Platformer 2018 for Mac — top best games in the Platformer genre

Cuphead - a game in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Mac → 20 October 2018

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 96/100

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...

Gris

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 83/100

GRIS is an atmospheric adventure puzzle game with a side view. The game will tell the sad story of the main character named Gris. The girl is locked in her own...

Celeste

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 25 January 2018

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include abandoned cities...

Terraria: Otherworld

Arcade, Role-playing game, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game canceled: Mac → 13 April 2018

Anticipation Rating: 8.9/10

Terraria: Otherworld is a more varied variation on the original game. You will have access to an extensive skill tree, strategic elements, as well as an exciting...

Timespinner

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 25 September 2018

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Timespinner is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will tell the story of a young girl named Lunais, who...

Mark of the Ninja Remastered

Arcade, Action, Stealth, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 9 October 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Mark of the Ninja Remastered is a special version of the side-scrolling arcade action platformer with stealth elements for Nintendo Switch. The events of the game...

FAR: Lone Sails

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

Game released: Mac → 17 May 2018

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Iconoclasts

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

Game released: Mac → 23 January 2018

Steam: 83/100

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...

Catmaze

Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Exploration, Fantasy, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: Mac → 25 May 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Catmaze is an action adventure game in the Metroidvania genre with elements of anime and fantasy. Cats have always been the link between the worlds of Yav and Navi...

Forgotton Anne

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Steampunk, Anime / Manga

Game released: Mac → 15 May 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Forgotton Anne is a side-scrolling adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will take you to a magical dimension where forgotten things are...

Chasm

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 31 July 2018

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Chasm is a side-scrolling adventure RPG action platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to try on the role of a young recruit performing his first mission...

Dandara

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 6 February 2018

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Dandara is an adventure action-platformer with a side view. You will witness the story of a young girl named Dandara, who wakes up in a world unfamiliar to her and...

Dream Alone

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Horror, Arcade

Game released: Mac → 28 June 2018

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 51/100

Dream Alone is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. A terrible disease has struck the inhabitants of a small town. All the people, one...

Candleman

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

Game released: Mac → 1 February 2018

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candleman is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer where you control a candle character. The candle can only burn for 10 seconds, so you need to solve various...

Aegis Defenders

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Indie

Game released: Mac → 8 February 2018

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Aegis Defenders is an adventure action-platformer with tower defense elements and a side view. You will embark on a journey to conquer a magical world overshadowed...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Online

Game released: Mac → 22 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Dandara Trials of Fear

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

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2018

Steam: 85/100

Dandara Trials of Fear is a side-scrolling fantasy action-adventure platformer. The citizens, once free-spirited, are now oppressed and isolated. But all is not...

The Adventure Pals

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Action

Game released: Mac → 3 April 2018

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The Adventure Pals is an arcade side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. The evil Mr. B kidnaps the inhabitants of a peaceful village in order...

The Thin Silence

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

Game released: Mac → 27 April 2018

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 67/100

The Thin Silence is a side-scrolling, puzzle-filled pixel adventure. The game tells the story of Ezra Westmark, who mysteriously finds himself in a dark and dark...

Skytorn

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike

Game canceled: Mac → 31 December 2018

Skytorn is an action-adventure platformer with procedurally generated levels and a side view from the creators of...

Rage in Peace

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 8 November 2018

Steam: 89/100

Rage in Peace is a bloody side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. One fateful day in Timmy's life, the Reaper of Death appears with news that he will die today...

Big Journey

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

Game released: Mac → 20 April 2018

Steam: 82/100

Big Journey is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer. Mr. Whiskers is just an ordinary khinkali lover, but when his best friend goes missing, he immediately...

Asterix & Obelix XXL 2

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

Game released: Mac → 29 November 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Asterix & Obelix XXL 2 is a fun arcade game with a third-person view, where you will plunge into adventures with Asterix and Obelix. These fictional characters have...

Light Fall

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 26 April 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Light Fall is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. You have to go to the fantasy world of Numbra, where darkness prevails over light. The fate of this...

Sacred Stones

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Mac → 23 July 2018

Steam: 78/100

Sacred Stones is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. You will go on a deadly journey through a classic pixel world, where you...

Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries

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

Game released: Mac → 20 September 2018

Steam: 96/100

Robbie Swifthand and the Orb of Mysteries is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. You have to try on the role of a skilled thief named Robbie. Waking up in...

Fox n Forests

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

Game released: Mac → 17 May 2018

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Fox n Forests is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with pixel graphics. You will play as a lively representative of nature, the fox cub Fox. In the game...

GODS Remastered

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: Mac → 4 December 2018

Steam: 81/100

GODS Remastered is a remaster of the legendary 1991 platformer Gods, in which you will have to pass the trials of the gods in order to climb Olympus in the end and...

Wormster Dash

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure, Runner

Game released: Mac → 1 October 2018

Steam: 100/100

Wormster Dash — A side-scrolling adventure runner-platformer with doodle-style graphics that throws you into an unusual world with traps and challenges. Your...

Spectrum Break

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

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2018

Steam: 80/100

Spectrum Break is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. Unusual mechanics with moving platforms await you. When moving, they light up and your task is to...

Samsara

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Indie, Casual game, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Samsara is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer. Zee is lost in a beautiful but confusing world. Using mysterious blocks and powerful portals, you must help...

Damsel

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 19 October 2018

Steam: 70/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Damsel is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. You act as a hunter of evil spirits, who, armed with an ultraviolet gun, sets...

Steel Rats

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Action, Racing, Platformer

Game released: Mac → 7 November 2018

Players: 6/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Steel Rats is an isometric combat race with realistic physics and control of a motorcycle in a retro-butter setting. Actions unfold in atmospheric America of the...

Dungreed

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

Game released: Mac → 15 February 2018

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Dungreed is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with roguelike elements. The events of the game will take you to a dark fantasy world, where an entire...

The Free Ones

Adventure, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Parkour

Game released: Mac → 12 July 2018

Players: 9/10

Steam: 78/100

The Free Ones is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with lots of puzzles. You will try on the role of a slave miner trying to free other prisoners and...

Underhero

Role-playing game, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Puzzle, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 19 September 2018

Steam: 91/100

Underhero is a role-playing puzzle platformer with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of a chosen hero who is...

Skool Daze Reskooled

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

Game released: Mac → 7 June 2018

Steam: 71/100

Skool Daze Reskooled is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game that is a remake of Skool Daze, which was released on the ZX Spectrum back in 1985. You have to get into...

La-Mulana 2

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

Game released: Mac → 30 July 2018

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

La-Mulana 2 is a sequel to the side-scrolling arcade platformer with lots of puzzles. This time the main character is the girl archaeologist Lumisa Kosugi, who...

Runner3

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

Game released: Mac → 22 May 2018

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Runner3 — side-scrolling arcade runner with musical elements, which is a continuation of the BIT.TRIP series. You will again be able to take part in the...

Overwhelm

Arcade, Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: Mac → 12 June 2018

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Overwhelm is a pixel arcade action platformer with horror elements and a side view. As a fearless warrior, you will have to go into dark dungeons where you need to...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2018 for Mac