Platformer Hidden Gems 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 platformer games.

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MagiCat MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Aug 2017
Nidhogg 2 The rules are simple. Reach the other side and kill anyone that stands in your way. Deftly parry and rend their throats, riddle their bowels with arrows, or squish their brains between your toes. The wurm cares not for chivalry.

Price -98% 0.38€
Rating 7.8
Release 15 Aug 2017
GravNewton Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.

Price -95% 0.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Jul 2017
Downward: Enhanced Edition Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.

Price -90% 1.09€
Rating 6.8
Release 13 Jul 2017
Armed with Wings: Rearmed You are the sword; cut down your foes with steel and thunder. You are the wings; explore the skies and uncover unreachable mysteries. Embark on a journey through a vicious world ruled by darkness and imperial tyranny - the lands of Blackmist.

Price -80% 2.05€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
One Dog Story One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.

Price -54% 4.61€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Mini Ghost "Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.

Price -12% 1.77€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Apr 2017
de Blob The evil I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared 'Color is a Crime!' and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future with his unique abilities to color the world back to life.

Price -87% 2.61€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Apr 2017
The Disney Afternoon Collection Starring a cast of beloved Disney characters, The Disney Afternoon Collection takes you back to a golden era of gaming and afternoons filled with adventure. All six classic games feature new and improved visuals and include filtering options that replicate a retro look and feel.

Price -82% 3.72€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Apr 2017
Flinthook Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Price -23% 11.69€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2017
Voodoo Vince: Remastered The classic character platformer is back after 13 years and newly remastered! Help Vince run, jump and fight his way through cemeteries, swamps and an evil carnival as he seeks to save his creator Madam Charmaine from the clutches of Kosmo The Inscrutable.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Apr 2017
Slime-san: Superslime Edition Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!

Price -95% 0.87€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Apr 2017
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!

Price -60% 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2017
Dawn Dawn is an atmospheric 3D platformer in which players guide a druidic creature named Ash through a beautiful environment to bring life and light back to a dead tree at the center of the world.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 31 Mar 2017
Jumps Enter a world of sky islands and jump your way to the finish, you must complete each level with a certain amount of jumps! and HURRY, you must complete each world in under a certain amount of time.

Price -50% 3.44€
Rating 8.7
Release 31 Mar 2017
Sumoman Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.

Price -91% 1.14€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Mar 2017
Macbat 64 Macbat 64 is a low poly 3D Platformer and 4:3 loveletter to the late 90s.

Price 1.59€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Mar 2017
City Climber City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.

Price -73% 1.37€
Rating 7.1
Release 24 Feb 2017
Bleed 2 Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Price -92% 0.81€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Feb 2017
GIGA WRECKER Become more than human and save mankind from total annihilation! From legendary developer Game Freak comes an action adventure like no other - manipulate the world around you and smash the evil Ajeet to smithereens!

Price -97% 0.65€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Feb 2017
2 Ninjas 1 Cup Get ready for a game so stupid you would rather show your browser history than admit that you like it! Lots of action, explosions and yes, it's a penis-tank in the trailer.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Feb 2017
Rosenkreuzstilette Rosenkreuzstilette is a mega-action-platformer game in which you step into the shoes of Spiritia Rosenberg, a virtuous young woman caught on the wrong side of a revolution instigated by her closest friends.

Price -80% 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 02 Feb 2017
Alwa's Awakening Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 7.6
Release 02 Feb 2017
Poi Poi is a 3D platformer featuring two kids on a grand adventure to unravel the mysteries of the Milky Way Globe. Explore uncharted lands, compete in challenge levels, meet quirky characters and defeat comical creatures on a journey to become a Master Explorer.

Price -79% 2.05€
Rating 8.5
Release 01 Feb 2017
Rocketbirds 2 Evolution The original Coq of War returns in a glorious explosion of finger-licking fun; with enhanced controls, new upgrade systems, a full single player campaign in “Part 1: The Cockup” with full VO and OST - and a 1- 4 player campaign in “Part 2: The Rescue” with procedurally generated maps.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Jan 2017
Nefarious Play as the villain in Nefarious! An action platformer where you globe hop between several kingdoms kidnapping princesses who alter gameplay in unique ways. Then thwart various heroes in reverse boss fights, recreated iconic battles where you control the boss.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2017
Little Triangle Little Triangle has the most complete platformer experience among many others. All three game modes including single player mode, local co-op mode and local mini Battle Royale mode are all well polished and hilarious!

Price -70% 2.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Jan 2017
Pinkman Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Jan 2017
Blaite A platform game so difficult and at the same time, so addictive that you will enjoy having to repeat a levels dozens of times until complete them.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.0
Release 02 Jan 2017
Cube Runner Cube Runner is a 3d action platformer that's simple to learn, exciting to play, and deep enough to challenge even the greatest gamers.

Price -97% 1.28€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Dec 2016
Glittermitten Grove Just like the faeries in your garden, we love collecting berries for our prickleberry loaves and finding treasure with our special fribblesham fireworks. Come join us in our faerieland, full of strange adventure!

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Dec 2016
Junk Jack Make the world truly yours in Junk Jack, a relaxing sandbox experience focused on building and improving your home. Discover new planets, tame and breed creatures, cook foods, collect animal companions, farm exotic plants, collect fish, grow flowers, play with your friends!

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 30 Nov 2016
Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

Price -65% 4.20€
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Oct 2016
Soulless: Ray Of Hope Soulless: Ray of Hope is a 2D story-driven platformer focused on atmosphere, exploration, and emotional storytelling in a dark, minimalist world.

Price -71% 1.46€
Rating 6.9
Release 18 Oct 2016
Doorways: Old Prototype An immersive and twisted adventure created before the official development of the Doorways saga

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 05 Oct 2016

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