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.
- Side-on 2D action
- Horizontal movement
- Frequent platforming and combat
Related: 2D, Platformer, Action, Metroidvania
1,883 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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aMAZE ZER0
A maze puzzle game with increasingly large and varied labyrinths
88% positive
239 reviews
Lost Girl Platformer
A side-scrolling platformer with precise jumps and a time limit
97% positive
Free
Demo Moadra
A sci-fi metroidvania where alien biomass fuels your weapon upgrades
83% positive
238 reviews
Miscreation: Evolve Your Creature!
Side-scrolling platformer where you build a creature from animal parts
60% positive
237 reviews
Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action!
An aerial brawler where building attack power also strengthens enemies
77% positive
236 reviews
Azure Striker Gunvolt Trilogy Enhanced
Three 2D action platformers built around lightning and aerial dashes
72% positive
235 reviews
Meteor Volleyball!
2D arcade volleyball with robots deflecting meteors to protect Earth
86% positive
Free
Koala Kids
A retro puzzle-platformer with an editor for building your own levels
94% positive
233 reviews
Soulless: Ray Of Hope
A side-scrolling puzzle platformer with a story told through environments
72% positive
233 reviews
Gravity Badgers
A physics-based space puzzler about launching badgers around planets
72% positive
232 reviews
Abathor - Atlantis Landing
Free side-scrolling platformer with local co-op for up to four players
87% positive
Free
Demo Abyss Kitchen
Side-scrolling survival action where cooking keeps your adventuring party fighting
90% positive
232 reviews
Really Big Sky
Side-scrolling twin-stick shooter with enemy waves shaped by your play
72% positive
231 reviews
TurnOn
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer about restoring power along a city's wires
76% positive
231 reviews
Demo Shu
Side-scrolling platformer about escaping a storm with rescued villagers' powers
76% positive
231 reviews
Utter a Name
Supernatural detective adventure about identifying the dead and their killers
90% positive
231 reviews
Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection
A classic platformer collection spanning side-scrolling stages and third-person 3D
84% positive
230 reviews
Demo Drifting Lands
Side-scrolling shooter with randomized loot and customizable ship builds
75% positive
229 reviews
Pogo Rogue
A roguelite action-platformer about fighting and climbing on a pogo stick
91% positive
Free
Even the Ocean
A 2D puzzle platformer where energy changes how you move
85% positive
228 reviews
The Deletion
A precision puzzle-platformer where gravity changes from level to level
76% positive
228 reviews
Super Crush KO
A 2D brawler mixing robot juggling with run-and-gun combat
96% positive
228 reviews
Gravity Snake
Side-view snake puzzles where growth and gravity complicate your route
94% positive
Free
GIGANTIC ARMY
A side-scrolling mech shooter with thrusters, shields, and melee attacks
78% positive
227 reviews