Violet Wisteria sees the return of Japanese style 80s and 90s fantasy platformers as you take control of Wisteria Asagiri to save not only Earth but the Higher Realm and Under-Realms as well. Master the 3 color attack system to overcome a myriad of obstacles and enemies. Travel across multiple dimensions to thwart the wizard Maskandes' sinister plot. With presentation inspired by heroine platformers like Valis and Alisia Dragoon, and gameplay influenced by classics like Silhouette Mirage and Ikaruga, only the most determined will be able to see the heart wrenching finale.

Violet Wisteria's claim to fame is its tri-color attack gimmick, which can be likened to rock-scissors-paper but with colors instead of symbols. Wisteria can execute three different colored sword attacks, and enemies appear at random in palette swaps of the same three colors. Learning to use the correct color attack against the correct color enemy is key to progressing, and stage obstacles will also require using this attack system in a variety of ways. This isn't a game where you can just start mashing buttons and perform melee combos, it requires precision and quick judgements.

With 8 stages of carefully crafted platforming and intricate boss fights, Violet Wisteria will present just the right challenge for those looking for a fresh take on a tried and true genre. Immerse yourself in the 16 bit aesthetic and remember a time when video games were pure magic.

Following the events of Valiant Hearts: The Great War, our story continues with new and familiar faces.

In Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, play as four characters through exploration, action, and puzzles.

With James, brother of the courageous Freddie, relive the story of the renowned Harlem Hellfighters. Follow George, a mysterious pilot helping the Allied forces thanks to his flying skills and smarts. Play as Ernst, a German diver sadly swept into the great conflict. Finally, join Anna once again as she struggles in her quest to save as many lives as she can.

Take the role of an agile little blonde hero as he leaps and dashes his way to glory in 10 Seconds to Win! This is a precision platformer where you only have 10 seconds to complete each single-screen challenge. Run, jump and air dash to avoid spikes, spinning saw blades and more as you try to reach a trophy cup on the far side of the stage.

Can you master all 100 levels with increasing difficulty in time?

In the distant future, a mad scientist and his army of darkness seek to enslave the people of Earth. Hope for all humanity rests with The Resistance, but are they enough? Enter Kei, a rookie hero who is transformed by mysterious Orb energy into BERSERK BOY!

With high-speed action and the power to defeat evil, BERSERK BOY must face off against the diabolical Dr. Genos and his army of Dark Energy minions. Can he save the world before it's too late? It's time to GO BERSERK!

Glorious bouncy 3D platforming and combat inspired by some of the best in the genre from Italian plumbers, blue hedgehogs, or wild bandicoots! Become BOB, a reckless bouncy hero embarking on a quest of epic adventures and chaos.

Open World Exploration and Destruction
Roll into jam packed open worlds that let you explore and utterly smash them to pieces in the process! Conquer adversaries and boss fights, tackle thrilling challenges, and unearth multiple hidden secrets. Realms bursting with activities to do at your own pace while you break almost everything along the way.

Bounce Around History
Bounce between multiple (slightly inaccurate) historically themed open worlds each with their own unique mechanics, items, and enemies. From the Vikings through to the Age of Pirates. From Feudal Japan over into The Space Race. Each world lets you hop in and out whenever and carry over progress.

Single Player, Online Co-op and Split Screen
Go solo or grab friends. Supports single player, 2-player split screen, and online co-op up to 4 players! Jump in and out sessions and keep any items and weapons collected.

Extensive Character Customization
Collect an arsenal of weapons, shields, and themed items to customize your character! No cosmetic paid DLC - unleash your creative powers to customize your character with items collected from playing.

Features Include
- Glorious bouncy 3D platforming and combat in a series of (slightly inaccurate) historical worlds.
- Full of content. Fight foes, rescue allies, take on multiple objectives, uncover secret and collect bundles of themed items and weapons.
- Smash, dash, and steamroll highly destructible environments.
- Customize your character with a massive amount of flags, items, weapons and themed decorations, all collected from playing.
- Up to 4 player online co-op and 2 player split screen. Seamlessly jump in and out of sessions with friends and keep everything you’ve collected.
- It teaches history. Well kinda.

Explore and fight your way through an open interconnected world filled with brutal alien lifeforms and malfunctioning machines.
Discover abandoned facilities and perilous environments, on the surface and in the depths of this world.

Explore Seamlessly
Choose your own path. Explore a complex open world, discovering it in your own way.
Traverse the distinct areas in a seamless manner, with no loading screens between them.

Fight
Combat an array of deadly adversaries: the local fauna, infected colonists, and abandoned machines that once worked in the facilities.

Shoot Anywhere
Run and jump around while shooting in any direction using a tight control system.
You can have 2 weapons equipped at any time, and use them as you need.

Evolve
Acquire the gear that will make you more mobile and unlock new areas. Climb walls, dash, dive underwater, glide through the air and evolve the way you interact with the world.

Upgrade your arsenal
Collect blueprints and craft new weapons and upgrades in order to fight more effectively.

Save Dynacat's home from the incoming army of robots in this fast-paced 3D platforming adventure. Dash to the goal, find all the secrets, defeat enemies and earn points by doing it all in style!

Militant. Armed. Domestic. Cows!

For centuries, the aliens mutilated cattle with little to no consequence. Finally, the cows had enough. They organized. They trained. Now they are ready... for their revenge!

M.A.D. Cows is an exciting, retro, action platform game. Mow down aliens. Buy better guns. Rescue cows, dogs, raccoons, and more.

The remake/sequel to the 1991 SUNSOFT action game Ufouria: The Saga is here!
In this exploration-based side-scrolling action game, the levels' terrain changes every time you enter the area, with even more secrets to find.
The unique and wacky world of Ufouria has been lovingly and faithfully recreated, this time with a handmade feltwork twist.
Join the now fluffy Hebe, O-Chan, Sukezaemon, and Jennifer to protect the earth from the Utsujin invasion!

PopSlinger is a vibrant, narrative-focused musical shooter inspired by ‘80s and ‘90s New Retro culture. Join Ria Carbon, a funky heroine on a stylish quest to save the world from sinister invaders from another dimension using soda-powered guns. Backing Ria up is former PopSlinger heroine, Gin! Experience the whimsical story of Ria and Gin as they fight against the "Corazones", people whose hearts have been corrupted by the dark forces from the other dimension, all while grooving to a fully dynamic soundtrack that reacts to your in-game performance in real-time.

Demons of Asteborg® is a new original and challenging 2D-platform game mixing action, little puzzles and strategy released for the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis, coming soon to Windows, Mac, Linux and Nintendo Switch. This 16-bit game will bring back many memories to the retro-lovers. A long time ago in the Kingdom of Asteborg, a war broke out, opposing humans and demons in a bloody struggle. Sagramor, a powerful mercenary, and Maria, a witch mastering combative magic, joined forces to defeat the demonic army. Sagramor found a way to lock the demons in an alternate dimension, at the cost of his own life. His sacrifice earned him the title of "Legend of Asteborg".

Oh no! The Great Elevator has been broken and its cogs have been scattered all around the world!

Travel the world with your poulp using a dynamic moveset

Interact with colorful characters and solve puzzles

Explore dungeons and face the bosses that dwell there

Use to your advantage the different objects and their properties

Collect the lost cogs, repair the Great Elevator and unlock new levels in this collectathon directly inspired by 3D platformers, such as Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Spyro and, more recently, Mario Odyssey

Unlife is a dystopian 2d platformer set in a haunting post-apocalyptic world.

Destroy merciless monsters, salvage weapons and supplies, overcome obstacles, and swim underwater as a necessary means of survival. The genetic material of the killed creatures can help cure the hero of the disease, which will affect the end of the game.

The main character of the game is the last survivor from his floating platform, and he must navigate a submarine towards salvation.

Can you find a cure in time to save yourself?

502's Arcade is an anthology of fast paced arcade games where your goal is to reach the top of the leaderboards in each one. The games go from a dungeon crawler set in a procedural generated temple where you have to seal spirits, to a cute but challenging puzzle where you have to prepare the orders of a very hectic potions shop. Come and get that good old feeling of competition you got when going to the arcade, or just have fun and challenge yourself by trying to get all the achievements for each game.

THE GAME
Wear the cape of Roboctopus, an evil robotic overlord and conquer the galaxy with your army of minions, the Quadroids. Quadroid is the ultimate single player puzzle strategy-platforming game. It takes fine psychomotor skills to control the galaxy! With 2 eyes and 2 hands players would need to control and coordinate the unstoppable Quadroids running into 4 different screens at the same time.

Quadroids is offering the ultimate coordination and dexterity challenge for demanding players.

THE CHALLENGE
You will need to clear over 100 unforgiving hazard-filled levels as you coordinate your minions simultaneously across four screens. SIMULTANEOUSLY...yes. Quadroids delivers a rewarding puzzle strategy-platformer for smart players who love to be challenged.

Return to a simpler style of platforming action in Froggie - A Retro Platformer, a side-scroller presented in minimalistic black-and-white style where you take the role of an anthropomorphic frog as he leaps his way through 100 challenging levels! Run, wall jump and wall slide with fluid pixel art animation as you hop on enemies’ heads, avoid spike traps and more!

Touch flags or travel through doorways to set new checkpoints just in case you meet an untimely demise, but don’t worry too much, as you’ll instantly respawn and have a chance to try again.

Join Penny & Yo-Yo in a kinetic 3D-platformer bursting with innovative gameplay! Showcase your catalog of tricks and chain impressive combos to deliver Penny & Yo-Yo's perfect breakout performance. Take the stage with this vibrant pair in Penny’s Big Breakaway.
Penny is a street performer with big dreams; she has her own spin on what it takes to be a star! When Eddie the Emperor calls for new Palace Court Performers, Penny gets herself tangled in an audition she’ll never forget. A strange encounter with a Cosmic String transforms Penny’s Yo-Yo into a living creature with an appetite for snacks— and mayhem! Use Yo-Yo to help Penny clear her name, outrun the Emperor’s penguin army, and unravel the mystery of the Cosmic String.
Burst onto the scene in the fluorescent world of Macaroon, home to this over-and-under escape! Discover your true star power in this easy-to-play, difficult-to-master challenge. Penny’s Big Breakaway is the debut title from Evening Star.

Experience hype-filled dueling! Shoot, block, and jump your way to victory with your shotgun-rocket-launcher-that-shoots-heat-seeking-bouncy-missiles or one of the other over 11.2 million different powerup combinations.

Ooga is a friendly bearded caveman living his peaceful life during the stone age. Until one day, his beloved grandfather, Booga, is abducted for ransom by a gang of bandits.

Our hero must defeat the evil bandit cavemen and free his beloved grandfather. Jump, dodge traps, and climb ladders. Crush dinosaurs with jumps and obtain primitive projectile weapons. Battle challenging bandit bosses. Collect coins to spend in the shop and level up.

The charming nostalgia of Caveman Ransom is enough to fondly take you back in time to long-lost era of gaming.

Mayhem Heroes is a frenetic beat'em up where you need to take down as many enemies as possible and, preferably, be the last one standing. Use punches, kicks, super attacks and power ups to send your opponents flying out of the arena! Play with up to 4 friends (local multiplayer) and show them who's the boss!

With a wide variety of moves, supers and power ups you'll be able to finish off your enemies with style, just like in Hollywood action movies! Each hero also has their signature move, with even more power and aggression.

The Kingdom of Faramore is beautifully realized by Rob Dunlavey, the artist behind the world map paintings from the games that inspired Arzette. Plus! voiceover talent from the games that inspired Arzette return to lend their charm to this adventure, including Jeffrey Rath and Bonniejean Wilbur!

Airhead is an adventure through a sprawling interconnected world, where you must explore, evolve and overcome intricate puzzles to succeed.

You play as Airhead, a small Body and the round inflated organism it uses as a Head. And while Head is slowly but surely deflating, you have a chance to save its life.
To do so, you must use air tanks to keep Head inflated while you explore Airhead’s metroidvania-style world, searching for amazing abilities and upgrades that will unlock new areas and puzzles for you to overcome.

On your adventure, it will be up to you to uncover the true connection between Head, the air tanks, and the technology that litters the world, so you can save Head no matter the cost.

EXPLORATION
Finding your way through Airheads world is not always easy. You must brave dark caverns, ancient structures, and other mysterious locations in order to save Head.
Along the way you will find new abilities, unlocking new areas and puzzles, and if you go even farther afield, who knows what you will find in the hidden corners of the world.

PUZZLES
As you explore, you will come across numerous puzzles that use the environment, strange creatures, and old technology to challenge your logic and creativity.
The world is complex, nothing is as it seems, and you must master Airhead’s many abilities if you want to stand a chance of saving Head.

COMPANIONSHIP
Body and Head must work together to accomplish their goal, and as time passes their bond and abilities will grow. What will you do to preserve their companionship?
And when the impact of your choices become clear, are you willing to shoulder the consequences of saving a friend?

STORY
A symbiotic being, reliant on its own air source, is ripped apart by a machine of unknown origin. Incomplete, the head-like organism is left to die, as it slowly leaks air.
An unassuming Body, with an instinct to help others, witnesses the tragedy. With no thoughts to the consequences, it takes its new head’s fate on its shoulders, becoming Airhead.

Now, Airhead must rely on air tanks to keep the Head inflated, while it searches far and wide for the machine that stole Head’s air source. But that machine is only a small part of a larger whole, and Head may hold a greater place in the grand scheme than Body could have ever imagined.

Control:Override is a puzzle game where you must share control between the environment and yourself. Defy Physics. Solve puzzles . Terminate the rogue AI. And perhaps confront the truth about why it went rogue.

Jubilee is about pure precision platforming. Jump and spin through a variety of challenges: no upgrades, no power-ups. Collect gems and rescue animals. There's multiple routes through the diverse regions of the world: make your own way to the exit... and freedom!

Best Xbox Series X|S Platformer Games

Ranked games, page 24 of 39

Violet Wisteria

Perfect Ninja Painter 2

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

10 Seconds to Win!

Berserk Boy

Bang-On Balls: Chronicles

The Mobius Machine

Dynacat

M.A.D. Cows

Ufouria: The Saga 2

PopSlinger

Demons of Asteborg

Promenade

Unlife

502's Arcade

Quadroids

Froggie - A Retro Platformer

Penny’s Big Breakaway

ROUNDS

Caveman Ransom

Mayhem Heroes

Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore

Airhead

Control:Override

Jubilee

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