Curated playlist
3D platformers
- Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark KnightLego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, a 2026 game from Traveller's Tales, lets players control only seven characters. Earlier Lego games let them swap between hundreds. The studio shrank the roster while building the biggest Gotham City…
- Portal 2Adam Foster, a Valve employee, ran a bulletin board from his own home phone line. Valve's offices were too modern to support the old protocol. The board served ASCII pictures and scraps of Aperture Science documents to curious players.…
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of TimePrince of Persia: The Sands of Time reached stores in the autumn of 2003, and its central trick was a kind of mercy. Miss a jump, fall onto spikes, and the game lets the player take it back. The Prince carries a magic Dagger that can turn…
- Portal (video game)Portal, a 2007 puzzle-platform game from Valve, begins with an artificial intelligence promising a silent woman named Chell a reward of cake. The reward is for surviving a long run of laboratory tests. Players soon learn to distrust that…
- American McGee's AliceAmerican McGee's Alice begins in 1863, with a house fire that kills the parents of Alice Liddell and leaves her badly burned and psychologically shattered. The game reached players in 2000, and its title carries the name of its designer, a…
- Astro BotBy April 9, 2025, the PlayStation 5 game Astro Bot had become the most awarded platformer of all time.
- Super Mario 64Super Mario 64 is a 1996 platform game from Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, and a sealed copy of it holds the record for the largest sum ever paid for a video game. That sale happened in July 2021. Heritage Auctions' specialist said: "It…
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderLucasfilm wanted Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to star a smuggler, not a Jedi. Director Stig Asmussen refused.
- Super Mario OdysseySuper Mario Odyssey opens with an act of violence against a hat. Bowser's airship drags Mario's cap into its rear propellers and shreds it to pieces. Mario has just been knocked off the ship, and he lands in a kingdom of living hats. From…
- Star Wars Jedi: SurvivorStar Wars Jedi: Survivor opens with a break-in on Coruscant, the Imperial capital world. Jedi Knight Cal Kestis, played by Cameron Monaghan, steals military data from a senator named Daho Sejan. The 2023 game comes from Respawn…
- Donkey Kong BananzaDonkey Kong Bananza gives a gorilla one job: dig down, and smash whatever gets in the way. Nintendo EPD developed the 2025 platform game for the Nintendo Switch 2, and its landscapes crumble under nearly every punch, slap and throw. The…
- Super Mario GalaxySuper Mario Galaxy is a Nintendo platform game in which Mario runs around tiny worlds shaped like ice cream and apples. It appeared on the Wii, and the people building it were not all sure the idea would work. Some feared the technology…
- Conker's Bad Fur DayConker's Bad Fur Day, a 2001 Nintendo 64 game from the developer Rare, hinges on a villain who wants a red squirrel to serve as the missing leg of his table. The squirrel is Conker, a greedy, hard-drinking creature trying to get home to…