The platform genre is one of the most popular. There have been platform games since the near dawn of gaming itself, and the PlayStation series of consoles has been home to some of the best. These are games that have jumping and battling your way through their levels on to whatever objective awaits.
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On thePlayStation 5, you’ll find a solid selection of platform games for you to dive into. Some of them are new out-of-this-world experiences and others are entries in familiar series from PlayStation’s past. Each one lets you get your platform on, with differing stories and visuals for everyone to enjoy.
6Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
The Lego games are some of the most fun platformers around. Add Star Wars to the mix and you’ve got a wonderful platforming title for PS5.Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Sagahas you jumping, climbing, completing puzzles, and battling your way through all nine of the series main episodes.
You don’t have to play as the main characters in those episodes, however. There areover 400 charactersfor you to choose from, and you can switch between them whenever you’d like after originally completing a level. The game takes Star Wars and adds a bit more silliness to it, but still provides you with the cinematic experience of the films. It’s just in Lego form.
5Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time
Crash Bandicoot is one of the key mascots for PlayStation. Over decades, he has platformed his way through a variety of adventures. In his fourth outing,Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, he joins the multiverse theory that so many games and movies are exploring.
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Crash and Coco team up in It’s About Time and must stop Cortex and Tropy by uniting the four Quantum Masks. Everything that made Crash popular in the first place is found. You’ll jump, flip, spin, andsmash your way through universes. And of course, Crash wears his jorts throughout the entire game.
4It Takes Two
It Takes Twois a platform game created exclusively for co-operative play. Two players will take on the roles of Cody and May, a clashing couple that were turned into dolls by a magic spell. You’ll have to work together to save their lives along with their relationship.
To progress through It Takes Two, you and your partner will need to put your heads together to tackle puzzles, discover how to reach objectives, and fight against the likes of angry vacuum cleaners and ferocious squirrels. You’ll find new character abilities in every level that will help you overcome the game’s challenges and the characters' difference in one of the most unique experiences on PS5.
3Solar Ash
InSolar Ash, you play as a Voidrunner by the name of Rei. The game is set in a surreal dreamscape where you’ll constantly come across abandoned cities and settlements with much history for you to discover. And all of this happens while you are on a mission to save your planet from being destroyed by Ultravoid, whose eternal hunger has it ready to devour everything in its path.
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There are giant beasts that will chase you down as you skate away, grind rails, and dash towards the end of each level. Solar Ash delivers a high-speed adventure with highly stylized graphics that will keep you coming back for more. There areplenty of secrets to uncoverabout the state of Rei’s planet and what she needs to do to ensure its survival.
2Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Sackboy has become an iconic part of PlayStation’s history over the years. Introduced in Little Big Planet, the tiny hero is no stranger to going off to face a myriad of challenges on his own. InSackboy: A Big Adventure, the titular character’s friends are kidnapped by an evil being known as Vex. It is up to you to save them.
Vex is forcing Sackboy’s companions to build a machine that will turn Craftworld into a land of disgusting and vile nightmares. You’ll have to stop him before it is too late by using Sackboy’s abilities to platform, solve puzzles, take down enemies, and overcomesurprises in every level. Take on this challenge alone or bring some friends to put an end to Vex’s plans in up to four-player co-op.
1Ratchet And Clank: Rift Apart
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apartis the premier platforming game on PlayStation 5. It brings the duo back for a multiversal adventure that showcases beloved locations in a different light. There are returning characters, new partners joining the fight, and the same mechanized combat that made the series popular in the first place.
In Rift Apart, a villain threatens to take control of the multiverse. As Ratchet and Clank, you’ll need todiscover new weapons, utilize ability upgrades, and understand the means of traveling through dimensions to save the day. The same goes for their counterparts, Rivet and Kit, who are playable at times throughout the game.
