Platformer 2016 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre / Page 4

Skyhook - a game in the Platformer genre

Fighting, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 17 May 2016

Steam: 81/100

Skyhook is an arena brawler-platformer built around grappling-hook combat: fighters swing through levels and use their hooks to attack opponents. Matches support...

CATS!

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Action, Puzzle, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game, Indie

Game released: PC → 24 June 2016

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 38/100

CATS! — a fascinating collection of arcade mini-games, where cats are the main characters. The game parodies the "best video games ever": Super Mario Bros...

Heart&Slash

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Slasher, Combat robots

Game released: PC → 9 August 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This 3D action game follows Heart, a robot trying to escape the machines’ control in a world where human civilization has disappeared. Standing in Heart’s way is...

Talent Not Included

Action, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Steam: 87/100

A side-scrolling platform action game with comedic elements, Talent Not Included is set in the fantasy land of Notthatmuchfurther. Three monsters decide to put on a...

Scrap Garden - The Day Before

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Action, Free game

Game released: PC → 7 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 75/100

Scrap Garden — The Day Before is a free-to-play arcade action platformer. The little rusty robot C4N, without meaning to, constantly turns out to be a...

Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 October 2016

Steam: 91/100

Lost Socks: Naughty Brothers is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer for mobile platforms, combining the mechanics of two popular game series — Rayman...

Stellar Stars

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

Game released: PC → 10 November 2016

Steam: 100/100

Stellar Stars is a multiplayer arena that combines MOBA and roguelite elements in a science-fiction and fantasy setting with procedurally generated stages. Players...

Nekuia

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

Game released: PC → 16 December 2016

Steam: 66/100

Nekuia is a side-scrolling arcade platformer where you take on the role of a small spirit. He tries to find answers to all the mysteries that interest him. And to...

Super Blue Boy Planet

Free game, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 16 December 2016

Steam: 88/100

Super Blue Boy Planet is a 2D pixel-art platformer about a blue boy setting out to rescue his girlfriend from alien captors. His journey spans 21 levels filled with...

Operation Hardcore

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Shooter

Game released: PC → 28 December 2016

Steam: 84/100

Operation Hardcore is a side-scrolling hardcore action platformer. The game takes place on Earth in 1999, during an attack by aliens. As the most fearless hero...

Star Rogue

Free game, Space, Side view, Indie, Platformer, Science fiction, Roguelike, Action

Early Access: PC → 1 February 2016; Game released: PC → 15 August 2023

Steam: 91/100

The main character is a space marine who must clear the space station from hostile robots and aliens. In each playthrough, the hero encounters a different...

The Narrator Is a DICK

Platformer, Comedy, Survival

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Steam: 76/100

The Narrator Is a DICK is a comedy platformer built around a narrator who tries to thwart the player’s survival in a dangerous world. He lies, cheats and cracks...

Defy Gravity

Action, Platformer, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 18 March 2016

Players: 4.4/10

Steam: 84/100

This platformer combines puzzle-solving with a heroine’s ability to manipulate gravity and anti-gravity. Kara uses a device to create zones of each type, extend her...

Tribute To Donkey Kong

Action, Platformer, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 28 August 2016

Tribute To Donkey Kong is a free-to-play fan-made action platformer based on the game Donkey Kong Country. The game contains 12 levels, 200+ 3D models, 20...

Hyper Bounce Blast

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 27 May 2016

Steam: 85/100

Hyper Bounce Blast is a side-scrolling arcade shooter with classic platformer elements. Dynamic action awaits you with lots of jumps, enemies, explosions and...

RunGunJumpGun

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 31 August 2016

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 78/100

RunGunJumpGun is a 2D platformer set in the Extax System, where a swelling sun is devouring planets. The player controls a scavenger from beyond the system’s...

Goblin and Coins

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 9 November 2016

Steam: 88/100

This 2D platformer follows a goblin cook who works for a dragon. After a thief steals the dragon’s treasure—a robbery the goblin feels partly responsible for—the...

Mekazoo

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

Game released: PC → 15 November 2016

Steam: 75/100

Mekazoo is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where animals with varying skills explore and conquer vibrant 3D worlds. You can play alone or with friends in...

Comit the Astrodian

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 88/100

Comit the Astrodian is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer. The evil space pirate Crater has sent his army of robots to capture all the planets in the system. The...

Construct: Escape the System

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

Game released: PC → 2 December 2016

Steam: 77/100

Construct: Escape the System is an atmospheric first-person puzzle platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You'll find yourself trapped in a computer system. It's from...

Best Buds vs. Bad Guys

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 7 December 2016

Steam: 33/100

Best Buds vs. Bad Guys is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer from the developers of Life of Pixel. The game tells the story of two best friends who fight...

Risky Rescue

Arcade, Platformer, Casual game, Action, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 February 2016

Steam: 81/100

A helicopter arcade platformer about carrying out dangerous rescues. Each level requires the pilot to pick up people from mountain peaks, rooftops and platforms...

Draw Rider Plus

Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Motorcycle racing, Action, Racing, Indie

Game released: PC → 1 April 2016

Steam: 70/100

Draw Rider Plus is a side-scrolling racing platformer. This is not an ordinary race, here you will find treacherous challenges with many hardcore levels. Earning...

Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls

Free game, Platformer, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 April 2016

Steam: 95/100

This platforming beat ’em up follows Chelshia, a chimera created in a laboratory from human and several monstrous parts. When pirates threaten her monster-inhabited...

Liveza: Death of the Earth

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

Game released: PC → 3 May 2016

Steam: 64/100

Liveza: Death of the Earth is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. History will tell you about a great catastrophe that split the Earth into pieces. You, as...

Super Mutant Alien Assault

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 11 July 2016

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This side-scrolling arcade platformer follows low-ranking security droids tasked with protecting the last humans from pursuing aliens. The survivors are fleeing a...

Polarity

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, First-person view, Indie

Early Access: PC → 4 November 2014; Game released: PC → 15 July 2016

Players: 3.1/10

Steam: 74/100

This first-person puzzle platformer follows a hired hacker breaking into the most secure database on the planet and uncovering the client’s motives while advancing...

Mibibli's Quest

Action, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 4 August 2016

Steam: 95/100

Mibibli's Quest is a retro-style surreal platformer in which the eight-bit hero Mibibli travels through time and explores nightmares. Its more than 20 levels take...

Super Markup Man

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Educational game (Education), Cooperative (co-op), Logic

Game released: PC → 16 August 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

Super Markup Man is an educational arcade platformer with a side view. During the game, you will learn about the basic tags used in programming with HTML and CSS...

Momento Temporis: Light from the Deep

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

Game released: PC → 27 October 2016

Steam: 60/100

This adventure platformer follows Hania as she journeys alone through a perilous, magical world to uncover the truth about her past and find a way home. She must...

Drop Alive

Free game, Indie, Platformer

Game released: PC → 6 December 2016

Steam: 100/100

Drop Alive is an adventure platformer about a curious water drop trapped inside a house and trying to reach a nearby river. The player guides her through rooms...

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 13 December 2016

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A 3D platformer about Ty, a Tasmanian tiger who ventures into the Australian Outback to rescue his family from the Dreaming. The Bunyip Elder tells him that his...

Blitz Breaker

Indie, Action, Platformer

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Steam: 88/100

A fast-paced platformer about Blitz, a robot trying to escape the factory where it was built. Blitz cannot run: the robot can jump and perform an air dash in one of...

Blue Sheep

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

Game released: PC → 31 March 2016

Steam: 43/100

Blue Sheep is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. Together with a little girl, you will go on a journey through a strange and cruel world full of...

Mr. Floppy

Platformer, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 28 September 2016

Mr. Floppy is a side view platformer with elements of a shareware game from the Cosmografik studio. The main publisher of the game is...

Beggar's Ride

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

Game released: PC → 5 May 2016

Steam: 81/100

Beggar's Ride is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with various puzzles. You play as an old beggar who finds a mysterious mask that allows you to travel to...

Blasting Agent: Ultimate Edition

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 18 August 2016

Steam: 34/100

Blasting Agent: Ultimate Edition is an old-school side-scrolling action platformer with Metroidvania elements. Black Hand of Fate — An international terrorist...

Ginger: Beyond the Crystal

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

Game released: PC → 25 October 2016

Steam: 51/100

Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is an arcade action platformer with a third-person view. Cities are in ruins, residents have disappeared, but there is still hope. Ginger...

Super Mustache

Indie, Adventure, Platformer

Game released: PC → 27 January 2016

Steam: 74/100

Super Mustache is a retro-style platformer about Captain Super Mustache, who sets out to save the planet Uranus. The game features pixel art and music inspired by...

PulseCharge

Indie, Platformer, Action

Game released: PC → 27 January 2016

Steam: 50/100

PulseCharge is a 2D platformer focused on speed and exploration. The player absorbs enemy attacks to charge their own, dodges incoming blows and navigates demanding...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2016 for PC