The best platformer games like Kirby and the Forgotten Land are Kirby's Adventure, Super Mario Odyssey and Astro Bot. 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 Kirby and the Forgotten Land 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.
Where copy abilities started, and it still plays beautifully.
Capture is the same idea — a new set of verbs every few minutes.
The best-feeling modern platformer, and equally generous.
The gentlest platformer there is, and lovely to look at.
The other Nintendo platformer designed for a mixed-ability sofa.
Craft-look platforming built to be kind.
The best indie collectathon, and just as warm.
PlayStation's cheerful platformer, and best in co-op.
Every level is a new concept, executed properly.
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 Kirby and the Forgotten Land — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Kirby's Adventure. Where copy abilities started, and it still plays beautifully.
No. Kirby and the Forgotten Land released on the Nintendo Switch, 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 Kirby and the Forgotten Land 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.