Platform Games
Platforming games focus on maneuvering through tricky environments that are oftentimes filled with enemies, obstacles, and myriads of other hazards to prevent you from completing a level or otherwise overcoming the challenges set. A mastery of control, timing, and patience is required in order to ensure that you can face the trials that this genre presents.
- 53 likes25 Mari0 alternatives
Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world.
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- 92 likes71 SuperTux alternatives
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.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Chrome OS
- PortableApps.com
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- 74 likes49 Limbo alternatives
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 Arcade, and was later re-released as part of a retail game pack along...
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
- Playstation
- SteamOS
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
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- 20 likes72 Hollow Knight alternatives
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- GOG.com
- Playstation
- SteamOS
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
- Humble Bundle
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- 43 likes94 Super Meat Boy alternatives
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 2008.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
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- 9 likes29 Sonic The Hedgehog alternatives
Sonic The Hedgehog brings SEGA's legendary platformer mascot to modern systems with all the familiar 16-bit sights, sounds and blistering gameplay of the original.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Playstation
- Xbox
- Apple TV
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- 10 likes68 Ori alternatives
Embark on an all-new adventure in a vast and exotic world, where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to discover Ori’s true destiny.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Windows
- Xbox
- Steam
- Nintendo Switch
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- 43 likes41 Cave Story (Dokutsu Monogatari) alternatives
Cave Story, or Dokutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware Metroidvania side-scrolling Metroidvania platform-adventure game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations.
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- Free • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- RetroArch
- Internet Archive
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- Playstation
- Lakka
- Nintendo Switch
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- 42 likes40 VVVVVV alternatives
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 direction of gravity, allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors...
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- Paid • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
- 2 likes10 Ultimate Chicken Horse alternatives
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
- Playstation
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox
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- 12 likes37 Super Mario Run alternatives
Mario jumps into a new adventure on iPhone and iPad, this time playable using only one hand. In this game, you constantly move forward through the courses while using a variety of jumps to navigate. Your character will behave differently depending on the timing of your taps, so...
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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- 23 likes66 Frogatto & Friends alternatives
Frogatto & Friends is an action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog. A quiet errand run turns into a battle to fend off an invading army, and only Frogatto is foolhardy enough to sleuth out why.
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Steam
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- 16 likes43 Geometry Dash alternatives
Jump and fly your way through danger in this rhythm-based action platformer!
Prepare for a near impossible challenge in the world of Geometry Dash. Push your skills to the limit as you jump, fly and flip your way through dangerous passages and spiky obstacles.
Simple one touc.
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- Freemium • Proprietary
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- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Steam
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- 12 likes49 Rayman alternatives
Rayman is a platform video game series created by Michel Ancel and owned by Ubisoft. The original Rayman was a 2D sprite-based platformer similar to those of the 16-bit era. Rayman 2: The Great Escape moved the series into 3D, and added more variety to the gameplay with new...
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- Paid • Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple TV
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- 9 likes1 Sonic Robo Blast 2 alternatives
Sonic Robo Blast 2 (or SRB2 for short) is a fan made, free and open source Sonic-themed game using a heavily modified version of the Doom Legacy engine.
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