Platformer Archives – Entertainium

Review: Long lost chapter in the series Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is pixelated gold

Eduardo ReboucasAugust 22, 2025August 21, 202506 mins

One of the most colorful GBA games never released, Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution is very much worth letting the half-genie out of the bottle again for.

One year after its release on early access, The Rogue Prince of Persia is an even more beautiful and entertaining roguelike platformer

Eduardo ReboucasMay 23, 2025May 23, 2025011 mins

The Rogue Prince of Persia plays brilliantly and as it approaches 1.0, it already plays and feels like one of the best roguelikes around.

Review: Bionic Bay is a beautiful, if sometimes infuriating, platformer

Andy JohnsonMay 15, 2025May 15, 202507 mins

Bionic Bay has a unique pixel art aesthetic which coats a need for deep reserves of precision and patience.

Review: Charming as all hell, Astro Bot is a love letter to Sony by Sony itself

Eduardo ReboucasSeptember 13, 2024September 12, 202407 mins

Astro Bot is one of the best platformers released in over a decade, oozing with content and fun scenarios that should appeal to just about every kind of player there is.

Review: Gimmick! 2 is a charmingly simple and fun platformer

Eduardo ReboucasSeptember 12, 2024April 28, 202506 mins

Gimmick! 2 marks the first time that a new entry in the series has been officially released outside of Japan.

Review: Castlevania Dominus Collection is a portable banger of a compilation

Eduardo ReboucasSeptember 3, 2024April 28, 202507 mins

Bringing some of the finest 2D games to date, the Castlevania Dominus Collection is a brilliant compilation that is helped even further with the surprise inclusion of a much needed rework of the game that started it all.

Review: Gestalt: Steam & Cinder well-oiled gameplay and narrative shake up an otherwise stale genre

Eduardo ReboucasAugust 2, 2024August 2, 202407 mins

Say what you will about the genre, Gestalt: Steam and Cinder is an excellent pixelated ‘search action adventure’ game set in a fantasy world very much worth exploring.

BGS 2023: How Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown stole the show

Eduardo ReboucasOctober 13, 2023April 28, 202525 mins

With Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Ubisoft reinvents its classic videogame franchise yet again in a brilliantly put together platformer that has a huge emphasis on speed and precision movement and does not shy away from set pieces and fantastic combat.