Best Platformer Games Like Aladdin

The best platformer games like Aladdin are The Lion King, Castle of Illusion and DuckTales. Below are 10, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to platformer costs you.

Why Platformer Is a Good Answer for Aladdin

Filtering to platformer means you want the movement itself to be the pleasure. It is the right filter when the thing you liked was getting from one place to another.

What you get: A game you can judge in ten seconds. Platformers live or die on the jump, and a good one feels right before anything else happens.

What made Aladdin worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the platformer part of that answer, and only the platformer part.

10 Platformer Games Like Aladdin

  1. 1. The Lion King

    Same era, same approach to animation, and considerably harder.

  2. 2. Castle of Illusion

    The Genesis Disney platformer that got the controls right first.

  3. 3. DuckTales

    The NES Disney platformer everyone still names, and the pogo stick is why.

  4. 4. Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers

    Two-player Disney platforming built for a child and an adult together.

  5. 5. Earthworm Jim

    The other Genesis game built to show off hand-drawn animation, by some of the same people.

  6. 6. Sonic the Hedgehog

    The Genesis platformer to compare everything else on the system against.

  7. 7. Rayman Origins

    The modern version of this idea, and the animation is still the point.

  8. 8. Dust: An Elysian Tail

    Hand-animated action platforming with combat that goes deeper.

  9. 9. Shovel Knight

    If the era rather than the animation is what you are after.

  10. 10. Cuphead

    Where the hand-drawn-cartoon-as-a-game idea ends up, and it is brutal.

What This Filter Leaves Out

Weight. Platformers rarely carry a story you will think about afterwards, and the collectible-led ones can become checklists if you let them.

The full list is on games like Aladdin — 10 picks, no genre filter.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best platformer game like Aladdin?

The Lion King. Same era, same approach to animation, and considerably harder.

Are all of these on the Sega Genesis?

No. Aladdin released on the Sega Genesis, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.

What separates a good platformer from a bad one?

Whether the move set is complete early. The great ones give you everything in the first level and spend the rest asking better questions of it; the weak ones drip-feed abilities to disguise thin level design.

2D or 3D?

Different games. 2D platformers are about precision on a single screen; 3D ones are about reading space and camera. Each pick below says which it is.

How are these chosen?

By hand. Each pick was written for the full Aladdin list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is platformer — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.

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Or read the platformer guide for where to start in the genre generally.