Category: Platformer

AER is an upcoming atmospheric adventure platformer in which you play as a girl who can transform into bird and explore a world of floating islands and ancient secrets. The game will be published by Daedalic Entertainment and is slated for a 2016 release.

After the initial 2014 estimate slipped and it became clear that the outsourced port contained lots of bugs and a whole level missing, the developer, Black Forest Games, has now decided to finish up the Linux version themselves. Last week they also shared some screenshots of the game running on SteamOS.

Thanks to a reader we were able to take a look at Gravity Ghost, a charming gravity platformer from Ivy Games LLC.

BADLAND is an atmospheric side-scrolling action adventure platformer set in a gorgeous forest full of various inhabitants, trees and flowers. Although the forest appears to be right out of a beautiful fairy tale, there’s something terribly wrong.

The remake of the popular classic 'Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee' was released for PlayStation 4 last summer, and now the long wait for the Linux version of the game is coming to an end.

Nostalgia junkies will be pleased to hear that Super Mario 64 is getting a complete overhaul as fans are making the game from scratch using the FOSS Blender Game Engine with a Linux release confirmed.

The sequel to the popular run 'n' gun platformer is now out, and as a last minute surprise, the developer OrangePixel also made the first game available for Linux today. We have played the follow-up, and it offers the same enjoyable action frenzy as the original, but in a more accessible package.

I hope you weren't excited for Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, as the release that was supposed to happy last month got delayed.

Lockdown Protocol is a good looking high-score orientated action platformer that has now entered beta for Linux, and it's looking great.

'Clive & The Stones Of The Ancient Bunnies' made something of a belly flop on Kickstarter earlier this year, and was far from reaching their £25K goal. That didn't stop one-man developer Rob Wass though, as he has kept at it and released a new gameplay trailer for the game last week.

Lost Constellation is a supplemental game to the upcoming game 'Night in the Woods' by developer Infinite Fall and is available on a pay-what-you-want scheme from Itch.io.

It's no easy job to explain exactly what Job Lozenge is. That it's a game out of the ordinary is certain though.

Fossil Echo is a hand-animated game about a boy on a great journey to reach a giant tower in the middle of the sea. It's influenced by the Oddworld series, Ico and Studio Ghibli films.

iO is one of the more interesting platformers I've been sent recently for the interesting growing and shrinking mechanics, and it's not as simple as it looks.

It's been a while, but Trine Enchanted Edition has been officially released for Linux. Be sure to give you love to Frozenbyte for delivering on their promise.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is slated to come out for Linux later this month. A post by a developer at the end of November confirmed that the game is on track for a release in December.

If you're in the small minority of platformer enthusiasts who found Electronic Super Joy too easy, there's some good news for you, as developer Michael Todd has released a DLC for the game that promises to be more difficult.

Orphan is a dark (think Limbo) styled action platformer that looks fantastic. Good visuals, and a setting revolving around aliens; well count me interested!

A demo was released for the game a couple of weeks ago. This weekend a trailer was released and the full game will be available next month.

The platformer from developer Turtle Cream has some very interesting mechanics and a beautiful soundtrack and is a welcome addition to our platform for fans of the genre.