Moonleap is a game about a moon boy on his journey to recover shooting stars. Change day to night with your jump and catch all the stars in this short and challenging puzzle-platformer!

"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.

The new brawl game has arrived so that you can let out all the anger that you kept in your heart! Spanking suckers was never this satisfactory!

Spectrolite is a unique take on first-person platformers, where you can experience the mix of thrilling atmospheric levels and intense timed challenges. Use rethought traditional platforming mechanics spiced up with powerful abilities to experience a level of precision new to the genre!

Enjoy large scale hand-crafted levels with diverse environments and soundtrack, and bite sized time trials, where you can compare your skills against others on the global leaderboards. Learn from your mistakes and master every speedrunning challenge by observing the ghosts of other players!

Rewind the Past, Control the Future - Explore and traverse through the spectacular city of Zaun as Ekko, a young inventor with an ingenious device to manipulate time, in this story-driven action platformer. Play as a young Ekko and realize the full potential of one of League’s fan-favorite Champions.

Discover different environments with parkour-style traversal while you level up a variety of combat and time abilities to defeat a wide range of enemies in Zaun.

After having uncovered a devious plot to build a super-secret Supermech on your island, you head to an ancient high-tech fortress in an effort to prevent this weapon from being completed. You must navigate through the various sectors of the fortress, while battling its denizens and avoiding its many dangers in this authentic retro gem! Along the way, you will uncover items that will allow progress to new locations of the fortress and grant you new abilities. Do you have what it takes to overcome the perils that lie ahead or is the island doomed?

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!

Murtop is fast-paced arcade game packed with action, as if it was taken out directly from the 80's, where Dig Dug meets Bomberman.

Help Murti save the world from an invasion of carrot-hungry moles with her bomb-pooping skills!

PI.EXE is a challenging action/platformer that takes place in the inside of an operative system's server! Slash through your enemies as your make your way through each sector of the server, in order to rid the whole system of the virus that has grasped it!

A single means of offense: A sword that can slice through enemies, and take their data to power up again! You only have a single shot!

A challenge, a touch, a termination: A single graze from your enemies will delete you and force you to start each sector over again!

The main objective is not the end: Replayability, with either keyboard, or gamepads! Make the most of your time and ability by reaching each sector, and finishing the game in the shortest time possible! Or perhaps, with as many chained combo attacks as possible!

In Death, Soul & Robots you play as a charming little kitty on a quest to find the soul of Planet 42 and save Earth from destruction. Battle unique enemies, solve challenging puzzles and explore various levels on your way to your goal.
The game features six large biomes, seven types of weapons, lots of different quests and 10+ characters, each with their own story. You'll also have to defeat six powerful bosses, each requiring a lot of effort to beat.
You'll come across various characters that'll amaze you with their stories. By the end of the game, you'll need to solve an ethical dilemma that'll affect the ending.
Death, Soul & Robots is an exciting adventure with engaging gameplay. Buckle up and get ready to save the Earth?

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!

A couple of healthy food enjoyers — Mr Broccoli and Super Asparagus — team up to stop the junk food invasion in their hometown. Something goes terribly wrong when hotdogs, burgers and other way-too-much-calories storm their favorite city. They need to stand up and fight!

Pleasant gameplay, exciting boss fights and loads of positive emotions await you. Pick one of two characters and show ‘em all what healthy food is made of! This game also serves as a reminder that junk food can often be very dangerous! Next time when your parents make you eat broccoli and asparagus, keep in mind: they are preparing you for the battle with junk food!

Embark on a journey through the Secret Dimension, a mind-bending platformer that will push your limits. With each level more challenging than the last, navigate through optical illusions, obstacles, and tricky puzzles to beat the clock and set new high scores. The unique isometric perspective and stunning graphics will keep you mesmerized as you strive to master the game and become the ultimate champion.

Jump, Dash, Fly.

In this first-person puzzle platformer you will try to figure out the right way through each level and afterwards can try to improve your timings by finiding hidden paths and secret short cuts. Your goals are to sucessfully finish a level as well as to beat the fastest time of our level designers - will you be able to do this?

The game is highly stylized and surprises with breathtaking, beautiful, aery and simply amazing worlds.
Sometimes the right path is not the one right in front of you so be ready for some environmental puzzles.

The screws are all scattered around, and you need to collect them all! This is a frenetic and fun platform game, inspired by classic games from the Golden Age of the Genesis.

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.

Help him overcome the underlings and punish the crafty thief.


A GRAND QUEST

Jump over floating platforms, deadly traps, and fierce foes. Defeat the sneaky wizard at his own game and recover your stolen treasures.

MIGHTY ABILITIES

You may be small, but you are a DRAGON. Use your fiery breath to scorch your enemies or blast through obstacles. Jump over traps or giant chasms to uncover the wizard's hidden vaults.

RETRO CHARM

Experience the nostalgia of classic gameplay with this charming 1-bit adventure. The reflex-based challenges and simplistic graphics are perfect for players of all ages.

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!

Follow the story of Xandria, the iron alchemist. Seeking revenge, she accepts the dangerous mission to put an end to the evil that resides in Dracula's castle and torments the people of Transylvania. Fight with an iron whip in this retro-style & Classic-Vania adventure.

Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine Bosses!

Panic in the city due to the "Handstand Phenomenon" in which objects fall into the sky!
A reporter who loves handstand is chosen to cover the event.
While covering various parts of the city, she tries to find out the mystery behind the "Handstand Phenomenon"!

Invercity is a puzzle-platformer that features "Handstand".
The game has two important mechanics: "Handstand" and "Inverted Broadcast".

・Handstand
The protagonist, Urara can always do a “Handstand”.
When she does, a strange phenomenon occurs. Various objects “fall from the sky”。
According to Urara,”Because that’s how things seem to me. Isn’t it normal?”.

・Inverted Broadcast
When the “Inverted Broadcast Switch” is pressed on the stage, an inverted signal is transmitted to the broadcasting room, which causes the world to be inverted.
When the world is inverted, your “handstand” will look like your “hanging”, and you can visit places you could not go to before.

Ninja?dash! Ninja jump! Ninja slash! 8-bit style Ninja platform action game! In this fresh take on ninja-based action games, use your ninja to battle the monster army! Get ready for some excitement in your life with this fast-paced action game, filled with the type of exhilarating energy that only ninjas possess! From katanas, to throwing knives, to ninjutsu, you must master your ninja skills in order to save the kidnapped princess!

Support for up to 4 players in local multiplay!

-Game Features
Players of Ninja Otedama R support each other by attacking the enemy ninja and juggling them all the way to the goal!
Choose from one of 6 weird yet unique characters.

-Available Modes
[Normal Stages]
Juggle your way through 50 stages of cooperative missions!
[Challenge Stages]
Find out who is the best ninja in 3 different types of challenges!

It’s so cute, chibi, and light-hearted looking, you may be asking yourself if this is even a real Valis game - but it absolutely is, and its name is Syd of Valis!

Wield the magical Sword of Valis as Yuko (Syd in the localized version), and bust your way through the game’s 5 stages.

An original stage with an absolutely bonkers powerful boss awaits you at the end of your adventure.

Best Switch Platformer Games

Ranked games, page 52 of 80

Moonleap

Octo Curse

Pulling No Punches

Spectrolite

CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story

Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril

Cyber Citizen Shockman

Murtop

PI.EXE

Death, Soul & Robots

Little Disaster

Mr.Brocco & Co

Secret Dimension

Leap From Hell

Scrap Bolts

Demon Skin

Gruta

Tiny Dragon Story

Color Pals

Toziuha Night: Dracula's Revenge

Super Alloy Ranger

Invercity

Ninja Smasher!

Pixel Game Maker Series NINJA OTEDAMA R

SYD OF VALIS

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