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95 Platformer games reviewed and scored, best first.
95 reviews
A cute, cheap, well-optimised roguelite platformer from Cygames that almost everyone finishes quickly and almost everyone enjoys while it lasts -- its own fans and critics agree on a lack of build variety and replay value more than they disagree on anything else.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous Castlevania-meets-Dark-Souls action RPG whose strong opening hours give way, by a large share of its own reviewers' account, to boss reuse and repetitive combat -- and whose launch was briefly derailed by a real, since-resolved controversy over an overreaching EULA.
6.5 / 10
A free, Monty Python-flavoured rage platformer in the Getting Over It tradition, whose review section is mostly a running joke — but the two reviewers who wrote anything substantive independently flag the same real problem lurking under the intentional cruelty.
6.5 / 10
A visually breathtaking sci-fi puzzle-platformer from ex-Playdead developers whose gorgeous atmosphere and sound design are undercut by controls and collision detection a large share of its own reviewers call janky, measured constantly against the Inside and Limbo pedigree its creators can't escape.
6.5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art metroidvania whose launch-week balance and bugs split its own playerbase into "before the patch" and "after the patch" camps, with a major June 2022 rework drawing as much detailed criticism from players who liked the original difficulty as the original release drew for being unbalanced.
6.5 / 10
A NZ$7.39 pixel-art sci-fi platformer whose energy-sword combat and moody planet-hopping presentation earn genuine, specific praise across its small but positive Steam corpus, undercut by a purchase-gated weapon ladder several reviewers call grindy and linear, five worlds that read as more similar than different, and a name that at least two players say oversells how much of a roguelike it actually is.
6.5 / 10
Massive Monster's debut -- a Flash-game-turned-commercial platformer about a boy, his pet rock and a giraffe with a helicopter tongue -- is Very Positive on Steam, but the studio's own next game, Cult of the Lamb, became the actual hit; eight years of reviews explain the gap with one word repeated more than any other: repetitive.
6.5 / 10
Lunar Ray Games' Kickstarter-funded, Castlevania-inspired metroidvania is Very Positive on Steam, but its negative review sample splits into two genuinely different arguments -- one about real, specific shortcomings in combat, length and writing craft, and a separate, unusually large one objecting not to mechanics but to the game's prominent queer and trans representation.
6.5 / 10
A Kickstarter-funded "ratoidvania" whose hand-drawn animation draws near-unanimous praise from the same reviewers who call its combat sluggish and unfair. Two years of free post-launch updates, including a new survival mode, show a developer that kept listening — the controls just never fully caught up to the art.
6 / 10
A two-day-old two-player co-op puzzle platformer built entirely around a single mechanic — shooting a laser from your own eye to push or pull your partner through obstacles neither of you could clear alone — priced at NZ$2.39 with zero user reviews and zero recorded concurrent players at the time of checking.
6 / 10
A first-person precision platformer that repackages the free Source-engine movement scene — surf, bhop and climb, born in Half-Life and Counter-Strike 1.6 mods — as a standalone Steam release with themed maps, Steam Achievements and leaderboards to chase. Released 6 August 2026 with no user-review corpus yet to weigh it against.
6 / 10
A hand-drawn, Dark Souls-inflected Metroidvania nine years in the making, whose gorgeous atmosphere and the sympathetic story of its solo developer's journey carry a review score that a large, detailed share of players say the underlying combat and pacing don't quite earn on their own.
6 / 10
A one-mechanic precision platformer where the character only falls and the player's entire job is choosing which way is down, wrapped in a 78-achievement completion ladder and a minimalist green wireframe look, released day-one with no review corpus yet to check it against.
6 / 10
A remake collection bundling two beloved late-90s and early-2000s PlayStation platformers, whose Very Positive score is driven less by the quality of the remake work itself and more by devoted fans recommending it anyway, out of gratitude that the series was resurrected at all after two decades of silence.
6 / 10
A genuinely clever, Tim Burton-esque co-op puzzle-platformer that both sides of its review sample agree only really works with a second player — solo mode, camera clarity, and general polish all draw the same specific, repeated complaints over a decade after release.
6 / 10
A visually striking Lovecraftian metroidvania about diving into murder victims' dying memories, undercut at launch by clunky controls and poor optimisation the developer never fully resolved before formally announcing, in a farewell post nearly two years later, that support had ended for good.
6 / 10
A sci-fi roguelite built around a genuinely inventive parallel-universe fusion mechanic, praised for its art and animation, undercut by controls a large share of reviewers describe as unresponsive and floaty next to genre benchmark Dead Cells, plus real progression-blocking bugs that outlasted the patch meant to fix them.
6 / 10
Motion Twin's lightning-fast co-op roguelite from the creators of Dead Cells, nearly two years into an Early Access run that has seen the developer visibly respond to community backlash (removing a widely hated "sudden death" co-op mechanic), while solo players, value-for-money and content depth remain real, recurring points of contention.
6 / 10
A 3-6 player multiplayer parkour game that pairs precision platforming with a build-your-loadout ability deck and a level-based unlock ladder, launched with a single Russian-language user review and zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.
5.5 / 10
A gorgeous pixel-art stealth metroidvania with a wonderful narrator and a genuinely distinctive Prince of Persia-meets-Mark-of-the-Ninja premise, undone by softlocking bugs that dominate its review corpus and, per an official patch history showing exactly one fix in fifteen months, appear to have gone largely unaddressed.
5 / 10
A small Norse-mythology platformer with a striking art style and a review base too thin and scattered to support a confident verdict either way -- read in full and reported honestly rather than padded into something more authoritative than the evidence allows.
4.5 / 10
A ricochet-shooting, box-lighting puzzle-platformer with genuine VR ambitions, undercut by a headtracking mismatch that a near-unanimous run of negative reviews says causes motion sickness within seconds, plus jump and movement controls several players call broken outright.
4.3 / 10
A full-price stealth-platformer built around Middle-earth's most compelling supporting character that arrived so technically broken it became a byword for launch disasters — its Steam player count hit zero within five months, and the studio that made it closed its development arm weeks after release.
3 / 10
