Platformer 2016 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Action, Online, MMO, Platformer, Third-person view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Roblox is a huge online sandbox for creativity. Its toys are mini-games of all kinds of genres, with arcade-style gameplay and visuals that aren’t weighed down by...

Owlboy

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 1 November 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Owlboy is a side-scrolling arcade platformer with a pixel art style. The main character is an owl boy, capable of both running around locations and flying. In the...

Starbound

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Simulation, Survival, Sandbox, Space

Game released: PC → 22 July 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Starbound is an indie adventure role-playing arcade game with platformer and action elements. You are forced to flee your planet by hijacking a ship. Fleeing from...

Salt and Sanctuary

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

Game released: PC → 17 May 2016

Players: 9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Salt and Sanctuary is a fantasy platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a sailor who is shipwrecked off the shore of an unknown...

LEGO Marvel's Avengers

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Open world, Adventure, Online

Game released: PC → 26 January 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

LEGO Marvel's Avengers is an arcade platformer with a third-person view. The events of the game will recreate the plot of the first two parts of the popular...

Inside

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Side view, Horror, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 7 July 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is hiding from...

Pankapu

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

Game released: PC → 21 September 2016

Steam: 73/100

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who once...

Ori and The Blind Forest: Definitive Edition

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 14 June 2016

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is an expanded edition of the indie adventure platformer. The game tells the story of a little guardian spirit named...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling fantasy platformer builds its heroine’s actions around belly dancing and hair-whipping. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero is an HD adventure starring...

Haydee

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

Game released: PC → 26 September 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 84/100

Haydee is a hardcore action puzzle game with a third-person perspective. In this game you control Gyde, a half-woman, half-robot, in search of a way out of a...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Survival

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

SpeedRunners

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Racing, Indie

Game released: PC → 19 April 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

SpeedRunners is a co-op arcade action platformer that puts running at the center of the game, challenging players to compete in speed races online. Your task is to...

Cursed Castilla: Don Ramiro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy

Game released: PC → 20 October 2016

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This side-scrolling arcade platformer is set in the medieval Kingdom of Castile, where the knight Don Ramiro is ordered by King Alfonso VI to drive evil from...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC → 24 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Metal Slug 2

Arcade, Platformer, Action, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 April 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metal Slug 2 is an arcade game with platformer elements from the studio SNK Playmore Corp.. The game is published by SNK Playmore Corp.. There has been no...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Seasons after Fall

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

Game released: PC → 2 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Seasons after Fall is a side-view arcade adventure in a fantasy setting. The main character is a wild fox who fell under the control of the spirit of the forest. He...

Hue

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

Game released: PC → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Historical, Action

Game released: PC → 12 January 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India is a side-scrolling arcade-adventure stealth platformer set in the Assassin's Creed universe. The game continues the story of the...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Online, Casual game

Game released: PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 96/100

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

League of Evil

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie

Game released: PC → 25 October 2016

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This futuristic action platformer follows a bionic super agent on a mission to stop the League of Evil, an alliance of evil scientists. The agent fights through...

Trial by Viking

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

Game released: PC → 29 March 2016

Steam: 75/100

Trial by Viking is a side-scrolling action role-playing platformer in a fantasy setting. As a brave Viking, you have to conquer many dangerous dungeons, fraught...

Clustertruck

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Indie, Parkour

Game released: PC → 27 September 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Clustertruck is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view, in which the player has to stay on top of speeding long-range trucks. Jumping from one car to...

My Night Job

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Survival horror, Indie

Game released: PC → 21 April 2016

Steam: 82/100

My Night Job is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Players have to go to an abandoned building where nightmarish monsters are rampant. And over 60 types of...

Dead Island: Retro Revenge

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Zombies, Runner

Game released: PC → 31 May 2016

Steam: 62/100

Dead Island: Retro Revenge is a 16-bit game in the style of classic 2D action platformers in the Dead Island universe. The game's story tells of an embittered hero...

Trials of the Blood Dragon

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Motorcycle racing, Side view, Racing, Platformer

Game released: PC → 13 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Trials of the Blood Dragon is a crazy side-scrolling arcade motorcycle racing game in a futuristic setting. The game is a cross between the Trials series and the...

Bug Butcher

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

Game released: PC → 19 January 2016

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Bug Butcher is a futuristic side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Over the course of more than 50 levels, you will have to face countless hordes of aliens alone...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia

Arcade, Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Historical, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 58/100

Metacritic: 58/100

Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia is an arcade adventure side-scrolling stealth platformer set in the Assassin's Creed universe. The game continues the story of...

Melodys Escape

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

Game released: PC → 20 May 2016

Steam: 90/100

A side-scrolling rhythm runner where the obstacles and the heroine’s actions adapt to the beat and energy of music from the player’s own library. Melody runs along...

ICEY

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Action, Anime / Manga, Slasher

Game released: PC → 17 November 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 79/100

ICEY is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action platformer. At first glance, this game is a regular platformer where you follow directions and go where you are told...

Dinocide

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 21 January 2016

Players: 1.4/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 51/100

Dinocide is a side-scrolling prehistoric indie platformer. Players will have to take on the role of an ancient man and, together with the animals of that era, cope...

SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell

Arcade, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Parkour

Game released: PC → 28 July 2016

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is an arcade action platformer with a first-person view that combines the ideas of Quake 3 and the complexity of Super Meat Boy. The...

Cobalt

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC → 2 February 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Cobalt is a side-scrolling co-op action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will take on the role of robot agent Cobalt, who discovers the lost colonization...

Candle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 11 November 2016

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candle is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to take on the role of the brave young man Teku, who is trying to save the shaman from...

Parkour Simulator 3D

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Simulation, Stunts

Game released: PC → 28 December 2016

Players: 4/10

Parkour Simulator 3D — Parkour & Extreme is an exciting arcade platformer with a side view, where you can become a real tracer and perform various acrobatic...

Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy

Arcade, Stealth, Platformer, Collection, Historical, Side view, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 9 February 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Assassin's Creed Chronicles Trilogy is a collection that contains: Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China, Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India and Assassin's Creed...

MilitAnt

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

Game released: PC → 12 July 2016

Steam: 44/100

Metacritic: 44/100

MilitAnt is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. In a world ruled by insects, a lone soldier ant must at all costs defend his home colony from the brutal...

Goo Saga

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

Game released: PC → 26 September 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 84/100

Goo Saga is a side-scrolling arcade platformer for mobile platforms. You will play as a test tube creature whose skills are being tested. Clearly the scientist had...

Shu

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

Game released: PC → 4 October 2016

Players: 2.9/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Shu is a side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer set in a fantasy setting. In the role of a funny creature named Shu, you have to save the villagers from a...

Butcher

Action, Shooter, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 5 October 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Butcher is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game is based on the best shooters from the 90s. You have to get used to the...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2016 for PC (Game released)