Platforms: Xbox One, Switch, Steam, iOS, Android store page of the game for each platform. Platforms will include a link to the U.S. I will make mention of the two games on here that don’t include a platinum trophy however. You can basically substitute these with “trophies” and “platinum trophy” if you’re a PlayStation gamer. For the purpose of this post, I’m just going to stick with saying “achievements” and “getting all achievements” instead of “trophies” and “platinum trophy” since Steam has 9 of the games on the list. I’m going to list 5 2D and 5 3D platformers for this list. Since Steam has 9/10 of the games on the list (Switch has 8 of them, Xbox One has 6 of them, PlayStation 4 has 5 of them, and Wii U has 1 of them), I will be using the Steam Metacritic Critic Rating of each game, except for #9, where I will use the PlayStation 4 version, since that’s the only version of it available currently. One of the games towards the bottom has a pretty low rating (60%) that I personally disagree with, but it's only fair that you hear from more than just me.
I'm going to order them according to Metacritic Critic Ratings. I’ve also included games with local co-op mixed in with solely single player games, including one built around the co-op experience for this list (before I did separate lists for single player only and games that included local co-op). Genre is going to be more like a short descriptor of the game for this list since these are all platformers. When this post is 17 hours old, the sales for these games will be over. Guacamelee is on there too, though it doesn’t qualify as an overlooked game.Īll 9 games available on Steam are currently on sale. There’s also Flat Heroes from my 10 local co-op recommendations list found as a link within the first post. These 14 games listed range from puzzle platformers, precision platformers, action platformers, first person 3D platformers, Metroidvanias, run & guns, etc. Hayfever and Valfaris were my favorite games for their respective lists and are some of my favorite games in the genre. Note that both Biolab Wars and Valfaris are listed as run & guns, but they have platforming elements and are considered platformers by some people. They are as follows: (1.) Four Sided Fantasy, (2.) Daggerhood, (3.) Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, (4.) Biolab Wars, (5.) Gravity Duck, (6.) Penarium, (7.) Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX), (8.) Hayfever, (9.) Duck Souls+, (10.) Cybarian: The Time-Traveling Warrior, (11.) Verlet Swing, (12.) Valfaris, (13.) Primal Light, and (14.) Tamashii. 1-6 are from the first list, 7-11 are from the second list, and 12-14 are from the third list. None of them will reappear on this new list. I’m going to list the platformers that were in the previous three lists.
I wanted to bring attention to some of these lesser known indie games once again. Of course, for every one of these games, there's 100 other indie games that have been glossed over, relegated to a spot in a digital store few people will ever find themselves in. These are some of the indie platform games that hit the big time. We're all familiar with the Shovel Knight’s, A Hat in Time’s, and Celeste's of the world.