Best Platformer Games for Android

Dead Cells is a roguelite metroidvania that started as a PC hit and arrived on Android without compromise. You wake in a dungeon, you fight your way through procedurally arranged levels, you die, and you start over — but never quite the same way twice. The Playdigious mobile port is exceptional, with tight touch controls and all DLC content included.

Grimvalor is what happens when a small Finnish studio pours everything into a single idea. You're a lone warrior exploring a cursed kingdom, slashing through enemies with fast, precise combat that feels tailor-made for touchscreens. Five acts, epic boss fights, and wall-climbing acrobatics that chain together in a way that's genuinely satisfying.

Alto's Odyssey is an endless snowboarder set in a desert — yes, desert — with sand dunes, ancient temples, and canyon walls that shift with the weather and time of day. You chain backflips, grind temple rooftops, and chase yaks across a world that is consistently, quietly breathtaking. It is the platonic ideal of a mobile game.

A cube runs, flips, and rockets through spike-filled levels set to pounding electronic music. One wrong tap sends you back to the beginning — no checkpoints, no mercy. What makes Geometry Dash more than a reflex test is its community: over a decade of players have created millions of custom levels that push the game's engine to its absolute limits.

Oddmar is a disgraced Viking who can't earn a place in Valhalla — not yet. Across 24 hand-crafted levels he leaps, rolls, and swings through magical forests, icy mountains, and treacherous pirate coves. The physics-based platforming is playful and inventive, with imbued weapons that change how you approach each encounter. Winner of the Apple Design Award 2018.

Dandara is named after a figure from Brazilian folklore, and she defies gravity — literally. Rather than running and jumping in conventional ways, she leaps between surfaces in any direction, including walls and ceilings. The Trials of Fear Edition expands the original with new story content, dialogue, and environmental lore that transforms it from a curiosity into a complete experience.

Leo is a small, fluffy creature who has had his gold stolen. Across 24 physics-based levels spanning mossy forests, arid deserts, and snowy mountains, he bounces, inflates, and deflates his way through traps and obstacles in pursuit of the thief. The team behind Leo's Fortune later made Oddmar — and the DNA is obvious in the best possible way.

Terraria is a 2D sandbox where digging, building, exploring, and fighting all happen in the same endless world. Over 400 enemies, 20 bosses, and thousands of craftable items make it less a game and more a way of life. Re-Logic has delivered major free updates for years, and the mobile version is fully feature-complete with the PC original.

Badland drops you into a lush, dark forest where traps, rotating blades, and walls of spikes are in constant, shifting motion. You guide a small winged creature through this world by tapping to flap — simple input, brutally complex execution. More than 100 levels, physics-based hazards that never repeat the same pattern, and a silhouette art style that turns a phone screen into something genuinely eerie.

Limbo is monochrome, wordless, and unsparing. A boy wakes at the edge of a dark forest and begins walking — through traps, giant spiders, industrial machinery, and increasingly surreal environments — in search of his sister. The entire experience runs four to six hours and uses every one of them. Playdead made Limbo before they made INSIDE, and it shows exactly where that genius came from.