Platformer 2010 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - a game in the Platformer genre

Action, Platformer, Isometric, Puzzle, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: PC → 28 September 2010

Players: 6/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A cooperative isometric action platformer set in the Tomb Raider universe. Players once again take on the role of legendary tomb raider Lara Croft, this time...

Super Meat Boy

Action, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC → 30 November 2010

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Super Meat Boy is a hardcore 2D side-scrolling platformer. You have to help the meat cube save his beloved, who was kidnapped by the evil scientist Dr. Fitus. The...

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (2010)

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

Game released: PC → 24 November 2010

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (2010) is a stealth platformer with action elements and a third-person view. This is an exciting and fast-paced adventure, set in...

Darksiders

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Slasher

Game released: PC → 27 April 2012

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Set in a demon-ravaged post-apocalyptic world, this third-person action game follows War, the first Horseman of the Apocalypse, who is accused of bringing about the...

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda

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

Game released: PC → 14 December 2010

Steam: 72/100

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on an infected space station...

Disney Pixar Toy Story 3: The Video Game

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

Game released: PC → 16 July 2010

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 70/100

This third-person action platformer is based on Toy Story 3 and follows Buzz, Woody, and the other toys as they try to make sure no one is left behind. Story Mode...

LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007)

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

Game released: PC → 15 November 2010

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...

Shank

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

Game released: PC → 25 October 2010

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Set in a stylized criminal underworld, this side-scrolling beat ’em up follows Shank on a quest for revenge. Its story unfolds through fully animated scenes, while...

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

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

Game released: PC → 8 June 2010

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands is an atmospheric action adventure game with a third-person view in the Prince of Persia universe. The main character goes to...

Super Crate Box

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Free game, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2011

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 75/100

An arcade platform action game inspired by classic games, built around chasing a high score while fighting endless hordes of enemies. The player collects weapon...

Braid

Action, Strategy, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 February 2011

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 92/100

Braid is a 2D puzzle-platformer with painterly visuals. Setting out from a house in the city, the protagonist travels through a series of worlds to rescue an...

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Adventure, Online

Game released: PC → 15 June 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This LEGO-style adventure platformer follows the first four Harry Potter stories, from Privet Drive to the Triwizard Tournament. Players can take control of Harry...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 January 2010

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...

Transformice

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

Game released: PC → 1 May 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 85/100

Transformice is a multiplayer platformer in which mice navigate traps to reach cheese and carry it back. Rounds take place on maps filled with physics-based...

Altered Beast (1989)

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Arcade

Game released: PC → 1 June 2010

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 93/100

This arcade action platformer is set in a mythological world and follows a quest to rescue Athena, the daughter of Zeus, who has been captured by Neff, God of the...

Dark Void Zero

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

Game released: PC → 12 April 2010

Steam: 46/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This futuristic side-scrolling action game, styled after 8-bit classics, follows Rusty, a test pilot and trusted friend of Nikola Tesla. He must close Portal X and...

Booster Trooper

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 23 April 2010

Players: 7/10

Steam: 49/100

A multiplayer platform shooter in which fighters move across maps on foot or through the air, battling opponents with a varied arsenal. Weapons include assault...

Blade Kitten

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 22 May 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 56/100

This futuristic action platformer follows Kit Ballard, a bounty hunter tracking troublemakers across the artificial planetoid Hollow Wish, where she uncovers...

Pirates of New Horizons

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 6 October 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Pirates of New Horizons — is a 3D platformer in which you will play as a young and charming space pirate girl with the strange name Annha, who dreams of...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 12 February 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

This 3D platformer follows a fight for the fate of Bikini Bottom after Plankton sets out to take over the world. Players control SpongeBob, Patrick, or Sandy...

I Wanna Be the Boshy

Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 2 November 2010

Players: 10/10

A parody of the popular game I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie - The Game. The main difference is the very high level of complexity. The character overcomes various...

Clones

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Adventure, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 November 2010

Steam: 76/100

Clones is a puzzle game with platforming and real-time strategy elements, in which players direct a squad of clones across the Clones Planet. The single-player...

Rocket Knight

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

Game released: PC → 12 May 2010

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This side-scrolling platform action game follows Sparkster, an opossum hero who returns to the kingdom of Zephyrus after 15 years to find it in ruins. He must face...

Rabbids Go Home

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 12 August 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 74/100

This comedy-adventure action platformer follows two Rabbids who gather human belongings to build a towering pile and climb their way to the Moon. Humans resist the...

Elsword

Role-playing game, Fighting, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Free game

Game released: PC → 2 July 2013

Players: 2.7/10

Steam: 70/100

Elsword is an online action RPG that combines side-scrolling beat ’em up combat with a manga-inspired world. Players choose from thirteen characters, each with a...

Sonic 3D Blast

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

Game released: PC → 1 June 2010

Players: 6.3/10

Steam: 88/100

An isometric platformer in which Sonic sets out to rescue the Flickies and stop Dr. Eggman from finding the Chaos Emeralds. Eggman turns the unusual birds into...

Ristar

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 13 September 2010

Steam: 100/100

A platformer about Ristar, a star who comes from the depths of space to oppose the tyrant Greedy. He has plunged the galaxy of Valdi into misery and darkness, and...

Toki Tori

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

Game released: PC → 28 January 2010

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PC → 18 February 2010

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This LEGO action-adventure platformer with puzzles presents a humorous take on all four Indiana Jones films, including Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal...

Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Pinball

Game released: PC → 22 July 2010

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 90/100

A platformer with pinball elements follows Sonic as he attempts to breach the Pinball Defense System and stop Dr. Eggman. Using his invention, the Veg-o-Fortress...

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 25 November 2010

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition is a third-person arcade turn-based strategy game with platformer elements. Experience the visuals of a new high-definition...

Vectorman

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Platformer

Game released: PC → 1 June 2010

Steam: 83/100

This futuristic action platformer with shooter elements takes place on Earth in 2049, after the planet has become a toxic waste dump. Humanity has fled into space...

Tommy Tronic

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

Game released: PC → 28 October 2010

Steam: 68/100

This old-school platformer follows Tommy on a journey through Gnarly Wood, an eerie forest avoided by adults, as he sets out to rescue his puppy Yapz from an insane...

...But That Was [Yesterday]

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 11 November 2010

...But That Was [Yesterday] is a third-person action game with platforming elements from the developers of Studio Bean Games. The main publisher of the game is...

Privates

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer

Game released: PC → 5 August 2010

Privates is an arcade game with action, shooter and platform elements from the developers from the Zombie Cow Limited studio. The game is published by Channel...

Time Still

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 16 January 2010

Time Still is a third-person action game with platforming and puzzle elements from the studio GroundZero Gamez. The game is published by GroundZero...

Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

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

Game released: PC → 20 April 2010

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This puzzle-platformer follows P. B. Winterbottom through a macabre, comical silent world as he searches for the mysterious Chronoberry Pie. The story unfolds...

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi

Action, Fighting, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 1 June 2010

Players: 10/10

Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi is a third-person action game with a mixture of fighting and platforming from the masters from the studio SEGA Enterprises...

CID the Dummy

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 8 January 2010

Metacritic: 31/100

This action platformer with puzzles follows CID, a crash test dummy who receives an important mission in a world obsessed with safety. He must battle a dangerous...

Goonies Remake

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 30 September 2010

Goonies Remake is a third-person action game with platforming and puzzle elements from developers from the Sloth Games studio. The game is published by Sloth...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2010 for PC (Game released)