Platformer Steam Demo Reviews
Platformers stand on jump feel. Coyote time, knockback, checkpoint rhythm, and level teaching beat a pretty background every time.
I cleared what I could of these platformer Steam demos, then filed Play, Maybe, or Skip verdicts for how they handle failure and flow.
15 Platformer Steam demo reviews on TodayWeGame, with Play, Maybe, or Skip verdicts to help you decide what to download.
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- Castlevania: Belmont's Curse (Play): I fought the first boss without the whip because I thought I'd walked past it, when the whip is what you get for killing him.
- Kona & SnowRabbit (Maybe): A comic-styled freeze-and-smash that looks really nice, buried under a cutscene every fifteen seconds of play.
- Ryn: And the thread of life (Maybe): A gorgeous thread-of-life metroidvania let down, for now, by performance that turns its best moments into a glowing-whit
- Teeko (Play): Teeko is a cute sloth Tower Defense platformer where defending Granny's food stand with coconut trees worked better than
- Junkyard Stories: Rebirth (Play): A dystopian stealth platformer where the atmosphere hooks you first, a ignored popup explains the ledge drop, and charge
- The Edge of Water (Maybe): Ocean surfing adventure where my first strategy was to hug the map edge until I found the reeds, then accidentally finis
- Cliff Kingdom (Play): Hand-drawn metroidvania inside a sea cliff where a depressed whale, a lonely badger, and a toupee-wearing slug called St
- Well Dweller (Play): A dark fairy-tale metroidvania where a shift-bubble launch will swear you out of the run until it clicks, and a scissors
- RELOADIAN (Maybe): A side-scrolling action roguelike with clean art and sharp platforming, where attack inputs queue so hard that dodging o
- Project XZ (Play): A black-and-white action platformer where tower defence tags lie to you until you realise you are the main tower, and ar
- HELLBOUND INC (Play): A precision puzzle platformer where an undead courier delivers packages for a logistics company Satan just bought. I die
- Paper Knight (Play): A hand-made paper Platformer built around the legend of Sant Jordi. I had a smile on my face the whole time, and the who
- The Eternal Life of Goldman (Play): Goldman has stunning hand-drawn art and smart boss design, but unskippable cutscenes hurt the pacing.
- Muri: Wildwoods (Maybe): A gentle, visually appealing platformer that lacks challenge for those who need more than casual exploration.
- REPLACED (Play): REPLACED is a gorgeous 2D action platformer with punchy combat and real promise.