Journey of Johann is an action adventure platformer with puzzle elements.
Make your way through levels and a boss with different challenges and obstacles.
Collect goblets, secrets and beat time trials.
Use your weapons as tools such as climbing, blocking hits, and defeating enemies.

Knight of the Keep is a retro-style 2D action platformer where you play as Sir Peter, the last knight defending Castle Keep from waves of corrupted foes. With only his skill, timing, and courage, he must clear each room to unlock the gates and move forward. Dodge traps, fight monsters, and survive a collapsing world. With crisp pixel art and tight controls, it's a brutal, no-shortcuts challenge. Can one knight protect the last gate to the light?

Shantae is back in an adventure 20 years in the making! The nefarious pirate Risky Boots has a “groundbreaking” new plan that will leave Sequin Land spinning — by rotating the continent, she can move any town right to the coast for easy plundering! As Shantae, turn the tectonic tables on Risky by taking control of the land itself: shift, twist, navigate, and explore by swapping between mix-and-match multilayered levels! Hair-whip and belly-dance your way through scrambled lands, misplaced towns, monster-filled crypts, and daunting labyrinths. Six creature transformations, fierce boss battles, and a 4-player versus mode await!

An atomic war has reduced the world to a heap of ruins. However, there are still those who refuse to give up and seek to bring justice even in this chaos. Use your blade, granades and shotgun to fight your way through this post-apocalyptic scrolling action-platformer in pure 80s arcade style.

A cute puzzle-platformer with a unique mechanic of moving the world itself to create new paths. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op mode to help Ben & Abi navigate this mysterious world. Engage in clever puzzles & overcome obstacles to help them re-unite & find their way back home

Steam-powered adventure in forgotten ruins

Midnight Cat Heist is a 2D pixel-art platformer where players control a sneaky cat stealing shiny treasures to bring home to its human. Across 25 compact urban levels, players must avoid hazards, grab a specific item in each stage, and then reach the exit—leaving without the item results in failure. The game focuses on simple mechanics, light stealth, and playful feline charm.

Treetop Trials is a 2D hand-drawn platformer where you can walk on walls and ceilings using your gravity boots! Your mission is to fix the treetop security systems to protect everyone from the gnomes's magical mischief.

Play through 40 colorful mind-twisting levels inside the trees in a forest. You'll need spacial awareness and platforming skills to overcome the ever-increasing challenges each level presents!

Alien Breakout is a precision platformer where you control an alien that has been captured and must escape from the laboratory.

A small and hard-headed dinosaur sets off on an adventure to break obstacles, defeat enemies and gather all the lost dinossaur eggs lost after the eruption started. Help our little friend continue the mighty dino lineage by saving all the eggs and avoiding total extinction!

ZombMe is a 2D platformer based on old-school platformers with influences and callbacks to Mario, Sonic, Bonk, Bionic Commando, MetalStorm, and Mega Man. The hook with ZombMe, though, is that you're a zombie who is trying to stay DEAD--so the traditional gameplay mechanics of needing health is reversed: catching fire and jumping on spikes is good, and getting health packs is bad!

Esophaguys is a silly local multiplayer party game where you play as old folks with elongating necks. Stretch your necks together to find your lost kin and compete against each other for long-necked glory!

An epic, old-school adventure full of challenges and secrets! The biggest adventures come in small packages!

A fateful night of sorrow and ancient magic changed the life of a young child forever, and with it, everything else as mankind knew it. For 9 long years, the world has been submerged in the deepest of shadows, robbing every object and living creature of their color, their joy, and most importantly, hope.

Many brave souls have tried to venture inside the corrupting depths of Talos Castle, a long-abandoned orphanage from which the curse stemmed. All have failed, except for one. Armed with little other than her halberd and sheer nerve, Europa’s daunting quest is clear: enter the castle, find the source of darkness, and return color to the lands before it is too late.

A brand-new side-scrolling entry to the NINJA GAIDEN series from the team behind Blasphemous, NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound redefines the classic platformer saga in a spectacular, thrilling and challenging ninja adventure.

When Maiden City faces the fury of a secret criminal organization called "The Liberators" seeking to control the city and its inhabitants through violence, fear, and chaos, it’s up to the Maiden Cops to bring the crackdown! Join Priscilla, Nina, and Meiga as they fight to eradicate crime and restore peace and justice!

Maiden Cops is an old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up packed with arcade-style action and lovely monster gals. Pick a policewoman and take to the streets against buxom gangs, unlock special skins to customize your fighter, pick up gimmick weapons, chase high scores with combo chain bonuses and lay down the law using each character’s unique skills.

With premium-level pixel art, fluid animation and a breathtaking soundtrack, it’s all in good fun that’ll keep you coming back for another brawl!

The Cursed Frog is a single-player puzzle-platformer with an enchanted twist: switch between a brave princess during the day and a cursed frog at night to overcome magical challenges in the heart of Witchwood forest.

Solve environmental puzzles, avoid treacherous traps, and use each form’s unique abilities to forge a path through 30 carefully crafted levels. The day-night shift mechanic changes not only the scenery but also the gameplay: jump higher as the frog to reach hidden areas, or fight enemies as the princess with ranged attacks and agile dashes.

Combine logic and reflexes to activate magic bridges, manipulate platforms, and discover secret routes in this ever-changing enchanted world. Each level brings new challenges that test your creativity and strategy.

Fear Dog: The Bolota Escape is a 2D adventure game that blends action, humor, and challenges in a backyard full of traps! You control Bolota, a cowardly and clumsy dog — but for a good bone, he becomes a true hero.Bolota's bones have been scattered all over the yard, and he needs to recover each one of them to be able to escape.

Only Up To Space is a casual yet heart-pounding climbing and platforming adventure that will test your skill, patience, and determination. As a stranded astronaut, you must ascend through a series of challenging, ever-ascending platforms to reach to the top after losing your shuttle. No wrong steps.

Squish Machine is a platform game where you have to make your way through the single-screen level before the machine gets to you. Dodge enemies, evade tricky traps and solve simple puzzles to stop the machine before you are squished to oblivion!

Sword: Depths of the Void is WorthyWorm and The Sword Teams first upcoming game, releasing in 2025. Sword: Depths of the Void is a 2D Action RPG Platformer with a special sword that can morph it's blade into different weapons. Play as Trent Helms, the chosen one of this legendary sword, and make your way through various areas in open-world forms, bring people with you on your journey, explore a town in the sky, and much, much more.

Relive your childhood and turn every crosswalk, curb, and puddle into an epic adventure with this innovative urban walking simulator.

In Ruffy and the Riverside, you wield the magic power of SWAP, using it to Copy & Paste textures within the game world. Turn ice into lava or waterfalls into vines as you ride hay bales, explore, fight, and solve puzzles throughout Riverside. Unleash your imagination in this quirky open-world action game that literally lets you change the world!

Grizzly Bear is Hungry is the fourth installment in the charming Is Hungry series. Join a ravenous grizzly bear on a wild adventure to stock up on food before winter hits! Roll through forests, smash through obstacles, defeat pesky enemies, and shake down trees to gather every last bite. Only by eating enough can this bear settle in for a cozy, worry-free hibernation. It's a feast-or-freeze kind of journey—are you ready to help him get his fill?

Grizzly Bear is Hungry is a 2d Platformer with retro pixel art style. Enjoy a casual, simple and charming adventure where you control a bear with the power to do a powerful rollout, strong enough to defeat enemies and shake trees! Use wisely your power to gather all types of food. The more you play, the closer you get to winter! The scenery will change with the seasons, going from a forest full of greenery, to a forest taken by the orange color, with leaves drying and falling, up to the point where snow starts to fall. Will you be able to stock up enough food to hibernate without worries?

Best Xbox One Platformer Games

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Journey of Johann: Snowy Mountain

Shaman's Mask of the Rune Magic

Knight of the Keep

Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

1989 After the War

Lost Twins 2

Steampunch: Lost Tombs

Midnight Cat Heist

Treetop Trials

Alien Breakout

Bonk 'N Bash

ZombMe

Esophaguys

Pokettohiro

9 Years of Shadows

NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

Maiden Cops

The Cursed Frog

Fear Dog The Bolota Escape

Only up to Space

Squish Machine

Sword: Depths of the Void

Bambas!

Ruffy and the Riverside

Grizzly Bear is Hungry

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