Gris Is Beautiful In Every Way
I don’t normally shed tears when a video game ends. I hardly ever pause in the middle of a playthrough to appreciate a…
Guacamelee 2: The Kotaku Review
Guacamelee 2 feels great to play. It’s a demanding platformer with elements drawn from the beat ‘em ups of old but…
Gris Looks Beautiful
Gris is one of those great-looking indie games, the type that has no trouble hitting a Kickstarter funding goal, though…
Celeste: The Kotaku Review
Celeste is pure. Each room offers new challenges, but the solution is always the same: jump. Jumping is remixed in…
We Can't Stop Watching This Cruel Mario Clone
Watching this brutal Super Mario clone spring hilarious, unexpected traps on a poor player is hypnotic.
A Satisfying Platformer About Smashing Skeletons And Befriending Acrobats
Sometimes you need to punch a skeleton and use their severed arm to smack a ghost in the face. Long Live the Axe is an…
This Stick Figure In Fancy Pants Fights Monsters With A Pen
You know that feeling you get when you ride a roller coaster? The breathless anticipation, followed by the shrieking…
Adorable Puzzle-Platformer About Mushroom Men Is Surprisingly Hard
In Mushroom Heroes, I’m looking at a fast-moving platform over a bed of spikes. Timing my jump is one thing, but…
Slime-san Is A Lo-Fi Platformer That Wants To Sweep You Off Your Feet
Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in.
Brutal Platformer Standby Dares You To Speedrun It
Standby is hardcore platformer by Noclip. Blazing a trail through technicolor obstacle courses, players slide along…
Gonner Is A Punishing Platformer That's Hard To Put Down
Gonner is a roguelike-inspired platformer that does not care if you think it’s too hard. When you’re playing, you tend…
Those are some wicked lighting effects. The GIF comes from the devlog for MegaSphere, an…
Ori And The Blind Forest: The Kotaku Review
Pleasant. If I had to sum up Ori and the Blind Forest in one word, that would be it. The new Xbox One and PC platformer…
One Of My Favorite Mobile Games Is Now One Of My Favorite Steam Games
Since late 2013, Robert Topala's Geometry Dash has been the first gaming app I load on any new iDevice I come across.…
If Ico Were a Beautiful PC Side-Scroller
The inspirations for Fossil Echo include not just Ico, but also Shadow of the Colossus, the Oddworld series, and…
Clearly, This is what Rock Simulator Should Have Been
In Rolling Sun, you're a rock. Well, technically, you're a god whose avatar is a rock. Point is, you control a rock…
Wayforward has released their last Shantae platformer, Risky's Revenge, on PC. The game, which originally came out on…