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 ...

These are the revolutionary platformers that moved the genre forward through innovation and design.

Indie game developer Sinclair Strange and publisher Scarlet Moon Games unveiled their latest title, as we're getting a new platformer called Sir Noggin. The game is designed to pay homage to the ...

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 ...

Mario games like Super Mario Bros. set the standard for 2D platformers. Switch offers a variety of 2D platformers beyond Mario, like Sonic Mania and Pizza Tower. Diverse titles like Kirby Star Allies ...

LavaLoop is a 2D shooter / platformer in a hand-drawn steampunk universe. Play as three musician-fighters, shoot your way through hordes of beat-bots and jump from surprise to surprise in an explosive ...

Nullstar: Solus is a 2D Platformer where you are a corporate scavenger drone, sent to rip through the decaying corpse of a dying world to salvage its nullstar. Activate Nullstar Protocol! Nullstar: ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nothing beats the thrill of completing a challenging platformer, and while we've been spoiled for choice lately, you can put your skills to the test ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

Lucid is a 2D action/platformer set in a crystal-punk world torn apart by dissonance. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and ...

What are the best 2D Mario games? We rank every side-scrolling platformer in the Nintendo mascot's history. Super Mario’s 40-year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little ...