In later years, "Plok" was ranked the 26th all-time best SNES title (which also named it the best platformer produced in the United Kingdom) in 1996, the 19th best platform game by "Gamereactor" in 2014, and was listed in "Edge" editor Tony Mott's "1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die" in its 2013 edition. Video game elements introduced in "Plok!" were noted by retrospective journalists to be in more popular platformers released in later years. Games starring characters with floating body parts used as weapons, such as "Dynamite Headdy" (1994) and "Rayman" (1995), were released shortly afterwards and garnered much wider exposure. When listing "Plok!" on a list of "The Most Unappreciated Platformers Of The '90s" for "Kotaku", Ben Bertoli wrote it was "influential for portraying a world, named Akrill, based on craft supplies and cloth, a concept that Nintendo itself has come to rely on for many games. The game also provided players with power-ups and vehicles, such as flamethrowers and jetpacks, the likes of which had not been seen in a single game." Sepia-toned flashback stages also made up a chunk of "Mickey Mania" (1994).