*If some of the gifs show a broken icon you may be able to load them by right-clicking the icon and loading it manually*The past decade of games saw the flourishing of the Exploratory Platformer genre after years of being a handheld niche. Games where, to varying degrees, you're placed in a sprawling 2D world with the expectation that you’d explore it, become more powerful and overcome a variety of combat/platforming challenges.With there being so many teams working in the genre I wanted to take a look and highlight some of the upcoming games in one big alphabetical list. Be they something that’s soon to release or early enough in development that all we have are snippets of media to go off of. Figured it’d be fun to have them, well… as many as I’m aware of, all placed together with links so folk can find out the latest on the games regardless of when viewing the thread.A note: I’m sticking with games that have a 2D perspective just to put some kind of limit on the thread. And yes, the titular term is a messy subject and some of the games below might not fall into your personal view of it, but I tried to at least focus on the games the developers have self-described as being aThere’s also an OT devoted to this genre byif you’re interested in a general conversation about these style of games: