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Indie Excavation No. 5: Platformers on Parade
Featuring Polyroll, Until I Have You, and Noitu Love 2: Devolution
I feature a lot of platformers here, probably because I own lots of them. There are a great many platformers on Steam — they’re easy for small teams to make, there’s a lot of potential variety in the mechanics and design, and the market for them is very big. Unfortunately, this glut of platformers also makes it hard to carve off a part of that market. The biggest ones are massive, while the rest struggle for attention.
So we’ve got three more platformers on the march today. The last one’s a little different — it’s a little older than what I normally feature, a little more popular (though not as popular as it should be), and it has a bit of a storied history.
As always, if you want to clue me in on an overlooked indie title, you can leave a comment here or send me a message on my site.
Watch the games in action:
