This article gives a list of platformers. There are both 2D and 3D variants of such games, with the latter becoming more prevalent from the 32/64-bit era and up to the present.

2D Platform or sidescrolling game series that originated in 2D.

10 Second Ninja X A Boy and His Blob Adventure Island Aero the Acro-Bat Akane the Kunoichi Aladdin Alex Kidd Alien Carnage (Halloween Harry) Amazing Princess Sarah Another World Apple Panic Ardy Lightfoot Batman Beauty and the Beast Bebe's Kids Blackthorne Blaster Master Bonk series Braid Brian the Lion Bubble Bobble Bucky O'Hare Bud Redhead - The Time Chase Bugs Bunny Captain Claw Captain Comic Castlevania series Cave Story Celeste Chakan: The Forever Man Chuck Rock Commander Keen series Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure Crystal Caves Dangerous Dave Darkwing Duck Dig Dug Dizzy series DuckTales ElecHead Elevator Action Fancy Pants Fireboy and Watergirl Fire and Ice Flashback Friday the 13th Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll Flying Warriors Freedom Planet Gentlemen! Geometry Dash Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy Ghosts 'n Goblins series Gods (video game) Gunslugs series Heart of Darkness Hocus Pocus Hollow Knight Ice Climber Jazz Jackrabbit series Jet Set Willy Jetpack Jill of the Jungle Jumpman / Jumpman Junior Kangaroo Kid Icarus Kirby series Knytt Lady Sia Legend of Kage Lode Runner Manic Miner MapleStory Mappy Mega Man series Metroid Miner 2049er Monster Bash Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad and Mr. Nutz Mutant Mudds N Ninja Five-O Ninja Gaiden series (8-bit console versions only) Öoo Ori and the Blind Forest Pac-Land Pitfall! series Pizza Tower Ponpoko Popeye Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? Punky Skunk Ristar Rocket Knight Adventures Secret Agent Seiklus Shadow of the Beast Shantae Shinobi series Shovel Knight Snow Bros Sonic the Hedgehog series Space Panic SpeedRunners Speedy Eggbert Strider Superfrog Super Mario Bros. series Super Meat Boy Techno Cop Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games The Lion King The Simpsons games ToeJam & Earl series Transformice Ugh! Vectorman series VVVVVV Wario Land series Whomp 'Em Wonder Boy series WonderKing Online Wrecking Crew Xargon

2.5D A mix of 2D gameplay/3D style gameplay. See 2.5D.

Bionic Commando: Rearmed series Blade Kitten Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (2013) Goemon's Great Adventure Klonoa series LittleBigPlanet series LostWinds New Super Mario Bros. series Pandemonium Shadow Complex Sonic Colors (DS Version) Sonic Generations (3DS Version) Sonic Rush series Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colors (Wii Version) and the remastered version Sonic Colors: Ultimate, Sonic Generations (PS3 and 360 Versions), Sonic Lost World (Wii U Version) and Sonic Forces - Mainly 3D with 2D sections. Sonic Generations includes the option to play as Classic Sonic, whose gameplay is set in 2D. Super Paper Mario - Combination 2.5D - 3D platforming/RPG Super Smash Bros. series Toki Tori series Tomba! series Trine Viewtiful Joe series Yoshi's Story

3D Platform game series that were born in 3D.

40 Winks A Hat in Time Alice: Madness Returns American McGee's Alice Ape Escape series Astro Bot Banjo-Kazooie Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg Blinx Bug! series Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time Castleween Chameleon Twist Clive 'N' Wrench Conan Crash Bandicoot series Croc series Darwin's Paradox! Dr. Muto Frogger series Gift I-Ninja Jak and Daxter series Jet Set Radio Future Jet Set Radio Jett Rocket Jersey Devil Jumping Flash! series Kameo: Elements of Power Kao The Kangaroo Kingsley's Adventure Knack Legend of Kay Malice Maximo series Mega Man X7 Mr. Robot Mushroom Men Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island Nicktoons: Globs of Doom Pac-Man World series Penny's Big Breakaway Pingwinek Kelvin Portal Runner Psychonauts Rascal Ratchet & Clank series Rocket: Robot on Wheels Rollin' Rascal Ruff Trigger: The Vanocore Conspiracy Scaler SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell Shadow Blade Skylar & Plux Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus Sonic Adventure series Sorcery Spare Parts Spyro the Dragon series Super Mario Galaxy Super Lucky's Tale Super Monkey Ball series Tak and the Power of Juju series The Big Catch Tomb Raider series Tonic Trouble Tork: Prehistoric Punk Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue Ty the Tasmanian Tiger series Vexx Voodoo Vince Whiplash Yooka-Laylee Zapper: One Wicked Cricket

2D to 3D Game series that were initial 2D and evolved into 3D at some point in their sequels.

Bubsy series Canimals series Castlevania series Cinnamoroll series Conker series Donkey Kong series (2D to 2.5D) Duke Nukem series Earthworm Jim series Gex series Hello Kitty series Keroppi series Kirby series Moshi Monsters series My Melody series Nikoderiko: The Magical World Ninja Gaiden series Oddworld Prince of Persia series Rayman series Rygar Sonic the Hedgehog series Spark the Electric Jester series Super Mario series Tamagotchi series The Great Giana Sisters

Others

A Nightmare on Elm Street Abuse Captain America and The Avengers (NES version only) CarVup Chuckie Egg Cliffhanger Congo Bongo Crazy Climber Demolition Man Donald Duck Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) Eternal Daughter Felix the Cat Futurama Gilligan's Island Gish Glover Haunted Castle Hook Icy Tower Inspector Gadget Judge Dredd Jungle Hunt / Jungle King Jurassic Park games (Genesis) Knight Lore Kung Fu Mickey Mouse games Monkey Labour Monster Party Monty on the Run New Zealand Story Plok Q*bert QWAK Rambo Ren and Stimpy RoboCop Roc 'N Rope Roller Coaster Rush 'n Attack Spider-Man games Superman games (Sega Genesis and SNES) The Incredible Hulk The Jungle Book The Lion King The Smurfs games

See also Lists of video games

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