Shadow Labyrinth is a 2D action platformer and a genre-twisting alternate take on the iconic Pac-Man. As Swordsman No. 8, awoken by a floating yellow orb, PUCK, on a mysterious planet where relics ...

Wildflower Interactive, the studio established by Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, The Last of Us, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End director Bruce Straley in 2022, has announced Coven of the Chicken Foot, a ...

Have you heard of MOTORSLICE? Nah, us neither – but it looks brilliant. So, we know it’s reductive when games writers pull a bunch of popular names together to describe a new release, but this ...

Compared to Nintendo, Sony is not known for platformers on their consoles, and yet it has some of the best exclusive franchises outside of Mario. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, LittleBigPlanet, and ...

For me and many others, Astro Bot set a new standard for 3D platforming. Its precise movement, playful level design, and heartfelt presentation made it an instant favorite for fans of the genre. As a ...

Many modern action-platformers aspire to blend old-school ideas with new-school sensibilities, but few achieve the balance of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. It retains the pick-up-and-play accessibility and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Even though it's a truncated week in the US with the long holiday ...

Indie game developer and publisher 2DevsOnly (which is made up of exactly two developers) has revealed their brand-new game on the way, as they unveiled the first details of Starbump. This is an ...

Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

The first time I saw Haste in action, I became instantly obsessed. Landfall's fast-paced platformer is a masterclass in speed and scale, and the type of game I easily lose track of time playing. If, ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

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