![]() ![]() What started as a simple game jam project has evolved into one of the most beloved and highly rated platformers of all time. ![]() We should also mention that only one game per franchise is eligible for this list, if only to just keep it from being half made up of different Mario games. Here’s our list of the best recent platformers you can play right now. With decades of examples and inspiration to draw from, the games released today, big and small, are the most polished ever seen. Today’s platformers are arguably at their best. Platformers added new elements alongside just jumping, such as unique hazards, stories, and even the third dimension. Things have only gotten more complex, as is necessary to keep the genre from becoming stale. Anyone, no matter what language they speak or culture they come from, can understand the basics of jumping over a pit to reach the ground on the other side. The idea of running and jumping through an obstacle course is genius in its simplicity. As soon as we could jump, we needed things to jump on, over, and around, and thus the platforming genre was born. Even the face of video games, Mario, was originally just “Jump Man” back in the day. Jumping, a simple action, has probably been explored and expanded through video games over the decades more than any other human ability. One of the first actions we were given when the first pixelized version of a person was displayed in a video game was a jump. ![]()
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