Action Runner	A genre similar to Endless Runners but rather is split into (presumably handmade instead of randomly generated) levels with specific challenges and with an actual end somewhere along the line.	1986 / 2016	12 games
Cinematic platformer	Distinct from typical platform games in that they focus on fluid, life-like movements, without the exaggerated physics found in other platform games.	1989 / 2018	105 games
Comical Action	An action/platformer genre characterized by single-screen levels (no scrolling) and cooperative 2-player action. A level is usually cleared when all enemies on the screen have been defeated (who usually drop random score bonus items).	1983 / 2014	79 games
Endless Runner	An auto-scrolling platformer characterized by simple controls - usually just one or two buttons - and randomly generated levels.	1983 / 2017	50 games
Hop and bop	A platformer genre characterized by jumping on the heads of your enemies being the primary (and possibly the only) method of disposing of them.	1984 / 2018	152 games
Metroidvania	Action-adventure or action-platformer sub-genre with a lot of backtracking, a superficial sense of exploration to find locations to which you later gain access to via new abilities, tools, or such.	1984 / 2019	319 games
Platform Hell	A variety of platformers that are utterly unfair, requiring memorizing every little detail of the game to beat them as anything you see or don't see can't be trusted to be what they appear or don't appear to be.	2008 / 2011	4 games
Precision platformer	A platformer genre where the focus is extreme precision in movement, either player fails competely (needs to restart the level/game) from tiniest failings, get horrible score for it, or such.	1984 / 2019	25 games
Puzzle platformer		1985 / 2019	168 games
Turn-based platformer	A platformer sub-genre where the platforming activity runs in turns rather than real-time.	2013 / 2015	3 games
Vertical platformer	A platforming sub-genre where player traverses mainly vertically up or down, often scaling a tower or similar.	1984 / 2014	67 games