Chronicles of 2 Heroes is an intense 16-bit action platformer featuring Metroidvania elements, Japanese mythos and gorgeous pixel art. That's not all: you can switch between the protagonists in real-time! Ayame and Kensei have unique, surprising combat styles that you will need to master to save feudal Japan from Amaterasu’s wrath.

Join Shaun the Sheep and his friends Timmy and Shirley on this epic adventure journeying through caverns, the busy streets of London and through outer space all in search of the green grass of home. Now with new multiplayer modes, controller support, widescreen graphics and much, much more!

Interdimensional mage Lord Vicious has brainwashed Bat Boy’s fellow teammates in order to participate in the Trials of Darkness, a heinously brutal series of athletic events! It’s up to Bat Boy to team up with one-time villain and mouthy crow Garou, traversing all manner of hostile worlds, to free the minds of his sports-hero teammates before they fall victim to the Trials. Along the way, Bat Boy will encounter all manner of characters, some allies, most not, as he fights his way to the final confrontation with Lord Vicious. Bat Boy pits the titular hero against the former allies of his sports team, heroes such as Racket Girl, Shinai Guy, Aquaria and Mr. Blitzer, among others as he travels through the many worlds beyond Lord Vicious' dimensional gateway!

"OctoCurse is an action platformer following the story of a pirate captain who has been turned into an octopus by an evil spirit. The little octopus embarks on the quest to save the rest of his crew and reverse the curse.
Experience epic pirate adventure. Explore levels, collect coins, unlock doors and climb the mysterious tower as you get closer and closer to the final showdown.
Make your way through the tropical jungle, brave the harsh winter, weather the storm and endure other exciting environs. Save your friends and meet new ones along the way.

Everything was going great for Tasuke and Kyapiko until one fateful day when they
woke up as the cybernetically enhanced, Shockman!

Thanks to the genius of the Doc, they were given the opportunity to become cyborgs and heroes of justice tasked with taking down the Evil Group which had been terrorizing the town. The only catch is they have 18 days to get the job done and become humans again.

Fufill your destiny as hero of justice and restore peace to the town!

Challenge your mind in a psychedelic journey of puzzles and meaningful encounters with Time, Poetry, Memory, Technology, War and Fatality. As Hope drifts deeper into Infinity, the real world begins to suffer from his absence. There doesn’t seem to be any way out, and Hope is by nature doomed to carry on. Master the innovative camera manipulation mechanic to unlock new areas. Each world harbors new abilities, themes, and opportunities to explore the multiverse and meet bizarre personalities who can be helpful allies or deceitful foes.

Help this little disaster to reach the shiny crystal on every level in this explosive puzzle platformer.

Watch the timing of your explosion-meter, otherwise you can destroy everything around you! Use your brain to solve each puzzle, and complete more than 70 increasingly difficult levels across four different environments.

You can even ascend into space if you're good enough!

Recently, the Halloween spirit is missing and GhostMart may be on the brink of bankruptcy. Clark Fackerberg, founder of FaceBoo! has started to distribute Storyum: a drug that absorbs the will and hope for Halloween from the inhabitants of HallowTown. Now, with the purpose of restoring the spirit of Halloween and his trade, Scary must destroy FaceBoo! and its 3 divisions; Darkchat, Deviltube and RipTok

"Death or Treat" is a 2D action-roguelite and hack & slash, with handpainted environments and traditional animation. Explore all the worlds and defeat hordes of enemies using different weapons and skills.

You will play as Scary, the owner of Ghost Mart, leader in manufacturing candies for Halloween.

Discover huge worlds, explore new maps and try to survive the hordes of enemies. It’s not an easy task, every world is even more tricky than the other. Starting with Darkchat, Riptok, Deviltube, and last but not least FaceBoo!, the ultimate epic frontier.

Combat is one of the fundamental pillars of Death or Treat. Choose your favorite weapon style (fast, heavy or ranged) and face a real horde of enemies in the purest hack'n slash style: fly through the air and attack the crowd with force, move nimbly and look for their weak point.

Each one of the stores that you will find in HallowTown can provide different profit for your enterprise. You can create new weapons at Frank's Forge, or buy healing potions at DetoxBucks. Our vampire shopkeeper, Joe Bite Them, will help you get new empty slots for your inventory, and the Pumpkin guys will teach you how to craft magic spells. Finally, go to Pumpkin© to trade your ingredients for more candies!

An evil pirate, Max, has stolen the sacred gems and has cursed the islands filling them with obstacles and traps. Help Ray, our pirate, find the gems and restore the natural order of things. Navigate your ship through the seas to get them, but remember: you will need a spyglass to discover new islands.
Solve fun math games to get them: addition, subtraction, numbering, multiplication tables, and division. The islanders need you!

EVERY ISLAND IS AN ADVENTURE

Have fun with over 25 levels and negotiate all kinds of obstacles in order to get to the chest that holds the gem. It will be a real adventure—you'll have to deal with quicksand, bewitched parrots, volcanoes with lava, puzzle games, magic doors, funny carnivorous plants, etc. It will surprise you!

Demon Skin - is a brutal hack’n’slash set in a rough dark fantasy world, which combines unique combat mechanics, RPG and fighting game elements, and even some platformer features. With the flexible combat system each player can come up with their own unique tactic by skillfully combining stances with various types of weapons to achieve the ultimate efficiency in battle. The darkness has got into the far off corners of the universe and threatens the world. Only the mighty Order of Wanderers whose members possess superhuman divine powers can resist that threat. One of the Wanderers witnesses a sinister ritual of restoring a powerful ancient artifact. In an attempt to break off the ceremony he gets into a flow of energy released by the artifact and instantly turns into a demon! Wanderer is now eager to regain his former appearance but to do so he needs the artifact which was stolen afterwards. The hero sets on a path to find it, fighting the hordes of demons along the way.

Take on the role of a car mechanic who starts their first car workshop.

The game features a day and night cycle, which introduces a specific rhythm and requires organizing your work accordingly. By accepting more and more complicated orders, you can develop your skills. Along with the development, a number of additional possibilities open up to you. You can collect and tune up cars and take part in a number of complicated racing challenges.

Set in the alternative historical setting of 1897 Angelic Empire of Britannia, your contract will order you to eliminate the source of the unnatural fog enveloping the Berelai Manor. Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance. To repel the maddening horrors, your Iaito cane, and Waltham A9 hand canon will aid you. To mend your injuries your Vitae concoctions will offer healing. Beware, whatever unearthly events have transpired, your sanity will be tested as the truth unfolds in this hungry all-consuming Fog.

Welcome to the cute and satisfying world of Color Pals, where brainteasing puzzles meet simple single-screen platforming fun!

Enjoy 50 stages of hue-based trickery as you take the role of a colored cube and navigate 2D maze-like levels to reach a portal on the far side. But be careful! You can only touch walls, floors, ceilings and platforms that match your current color.

Replay stages as many times as it takes, and freely replay cleared levels any time to improve your skills!

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origin. Stalk and consume those that imprisoned you to spread fear and panic throughout the facility. Grow and evolve as you tear down this prison and acquire more and more devastating abilities on the path to retribution.

Mangavania is an action platformer game with pixel art graphics.

Join the adventure as Yuhiko, a young ninja who has gone to the underworld to find a cure for his brother. Fight monsters and meet new friends in one of the best platformer games.


A little kitty’s friend has gone missing, and it’s up to you to guide the frisky feline to rescue them! Presented in side-scrolling pixel art style, Neko Rescue Tale is a traditional action platformer where you guide a heroic cat through seasonally themed stages filled with enemies, traps, pitfalls and more. Run, jump and always land on your feet!

Features:

• Run, jump and claw your way through 60 retro pixel art stages!
• Traverse nostalgic seasonally themed environments.
• Avoid traps like spinning saw blades and spike balls.
• Encounter deadly snakes, slugs, seagulls and more!
• Pounce on enemies or swipe at them.
• Replay cleared stages and retry new ones as many times as it takes!

When Furball accidentally drinks a sleeping potion, his owner, the warlock Lux, needs to extract human fear to create an awakening potion. After the evil wizard crashes at the Golden Sands resort and kidnaps all humans, it’s up to the loyal dogs Kenny, Lenny, and Max to rescue their human friends and show Lux that some love and care always beats fear. Superfidos is a platforming game where you explore the vast world of Fluffington. You play as a magical dog hero, traversing different levels in multiple interconnected areas, gathering power-ups, magic, and more to help you in your journey. Unlike a straightforward platformer where you go from one level to the next, Superfidos promotes free exploration, is full of secrets, and provides different ways of approaching and solving the game’s multiple puzzles and challenges. Put your best cape on and help these heroes show Lux they are not called Superfidos for nothing.

Light of Life is a challenging precision platformer about an elf named Elanor who possesses an incredible power!

The magical Life Fragments have been stolen by malicious goblins, and it’s up to Elanor to use her trusty bow and arrow to recover them.

Featuring over 100 handmade levels full of cute, colorful pixel art, Light of Life offers a fun challenge for everyone.

The world is under a frantic alien attack. Amidst the chaos and with the army virtually subdued, the deadliest and most inconsequential pair of specialists are called upon to do what must be done. Join the war hunting aliens around the world and in every way possible.

Embark on a surrealistic afterlife journey to discover the secrets of the broken and mysterious Plane of Memory in this cinematic adventure with a hint of stealth. Dive into a wonderful voxel world with an intense atmosphere and save the day!

DE-EXIT embraces the clash of minimalistic voxel aesthetic and clean textures on one side and surprises with complex cinematographic features, more realistic VFX, and motion capture animations on the other.

You wake up in a new and intriguing, surrealistic world. Where are you? What are you doing here? Why does everything seem so different? Commence a voyage full of questions and broken realms but hopeful people. Of strange, unexpected sights and majestic scenery. Discover what happened to the Plane of Memory and help fix it.

Set out on a thrilling journey where puzzles, stealth, platforming, and action work as tools to potentiate cinematography, story, and setting.

Death tends to be a taboo subject. DE-EXIT opens the discussion around this intimidating but fascinating topic from a more positive perspective than usual. Remember the dead and enjoy this ode to life.

Command heroes with unique abilities, harvest natural resources to collect materials, then build and develop your military defenses.

Each night the enemy hordes will attack the village, and challenge your strategic and tactical prowess to survive. Explore dark underground dungeons, and wage battle against gigantic bosses!

Evolve your weapons by gathering new materials, and survive the epic onslaught for as long as possible.


Features
* Build and upgrade your resources and heroes
* Build defenses, farm, hunt, cook food and more
* Unlock new characters
* Action RPG and survival gameplay
* Cute epic fantasy pixel art

Set in the near future of the 21st century, the world is controlled by a single corrupt government and under the threat of a evil sorceress, Abdullah the Slaver. Luckily, a lone assassin and top class agent named Kirin offers his skills as weapons for hire.

Kirin must infiltrate the city to defeat several enemies, panic and terror. But once inside the cult’s main temple, he gets attacked by the police force and left to die... Only thanks to his inner strength can he break free from his chained imprisonment and start moving with a single goal in mind: getting revenge against Jack Layzon, the Judicial Affairs Director that hired him initially. But this is far from enough: Three other members of the Teki wants him dead for personal reasons…

Egglien is a speedy action platformer with a nostalgic retro look taking you back to the past. Help Asteri shoot her way through 40 levels in 5 unique worlds to save earth from its terrible past...

Far into the future after technology has developed in unimaginable ways, the humans treated earth with violence and disrespect. They ruined what once was a beautiful place, the earth blew up into rocks and the only thing left was the core... after an alien named Asteri hears a voice she gains her new Egglien powers and is on a mission with her friend tagging along to restore the core to what once was a great planet.

Go and help save earth!

Join Bumballon on this cute but frantic adventure spanning across an incredible world full of dangers!

Explore 7 unique worlds overflowing with beautifully animated graphics and retro game nostalgia. Overcome various perils to save Bumballon's magical kingdom and rescue the beautiful Princess Moon.

Each mistake becomes a lesson to overcome future obstacles in Bumballon’s tough but fun and rewarding journey.


Features:
* Beautiful animated graphics.
* Explore 7 worlds.
* 35 different levels.
* 5 unlockable skins.
* Variety of action mechanics.

Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ short story of the same name, The Library of Babel welcomes you to a world 20,000 years after the extinction of humanity. The world is now run by advanced robots, who know very little about their mythical creators. All is well and orderly in a society run by robots, until the discovery of a library that contains everything that has, is, and will ever be written— the perfect harbinger of chaos.

You play as Ludovik, a Seeker, sent to investigate a murder case in Babylon. When a state of emergency is suddenly declared, Ludovik finds himself in increasingly dangerous territory as he follows the murderer’s trail and unravels the mystery behind the Library’s sudden lockdown.

Featuring a world full of vast jungles, abandoned temples, and plentiful cybernetic inhabitants to interact with, The Library of Babel promises both a thrilling adventure full of danger and intrigue, and a thoughtful, atmospheric tale of how we consider infinity.

Best PS5 Platformer Games

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Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath

Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition

Bat Boy

Octo Curse

Cyber Citizen Shockman

Infini

Little Disaster

Death or Treat

MathLand

Demon Skin

Gruta

Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity

Color Pals

Carrion

Mangavania: 2D Action Platformer

Neko Rescue Tale

Superfidos

Light of Life

Wild Dogs

DE-EXIT - Eternal Matters

Ultra Pixel Survive

Cannon Dancer - Osman

Egglien

Bumballon

The Library of Babel

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