Platformer 2012 for Nintendo 3DS — top best games in the Platformer genre

Rayman Origins - a game in the Platformer genre

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 8 June 2012

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This 2D platform adventure with action elements takes place in the Glade of Dreams, which has been overrun by Darktoons. The Fairy Council calls on Rayman to save...

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Comics, Open world, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 19 June 2012

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 75/100

LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes is a continuation of the arcade adventure with a first-person view based on the Batman comics in the style of LEGO toys. The game...

Super Mario Bros.

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Mario Game

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 1 March 2012

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Super Mario Bros. — The goal of the game is to destroy all enemies appearing on the level. Mario and Luigi can move left and right and can also jump. The main...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 10 May 2012

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Prince of Persia (1989)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 19 January 2012

Players: 8.1/10

Prince of Persia is a side-scrolling adventure arcade action platformer. While the Sultan of Persia is waging war in a foreign country, his Grand Vizier Jaffar...

LEGO Lord of the Rings

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, The Lord of the Rings

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 23 November 2012

Players: 7.9/10

LEGO Lord of the Rings is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view in the Lord of the Rings universe. An exciting adventure awaits you through the...

Scribblenauts Unlimited

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 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 your...

Cave Story+

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 1 May 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Cave Story+ is a supplemented and improved version of the arcade action-platform with the side of the Cave Story. You have to go to a fascinating world where an...

Mutant Mudds

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 21 June 2012

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A retro-styled action platformer in which the hero, Max, fights mutants with a water cannon. Armed with the cannon and a jetpack, he makes his way through levels by...

Cave Story

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 4 October 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

This futuristic action-platformer combines shooting and puzzles with the story of an amnesiac boy who wakes in a dark cave. As he explores the world, he discovers a...

Madagascar 3: The Video Game

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 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 under cover...

Code of Princess

Arcade, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Action, Role-playing game, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 9 October 2012

Steam: 55/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Code of Princess is a hack and slash game that features multiple game modes and over 50 playable characters. Single-player mode features a story campaign mode with...

Naruto SD: Powerful Shippuden

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 8 March 2013

Metacritic: 71/100

An arcade platformer based on Naruto, following a ninja’s journey to become a powerful Leaf ninja while fighting opponents. Story Mode ties battles together through...

Kirby's Dream Land 2

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 17 May 2012

Kirby's Dream Land 2 is a third-person action game with platform elements from the studio HAL Laboratory, Inc.. The game is published by Nintendo Co., Ltd...

NightSky

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 25 October 2012

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 into areas with...

Abyss

Arcade, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 23 August 2012

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Abyss is a side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer. The game takes place in 2034. The planet's natural resources are depleted, and the survival of humanity is...

Skylanders Giants

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 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...

HarmoKnight

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Music game, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 28 March 2013

Metacritic: 73/100

HarmoKnight is a fantasy rhythm platformer centered on musical combat and level progression. The hero, Tempo, uses a staff adorned with music notes to keep the beat...

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 and forests to...

CRUSH

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Top-down view, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 6 March 2012

Steam: 50/100

Metacritic: 77/100

CRUSH is an adventure arcade puzzle game with a third person view. The game tells the story of a young boy named Danny, who suffers from long-term insomnia. To...

Wreck-it Ralph

Arcade, Platformer

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 30 October 2012

Metacritic: 67/100

This arcade platformer revisits the 8-bit Fix-It Felix Jr. game from the world of Wreck-It Ralph. Players control Felix and use his hammer to repair the damage...

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Arcade, Beat them all, Platformer

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 26 September 2013

Metacritic: 63/100

An arcade platformer with beat ’em up elements, inspired by the classic Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse. Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion builds on that...

Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 29 March 2012

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. Trouble is...

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?!

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 20 November 2012

Metacritic: 67/100

Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?! is a third-person arcade game with platformer elements from developers from the WayForward...

Trip World

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 5 January 2012

Trip World is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming from the developers at SunSoft. The game is published by SunSoft. The PC version of Trip World...

Tumble Pop

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Sandbox

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 7 June 2012

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 is Data East...

Bird Mania 3D

Arcade, Action, Platformer

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 19 December 2012

Metacritic: 51/100

Bird Mania 3D is an arcade game with a mixture of action and platformer from the developers from the Teyon studio. The game is published by Teyon. Bird Mania 3D may...

Shifting World

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

Game released: Nintendo 3DS → 24 April 2012

Metacritic: 55/100

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2012 for Nintendo 3DS (Game released)