Platformer 2020 for PC — top best games in the Platformer genre

Risk of Rain 2 - a game in the Platformer genre

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Futurism (Future)

Early Access: PC → 28 March 2019; Game released: PC → 11 August 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Risk of Rain 2 is a dynamic action platformer with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. In the second part you will find a full three-dimensional environment...

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Arcade, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC → 11 March 2020

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 90/100

Ori and the Will of the Wisps — the continuation of the colorful side-scrolling platformer Ori and the Blind Forest. The forest spirit Ori embarks on a journey once...

Noita

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

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020; Early Access: PC → 24 September 2019

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Noita is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a fantasy setting. You will find procedural generation of levels, the irreversible death of the hero, as well...

Rogue Legacy 2

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy, Medieval era

Early Access: PC → 19 August 2020; Game released: PC → 28 April 2022

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 89/100

One day, a brave knight gets to a mysterious place where some kind of devilry happened many years ago. Skeletons, ghosts and other evil spirits roam everywhere, and...

Spelunky 2

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 29 September 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Spelunky 2 is a sequel to the fun side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. This time you have to embark on an adventure as the child of...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Early Access: PC → 19 February 2020; Game released: PC → 21 January 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a side-scrolling pixel platformer. People have attacked the demon fortress and are trying to destroy their leader. Most of the inhabitants...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Haydee 2

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

Game released: PC → 24 November 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Haydee 2 is the sequel to the sexy action puzzle game with a third-person view. Once again you will play as a sexy heroine who is locked in a strange complex...

Huntdown

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 12 May 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Huntdown is an arcade side-scrolling pixel shooter with platforming elements in a sci-fi setting. You will go to a dark world of the future, where the police have...

Monster Sanctuary

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie

Early Access: PC → 28 August 2019; Game released: PC → 8 December 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Monster Sanctuary is a side-scrolling pixel Metroidvania in a fantasy setting, in which you become monster trainers and can fight in 3v3 tactical battles...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 23 June 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 69/100

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom — Rehydrated is a re-release of the classic SpongeBob game from 2003 in an updated form. You will have a...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

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

Game released: PC → 10 November 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin is a side-scrolling action-platformer from the creators of Astebreed. In the game, you will take on the role of Sakuna, a proud but...

Eastern Exorcist

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

Early Access: PC → 14 August 2020; Game released: PC → 8 July 2021

Players: 5.8/10

Eastern Exorcist is a hardcore side-scrolling action RPG platformer in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to get used to the role of an experienced Chinese...

New Super Lucky's Tale

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

Game released: PC → 21 August 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 76/100

An updated version of the vibrant 3D platformer Super Lucky's Tale, where the story of the adventures of the fox Lucky takes on a more complete and polished form...

Fall Guys

Arcade, Action, Third-person view, Online, Platformer, Free game

Game released: PC → 4 August 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Fall Guys is a free-to-play, cute arcade action game about falling colorful people. A unique “battle royale” awaits you, where many players will take on the roles...

Fury Unleashed

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Comics, Side view

Early Access: PC → 24 February 2017; Game released: PC → 8 May 2020

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Fury Unleashed is a 2D arcade platformer with a side view, made in a comic book style. You will play as the cool Scumbag, a comic book hero whose goal is to save...

Super Meat Boy Forever

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

Game released: PC → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

Journey

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

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Journey is an atmospheric adventure with a third-person view. The main character is a nameless wanderer who must cross the desert and get to the mountain that is...

Indivisible

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: PC → 26 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Indivisible is a colorful action-RPG platformer with turn-based combat and a side view. You have to try on the role of the girl Ajna, who goes on a journey around...

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

Action, Platformer, Slasher, Arcade, Adventure

Game released: PC → 21 August 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is a colorful platformer based on the animated series “Samurai Jack”. The events of the new slasher take place before the final...

HAAK

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

Game released: PC → 25 August 2022; Early Access: PC → 16 September 2020

Players: 8.4/10

HAAK is a side-scrolling action adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will find yourself in a dark futuristic world of the future, where unique...

Arise: A Simple Story

Arcade, Platformer, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC → 3 December 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Arise: A Simple Story is an adventure platformer with a third-person view in a fantasy setting. The game will tell an atmospheric story of two people in a world...

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2

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

Game released: PC → 10 July 2020

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 is a direct continuation of the exciting action-platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. The game will delight you with...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PC → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered

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

Game released: PC → 22 October 2020

Players: 10/10

Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered-remaster of an action-platformer with a third-person view of Asterix & Obelix XXL, where you have to plunge into funny adventures...

Wildfire

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

Game released: PC → 26 May 2020

Players: 6.5/10

Wildfire is a pixel platformer with stealth elements. The game takes place in a world where there is almost no magic left. The main character, one of the last...

Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia

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

Game released: PC → 25 September 2020

Players: 6.1/10

Trollhunters: Defenders of Arcadia is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer where you'll set out to conquer the world of Trollhunters, based on the animated...

YesterMorrow

Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Action, Science fiction, Side view

Game released: PC → 5 November 2020

Metacritic: 49/100

YesterMorrow is an indie side-scrolling time travel platformer. In it you will play as the little girl Yui, who will have to save her family and change the fate of...

Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome

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

Game released: PC → 30 January 2020

Nubarron: The adventure of an unlucky gnome is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer in a fantasy setting where you can fry and burn everyone with lightning...

Foregone

Platformer, Side view, Action, Slasher

Game released: PC → 13 October 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Foregone is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer in which the main character is trying to save the city of Kalagan from complete destruction. The game has a...

Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials

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

Game released: PC → 15 October 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is an action-adventure platformer with RPG elements and a side view. In the role of a courageous warrior, you have to...

Panzer Paladin

Platformer, Indie, Side view, Combat robots, Action

Game released: PC → 21 July 2020

Metacritic: 77/100

Panzer Paladin is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The Sinister Raven and his legions of cruel demons are ready for battle...

Cockhead

Action, Adventure, Simulation, Side view, Platformer

Early Access: PC → 16 August 2020; Game released: PC → 27 September 2020

Players: 5.6/10

Cockhead is an unusual clone of the hardcore platformer Cuphead, where the main character is an armed penis. The game features hand-drawn graphics, an original...

Effie

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

Game released: PC → 28 January 2020

Metacritic: 68/100

Effie is an arcade action platformer with a third-person view in a medieval setting. You are about to immerse yourself in the exciting adventure of Galand, a young...

Redneck Ed: Astro Monster Show

Slasher, Role-playing game, Side view, Platformer

Game released: PC → 10 September 2020

Players: 7.4/10

Redneck Ed: Astro Monster Show is an arcade beat'em up action game about a redneck named Ed who finds himself in intergalactic show business in search of his...

Rayman Redemption

Arcade, Action, Side view, Platformer, Adventure, Free game

Game released: PC → 19 June 2020

Players: 6.4/10

Rayman Redemption is a free-to-play fan-made 2D platformer based on the original 1995 Rayman. The new game aims to reimagine the classics by adding a ton of new...

Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles

Arcade, Platformer, Isometric, Adventure, Puzzle, Action

Game released: PC → 1 February 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles is a vibrant puzzle-platformer with an isometric camera view, set in a spectacular underwater world. In the game you will control...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

Neversong

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 20 May 2020

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Neversong is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The game will tell the story of a little boy named Pete. Waking up from a coma, he discovers that his...

Paw Paw Paw

Role-playing game, Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC → 13 November 2020

Players: 6.5/10

Paw Paw Paw is a co-op beat'em up with a side-scrolling fantasy setting. At the beginning you have to choose one of four heroes, differing not only in appearance...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2020 for PC