost and the Found is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. The main character, the doll Brenda, needs to save his owner Felix from the...

Gunmetal Arcadia Zero

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

Game released: Mac → 15 November 2016

Steam: 69/100

Gunmetal Arcadia Zero is an old-school side-scrolling action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find five heroes to choose from, bagel elements, an 8-bit...

Planet Centauri

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world

Early Access: Mac → 3 June 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 73/100

Planet Centauri is an action RPG and sandbox adventure about developing a planet and protecting the native Chloridian species from the Night Walkers. The player...

Four Sided Fantasy

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 30 August 2016

Steam: 79/100

Four Sided Fantasy is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. The main character is an ordinary office worker who decided to break away from his daily routine...

Wuppo

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Wuppo is a side-scrolling pixel arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to help a cute round creature who has lost his home. And now he has to go on a...

Mighty No. 9

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Anime / Manga

Game released: Mac → 21 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 57/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Mighty No. 9 is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer that is the spiritual successor to the Mega Man series. At the beginning of the 21st century, there was a...

King Oddball

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

Game released: Mac → 9 September 2016

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 rock, with...

Move or Die

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Online, Action

Early Access: Mac → 16 December 2015; Game released: Mac → 21 January 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Move or Die is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer for a noisy group. The game is a collection of mini-games in which several people can participate. Among the...

Green Game: TimeSwapper

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

Game released: Mac → 4 April 2016

Steam: 91/100

Green Game TimeSwapper is a side-scrolling arcade platformer adventure game. Your goal will be to guide the flying chicken from one box to another, but since its...

Woodle Tree Adventures

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

Game released: Mac → 2 March 2016

Steam: 70/100

Woodle Tree Adventures is a classic arcade action platformer with a third-person perspective. Explore six colorful worlds and save lands with magical water drops...

Archibald's Adventures

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Mac → 10 June 2016

Steam: 95/100

Archibald's Adventures is an arcade puzzle game with platform elements. As Archibald, you'll skate through a variety of levels, overcoming obstacles and solving...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2016 for Mac