From acclaimed Japanese indie creator, Studio Pixel, best known for Cave Story comes a 2D side-scrolling action game.

Yooka-Laylee is an all-new open-world platformer from key creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country games. Newly-formed as Playtonic Games, the team is building a spiritual successor to its most cherished work from the past!

SkyKeepers is a 2D action platformer following the journey of Tangi, as he desperately fights to reclaim both his world and life. Seamlessly chain together various attacks, launching foes skyward. When they’re airborne, teleport to your still hurtling foes to maintain the onslaught in visceral mid-air combat.

Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Intense, bone-crushing rains pound the surface and make life almost impossible for most of the year, but the dry season has just arrived. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive another hibernation cycle, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

88 Heroes is a chaotic 2D platformer where each level completed or untimely death brings a new hero into the action! With just 88 minutes to complete all 88 rooms you'll need every one of the 88 Heroes to stop Dr. H8 destroying the Earth!

Freedom Planet is a combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragon girl and her friends against an alien attack force. There's trouble around every turn, from insects to giant robots to sheer explosive destruction, but you'll have a variety of special fighting abilities to blast your way through each stage.

At a certain rental bookstore in Gensokyo... Like any other day, Kosuzu Motoori tended to the store until one book caught her eye. Although she was quite knowledgeable about magical books, she had never seen anything like it. After making sure no one was around, she stroked the cover with her finger.


Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight explores a cursed land in decline. Evil spreads, the dead rise, and corruption reigns. Hope is but a faded memory for all but one, a priestess named Kaho from the village of Lun. An audience with her majesty, the queen, would surely save the land--but time is short and each night darker than the last.

In this awesome third person adventure game you will help Eekeemoo rescue his friends from the clutches of the evil Dark Shard! Your quest will take you deep into the Dark Shards four corrupted splinter worlds.

The two jello jelly creatures Bismo and Plom got connected in a tragic yet funny accident and thus can exchange their size and abilities at will. Welcome to the world of Shift Happens - the only game out there which doesn't take a closer look at the body mass index and where players are actually forced to work togehter (and occasionally stab each other in the back).


A Pixel Story is at its heart a game developed by a team of graduates who love games. Inspired by platformers and puzzle games old and new, A Pixel Story sees players trying to journey to the core of a giant computer system to save the world, making use of the games core mechanic, a unique magical hat that allows the player to place it in any location and teleport back to it, with new layers being added on to increase the complexity throughout the experience. Players must use their witt and skill to overcome the range of challenges put in front of them if they are to reach the core of “The System” and save the world.

Typoman is a 2D puzzle platformer. You slip into the role of a character made of letters, struggling to make your way through a dark and hostile world. Despite your small stature you have a powerful gift: You can craft words to alter your environment. But choose your words wisely - they can either be a blessing ...or a curse!

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is an all-new Virtual Reality adventure that takes players back into the mysterious and paranormal world of the Psychonauts for the first time in over ten years!

Vertical Drop Heroes is a procedural platformer RPG hybrid with roguelike elements, where your hero adventures through randomly generated stages. Armed with a variety of skills and traits, you must use your cunning and reflexes to survive the dangers of each stage, until you face the final boss and uncover the truth behind the game!

?Toy Odyssey is fundamentally an action-adventure platformer. The player spends the night exploring a randomly-generated house, defeating bosses in each of the unique rooms, and then going up against the final boss.

Using the GunSeed mechanic, collect seeds to grow guns anywhere in the environment. Plant seeds to grow and harvest GunPlants for weapons, or GunTurrets to indirectly attack out of reach enemies. Explore GunWorld and battle monsters to find hidden secrets, gold, and earn valuable experience points. Level up and purchase gear to unlock new perks and abilities. Use new GunSeeds to reach and unlock new areas in this retro-inspired action/platformer/RPG hybrid.

Hunter’s Legacy is a 2D single-player platform action game inspired by classics that we grew up playing and it's designed to challenge gamers of any kind.

Wild Guns: Reloaded is the sequel to the fast-paced, gallery-style shooter original that mixed the Wild West with Steampunk. In Wild Guns: Reloaded, gunslinger Annie has tracked down the famed bounty hunter Clint to get revenge on the Kid gang. With eight stages, each with three zones, there's plenty of bad robots to blast away. With a true arcade game feel, Wild Guns was the first sci-fi western to arrive on home consoles and, to this day, there really isn't any other game like it!

Prepare yourself for a journey into the Cursed Castilla Ex, the extended version of the acclaimed arcade classic Maldita Castilla, created originally by the Spanish developer Locomalito - in collaboration with Abylight Studios.

Magnet Knights is a competitive local multiplayer game. You can play two multiplayer modes and also play alone in a training mode. Each knight has the ability to magnetize on the walls and The Knights can attack each other with Swords, Arrows and the Mighty Hammer among others. In the first mode, the objective is to take possession of the magnetic ball and be the first to bring it to the end of the level.The second mode is simple, eliminate opponents with one shot.

FEIST is a desperate, brutal survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack. Follow strange beasts through lonely forests, hazardous mountains, dark caves, and glowing swamps. Watch out for dangerous creatures that react to your movements and decisions, and cleverly concealed traps that will test your ability to survive.

Mekazoo is a 2D platformer set in a vibrant 3D world with fast-flowing gameplay and a cast of kinetically-diverse mechanized animals.

Ronin is stylish a turn-based action platformer following the exploits of a vengeful heroine determined to strike down five prominent figures of a powerful corporation. Move with precision by meticulously planning out each silent step, soaring leap, and devastating swing of your blade from the shadows as you seek your revenge.

Seraph is a skill-based, acrobatic shooter... without aiming! Take the role of an angel who's mastered the art of 'Gun Fu' as she blasts and cartwheels her way through hordes of twisted demons.

Best PS4 Platformer Games

Kero Blaster

Yooka-Laylee

SkyKeepers

Anoxemia

Rain World

88 Heroes

Freedom Planet

Touhou Double Focus

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Eekeemoo - Splinters of the Dark Shard

Shift Happens

A Pixel Story

Typoman

Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin

Vertical Drop Heroes HD

Toy Odyssey: The Lost and Found

Super GunWorld 2

Hunter's Legacy

Wild Guns: Reloaded

Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX)

Magnet Knights

Feist

Mekazoo

Ronin

Seraph

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