Top 10 Games: Platformers
The highest-graded platformer games we have reviewed, best first.
Uncharted 2: Among ThievesThe best directed action game of its generation, with the seams hidden so well you stop looking for them.Read the review
Super MetroidWordless, lonely, and immaculate: the blueprint half the industry still traces.
Super Mario Bros. 3The 8-bit platformer's final form, bursting with more ideas than most franchises.
Super Mario Galaxy 2Every idea the first Galaxy had room for and about forty it did not, with the padding surgically removed.
Super Mario WorldNinety six exits, a dinosaur, and the most generous secret map anyone has drawn.
Super Mario Bros.Nintendo puts a plumber in front of a pit and writes the grammar every platformer has used since.
Hollow Knight: SilksongSix years of waiting answered with a faster, meaner game that assumes you already mastered the last one.
Portal 2A perfect short story stretched into a novel without diluting the joke, and Wheatley is the reason it works.
Castlevania: Symphony of the NightThe game that put the 'vania' in Metroidvania and made 2D defiant in a 3D world.
Hi-Fi RushEverything in the world moves on the beat, so you are keeping time whether or not you realise you are.
