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Best Platformer games on Android

The 19 best Platformer games on Android, ranked from 9,244 critic and player ratings.

The best Platformer game on Android right now is Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, with a critic score of 91/100 — updated November 2026.

How this ranking is built
  • Games are ranked on the aggregated critic score out of 100 imported from IGDB and Metacritic, never on Tier's own grades.
  • A game only enters the ranking with at least 80 external ratings, so a single enthusiastic review never outranks a proven classic.
  • Each game is ranked in one genre only, the one that defines it best, so the same title never tops two different genre charts.
  • Community grades from F to S are shown next to every game, and only stated as a fact above 5 Tier ratings.
  • Release window covered: 1970 to 2026.
  • 19 games are listed on this page, carrying 9,244 ratings between them.
  • Rankings are recomputed hourly; this one was last rebuilt on 13 November 2026.

Top 19

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01 Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove 2014 · 322 ratings · finished by 23% 91 /100
02 Dead Cells A Dead Cells 2018 · 647 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 16% Dead Cells is a rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat. 90 /100
03 Trine 2 Trine 2 2011 · 279 ratings · finished by 16% Three Heroes survive in countless dangers in a fairy-tale world, with physics-based jigsaw puzzles, beautiful scenery, and cooperative online mode. 85 /100
04 Sonic Advance Sonic Advance 2001 · 135 ratings Sonic Advance is notable for being the first Sonic game released on a Nintendo console, despite both Sega and Nintendo being well-known rivals on the console market throught the 1990s. Sonic Advance features four playable characters and marks the first playable appearance of Amy Rose on a 2D title. The game borrows elements from the original Sonic the Hedgehog titles for the Sega Genesis, but with the post-Dreamcast artstyle for the characters which was introduced in Sonic Adventure. The game also includes multiplayer features and mini-games. The title was also ported to the Nokia N-Gage under the title "SonicN". 85 /100
05 Tomb Raider C Tomb Raider 2013 · 2,397 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 28% · 10 h to beat A remaster of the original Tomb Raider, including The Unfinished Business expansion as well as the ability to toggle between original and remastered graphics. 85 /100
06 Limbo Limbo 2010 · 1,630 ratings · finished by 27% · 3 h to beat Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister. 84 /100
07 Gris Gris 2018 · 568 ratings · finished by 27% Gris is a 2D platformer developed by Nomada Studio and published by Devolver Digital. It is a visually striking game that follows the journey of a young woman named Gris as she navigates a world of grief and loss. The game features no dialogue, relying on its hand-painted art style, evocative music, and environmental storytelling to convey its themes. Gameplay involves exploration, light platforming, and puzzle-solving, with Gris gaining new abilities as the story progresses. It received critical acclaim for its artistic design and emotional depth. 81 /100
08 Terraria S Terraria 2011 · 1,065 ratings · 6 Tier votes · finished by 12% · 15 h to beat Dig, Fight, Explore, Build: The very world is at your fingertips as you fight for survival, fortune, and glory. Will you delve deep into cavernous expanses in search of treasure and raw materials with which to craft ever-evolving gear, machinery, and aesthetics? Perhaps you will choose instead to seek out ever-greater foes to test your mettle in combat? Maybe you will decide to construct your own city to house the host of mysterious allies you may encounter along your travels? In the World of Terraria, the choice is yours! 81 /100
09 VVVVVV VVVVVV 2010 · 188 ratings · finished by 10% There's something terribly wrong in an alternate dimension! Help Captain Viridian flip to find five crew members, 20 hard-to-reach Trinkets and save a dimension on the brink of destruction. It's a space opera in the most unique scale with a style that only VVVVVV can bring to you. Instead of jumping, control the direction of gravity by inverting your gravity and allowing Captain Viridian to flip between the floors and ceilings of the environment. For adventurers who save the dimension, there's still hours and hours of new gameplay with all-new Player Levels. Test your mettle and see if you have what it takes to beat a collection of levels created by other famous game developers. Inspired by classic 8-bit days gone-by and now with experience-heightening 3D, VVVVVV will challenge even the most battle-hardened old-school gamers. 80 /100
10 Ultimate Chicken Horse Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016 · 122 ratings · finished by 6% Ever wish you were a wall-jumping, arrow-dodging, trap-setting horse, besting your animal pals in a race through a peril-laden obstacle course that you all built together? Wish granted! Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer where you and your friends build the level as you play, placing deadly traps before trying to reach the end of the level. If you can make it but your friends can't, you score points! Play online or locally with your animal buddies and experiment with a wide variety of platforms in all sorts of strange locations to find new ways to mess with your friends. Key Features: - Online and local play for up to 4 players - Cross-platform play between PC, PS4, and Switch - Unique game flow, from strategic block placement to twitch control platforming - 15 levels with different features - Build and share custom levels - Compete for global best times on Challenge levels across all platforms - Huge library of blocks to create an infinite variety of levels - Customizable rule sets and game modes - Shared controller mode to play multiplayer with one controller or keyboard - Play as a chicken, horse, sheep, raccoon and other wonderful animals - Fun, cartoony art style - Sweet funky soundtrack Please note: this is primarily a multiplayer game. Challenge levels can be created and played alone, but unlocking characters and levels requires playing one of the main game modes (like Party Mode) which are only multiplayer. 79 /100
11 Little Nightmares A Little Nightmares 2017 · 748 ratings · 2 Tier votes · finished by 15% · 3 h to beat 78 /100
12 Downwell Downwell 2015 · 123 ratings · finished by 7% 78 /100
13 Thomas Was Alone Thomas Was Alone 2012 · 185 ratings · finished by 12% 76 /100
14 DuckTales: Remastered DuckTales: Remastered 2013 · 117 ratings · finished by 10% 75 /100
15 Pikuniku Pikuniku 2019 · 147 ratings 75 /100
16 Edge Edge 2011 · 160 ratings · finished by 5% 74 /100
17 Never Alone: Kisima Ingitchuna Never Alone: Kisima Ingitchuna 2014 · 181 ratings 71 /100
18 Super Mario Run C Super Mario Run 2016 · 126 ratings · 1 Tier vote 70 /100
19 SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated A SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated 2020 · 104 ratings · 1 Tier vote · finished by 9% 68 /100
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What is the best Platformer game on Android?

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove currently tops the ranking with a score of 91/100 across 322 ratings. Ranking updated November 2026.

How is this ranking built?

Games are ranked on their aggregated critic score out of 100, with a minimum vote threshold so a single glowing review never outranks a proven classic; the Tier community's own F-to-S grades are shown alongside each game.