Fall is nearly here, and I’m fully ready for the spooky season. With perfect timing comes a demo for the upcoming…

Welcome to Ask Kotaku, the new weekly feature in which Kotaku’s rank and file weigh in on the burning questions of…

Platformers are all about jumping, but what happens when your jumps are so powerful that your body literally can’t…

The last Ice Age film or short came out back in 2016. There has been the talk of a new film or TV series, but…

The original Yooka-Laylee attempted to capture the magic of 3D platformers like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64,…

The first time I saw Hell Is Other Demons was through a lovely gameplay GIF circulating on Twitter. It looked…

I don’t normally shed tears when a video game ends. I hardly ever pause in the middle of a playthrough to appreciate…

Guacamelee 2 feels great to play. It’s a demanding platformer with elements drawn from the beat ‘em ups of old but…

Gris is one of those great-looking indie games, the type that has no trouble hitting a Kickstarter funding goal,…

Celeste is pure. Each room offers new challenges, but the solution is always the same: jump. Jumping is remixed in…

Watching this brutal Super Mario clone spring hilarious, unexpected traps on a poor player is hypnotic.

Sometimes you need to punch a skeleton and use their severed arm to smack a ghost in the face. Long Live the Axe is…

You know that feeling you get when you ride a roller coaster? The breathless anticipation, followed by the shrieking…

In Mushroom Heroes, I’m looking at a fast-moving platform over a bed of spikes. Timing my jump is one thing, but…

2 is an experimental platformer by hubol that seeks to combine curiosity and platforming. Full of wild visuals,…

Slime-San is the type of twitchy, lighting-quick platformer I‘m happy to spend hours dying in.

Standby is hardcore platformer by Noclip. Blazing a trail through technicolor obstacle courses, players slide along…

Gonner is a roguelike-inspired platformer that does not care if you think it’s too hard. When you’re playing, you…