Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world.




Lost Caverns is described as 'Prepare yourself and head off in search of adventure and forgotten treasure. Lost Caverns is an exciting 2D platform game that will test both your reflexes and puzzle solving abilities. Reminiscent of old school arcade platformers - but with a twist!' and is a Platform Game in the games category. There are eight games similar to Lost Caverns for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Lost Caverns alternative is Mari0, which is both free and Open Source. Other Lost Caverns like games are Super Meat Boy, Braid, Teslagrad and Alex the Allegator.
Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world.




Super Meat Boy is a platform game developed by Team Meat and is the successor to Edmund McMillen's and Jonathan McEntee's flash game, Meat Boy, originally released on the Newgrounds website in October 2008.




Braid is a platforming game in a painterly style where you manipulate the flow of time to solve puzzles.

Teslagrad is a 2D puzzle-platformer with action elements where magnetism and other electromagnetic powers are the key to go throughout the game, and thereby discover the secrets kept in the long abandoned Tesla Tower.




Alex the Allegator is a series of games that I, Johan Peitz, usually use for game coding challenges like Speedhack and Ludumdare.




Join Patty – a house painter with superhuman abilities – on her quest to rescue her kidnapped friend in this colorful and dynamic platformer. Face dangerous adventures in the desert, the jungle and on a tropical island and challenge Patty's evil sister in her spooky mansion.


Barbie Seahorse Adventures is a Platformer created for Pyweek 4 by The Olde Battleaxe (TOBA), and won the team entry. It is licensed under the GPL. It is written in the Python programming language and uses the Pygame library.

Chronology is an episodic puzzle platform adventure starring The Inventor and The Snail. Try "Part I" with 3 chapters for FREE. "Part II" is available in the game as an in-app purchase, with additional parts following later.

