The best platformer games like Astro Bot are Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy and Astro's Playroom. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to platformer costs you.
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 Astro Bot 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.
The only other platformer of the last decade with this many ideas per hour.
The blueprint for Astro Bot's level-per-idea structure.
The free prequel that came on every PS5 and is genuinely good.
The other PS5 showcase, and it feels just as good in the hand.
The best indie 3D platformer, with the same warm tone.
3D platforming built to be kind, and full of small inventions.
PlayStation's other cheerful platformer, and best in co-op.
Every level is a new idea, which is the Astro Bot promise.
For the collectathon side, rebuilt with modern controls.
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 Astro Bot — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Super Mario Odyssey. The only other platformer of the last decade with this many ideas per hour.
No. Astro Bot released on the PlayStation 5, 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.
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.
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.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Astro Bot 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.
Or read the platformer guide for where to start in the genre generally.