And let’s be honest, an adorable monkey brandishing a high-powered automatic sub-machine gun bestowed upon him by a hedgehog is already pretty special.

When you have been disillusioned by years of bad Tony Hawk games, and if the Trials did not do much for you, there are some alternatives to pull off some rad platform stunt work. FutureGrind is one of those alternatives, and it’s worth checking out. FutureGrind was first revealed back in 2014. It popped back up on everyone’s screen in …

Coming out of the Barcelona based Nomada Studio, Gris has a simple setup: It’s just you piloting the protagonist Gris on the screen, as she finds herself charting a strange new land while also cping with some bizarre tragedy that has befallen her and that has also begun manifesting itself in the world around her.

Semblance is a frequently delightful, innovative platformer that's all about breaking the rules. When it’s at its best, it’s devilishly clever, but it has a curiously stilted pacing and flow. Its subversive take on mouldable platforming is fun to play, but ultimately its underutilised core concepts will leave you wanting more.

What if the world around you was able to be shaped and shifted to what you needed it to be? Semblance is a platformer that plays around with these ideas, and it's out later this month.

Concrete Genie, a quircky looking art-centric platformer, is coming to PS4. And it looks utterly breathtaking

The End is Nigh is another hand-crafted platformer from the mind behind Super Meat Boy. And it looks just as brutal as it does strange.

It may not be casual gamer friendly, but Cursed Castilla EX offers a pixel-perfect recreation of the vintage arcade game experience complete with unforgiving gameplay