Gunlord X - the Turrican-styled platform shooter w/ 32-bit styled pixel art is coming soon to Switch. (by @ngdevteam)
“Shakedown: Hawaii fuses open world action and empire building. Build a "legitimate" corporation by completing open world missions, acquiring businesses, sabotaging competitors, "re-zoning" land, and shaking down shops for protection money. You are the CEO, and questionable subsidiaries, hidden service fees, misleading ads, and fine print are your super power.”
Release: May 7th 2019 (Switch, PS4, Vita, PC)
Bomb Chicken (by Nitrome) is now available on Steam! (The game was also released on Switch last year)
Ultracore is a Turrican styled platform shooter that was developed in 1994 for Mega Drive/Genesis (by DICE) but was canceled before release (99% done). Now 25 years later it will be released soon on PS4+Vita+Switch. (by StrictlyLimitedGames) (The game is already available on the Analogue Mega Sg since March 2019)
Links: Trailer | Gameplay Video | Wikipedia Article
Cyber Shadow is an upcoming ninja action platformer with high quality 8-bit styled pixelart.
Inspirations: Ninja Gaiden, Metroid, Castlevania, Mega Man Developer: Aarne “MekaSkull” Hunziker Publisher: Yacht Club Games Release Date: TBD Platforms: Steam, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
Links: Trailer | Website | Steam
Panzer Paladin, is an upcoming action platformer in which you control a small pilot that controls a big Paladin power armor... This tribute to the NES era is currently in development by Tribute Games (Flinthook, Mercenary Kings) and is aimed for a release next year (Spring 2020)
This video project showcases all 912 GBC games in a 152 min video (10 sec per game) and in 27 smaller 1-15 min videos (A-Z)
The Virtual Gaming Library YouTube channel offers also much more compilation videos for other systems (NES, SNES, N64, GBA, GC, SMS, MegaDrive/Genesis, PS1, Dreamcast, TurboGrafx-16, NeoGeo)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (pixel art mockup)
Pixel Artist: BenStar
Source: twitter.com/BenstarDEV
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (pixel art mockup)
Pixel Artist: Snakepixel
Source: twitter.com/snakepixel
"Roof Rage is a Martial Arts Platform Fighter featuring epic rooftop battles. Play with up to 8 players locally or 1vs1 online.”
Lunark is a new 2D cinematic platformer (by Johan Vinet) that is mainly inspired by Flashback, Prince of Persia, and Another World.
120 Notable Platformers of 2018
I’ve just created a new compilation video which shows 120 Notable Platformers that were released in 2018. It features a wide variety of platformer subgenres thus you will see traditional platformers, hardcore platformers, platform shooters, platform fighters, puzzle platformers, action adventure platformers, and more…
A YouTube playlist with trailers for all 120 games can be found here.
Note: Some platformers were originally released in 2017 or earlier and then re-released in 2018 (Switch release. Special Edition etc.). In those cases the original release dates are shown in brackets in the lower right corner.
Below is a list with all shown games (plus links to the related twitter accounts)
- 0:07 - Celeste | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 0:14 - Iconoclasts | PC, PS4, PS Vita, Switch
- 0:22 - Shu | PC, PS4, PS Vita, Switch
- 0:26 - Super Fancy Pants Adventure | PC, iOS, Android
- 0:32 - Super One More Jump | Switch, iOS, Android
- 0:36 - Alto’s Oddyssey | iOS, Android
- 0:45 - Fe | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 0:50 - Candleman: The Complete Journey | PC, XB1, PS4
- 0:56 - Owlboy | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 1:01 - GRIS | PC, Switch
- 1:28 - Child of Light | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 1:33 - Toki Tori 2+ | PC, PS4, Switch
- 1:42 - Night in the Woods | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 1:49 - Planetoid Pioneers | PC
- 2:00 - Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 2:04 - Aegis Defenders | PC, PS4, Switch
- 2:13 - Dig Dog | PC, XB1, iOS
- 2:22 - Vagante | PC
- 2:30 - Remnants of Naezith | PC
- 2:39 - Sprint Vector | PC VR, PS VR
- 2:43 - Atomik: RunGunJumpGun | PC, Switch, iOS
- 2:52 - Dandara | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, iOS, Android
- 2:59 - SteamWorld Dig | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch, 3DS
- 3:05 - Treasure Adventure World | PC
- 3:09 - Bleed 2 | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 3:18 - Octahedron | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 3:27 - Clustertruck | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 3:34 - Flinthook | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 3:43 - Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, 3DS
- 3:47 - Kirby Star Allies | Switch
- 4:01 - The Adventure Pals | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 4:09 - Oddmar | iOS, Android
- 4:17 - LightFall | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 4:23 - Copy Kitty | PC
- 4:33 - Forgotton Anne | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 4:41 - Fox n Forests | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 4:52 - Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | Switch
- 5:04 - Yoku’s Island Express | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 5:09 - Runner3 | PC, Switch
- 5:19 - Shantae: Half Genie Hero - Ultimate Edition | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 5:26 - Venture Kid | PC, iOS
- 5:32 - N++ | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 5:41 - Shift Quantum | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 5:45 - Super Chariot | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 5:51 - Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch, 3DS
- 5:59 - Little Nightmares: Complete Edition | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 6:08 - Youropa | PC
- 6:14 - Suzy Cube | PC, iOS, Android
- 6:23 - Moss | PC VR, PS VR
- 6:32 - Unravel Two | PC, PS4, XB1
- 6:43 - Aggelos | PC
- 6:51 - Super Rocket Shootout | PC, Switch
- 6:56 - Overwhelm | PC
- 7:03 - INK | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 7:09 - Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 7:16 - Rifter | PC
- 7:22 - 20XX | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 7:28 - Ghost 1.0 | PC, XB1, Switch
- 7:31 - Bomb Chicken | Switch
- 7:40 - MoonQuest | PC
- 7:44 - Miles & Kilo | PC, Switch, iOS
- 7:53 - Heroki | Switch, iOS
- 7:58 - Super Dangerous Dungeons | PC, iOS, Android
- 8:03 - Semblance | PC, Switch
- 8:10 - Sonic Mania Plus | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 8:15 - Runbow | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 8:20 - Chasm | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 8:30 - Inside | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 8:39 - La-Mulana 2 | PC
- 8:46 - Dead Cells | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 8:51 - Guacamelee 2 | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 8:59 - Death’s Gambit | PC, PS4
- 9:07 - The Messenger | PC, Switch
- 9:13 - Freedom Planet | PC, PS4, Switch
- 9:22 - Treadnauts | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 9:29 - Kero Blaster | PC, PS4, Switch, iOS
- 9:39 - Flat Heroes | PC, Switch
- 9:46 - The King’s Bird | PC
- 9:51 - Speed Brawl | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 9:55 - Timespinner | PC, PS4, PS Vita
- 10:06 - Planet Alpha | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 10:10 - Super Lucky’s Tale | PC; XB1
- 10:21 - Razed | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 10:32 - Hover | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 10:38 - Marble it up | PC, Switch
- 10:44 - Distance | PC
- 10:51 - Wandersong | PC, Switch
- 11:00 - Sockman | PC
- 11:20 - Duck Souls | PC
- 11:29 - Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 11:35 - Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Owltimate Edition | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 11:43 - Risk of Rain | PC, PS4, PS Vita, Switch
- 11:53 - Dust: An Elysian Tail | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, iOS
- 12:01 - Velocity 2X | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 12:10 - Ultimate Chicken Horse | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 12:20 - TowerFall | PC, PS4, PS Vita, XB1, Switch
- 12:31 - Alwa’s Awakening | PC, Switch
- 12:36 - Super Cat Tales 2 | iOS, Android
- 12:45 - Mega Man 11 | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 12:56 - Astro Bot | PS VR
- 13:08 - Joggernauts | PC, Switch
- 13:15 - Slime-san: Superslime Edition | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 13:26 - Eternum EX | PC, Switch
- 13:32 - Mark of the Ninja Remastered | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 13:35 - Guacamelee! STCE | PC, PS4, PS Vita, Switch
- 13:41 - Shift Happens | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 13:50 - Thunder Kid | PC
- 13:59 - Furwind | PC
- 14:03 - Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom | PS4, XB1, Switch (PS4 = 2019)
- 14:12 - Toki | Switch
- 14:20 - Spyro Reignited Trilogy | PS4, XB1
- 14:25 - SteamWorld Dig 2 | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch, 3DS
- 14:35 - Steel Rats | PC, PS4
- 14:45 - Ms. Splosion Man | PC, Xbox 360, Switch
- 14:51 - Gelly Break | Switch
- 14:59 - Battle Princess Madelyn | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 15:07 - Gizmo | PC
- 15:14 - Grapple Force Rena | PC
- 15:19 - Sundered: Eldritch Edition | PC, PS4, XB1, Switch
- 15:29 - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | Switch
Super Metroid (pixelart mockup)
Pixel Artist: ponkadunk
Source: twitter.com/ponkadunk | pixeljoint.com