You didn't get the point: All that get's released here with very few exceptions are puzzle platformers and indie devs seems to think that puzzle platformers are the way to go but it seems like there is one coming out every week and in a lot of cases (not the ones you mentioned), the puzzles get annoying and the platforming is mediocre almost because of it (like Pid or Snapshot and even dare I say it: trine 2).

If I may wade in sir. I did a tiny bit of digging and since the release of VVVVV There have only been 6 puzzle platformers released here GOG. (7 if you count Dustforce?)
During which GOG has added to it's catolog; Shadow Warrior, Memoria, Re-Volt,Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate, Carmageddon 2, Rune, Outlast, Entomorph, Rogue Trooper, Race the Sun, Wing Commander 5, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Wasteland, Theme Park and Shadowrun Returns.
None of which are puzzle platormers and only one of which is a side-scroller.
In that same GOG has reseased 11 adventure games. So puzzle platformers don't even have the highest average.

I'm not going to say that the market for puzzle platformers isn't crowed, it is. Flooded even. But most of them are on Steam

Great release!

Nope i didn't make myself clear apparently. I am not complaining about general releases but about platformer releases in general. These days 95% are puzzle platformers. I love platfomers but not really the indie puzzle ones. Most of them are really flawed in my opinion being in core gamplay, the physics, the jumping itself,... Don't know if this is the case with Teslagrad but i didn't like the demo, didn't even bother to finish it to be honest. So every time i see a platformer release on gog I get excited and then disappointed because 9 out of 10 it's a puzzler. Not annoyed with gog but with the developers. Gog can only put games on the site that are being made and 95 % of the platformers are puzzlers.

Hopefully this was a bit more clearer and people get what i was trying to say ;)

Just saying it's highly subjective. For all the games you hate or find boring, there's obviously a market or GOG wouldn't bother to add them to the site.

If you haven't already, try the Giana Sisters games, or Rayman 1 and Rayman Forever ( I think that's the title? ). Those seem to be fairly old-school Jump'n'Runs. For or better or worse the genre has never been big on PC, so there's not many good options, aside from Indie games.

Edit: Also, give Treasure Adventure Game a try. It's more of an Adventure/Metroidvania type game, but very good. Plus it's free, so there's not much to lose.

Hm. I bought this on Steam yesterday but would have preferred to have used GOG if I'd know it was coming here as well. Oh, well. I bought it early to show my support for the local developers (I'm Norwegian) with another recent Norwegian release (Savant - Ascent). I'm not a huge fan of 2D platform games but I've heard good things about this game and look forward to test it out.

This game looks sooo good and I've read many good reviews about it. I'll buy this sooner or later.

I feel kind of the same. While I definitely enjoy a good puzzle platformer, I enjoy a good ole fashion jump'n'run platformer even more. That said, GOG also released a good few of those over the course of the year (although not all pure platformers): Rayman Origins, Guacamelee, Rogue Legacy, Spelunky, Dust, Valdis Story, Volgarr the Viking, Pandemonium 2, Unepic, Hocus Pocus. There's definitely a lot of good platforming action to be had from some of those. I loved 100%-ing Rayman Origins.

You just named 11 games out of the 25 or so platformers that were released on GOG this year. So, I'm not sure where this 90%/95% is coming from.

It's probably due to so many of them being released in the latter half of the year, making it seem like there are more of them than there actually are.

I know. I'm just tired of seeing people complain about so many platformers on here when they only make up about 15% of the games released this year.

again if you mean me: that's not what I meant. I meant of all platformers, 95 % of them are puzzle platformers....

95%? Please list the games that you consider to be puzzle platformers.

What else were you planning on doing while hanging around on 2d planks? Infinite runners are a breed of platformer, they mostly show up on mobile platforms but get ported to PCs occasionally. Brawlers occasionally show up in 2d, such as the Shank series. I don't think that genre ever quite recovered from Battletoads, though. Bit.Trip Runner is a rhythm platformer. Super Meatboy, IWBTG et al have very little to puzzle over, they just demand absolute technical precision to get to the obvious destination.

If by platformer you mean that the protagonist shall be a tradesman, consume products agaric, and rescue fuzzy nectarines, then there's only one vendor that can ever fulfill that. The 8-bit adventure where you simply walk to the right, demonstrate occasional feats of precision, and repeat until you bump into a princess was great when it was the only thing a console could do. That kind of stuff still lives on in flash games and part-time indie, but I don't see too many full time indie studios living on it.

The market for rougelike platformers, or metroidvania platformers, or face-stabbing-hard platformers have an audience that knows exactly what they're looking for. A vanilla platformer, kinda like the NES Back To The Future but without the licensed stuff, doesn't have an automatic audience right now. Even if it did, devs and gamers don't have a good flag to rally around, so they both kinda give up looking for each other before anything great gets made. I figure that a good Mighty No 9 release will inspire a lot more of what you're looking for.

So, to kind of get this thread back on topic again; could someone that actually got this game give a small review of it? I'm genuinely curious about if it is good, bad or just average-y. I got it wish listed for now though since november burned a lot of my money. >_>;

And i'm also hoping the OST might be included at a later date. I'm a sucker for good indie game music. (instantly bought Hammerwatch because of it) xD