Platformer 2014 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre

Broforce - a game in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 15 October 2015; Early Access: PC → 6 April 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Broforce is a brutal 2D platformer full of pure, unadulterated fun that requires the player to destroy everything that moves in order to defeat the Satanic...

Geometry Dash

Arcade, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie, Side view, Music game

Game released: PC → 22 December 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 93/100

Geometry Dash is a fast-paced arcade platformer where you have to jump and dodge over various obstacles. The game has many levels that will bring many challenges...

Craft The World

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Platformer, Crafting, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC → 24 November 2014

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 82/100

A sandbox strategy game with platforming elements about leading a tribe of dwarves in randomly generated worlds inhabited by dangerous creatures. The player orders...

Metal Slug 3

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 15 February 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A 2D arcade run-and-gun shooter in which a soldier fights through stages filled with enemies and giant bosses. Metal Slug 3 features five large stages with...

Child of Light

Arcade, Role-playing game, Platformer, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 30 April 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Child of Light is a puzzle-platformer adventure with RPG elements and turn-based combat. The game is based on fairy tales. The events of the game tell the story of...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

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

Game released: PC → 26 June 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an old-school pixelated platformer about Shovel Knight, who must destroy his enemies to save his beloved and defeat the evil...

Never Alone

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

Game released: PC → 18 November 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Never Alone is an arcade side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. You play as the girl Nunu and her arctic fox companion. You have to solve the mystery of an...

LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham

Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Online, Open world

Game released: PC → 14 November 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 74/100

This action-adventure with platforming elements brings Batman together with heroes and villains from the DC universe to stop Brainiac. Using the power of the...

BattleBlock Theater

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Comedy

Game released: PC → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 85/100

BattleBlock Theater is a side-scrolling multiplayer action platformer. There are a total of eight different modes available in the game. In Soul, the player will...

Super Panda Adventures

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

Game released: PC → 14 July 2014

Steam: 93/100

Super Panda Adventures is a metroidvania action platformer. In it, the main character is a brave panda knight, capable of using sword, magic and shuriken in battle...

Luftrausers

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 18 March 2014

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Luftrausers is an arcade aerial combat shooter set among the clouds and over open seas. Players configure their fighter by choosing its weapon, body, and propulsion...

Mercenary Kings

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 22 July 2013

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mercenary Kings is a side-scrolling run-and-gun platformer similar to games like SNK's Metal Slug series. Players can jump, crouch, roll, shoot in four directions...

Unepic

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

Early Access: PC → 2 October 2011; Game released: PC → 25 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Unepic is a side-scrolling action-platformer RPG in a fantasy setting. You will play as Daniel, who, due to strange circumstances, finds himself in the ancient and...

Batman: Arkham Origins - Blackgate

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 1 April 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 44/100

Metacritic: 65/100

A 2.5D action-adventure companion to Batman: Arkham Origins, the game continues its story and reveals more about the Dark Knight’s past. The adventure unfolds in a...

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 21 August 2014

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A Metroidvania-style action platformer set in a magical world inspired by Mexican folklore. Agave farmer Juan Aguacate finds a legendary luchador mask and sets out...

Metal Slug X

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 2 October 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 85/100

This 2D run-and-gun shooter with pixel-art graphics follows a fight to stop General Morden’s new coup. In Metal Slug X, players battle through six missions...

The LEGO Movie Videogame

Action, Shooter, Platformer, First-person view, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PC → 28 February 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 69/100

The LEGO Movie Videogame is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, based on the cartoon “The LEGO Movie.” Movie". Just like the tabletop version, you'll...

Trials Fusion

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Stunts, Logic, Motorcycle racing, Racing

Game released: PC → 16 April 2014

Players: 6.1/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Trials Fusion is the long-awaited sequel to the popular game Trials Evolution. The game preserves and enhances the best qualities of the series. You'll be able to...

BloodRayne Betrayal

Action, Horror, Platformer, Third-person view, Slasher

Game released: PC → 30 April 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 69/100

BloodRayne Betrayal is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer set in the BloodRayne universe. You can once again join the vampire Bloodrain, who releases...

Whispering Willows

Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Adventure, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror

Game released: PC → 9 July 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Whispering Willows is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a mysterious mansion. The plot centers on Elena Elkhorn. She goes to the estate in search...

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow — Mirror of Fate

Arcade, Action, Slasher, Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 27 March 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This action-adventure platformer with metroidvania elements follows the Belmont family’s conflict with Dracula. Trevor Belmont, a knight of the Brotherhood of...

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

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

Game released: PC → 9 December 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Direct continuation of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light with co-op for four people. Exciting adventures, dark dungeons, hordes of monsters, difficult riddles...

Outland

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

Game released: PC → 29 September 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Outland is a fantastic action-plate with a side of the side, where you have to use the forces of light and darkness in an epic journey to save the world from the...

Towerfall: Ascension

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

Game released: PC → 11 March 2014

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Towerfall: Ascension is a fun side-scrolling multiplayer action platformer where you take on the role of archers who hate each other very much and fight on a...

LEGO The Hobbit

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

Game released: PC → 10 April 2014

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 71/100

LEGO The Hobbit is an arcade action adventure game with a third-person view in the Lord of the Rings universe. The events of the game cover the first two films in...

Strider

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 19 February 2014

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Strider is a re-release of the legendary action-platformer with slasher elements and a side view, released in 1989. The game takes place in the future, where one of...

Expendabros

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, DLC, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Free game, Online

Game released: PC → 5 August 2014

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 96/100

Expendabros is an action-adventure game with platformer elements. You'll fight through a barrage of bullets and non-stop action in ten fast-paced missions set among...

A-men

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 25 January 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 52/100

A-men is an arcade game with elements of action, adventure, platformer and indie game from developers from the Bloober Team studio. The game is published by Bloober...

Nidhogg

Fighting, Platformer, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 13 January 2014

Players: 4/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 81/100

A fighting game with platforming elements built around sword duels played as a tug-of-war. In Nidhogg, two players battle across an arena that stretches in both...

1001 Spikes

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Indie

Game released: PC → 3 June 2014

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 78/100

This arcade platformer with puzzle elements follows Aban Hawkins as he searches the ruins of Ukampa in South America for his missing father, archaeologist Jim...

Abyss Odyssey

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2014

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A fantasy side-scrolling action adventure with beat ’em up and role-playing elements follows three warriors as they battle through procedurally generated levels...

Chariot

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Indie

Game released: PC → 12 November 2014

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Chariot is a side-scrolling adventure co-op puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with a friend, you will have to try on the roles of a beautiful...

Gunman Clive

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

Game released: PC → 3 January 2014

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Gunman Clive is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with a beat 'em up style. The game takes place in 1800, where the player controls the main character...

Iron Soul

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction

Game released: PC → 26 February 2014

Steam: 13/100

This science-fiction 3D action game combines third-person shooting with fast platforming in an industrial world where a robot army created to defend against a...

Trine: Enchanted Edition

Action, Adventure, Collection, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer

Game released: PC → 24 July 2014

Steam: 94/100

This fantasy adventure platformer tells the origin story of Amadeus the Wizard, Pontius the Knight, and Zoya the Thief, whose fates are bound by the magical...

Aqua Kitty

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

Game released: PC → 3 February 2014

Steam: 86/100

This arcade shooter follows kittens mining milk beneath the ocean and defending their operation from mechanical sea creatures. In Aqua Kitty, the player pilots a...

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Arcade, In real time, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 21 May 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an adventure arcade puzzle platformer with a side view. You have to save the main character's brother from the evil Lord Mustasho...

Last Inua

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 December 2014

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 66/100

This 2D platform adventure follows an Inuit family struggling to survive in the harsh Arctic and confront the demon Tonrar. Darkness spreads across the frozen...

QBEH-1: The Atlas Cube

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

Game released: PC → 15 May 2014

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 87/100

QBEH-1: The Atlas Cube is a first-person puzzle platformer set across several worlds, each with its own visual style. Players explore the environment, place and...

Ascendant

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie

Game released: PC → 13 May 2014

Steam: 76/100

Ascendant is an arcade role-playing action platformer with roguelike elements and a side view. You become a demigod who invades the dimension and must defeat hordes...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2014 for PC