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Best Side Scroller games on PC

Side-scrolling games show the action from a side-on perspective, with players moving horizontally through 2D environments that may involve platforming, combat, or puzzles.

Related: 2D, Platformer, Action, Metroidvania

1,882 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.

1,882 games

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Steel Rats™
Steel Rats™
2.5D action platformer with motorcycle stunts and saw-blade combat
65% positive 341 reviews
Chariot
Chariot
Physics-based puzzle platformer about hauling a king's wheeled coffin
81% positive 340 reviews
Low Oxygen
Low Oxygen
A puzzle platformer where removing oxygen makes alien plants grow
89% positive Free
Bang Bang Fruit
Bang Bang Fruit
2D physics puzzles about aiming fruit onto a cake
61% positive 338 reviews
Reloader: test_subject Demo
Reloader: test_subject
Side-scrolling shooter built around manual reloads and counting your bullets
91% positive 337 reviews
Semblance
Semblance
A puzzle platformer where you reshape terrain to create paths
84% positive 336 reviews
Akatori
Akatori
Side-scrolling action platformer with a bird that transforms into a staff
71% positive 336 reviews
Elle: Portal
Elle: Portal
A free puzzle platformer about collecting coins and avoiding maze keepers
93% positive Free
Star Sky
Star Sky
A side-scrolling walking simulator where pauses reveal hidden story events
78% positive 330 reviews
Crab God Demo
Crab God
Side-scrolling underwater colony strategy guiding crabs to protect an egg
82% positive 329 reviews
Claire
Claire
Survival horror where rising panic makes the environment more threatening
69% positive 327 reviews
Alien Hallway
Alien Hallway
Mouse-controlled action strategy commanding soldiers against waves of aliens
65% positive 325 reviews
Pid
Pid
A puzzle platformer built around placing and riding gravity beams
69% positive 324 reviews
Within the blade
Within the blade
A ninja action platformer mixing stealth attacks with direct combat
86% positive 324 reviews
Unmechanical Demo
Unmechanical
A puzzle adventure about a robot searching for a way out
91% positive 323 reviews
Steampunk Tower 2
Steampunk Tower 2
Tower defense with movable turrets on a single battle tower
73% positive 323 reviews
Craftlings
Craftlings
A strategy puzzle game about directing workers and linking production
86% positive 323 reviews
Afterdream Demo
Afterdream
A side-scrolling horror adventure with camera puzzles inside a lucid dream
92% positive 322 reviews
Reaper - Tale of a Pale Swordsman
Reaper - Tale of a Pale Swordsman
Side-scrolling action RPG where you choose which warring factions to help
74% positive 321 reviews
Retro Game Crunch
Retro Game Crunch
Seven 8-bit-style games spanning platformers, puzzles, cards, and shooters
82% positive 321 reviews
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Side-scrolling mech shooter that combines gunfire with melee attacks
93% positive 321 reviews
The End o,,,o
The End o,,,o
Retro horror platformer running at three frames per second
63% positive Free
Romancelvania
Romancelvania
Side-scrolling action platformer meets a monster dating show
74% positive 320 reviews
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR
Side-scrolling bullet hell with a battlefield you can rotate
93% positive 318 reviews