Best 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 platformer games.

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Momodora III Momodora III is a classic action platform game with a variety of items and secrets. It's the third installment of the Momodora series, although playing the previous titles is not necessary to enjoy the game!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Jul 2014
Spoiler Alert Spoiler Alert is a video game that tests your platforming skills… in reverse. It’s a comedy platformer that you play backwards.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Jun 2014
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.

Price -56% 17.69€
Rating 9.3
Release 26 Jun 2014
Valiant Hearts: The Great War / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre Valiant Hearts : The Great War is the story of 4 crossed destinies and a broken love in a world torn apart. Dive into a 2D animated comic book adventure, mixing exploration, action and puzzles. Lost in the middle of the trenches, play as each of the 4 strangers, relive the War and help a young German soldier find his love.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 25 Jun 2014
Munin Imagine you could move mountains - literally! With realistic physics, Norse runes, rotating platforms and a lot of gray cells you'll help Munin, Odin's messenger in her very own 2D-adventure, to reclaim her power on a journey through Yggdrasil.

Price -95% 0.26€
Rating 7.8
Release 10 Jun 2014
Magicite Explore, craft, and survive in this Multiplayer RPG Platformer with permanent death! Featuring many Rogue-like elements, Magicite randomly generates each underground dungeon for you and your friends to delve deep into.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Jun 2014
Floating Point Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.2
Release 06 Jun 2014
Electronic Super Joy: Groove City A Giant Robot Stripper called JoJo has smashed Groove City! She's angry because Dr Swinger stole her Laser-Nipples! Help JoJo reclaim her Laser-Nipples & defeat the Evil Plans of Dr.Swinger, with the help of Pope Boris the Super Sexy!

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 06 Jun 2014
Lifeless Planet Premier Edition PREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon...

Price -93% 0.78€
Rating 7.4
Release 06 Jun 2014
1001 Spikes Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...

Price -90% 1.04€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Jun 2014
The Floor is Jelly The Floor is Jelly is a game that answers the question: what if everything you touched was made of jello?

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2014
A Story About My Uncle A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 9.0
Release 28 May 2014
Monochroma Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Price -88% 2.57€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 May 2014
ibb & obb ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Price -13% 8.72€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 May 2014
Blade Kitten In Blade Kitten, join Kit Ballard as she explores the mysterious world of Hollow Wish to hunt down rogue mechs and soft targets.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 May 2014
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is a cinematic adventure filled with action-packed platforming and creative puzzle-solving. Armed with only a Magic Marker, Max must confront evil at every turn in a hostile and fantastical world in order to save his kid brother, Felix. Join Max on his great adventure!

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 May 2014
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

Price -80% 1.46€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 May 2014
Muffin Knight Muffin Knight is an arena based action-packed platformer with stunning visuals and a myriad of fairytale characters, each with their own unique abilities, which gain strength as you advance.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 20 May 2014
Retro Game Crunch Retro Game Crunch is a series of 7 games, full of the charm and challenge of the 8-bit generation. Each world feels like an authentic NES classic. A massive genre-spanning collection.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 May 2014
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube A serene first-person puzzle platformer set across strikingly beautiful worlds. Place and remove cubes to solve handcrafted puzzles, discover hidden secrets, and lose yourself in an atmosphere unlike anything else. Includes a full level editor and Steam Workshop support.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 15 May 2014
BattleBlock Theater Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Price -70% 4.49€
Rating 9.6
Release 15 May 2014
Chronology A platform-adventure game about time travelling, puzzle solving and a friendship between an Old Inventor and a Snail.

Price -90% 0.54€
Rating 8.3
Release 12 May 2014
The Last Tinker : City of Colors The Last Tinker is a joyous action adventure and definitely no platformer, as there is no jump button. Koru, a boy from the slums of Colortown, must rise and stand against the Bleakness, a dark force intent on wiping out joy. Koru must use color and emotion to restore life to Colortown!

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 May 2014
The Impossible Game The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 May 2014
You Have to Win the Game You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 06 May 2014
The Desolate Hope On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 May 2014
8BitBoy Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds

Price 5.69€
Rating 7.1
Release 05 May 2014
Child of Light Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 29 Apr 2014
Trials Fusion Trials Fusion is the gold-standard platform racer for the next-generation of gaming. Built upon the Trials franchise’s proven gameplay foundations, Fusion challenges players endlessly in both classic and all-new ways.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Apr 2014
Life Goes On: Done to Death A comical puzzle platformer where you must die to progress. The bodies you leave behind are your only tools to solve puzzles on your quest to find the Cup of Life.

Price 12.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 17 Apr 2014
Mechanic Escape In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Apr 2014
Volt You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 14 Apr 2014
T.E.C. 3001 Run, Rush, Haste, Burst Speed has never been pushed this far. Jump, Charge, Dodge, Slide You just slipped and got crushed! You can’t handle T.E.C 3001 yet… Try again until speed holds no secrets for you.

Price 1.56€
Rating 8.3
Release 11 Apr 2014
Platformines Platformines is a unique 2D platformer packed with exploration, RPG and shooter elements, set in a vast 16-bit underground world! Customise your character, master all difficulty levels and literally jump to the top of the leaderboards to prove your skills!

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Mar 2014
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Mirror of Fate HD This sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow reveals the story of the Belmonts as they battle destiny across generations to discover their true fate. Trevor Belmont, knight of the Brotherhood of Light, embarks on an epic quest to avenge his mother who was killed by his father Gabriel.

Price -81% 2.38€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Mar 2014
Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition Craft your arsenal to avenge your fallen comrades and save the world from the fearsome forces of CLAW!

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 25 Mar 2014

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