Best 3D Platformer Games on Steam
Platformers about jumping, collecting, and navigating open or linear 3D spaces.
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1Portal 2 - The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Apr 18, 2011
In this game, you can…
- hit a chapter title that literally says "this is the part where he kills you" as the game turns it into a set-piece
- bounce across chambers with repulsion gel, build insane speed with propulsion gel, then paint walls to make new portal surfaces
- play co-op where each robot has its own portal gun, and your solution can break the bridge your partner is standing on
- wake up from long-term stasis, get guided by a friendly AI, and then have the main villain come back online
- use portals to redirect lasers, light bridges, and tractor beams through moving machinery to power your way forward
- chain portals to fling yourself over pits, launch cubes onto buttons, and keep extending the same trick into bigger gaps
- replay co-op stages for least time and least portals, racing friends as they knock you off the leaderboard
- drop into community-made test chambers and keep getting brand-new puzzles long after the story ends
2It Takes Two - Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Mar 25, 2021
In this game, you can…
- pilot a pair of underpants.
- dj a night club inside an air conditioning vent for a crowd of living glow sticks.
- stop the story to play mini-games where you can electrocute the other player.
- fly a plane made of underpants later on.
- use a magnet turret to shoot magnets and turn a wall into a huge co-op traversal puzzle.
- fight through a shooter chapter where one player stuns enemies with goop while the other ignites bugs with flares.
- drop into an isometric hack-and-slash chapter where one player is a wizard and the other is a knight.
- get shrunk into dolls so a bed, a book, and a tiny pond become massive obstacles you have to climb and cross together.
3Human Fall Flat - Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Jul 22, 2016
In this game, you can…
- lay siege to a Viking village, launch yourself from a catapult, slam a rock into a chasm with a battering ram, then barrel-ride through fjords to a longboat finish.
- play online with up to eight people, where seven other players flail around the same objectives and everything becomes a moving pileup.
- learn to scale walls, start chaining speed hops, and even pull off stuff like climbing straight up or "levitating" with a stick.
- grab your friends by the arms and collars, hoist them up, then toss them off cliffs or into the void when they get in the way.
- break a window, stack mattresses into a janky staircase, and climb through to skip the route the level clearly wanted you to take.
- swing on vines like Tarzan, row boats, fire yourself out of catapults, and mess with trucks and cranes to move through puzzles.
- drag a plank around for 20 minutes, finally line it up as a perfect bridge, then watch it vanish the moment you celebrate.
4Portal - Portal™ is a new single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay.
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- fall into a portal to build speed, then explode out the other across impossible gaps.
- watch a simple cube become a lifesaver when it blocks a deadly energy ball for you.
- solve fights without shooting by redirecting enemies and danger through portals and props.
- place a blue portal and an orange portal to make an instant entrance and exit.
- use portals to turn a drop into a slingshot, launch onto a ledge, grab a cube midair, and land on a button before a hazard triggers.
- hear an AI narrate and taunt you the whole time, like the facility is watching and lying.
- tip over a turret that looked terrifying and it just collapses and stops.
- rip pieces off the final boss, carry each one to an incinerator, and repeat the cycle three times to finish it.
5Crab Game - Crab Game is a First-Person Multiplayer game where you play through several different minigames based on children's games, until only one player stands victorious.
Oct 29, 2021
In this game, you can…
- hand your friend a stick in the lobby and watch them explode immediately.
- bait someone into hiding with you on a bed, wait until the last 15 seconds, then betray them with a coordinated gun-and-katana ambush.
- get launched to your death because someone barely taps you at full speed from behind.
- pick playground-style rounds like Red Light/Green Light, Floor Is Lava, and King of the Hill, then watch one shove instantly turn it lethal.
- duel on a hilltop with sticks, trade hits at the edge, knock one attacker into the water, then 180 and send the next one flying.
- survive rounds by doing almost nothing, standing perfectly still while everyone else flings each other off the map.
- form a four-person alliance, then have all four of you immediately push each other off a cliff anyway.
- learn movement tricks and momentum hits that let you tag people and send them flying across the map.
6Split Fiction - Embrace mind-blowing moments as you’re pulled deep into the many worlds of Split Fiction, a boundary-pushing co-op adventure.
Mar 6, 2025
In this game, you can…
- hit a sequence where the same map exists in cyber and fantasy at once, and you move through both versions simultaneously.
- become a ball and navigate through an actual pinball machine level.
- kill your co-op partner in absurd ways, then keep doing it on purpose for fun.
- get pulled into a machine that steals creative ideas, then watch your sci-fi and fantasy stories mash into one shared prison.
- jump from taming dragons to fighting as cyber ninjas in back-to-back chapters.
- fight across a futuristic flying highway, leaping between moving vehicles, swinging a laser whip, and carving enemies with a katana.
- play optional side stories like a full mini-adventure where you're two pigs on a farm.
- hunt down hidden Easter eggs like a Dark Souls-style bonfire tucked into the world.
- trigger a giant, unexpected dance battle as a sudden genre pivot.
7Gorilla Tag - Run, jump, and climb using only your hands. Play tag or infection with people online. Run away from the infected players, or outmaneuver the survivors to catch them. Embrace your inner ape.
Jan 1, 2023
In this game, you can…
- run, jump, and climb in VR using only your hands and arms.
- hit the tutorial, drop into a lobby, and find everyone communicating by making monkey noises.
- learn advanced moves like wall running, wall bouncing, and pinch climbing between two surfaces to juke pursuers.
- push off walls and branches to swing yourself through the map with no sticks or teleporting.
- climb to the highest treetops and stay out of reach while other gorillas struggle to follow your route.
- get singled out as the last target and have the whole lobby converge on you in an infection chase.
- fight team-vs-team paintball battles using slingshots.
- play a Hunt mode where you get one specific person to track down while someone else is hunting you.
8Chained Together - Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.
Jun 19, 2024
In this game, you can…
- use the chain as a real tool that wraps, swings, snags on platforms, and lets you counterbalance, catch a falling teammate, or haul them up.
- jump from a flaming frying pan onto a flying radiator while you're still physically chained to your partner.
- play a mode where rising lava chases you upward, so you have to keep climbing fast or get engulfed.
- start chained together in Hell and climb up through totally different worlds, from molten pits to forests, ruins, and sky-high areas.
- jump at the wrong time and yank your whole team off a ledge, dragging everyone with you in one shared fall.
- dangle from the chain while your partners climb and pull, then swap roles when someone else becomes the weak link sliding off platforms.
- hit spots where the route needs more than one body, forcing your group to position yourselves and move together to get past.
9A Hat in Time - A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
Oct 5, 2017
In this game, you can…
- solve a full-on murder mystery on a moving train by finding clues and interrogating passengers.
- lead a massive Moon Penguin parade while homing rockets and explosions go off around you.
- download Workshop mods that add custom levels, hats, badges, music, and even entire acts and campaigns.
- dive into a literal pool of pillows on your spaceship.
- chain sprint jumps, dives, and instant re-jumps to keep momentum and skim across tiny gaps without really landing.
- stitch magical yarn into hats that unlock powers, like brewing explosive concoctions or peeking into another dimension.
- escape an exploding train while dodging sawblades and rings of fire as the music ramps up.
- hook onto a ceiling fan and spin in circles, then hop off and keep platforming like nothing happened.
10ENA: Dream BBQ - Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Mar 26, 2025
In this game, you can…
- use a fully implemented bathroom mechanic.
- deliver an absurd requested item and watch the "reward" be something like a middle finger or someone blasting off into the sky.
- talk to most NPCs again and again to unlock extra hidden lines.
- find secret areas tucked into places you'd normally walk past without thinking.
- choose different chapter routes and endings, where taking one branch can close off other dialogue until a full replay.
- take weird side gigs across a dreamlike hub, running bizarre errands for strangers just to keep moving toward the Boss.
- trigger special reactions by doing things out of order, like checking a Door before talking to the receptionist.
- achievement-hunt until the last unlock is something as tiny as ENA randomly blinking
