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

Hayfever - a game in the Platformer genre

Game released: PC → 25 February 2020

Players need to help the postman Thomas collect lost letters. The hero suffers from severe allergies, and various allergens help him overcome obstacles. For...

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: 8/10

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...

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view

Game released: PC → 23 June 2020

Players: 7.4/10

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...

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...

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...

Fall Guys

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

Game released: PC → 4 August 2020

Players: 6.6/10

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...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

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

Players: 8.7/10

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...

Journey

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

Game released: PC → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.4/10

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...

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...

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...

Risk of Rain 2

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

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

Players: 8.6/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Longing

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer

Game released: PC → 5 March 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The Longing is an unusual game, the main feature of which lies in its length. The fact is that it will take 400 days to complete the game. Even if a player enters...

Stela

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 13 March 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Stela is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure platformer. The game follows a young woman exploring a mysterious ancient world a few days before the end of the...

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...

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...

Daiichi Dash

Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 27 April 2020

Players: 9/10

Daiichi Dash is an indie action game with platformer elements and a side view. You have to go with Aiko on an exciting journey full of adventures. On the way to...

Giraffe and Annika

Adventure, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Action, Indie, Platformer, Music game, Fantasy / Medieval, Arcade

Game released: PC → 17 February 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 65/100

Giraffe and Annika is a third-person action-adventure platformer with Japanese-style rhythm game elements. You will learn the story of an anthropomorphic cat named...

Wizard and The Slug

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC → 2 November 2020

Wizard and The Slug is a humorous action-platformer with a side view, where you will play the role of Slug, who went on a rescue mission to a mysterious wizard...

The Henry Stickmin Collection

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

Game released: PC → 7 August 2020

Players: 9.3/10

The Henry Stickmin Collection is a collection of action, platforming and point-n-click adventure games. An epic journey awaits you with six different stories, the...

Shady Part of Me

Indie, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Arcade

Game released: PC → 10 December 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Shady Part of Me is an adventure puzzle platformer where you have to solve the mystery of a poor girl. An exhilarating journey through the land of dreams awaits you...

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...

Creaks

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 22 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Creaks — an adventure puzzle-platformer with a side view from the creators of Samorost and Machinarium. The events of the game revolve around a young guy who...

PHOGS!

Logic, Puzzle, Arcade, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer

Game released: PC → 3 December 2020

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 78/100

PHOGS! is a fun cooperative puzzle platformer with a third-person view about a cute two-headed dog. In the game you have to play as two dogs connected by a long and...

Unforgiven: Shattered Souls

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 September 2020

Players: 6.2/10

Unforgiven: Shattered Souls is a side-scrolling action platformer with horror elements. This is a game with a touch of horror and anxiety. You are promised a...

BROTHER!!! Save him! — Hardcore Platformer

Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 15 May 2020

Players: 10/10

A pixel adventure about a wizard who set off on a journey to save his brother. The character can shoot from a magic staff and jump high. There are more than 20...

DDraceNetwork

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

Game released: PC → 17 August 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 93/100

DDraceNetwork is a side-scrolling team-based competitive action platformer where you and your friends compete against other players to speed through various levels...

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...

Inmost

Action, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC → 21 August 2020

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Inmost is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with horror elements. The events of the game take place in two parallel worlds in which three brave main...

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...

Projection: First Light

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 29 September 2020

Players: 6.4/10

Projection: First Light is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer. You will travel to an alternative shadow world of puppets and visit 19th century England...

Spelunky 2

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC → 29 September 2020

Players: 6.8/10

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...

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...

The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms

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

Game released: PC → 7 November 2020

The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms — indie side-scrolling platformer with action elements. A young girl wearing a magic hat must navigate the Witch's Labyrinth to...

Levelhead

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Sandbox, Combat robots, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Early Access: PC → 18 April 2019; Game released: PC → 30 April 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Levelhead is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to control the GR-18 delivery robot through various levels with...

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...

My Diggy Dog 2

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC → 11 August 2020

Players: 7/10

My Diggy Dog 2 is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer about a brave archaeologist dog who helps his owner find his wife. Once upon a time, adventurers in...

30 IMPOSSIBLE LEVELS

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action

Game released: PC → 4 September 2020; Early Access: PC → 25 April 2016

Players: 5.9/10

30 IMPOSSIBLE LEVELS is a super-hardcore side-scrolling platformer set in a bloody apocalyptic setting. According to the plot, Lucifer was able to find a path to...

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Best Games in the Platformer genre of 2020 for PC