🎮 Best Platformer Games of 2025-2026

Here you won't find numerical scores from press outlets or system requirements. What you'll find are the games people are actually playing right now, the ones being talked about in chat, and the ones worth knowing even if you're not a lifelong gamer. Some are from 2024, some from 2025, a couple are 2026 launches. All of them are worth your time.

7 games · Platformer

🔥 Best Platformer games

🍄 #1 9.6

Super Mario Odyssey

Platformer · 2017

Mario throws his cap, possesses enemies and tours wild kingdoms. 3D platforming at its most imaginative and playful.

Switch

🍄 #2 9.6

Portal 2

Platformer · 2011

Portal puzzles, Valve's dark humor and a memorable co-op. Few games make you feel this clever.

PS3 Xbox 360 PC

🍄 #3 9.6

Astro Bot

Platformer · 2024

The platformer that reminded Sony it can make mascots. Pure joy, ideas galore, and a love letter to PlayStation.

PS5

🍄 #4 9.5

Celeste

Platformer · 2018

Climbing a mountain becomes the best-told metaphor for anxiety in gaming. Hard, fair, and a soundtrack that hugs you.

PS4 Xbox One PC Switch

🍄 #5 9.2

Ori and the Will of the Wisps

Platformer · 2020

The sequel widens the world, improves combat and keeps the emotion raw. Moon Studios polished everything that already worked.

Xbox Series PC Switch

🍄 #6 9.0

Pizza Tower

Platformer · 2023

High-speed platforming with a lunatic cartoon aesthetic. A Wario Land tribute cranked to the max.

PC Switch

🍄 #7 9.0

Ori and the Blind Forest

Platformer · 2015

A forest spirit sets out to save its home in a metroidvania that looks like an illustrated storybook. Beauty and challenge in equal measure.

Xbox Series PC Switch