Last updated on February 14th, 2026 at 09:21 pm
Platform Panic – Action Game Review
Platform Panic is a Action/Casual/Entertainment game from Nitrome, first launched in 17th December 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 123+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Platform Panic Stand Out
Platform game heroes through the ages have been abducted!
Pit them against each other in order to settle, once and for all, which one is the best!
• Can you unlock them all and become king of the leaderboard?
• Endlessly addictive, procedurally generated retro platformer!
• Super simple controls. Swipe left, right & up is all you need to move around.
• Pumping chiptune music by Eirik Suhrke, composer of Ridiculous Fishing and Super Crate Box.
• Cutting edge retro pixel graphics!
Important Message for Parents
This game may include:
- Direct links to social networking websites that are intended for an audience over the age of 13.
- Direct links to the internet that can take players away from the game with the potential to browse any web page.
- In-app purchases.
- Advertising of Nitrome products.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Platform Panic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th March 2024
Recent improvements include:
The panic is still on, now with fullscreen support on modern devices!
- The rooms have been extended at the top and bottom to fill the gap on current iPhone aspect ratio.
- The title screen has been reworked to look even better on iPhone.
- The top arm in the Nitrome animation has been extended.
Download & Availability
Platform Panic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Platform Panic on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Blue rodent is a copy of Sonic & Mr Plummer is a bootleg version of Mario.
Lets start with the graphics. One word, Miraculous! We love them! And the gameplay is so cool! The characters dont really have anything unique but we still like this tubular game :).
Its great game honestly, its the most difficult and challenging games we have seen before, all the characters are cool, very nostalgic, and also easy to get coins! We got 11k coins easily. Solid game still good in late 2024 and also compatible with iPhones well.
A friend recommended this game to us as a challenge, and now im completely addicted. This game is so underrated! The pixel style art is super cool and the animations are neat. Highly recommend.
Oh our god when we were a kid we LOVED this game and ive been looking for it for years and we couldnt find it but our brother just found it for us this is the best day of our life we have never been happier.
We remember this game when we were a little kid on our dads iPad we completely forgot about this.
Great game, but using Awesome Ninjas ability usually results in us either getting stuck in the environment, or we will just start falling through an empty black void. Great game otherwise, would be nice if we could use the character we spent 1500 coins on tho.
Great game, but add show up WAY too often. Give us an option to pay for ad free.
We love your great games. They are retro and thats what we like about it.
This game is awesome! Nothing wrong with it and its good ! Oh also can you some characters some powerups like since rosy cheeks boy was used to be a dragon can you make it like when you upgraded him he could breath fire please make and this game awsomeeee oh and in one of the stages we ths big panicbot and we were hoping every tenth level like 10 20 30 40 you add a giant panic bossfight and bomb you could throw bombs to the robot. Bye and thanks! Sincerely, jj.
We play this game a lot! It is such a fun game! We have one request though. Id like it if you made it multiplayer. Our brother has this app and Id love to play with him.
Ive played sense we were 5 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(/^-^).
This we a very attractive app ( in our opinion) we get very bored of a lot of games and this game is definitely no one of them. We love this game although it is hard and challenging to get the coins, it dose not cost much to buy some though. It took us about a month to unlock all the characters and upgrade them. We finally just gave up on the last guy, Mr smooth and we just bought some coins. Over all though this game is not to hard or to easy and it is fun! We rate this and recommend you get this app.
We love turning to this game when Im bored (which happens very often). Great gameplay, great graphics, recommend for those who want a simple little arcade game to play theyre bored.
This game is possibly one of the best games Ive ever played, the thing we like most is that it doesnt have too many ads which is something that annoys us in other games, second, you control by swiping and not by using buttons, third, its not too easy whereas other games treat you like a four year old and make the game easy, this however doesnt do that, lastly, the floors are randomized, making it a new challenge with every floor, overall we give this game a Golden 5 stars.
Ive been playing it for a couple of years, we were wondering if theres gonna be any updates on the game? Im playing on the 13 pro- score screen is kinda hard to see.
Can you update so that we can see our score on our iPhone 14 pro? The dinic island covers the score. Also it takes forever to collect coins for each character. Can you lower the amount of coins needed for each character.
We love the game, but the only issue we have with it is that our progress is never saved. We upgrade them or buy new people and we exit the game and reopen it and we dont have the upgrade anymore.
We have been long time player of the game, it's good time passer ,but we realized after that update that the laser beams are messed up, we can walk through the ones that are not bugged and some of them are not even shooting out. Please fix this bug ruins the purpose of some of the levels and looks funny. We love the game tho, it would be nice if more maps and heros came out.
When reviving, it gives you the option to pay 15 coins or watch an ad, but when we choose to watch an ad it still takes 15 coins away. Needless to say, we've stopped watching the ads.
This is one of our favorite games! Some fresh characters, wallpapers, enemies, would really entice us to play more often. Such a great game don't know why it's not updated more often.
Love the game, yeah, but we want an update! Redungeon just got its great update, but now we need one for platform panic! Platform Panic is more of an old antique than it is a game anymore! We want at least some new characters and a few new levels! We want to be able to play this again without getting bored quickly! But the game is fun.
We found the game to be entertaining as well as addictive. The levels are challenging enough to keep you interested, but not so much that you want to spike your phone into the ground. The classic look as well as multitude of characters with different abilities makes it a blast to collect points or attempt to break your longest run.
This game is really fun. After a while though it gets kind of boring. So you uninstall it and wait a while when you reinstall it. But then you lose all your progress so it makes you not feel like playing.
What we wanted to point out is the music. Did anyone else think it was reminiscent of the Metroid theme song.
We love the game and we do play it a lot. But the more you collect coins it takes like 5-10 coins away when you close the app or watch an ad. Needs fixing.
Okay this was a great idea but come on who plays any of these creators games for that long they're to short an endless arcade game isn't always that fun.
90% of our deaths were due to this games awful controls. It's difficult to describe it to you without you actually playing it once. You'll swipe up to jump, avoid a spike ball, and your character is walking to the left, towards a door, and somehow, magically, that swipe up forces your character to walk right and land on the spike ball. It's ridiculous how phone games attempt at platforming still, is it not obvious that platforming doesn't really work on phones.
We're trying to play on our iPhone 5s but it won't even load the game our friend says it's fun but we can't even play it.
Fuse characters more characters and character that has all abilities of the check marked characters.
We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please!!!We need more characters please.
Add bosses, through every few levels that huge robot we see in the spike ball elevator level should be a boss. Just open room like that. No exits. The robot shoots the lasers from its eyes and will throw spike balls and other things at you. Just an idea. Overall amazing game fun quick and easy.
Yes, groovy. We're a teenage girl and we used the word groovy un-ironically. That's the best way we can describe this game. It's a really quick little game. The type you can play for a few minutes in the waiting room or while standing in line at starbucks or something. The music is sweet, the colors really pop, and the gameplay is quick and smooth. It has a bit of a super meat boy vibe to it; it's hard, like really really hard. You're die in the first three rooms many times, we promise you. But that's okay, because like Super Meat Boy, the game wastes no time throwing you right back into the action. You don't ever get frustrated or angry at at. You simply can choose to keep playing, or don't. It's a fun game, but we don't feel like we HAVE to keep playing right now. We can just put it down and pick it up later. Okay, we rambled long enough. The game is free. If you're using an IPhone, we recommend downloading it immediately. You won't regret it, and you can always delete it later if you don't like it for whatever reason.
Let us get straight to the point. This game is amazing, a little buggy and annoying, but amazing. We think something that it lacks though is variety for the characters. Our first idea would be if you could have a couple different skins for each one, not a huge amount of coins, but maybe a hundred or so. Our second idea is if you had the possibility to fuse two characters together, giving the play both of the characters abilities and one or another of the looks. It could cost 2000 to gain the possibility, then it would be free for use. Our final request is that (as seen in the background of some of the rooms) the big robot being built can come into play. You would have to fight him by jumping on buttons or something, avoiding missiles and spikes. This level could appear every 15 levels or so. Thank you for your patience and time.
We love this game it took a little time to get use to the controls but when we did we started to get addicted to it this game is so much fun! We love the characters and we love how they are spoofs of iconic video game characters like Mario and Samus. And we really like the upgrades you can give them as well. This is one of our favorite games on the app stores if we could give this game 10 stars we would. Btw please add more characters.
We were jumping between teleporting pipes and got sent to another screen where the player did not spawn. This made the game unplayable until manually restarted.
One suggestion: update with new characters soon.
We love the game, but we have to say that the soundtrack sounds like a Duracell commercial.
Hello we would like to talk about a little update that would be cool to add. When your first spawn, instead of moving right to start the game, you can move your character to a door about the same size as the other door, which will bring you to the shop. We find it cool because if you change your mind and you want to change your character first or if you want to buy more coins, it's a faster way. Just a small addiction we would like to see. Great game by the way.
We love the game and as far as we're in the game, there should be a daily reward system to get peeps motivated to play for more coins! To balence this Additon "create" five or six new characters for the player to unlock. Jump on.
This game is great, we love all the hidden references to Super Metroid! Lots of other character references like, Sonic, Samus, and Mario! The game does a great job with letting you turn on and off upgrades and having the stages be random! It makes it a new challenge every try.
What a great little game! Currently saving up a ton of coins to unlock all the characters and upgrades. The game developer has to be making a fortune off in game advertisements, haha.
We really enjoy this game and we think others should play it too. We love the random rooms and all the characters that you can buy and upgrade. It just makes the game more fun. We hope they add more updates soon.
We have been searching for a game like this for forever thanks so much for making it! Its so cute and challenging:)<3.
It was hard for a long time but we got the hang of it.So now we've got to 50.
Make the guy from 8bit Doves a playable character.
This game is addicting and is fantastic to play while you wait! We definitely recommend it.
With the nods to old video game characters you can tell these guys actually like playing games. As a free game it's great , you can waste lots of time on it and you never need to pay anything if you reasonably feel like earning your rewards. Our only complaint is a glitch that takes your revive fee coins even if you watch an ad.
Its pretty good but there are bugs and gliches,sometimes when we go to another plataform,we're stuck in the floor, or we try to jump but the character does not jump and also the adds just repites the same part over and over then it crashes,so please fix this bugs and gliches :D.
Good game few glitches mildly hard and overall amazing gameplay! We love this game and we want more like it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.0
- Size: 107.69 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Nitrome
Last updated: 27th March 2024 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Nitrome