What is your favorite 3D platformer on PC, or which one have you heard good things about?

[ZedClampet]

I loved Contrast when I played it back in 2016. It Takes Two was great fun. I've got a couple of 3D Sonic games, but haven't played them.

I guess I would pick Contrast as my favorite. It was a great combination of light platforming, puzzles and narrative.

By the way, it's on sale right now for $4.99

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CONTRAST is a puzzle/platform game where you can move between a fantastic 3D world and a mysterious shadowy universe in 2D in the blink of an eye. Delve into a dreamlike and surreal 1920s world, inspired by the performance art world of vaudeville and film noir, and cradled by a smooth and sultry...

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[BeardyHat]

I'm not big on 3D platformers, very rarely play them or have any interest in them, but around April I picked-up and played 5-hours of Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom. It has some mechanical depth to it that felt really good to, maybe not master, but get the hang of so I could get to higher places collect gears I needed to.

I haven't finished it, but I made it quite far. I do feel like I should go back and finish it off, given it's short, but I don't think that'll happen probably.

Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom on Steam

Make full use of your advanced move-set to navigate hand-crafted retro worlds without a jump button in this vibrant love letter to the N64 era of collectathons!

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[Slasken]

"It takes two" was pretty good

 

[Pifanjr]

The closest to a 3D platformer I've played recently is Fling to the Finish.

Or actually, the closest is probably a user-made Fortnite map. But Fling to the Finish is more fun.

 

[Slasken]

Come to think of it, Portal is my favorite 3D platformer.

 

[Colif]

on PC? none myself, haven't tried any on PC. They clunky enough on console.

here is a short list of most of them - link

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I played a little Super Luckys Tale on Gamepass with my kid and it seemed alright. Not really a genre I'll go looking for though tbh.

 

[Colif]

Most on the list I found are just console ports.
technically I have played a Rayman in 3d but those games get hard really fast. Not sure if they actually 3d though. i remember side scrolling so maybe not.

 

[Pifanjr]

on PC? none myself, haven't tried any on PC. They clunky enough on console.

here is a short list of most of them - link

I think the only one I've played out of this list is Aer: Memories of Old. The flying is pretty nice, but other than that I didn't really care for it.

Does A Short Hike count as a platformer? That one was pretty fun.

 

[Colif]

Lonely Mountains – Join the Ride

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sort of a platformer - no ascending but plenty of jumping to platforms and lots of jumping down.

it is how these guys play it anyway

its on gamepass, I forgot I had installed it. I know its not as easy as he makes it look.

 

[Hveðrungr]

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard on Steam

ONE MAN AGAINST AN EMPIRE

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