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
1,882 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Bread & Fred
Co-op precision platformer where tethered penguins climb a mountain
78% positive
4,558 reviews
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Dark fantasy 2D action RPG with nonlinear exploration and demanding bosses
79% positive
4,538 reviews
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Surreal point-and-click narrative adventure along a hidden Kentucky highway
80% positive
4,463 reviews
Demo Until We Die
Side-scrolling strategy game about directing workers to defend a subway station
67% positive
4,424 reviews
Iconoclasts
2D action platformer about an unlicensed mechanic on the run
86% positive
4,391 reviews
Teeworlds
Free-to-play 2D arena shooter with team matches and custom maps
89% positive
Free
Demo Well Dweller
Dark fairy-tale metroidvania starring a tiny bird with a matchstick
98% positive
4,354 reviews
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Four classic side-scrolling action platformers with bosses and stolen weapons
78% positive
4,349 reviews
Tukoni: Prologue
A wordless point-and-click puzzle adventure about helping woodland animals
97% positive
Free
Shelter 2
Single-player survival adventure about raising lynx cubs in a changing tundra
85% positive
4,319 reviews
HUNTDOWN
Side-scrolling arcade shooter with bounty hunters and local co-op
94% positive
4,316 reviews
Sundered®: Eldritch Edition
Hand-drawn metroidvania with changing paths and waves of enemies
81% positive
4,281 reviews
造梦西游：无双
Side-scrolling action RPG drawing on Journey to the West
79% positive
Free
Demo American Arcadia
Story-driven puzzle platformer about escaping a deadly reality show
94% positive
4,275 reviews
PICO PARK 2
Co-op 2D puzzle platformer where everyone must work together
88% positive
4,243 reviews
MO:Astray
A puzzle-platformer about a blob that can read minds
92% positive
4,232 reviews
Mega Man Legacy Collection
Six classic 8-bit action platformers with remixed challenge stages
88% positive
4,229 reviews
Neighbours back From Hell
Point-and-click puzzle comedy about pranking a neighbor without getting caught
95% positive
4,229 reviews
20XX
Side-scrolling action roguelike with changing stages and boss fights
91% positive
4,195 reviews
DARQ: Complete Edition
Side-scrolling horror puzzle adventure built around walking on walls
94% positive
4,195 reviews
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Retro side-scrolling action platformer with switchable companions and branching paths
94% positive
4,077 reviews
Guns, Gore & Cannoli
Side-scrolling shooter pits a Prohibition-era gangster against zombies and mobsters
91% positive
3,976 reviews
BIT.TRIP RUNNER
Rhythm platformer built around precise jumps and a reactive soundtrack
86% positive
3,952 reviews
Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China
Side-scrolling stealth action as an Assassin seeking revenge in China
73% positive
3,946 reviews