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Joshua Speer is a Staff Writer at DualShockers who has been covering games professionally since 2013, with a focus on indie games, retro games, platformers, deckbuilders, roguelikes, and Nintendo ...

Seeing apathy in the face of doomsday, an office intern decides to save the world by themselves. But the world responds by summoning the police, angry mobs, and the media, branding them as a terrorist ...

Check out this trailer for IGTAP: An Incremental Game That's Also A Platformer, a new... incremental game that is also a platformer! Complete platforming challenges to upgrade, so you can run the ...

Super Spin Digital has announced Ligmanauts, a “physics-driven multiplayer platformer that channels the raw energy of early 2000s gaming culture.” It will launch for PC via Steam in Q3 2026 for $4.99.

Of all the video game genres out there, platformers are probably the most important. While not the first genre, the early 1980s platformer boom helped establish the home console video game industry ...

One of the most important aspects for a 3D platformer to nail is making sure it feels amazing. Running around, jumping, climbing, diving, all of it should be a joy. You should be able to run and jump ...

Many modern action-platformers aspire to blend old-school ideas with new-school sensibilities, but few achieve the balance of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound. It retains the pick-up-and-play accessibility and ...

In MotionRec, it is usually very obvious what you need to do in order to get Rec the robot from point A to point B. The trick comes from figuring out how to accomplish that with the character’s ...

Hellreaper is a new roguelike action platformer from developer Awesome Games Studio. In it, you play a former angel who is now the Hellreaper, aka a "mystical executioner sent to cull Hell's endless ...