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SuperTux
Open Source by Bill Kendrick |
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SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games. Instead of Mario, the hero in this game is Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel.

Games single-player, platform-game, side-scroller +4 more, super-mario, jump-and-run, 2d-platformer, tux
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Limbo
Commercial by Playdead |
- Mac
- Windows
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Limbo (stylized as LIMBO) is a puzzle-platform video game and the premiere title of independent Danish game developer Playdead. The game was released in July 2010 as a platform exclusive title on Xbox Live...

Games game, puzzle-game, platform-game, side-scroller +1 more, indie-game
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Braid
Commercial by Number None, Inc. |
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Braid is a platforming game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.

Games game, puzzle-game, platforming-game +1 more, time-manipulation
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VVVVVV
Commercial by Terry Cavanagh |
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In VVVVVV, the player controls Captain Viridian, who is lost in an alternate dimension, in search of the missing members of his spaceship's crew. Instead of jumping, the player is able to control the...

Games game, flip, platforming-game, gravity
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Cave Story
Free by Daisuke "Pixel" AMAYA |
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Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations

Games game, platform-game, side-scroller, pixel
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Super Meat Boy
Commercial by Team Meat |
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Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October...

Games game, single-player, platform-game, platform, meat
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Frogatto & Friends
Free* |
- Mac, iPhone, iPad
- Windows
- Linux
- Blackberry
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[Frogatto & Friends is free and open source on Windows and Linux, on the other platforms it costs $4.99]. Frogatto & Friends is an old-school 2D platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog....

Games game, single-player, action, platform-game +2 more, adventure-game, 2d-platformer
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Trine (series)
Commercial by Frozenbyte |
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“Trine is a physics-based action game where three characters allow clever solutions to challenges created by hazardous puzzles and threatening enemies. The gameplay is based on fully interactive physics - each...

Games action-game, physics-game, platform-game, fantasy +2 more, side-scroller, playstation
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Nikki and the Robots
Open Source by Joyride Laboratories |
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A cute physics platformer that plays in a fictional world of the future the infamous super villain Dr. Lacroix schemes to seize world supremacy with his army of robots. You take the role of Nikki and try to...

Games physics-game, platform-game, jump-and-run
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Secret Maryo Chronicles
Open Source by SecretMaryo.org |
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Secret Maryo Chronicles is an Open Source two-dimensional platform game and is using an Open Graphics Library for the best possible graphic design and stock performance.

Games game, platform-game, super-nintendo, super-mario +1 more, 2d-platformer
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The Iconoclasts
Free by Joakim Sandberg |
- Windows
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The Iconoclasts is a graphically beautiful platform game with well written dialogue and flourishes with character. The game is in alpha stages but the author has made the claim that it is not abandoned....

Games portable Zip file download, adventure, platform-game, platform +3 more, adventure-game, adventure-games, platform-games
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Knytt Stories
Free by Nicklas "Nifflas" Nygren |
- Windows
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In Knytt Stories, each level is its own little adventure. One level is included with the game, where you have to stop a machine that draws the life out of the planet. To find more levels to play, download the...

Games portable Drag and drop to USB, game, adventure, platform-game +1 more, adventure-games
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Capsized
Commercial by Alientrap Games Inc |
- Windows
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Capsized is a retro-inspired 2d platformer developed by Alientrap. Presented in a unique hand drawn art style. As a intrepid space traveler, you have crash landed on a mysterious planet and soon discover you...

Games action-game, side-scroller, 2d-platformer +2 more, atmospheric, slow-paced
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JVGS
Open Source by Jasper Van der Jeugt |
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JVGS is a free, minimalistic platform game that runs on windows, mac, linux and most other obscure systems out there. This game takes place in a world much like ours, which has started fading away. At a...

Games platform-game, linux-game, minimalistic-game
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The Balloon Quest
Free by Get Grumpy Games |
- Mac
- Windows
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"The Balloon Quest" is an ambitious 2,5d indie game platformer (PC&Mac) which will win you over with a lot of love for detail and fresh gameplay mechanics. The game revolves around the...

Games game, platform-game, jump-and-run, unity3d
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Noitu Love
Free by Joakim Sandberg |
- Windows
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The year is 2188. The city is protected by an organization called "The Peacekeepers League" and everything is swell except for that it's under attack! By a robot army lead by professor Darnacus...

Games portable, game, platform-game, platform, indie-game +2 more, indie-games, platform-games
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Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX
Free |
- Windows
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Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX is a non-profit unofficial fangame based on the Mario universe. It combines elements from 3D Mario titles with classic, 2D gameplay, set in Halloween-themed levels.

platformer, fangame, mario
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Commercial by Black Forest Games |
- Windows
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Fluffy clouds and rainbows - what a nightmare! Being trapped in a lollipop world infuriates Giana, driving her to smash everything in her path... but the walls between dreams are thin. A tenebrous boneyard...

Games game, single-player, platform-game
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I Wanna Be The Guy
Free by Kayin |
- Windows
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I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game is a sardonic loveletter to the halcyon days of early American videogaming, packaged as a nail-rippingly difficult platform adventure. Players fill the role of The Kid,...

hardcore-game, platforming-game, difficult-levels
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Deadlight
Commercial by Tequila Works |
- Windows
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Deadlight is a 2012 sidescrolling survival horror cinematic platforming video game. The game tells the story of Randall Wayne, a former park ranger who sets out to find his family in the aftermath of a zombie...

Games game, single-player, platform-game, survival-horror +1 more, side-scroller

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Limbo

Braid

VVVVVV

Cave Story

Super Meat Boy

Frogatto & Friends

Trine (series)

Nikki and the Robots

Secret Maryo Chronicles

The Iconoclasts

Knytt Stories

Capsized

JVGS

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Super Mario: Blue Twilight DX

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

I Wanna Be The Guy

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