These five platformers ruled the '80s, taking the genre to new heights, while establishing a few long-running fan favorites.

Screenbound lets you control a 2D handheld game and a character in a 3D world at the same time.

A new platformer, ‘Bat-a-Swing’, follows an inventive bat through a 1930s cartoon-inspired city.

Escape From Monday that we got to play as a preview highlights the strong underlying platforming mechanics. The game is a ...

Scarlet Deer Inn releases next month.

Mohsen Baqery is a Staff Writer at GameRant based in Turkey. He mainly covers video game news and industry features while occasionally publishing guides and listicles. Mohsen started his journey into ...

In this week's Ahead of the Game series, we check out Leap & Clash, in which you literally leap and then clash with your foes ...

Blood Dungeon is a platformer that takes a lot from Vampire Survivors, but it also adds a lot new in the process.

Schim is one of the games I was most looking forward to this year, and I generally had a pleasant time with it. It's a pretty platformer in which every object and living thing has a soul called a ...

Celeste is the best precision platformer in years, but it’s also a game about the figurative mountains we all struggle with, and that’s what makes it truly special. Everyone has their own mountain to ...

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