The ultimate test of reflexes and nerves!
A giant, unstoppable rolling stone is breathing down your neck, and there’s only one golden rule to survive: never look back!
Dive headfirst into Stone Run, a fast-paced, hand-drawn retro arcade experience designed for non-stop adrenaline and pure fun. Outrun disaster, dodge unpredictable obstacles, and push your reaction speed to the absolute limit in a beautifully crafted world that feels like an interactive cartoon.

Discover your own legend in Lucid. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.

Start a band with crazy lemurs and save your island from an evil witch in Kalanoro, an ode to Madagascar’s folklore and vibrant artistic scene! Hop on an action-adventure journey to discover the colorful world of Lemuria, rescue funky lemur artists, and defeat the witch Raneny, one song at a time.

The ghosts have taken over the building. Do you have what it takes to drive them all out?

In Pop the Ghosts, you take on the role of a paranormal hunter armed with a special gun. Explore a haunted building, face different types of ghosts, and overcome challenges that become increasingly difficult.

Take on a campaign with 30 platform-style levels, run, jump, break boxes, and explore the environments to find your way to the enemies. Eliminate all the ghosts to advance, but stay alert: some enemies require more than one shot to defeat.

Find TVs to activate checkpoints and watch out for traps scattered throughout the environment, such as dangerous drops of acid falling from the ceiling. Take two hits and you will return to the beginning of the level or to the last checkpoint.

Nomori is a mind-bending puzzle game where you need to control time and space to journey through a shattered spirit world. Take shortcuts through portals, rotate your perspective, and control the flow of time to move forward, whichever way that is.

Get ready for an adventure packed with jumps, bubbles, and creativity in Bubble Stomp! Here, every obstacle is an opportunity to test your skills and discover new ways to move through stages filled with exciting platforming challenges.

Use temporary bubbles, Ground Pound, and cannons to reach impossible places, cross dangerous areas, and overcome increasingly challenging obstacles. Combine these mechanics in unexpected ways to create new paths, gain momentum, defeat enemies, and reach the final objective.

Across 30 levels, new enemies, hazards, and mechanics are gradually introduced, making every stage bring a new surprise. Breakable platforms, cannons, obstacles, enemies, and optional collectibles fill the environments with possibilities to explore.

Checkpoints help you continue your adventure without losing all your progress, while collectibles scattered throughout the levels encourage players who want to explore every corner and completely master the challenges.

Observe the environment, plan your next move, create a bubble, use Ground Pound, blast yourself from cannons, and discover how far your creativity can take you.

Jump, pop, smash, and master every level!

Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer- a tiny bird armed with a matchstick- who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.

Darkness has swallowed the land. Only one unlikely hero is brave enough to fight back.
Shadow Cat is a focused 2D action-platformer that puts you in control of a fearless cat boy on a mission to save a world overrun by evil creatures. Run, jump, and dash through 25 handcrafted levels set across dark forests, abandoned factories, dangerous caves, and forgotten tunnels.
Straightforward controls make it easy to begin, but every new stage introduces more demanding platforming challenges. Time your jumps, dash across deadly gaps, avoid spikes and moving hazards, and launch fireballs to defeat the creatures standing in your way.
Explore each level to collect life points and replenish your fireball ammo. Activate checkpoints to protect your progress when danger strikes. Taking damage costs one life and returns you to the latest checkpoint—but lose every life, and the level must be faced again from the beginning.
The journey becomes more dangerous as new enemies, traps, and environmental threats test your timing, awareness, and resource management. Master your movement, use your fireballs wisely, and keep pushing forward until the final confrontation with a giant spider and its relentless minions.

Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat. Manipulate water, trigger chain reactions, and shift through surreal worlds as One, a young Legend on a mission to save a dying desertscape from the grip of the Paradox corruption.

Panda: Shards of Aurora is a challenging platformer set in a frozen world trapped in an endless winter.

Take control of a young panda and embark on a journey across 30 handcrafted levels, guided by the mysterious Ancient Bear, an ancient guardian who will help you uncover the secrets of the frozen valley.

Navigate icy platforms, slippery surfaces, deadly spikes, fragile terrain, and dangerous environmental hazards as you search for the legendary Shards of Aurora.

But the frozen lands are not empty. Hostile penguins and aggressive seals stand in your way, testing your reflexes and precision as you progress through increasingly challenging stages.

Explore every corner of the frozen world, discover hidden gems, overcome challenging obstacles, and restore the Shards of Aurora to bring the light back to the valley.

You have to complete this dangerous journey to survive extinction!

Dumb Ways to Build is a chaotic, physics-based co-op game. Team up with friends to assemble your crew and take-on dangerous construction jobs. With all the gear and no idea, work together to build your path forward, or die trying!

A classic hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania action game, it's time for revenge! Use your Beastmaster skills to unleash your inner beast, fight with your heart-devouring sword and end the threat to Arborea, you decide the ending.

Help the Marsupilamis save Palombia from the Mummy Queen and her minions in this fast-paced 2D platformer! A strange melody has swept across Palombia… and all the animals have suddenly started dancing, leaving chaos in their wake!

A retro-style action-platformer that blends the stealth shootouts of Rolling Thunder with the raw brawling of Double Dragon. The result? A thrilling 2D spy adventure set in the 1960s — packed with fists, bullets, and classic arcade energy!!

GoBlomb is a thrilling arcade game where you control an agile Goblin inside a coliseum created by a God of Destruction. The premise? This whimsical god will only grant Earth one more year of life if the participants manage to overcome his deadly challenge! With simple yet addictive mechanics, you’ll need to collect bombs falling from the sky while navigating treacherous platforms, avoiding deadly traps, and sharpening your reflexes to survive.

FatalClaw is a high-quality 2D Metroidvania game. Explore the mysterious underworld in your own way with cat “Kisha” who rise from the dead, and find the key to the ground with other survivors through absorbing the power infected enemies.

In Bit, you play as Bit. A little pixel alone in the void. Bit has the urge to climb. Why does he want to climb? Find out with him across 10 unique worlds and help him find his purpose.

Planet Aura is a colony of peaceful space cats. It is also directly in the path of an Evil Space Battleship. Gravikitty is the only one of them who can fly.

She's unarmed, so she improvises: a force-field swat that sends incoming fire straight back into the thing that fired it. The rest is paws and physics — thrust, drift, and swing around gravity wells while scooping up gold.

Super Astro Cat 2 is the direct sequel of Super Astro Cat 1. After exploring the universe for a suitable planet for the cats to live, now you have a new mission, protect and develop the bases from aliens attacking from everywhere! But don't worry, this time Agent C have a new arsenal of weapons to help this challenging mission.

Protect and develop your base against relentless waves of aliens. Choose the right weapon for the right moment and complete all the tasks to make the cats thrive in the space!

Blast your way through Dash'n'Drops, a platform-fighting inspired roguelite. Build your own moveset, max your stats, and defeat the 7 Eternals!

Gravity Paws is a pixel art platformer that blends classic challenges with modern movement and exploration mechanics. Play as Duke, a dog who becomes lost in a mysterious forest filled with strange anomalies.

Frenetic action and LCD aesthetic! In this 2D Shoot 'Em Up, switch between a robot hero and his benign tumor to stop a bizarre cult. You have 8 hours to save humanity's memory: defeat grotesque bosses, ride the skies on your Future Board, and master the chaos in a retro-futuristic Tokyo.

Take a dive in the world of Plungeez, a puzzle platformer where Bonnie, a fierce woman who, after falling in the underground, must explore the sewers of Salvador in search of a way out. Light torches, boilers, and use plungers to climb and solve puzzles!

A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.

Best Xbox Series X|S Platformer Games

Ranked games, page 3 of 39

Stone Run

Lucid

Kalanoro

Pop the Ghosts

Nomori

Bubble Stomp

Well Dweller

Shadow Cat

Fading Echo

Panda: Shards of Aurora

Dino Odyssey

Dumb Ways to Build

Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster

Marsupilami 2: Salsa Palombia

1964 Operation Velvet Twins

GoBlomb

Fatal Claw

Bit

Gravikitty

Super Astro Cat 2

Dash'n'Drops

Gravity Paws

Future Knight

Plungeez

Akatori

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