Best Platformers on PS4 | Push Square

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What are the best platformers on PS4? If you've been playing games for any length of time, you'll know that platformers have been around since the very beginning. Some of gaming's most recognisable characters are from platformers — your Marios, your Sonics, and so on. Mainly concerned with testing a player's dexterity, these games are all about running, jumping, and collecting things in 2D and 3D obstacle courses. That said, there's a huge amount of variety within the genre.

Platformers on PS4 come in all shapes and sizes. You have 3D, large budget adventures like Tearaway Unfolded or PSVR's Astro Bot Rescue Mission, but there are also small scale side-scrollers like Celeste and Shovel Knight. Of course, there's everything in between, too.

These games tend to skew towards a family audience, meaning they're usually bright and colourful with little in the way of combat. However, you do see platformers veer into action-orientated territory too, and even horror; for every Rayman Legends, there's a Guacamelee or a Little Nightmares to test your fighting prowess and your nerves respectively. Long story short, there are platformers of all stripes on PS4.

To figure out which are the best of the bunch, we're gonna need your help. The games on this list are ranked based on your ratings, meaning that you can directly influence the shape of this article. If you want to have your say, you can search for your favourite PS4 platformers using the box below, or simply go to any game's page on Push Square and click the star to rate it. The aim is that this list will always reflect your views on the best platformers on PS4.

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