Best 2D Platformer Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated 2d platformer games.

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Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe Control "The Nerd" in a retro-inspired action platformer! It's two games in one, remixed and rebalanced to bring you the ultimate experience of Nerd Rage. Featuring stylized pixel art inspired by classic games, a highly energetic soundtrack, and challenging levels -- plus a special NEW chapter!

Price 7.15€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Oct 2020
Succubus Affection In a world of human-like monsters, a young man lives in a quiet, remote village with his sister. However, he is attacked by monsters when he leaves the village. Now he works hard to become stronger so he no longer burdens his sister.

Price 16.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Oct 2020
Disc Room Are you ready to get sliced in half? The year is 2089 and a giant disc has appeared in orbit of Jupiter. Step into the oversized space suit of a brave scientist and explore this sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse.

Price -86% 2.19€
Rating 8.8
Release 22 Oct 2020
Noita Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Price -72% 5.45€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 Oct 2020
Knight Club + KNIGHT CLUB + Is a casual 2-4 player action platform-fighting game that brings traditional fighting game elements into an unlocked, free form movement playstyle.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Oct 2020
URUZ "Return of The Er Kishi" Live the saga of Uruz! A fantasy epic action adventure based on Central Asian Turkish mythology and culture. Explore the ruined lands, help people, solve small puzzles, face the monsters and spiritual creatures, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Oct 2020
Spelunky 2 Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.

Price 16.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 29 Sep 2020
Janosik Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets. Available for FREE!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Sep 2020
Soldat 2 Soldat 2 is a 2D deathmatch shooter with real guns, ragdoll violence and physics-based movement. Based on classic Soldat with team game modes, ranked multiplayer, bots and built-in customization and level editing. Made by MM - creator of the original.

Price 7.79€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Sep 2020
Rushdown Revolt Rushdown Revolt is a platform fighter featuring 12 dazzlingly unique characters and best-in-the-business rollback netcode.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Sep 2020
Deleveled Master momentum in this unique jumping game that features no jump button! Preserve your potential energy and fall to new heights as you solve these clever puzzles and maneuver your way to victory.

Price -98% 0.21€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Sep 2020
Struggling Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.

Price -94% 0.83€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Aug 2020
SHEEPO Explore a strange planet, collect the creatures you find, and then shape-shift into them to expand your world. Build your own path, chat with the locals, and discover the planets sprawling secrets in this quirky metroidvania platformer.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.0
Release 26 Aug 2020
INMOST Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Price -85% 2.03€
Rating 8.8
Release 21 Aug 2020
Battletoads • Over-the-top combat with combos and hard-hitting morph attacks • Wild, varied gameplay sequences for all types of gamers • Hand-drawn animation feels like playing a cartoon • Drop-in couch co-op for three players

Price -98% 0.53€
Rating 6.6
Release 20 Aug 2020
Eternal Hope Eternal Hope is a puzzle platformer game that follows the story of Ti’bi – a boy who must embark on a journey of love and hope to find his beloved’s soul.

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Aug 2020
Helheim Hassle Helheim Hassle is a narrative adventure game with puzzle platforming elements. Play as Bjørn, a pacifist Viking that can detach and combine limbs at will to solve challenging puzzles and get out of uncomfortable situations involving desperate Norse Gods, Goblins, Dragons, and angry skeletons.

Price -97% 0.61€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Aug 2020
DDNet Want to play the hardest cooperative 2D platformer ever? Want to finish no map ever? Want to be in pain for hours and cry, getting nothing in return? Come play DDNet with a large community of other sufferers!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 17 Aug 2020
THE IMPOSSIBLE THE IMPOSSIBLE is a minimal perspective illusion puzzle game. You control a small square in the IMPOSSIBLE world and remember: nothing is IMPOSSIBLE.

Price 5.19€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2020
Vibrant Venture Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!

Price -93% 1.16€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Jul 2020
Creaks The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Price -95% 1.01€
Rating 9.1
Release 22 Jul 2020
Panzer Paladin Hop in the Paladin power armor, seize melee weapons from the demonic invaders and give them a taste of their own medicine!

Price -96% 0.78€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jul 2020
Neon Abyss Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.

Price -97% 0.64€
Rating 8.5
Release 14 Jul 2020
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2 Koji Igarashi and Inti Creates are back with more retro sword-and-whip action! Curse of the Moon 2 brings classic 2D action and a dark, 8-bit aesthetic together with modern playability.

Price -65% 5.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 10 Jul 2020
Ninja Kiwi Archive Enjoy some of the best loved Flash games of the past in this awesome time capsule of over 60 Ninja Kiwi classics. Experience a piece of history and play the original Flash games that spawned the worldwide phenomenon of Bloons TD.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 08 Jul 2020
Primal Light Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Price -93% 0.59€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Jul 2020
RITE RITE is a high-speed, precision platformer where you must conquer a series of challenging trials, a rite of passage for every Nim.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 06 Jul 2020
Friendly Fire Can you save the world from an unknown destiny?

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Jul 2020
Monolight MONOLIGHT is 2D plat-former puzzle adventure game. Using tiny lantern, go through the maze.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 29 Jun 2020
Hylics 2 A surreal RPG with a unique graphical style and droll scenario.

Price 14.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 Jun 2020
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 The ultra-refined 2D side-scrolling action you remember from "Azure Striker Gunvolt" is recharged and better than ever! In Gunvolt 2, series anti-hero Copen joins the fray as a playable character! Copy abilities from defeated boss characters and use them as your own!

Price -65% 6.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jun 2020
Nohra A fast paced precision platform game where you play as Lupu, a monster looking to make their way out of the abandoned lab and onto the surface!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Jun 2020
Alwa's Legacy Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.2
Release 17 Jun 2020
Space Simulation Toolkit Physics sandbox game that uses a graphics card as a supercomputer. Change the laws of physics, design mechanisms, create A-Life worlds and inhabit them with living beings, experiment with evolution and AI.

Price 24.50€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2020
Unravel Unravel is a physics-based puzzle platformer. Yarny, a character made from a single thread of yarn, must embark on a larger than life adventure.

Price -85% 2.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 04 Jun 2020
Shantae and the Seven Sirens Shantae is back in an all-new tropical adventure! In her fifth outing, the Half-Genie hero gains new Fusion Magic abilities to explore a vast sunken city, makes new Half-Genie friends, and battles the Seven Sirens in her biggest, most thrilling quest yet!

Price -92% 2.11€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 May 2020

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