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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.

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Through the Nightmares Demo
Through the Nightmares
A precision platformer about escaping nightmares by changing your size
96% positive 69 reviews
Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure Demo
Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure
A story-driven adventure about living as a cured zombie
74% positive 69 reviews
Eat Colors
Eat Colors
Precision platformer built around flinging a slime between surfaces
90% positive Free
Gunboat God Demo
Gunboat God
Side-scrolling shooter with a gunboat that dives and flies
91% positive 69 reviews
Project Adder (Prologue)
Project Adder (Prologue)
Side-scrolling zombie roguelite with randomized weapons and abilities
93% positive Free
Aggelos 2
Aggelos 2
Side-scrolling action-platformer with two forms that change how you fight
74% positive 69 reviews
OREBLAZE
OREBLAZE
Mining action with timed tributes to a treasure-hungry king
93% positive 69 reviews
Exception
Exception
Side-scrolling combat platformer where entire levels transform as you progress
94% positive Free
Nary
Nary
Side-scrolling runner combining obstacle dodging with arrow-key attacks
90% positive 68 reviews
aMAZE 3D
aMAZE 3D
A 3D puzzle game about guiding a ball through mazes
51% positive 68 reviews
aMAZE Classic: Inverted
aMAZE Classic: Inverted
A 2D maze puzzler about escaping progressively larger labyrinths
88% positive 68 reviews
aMAZE ABC
aMAZE ABC
A mouse-controlled maze puzzle game with increasingly large labyrinths
49% positive 68 reviews
Breaking Gates
Breaking Gates
Side-scrolling action RPG with ground and aerial sword combos
71% positive 68 reviews
Time Rift
Time Rift
Fast-paced action puzzles where rewinding time helps you evade firewalls
94% positive 68 reviews
ZADETTE
ZADETTE
Side-scrolling action platformer with an oversized hero and deadly jumps
94% positive 68 reviews
Sunset World Online
Sunset World Online
Side-scrolling MMORPG with randomized expeditions for small cooperative groups
66% positive Free
Scribble Space
Scribble Space
Side-scrolling arcade shooter with spaceships you draw and fly
46% positive 67 reviews
The Inner Darkness
The Inner Darkness
A puzzle platformer where switching dimensions changes your route forward
72% positive 67 reviews
Night Lights
Night Lights
A side-scrolling puzzle platformer where light reveals new paths
81% positive 67 reviews
Citrouille: Sweet Witches
Citrouille: Sweet Witches
Arcade platforming with magic ladders in place of jumping
91% positive 67 reviews
Double Cross
Double Cross
A 2D action platformer with grappling and interdimensional detective work
81% positive 67 reviews
aMAZE Halloween
aMAZE Halloween
A Halloween puzzle game about navigating increasingly large mazes
94% positive 67 reviews
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
A wordless side-scrolling adaptation of a classic Civil War story
91% positive Free
Super Symbol Boys
Super Symbol Boys
A 2D precision platformer with two directions of gravity
99% positive Free