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
1,927 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Last Breath 最后的气息
A side-scrolling horror shooter set after a fungal outbreak
82% positive
674 reviews
Primal Planet
2D metroidvania with survival crafting and a playable dinosaur companion
87% positive
671 reviews
La Tale
Free-to-play side-scrolling fantasy MMORPG with classes, dungeons, and bosses
59% positive
Free
Demo Sacred Citadel
Side-scrolling fantasy brawler with mounts and three-player cooperative combat
72% positive
666 reviews
Flinthook
Roguelite action platformer with hookshot movement through randomized pirate spaceships
73% positive
663 reviews
PLANET ALPHA
A side-scrolling puzzle-platformer where you control night and day
76% positive
663 reviews
Demo Platypus Reclayed
A 2D arcade shooter with handmade clay models
98% positive
662 reviews
Waking Mars
Puzzle adventure about growing alien ecosystems in caves beneath Mars
89% positive
655 reviews
Lost Words: Beyond the Page
A narrative puzzle platformer where words reshape the world
94% positive
652 reviews
Farworld Pioneers
Side-scrolling survival sandbox with a colony of survivors to manage
40% positive
652 reviews
!AnyWay!
Side-scrolling precision platformer with tough parkour through retro-styled levels
70% positive
651 reviews
The Little Red Lie
Side-scrolling horror adventure with a darker take on Red Riding Hood
93% positive
Free
Deathsmiles
Horizontal bullet-hell shooter where angels can fire both ways
95% positive
646 reviews
Alien Hominid HD
A hand-drawn run-and-gun shooter with burrowing and head-chomping attacks
94% positive
640 reviews
The Fall Part 2: Unbound
A sci-fi puzzle adventure where robot behavior shapes the challenges
80% positive
637 reviews
Headlander
Side-scrolling action-adventure where a flying head takes over robots
90% positive
635 reviews
Demo Fairy Bloom Freesia
A forest beat 'em up with a kung fu fairy
90% positive
633 reviews
Neptunia Shooter
Side-scrolling bullet hell where defeated bosses become playable characters
89% positive
626 reviews
Demo Divinum
Side-scrolling action platformer with aerial combos and combat-changing runes
85% positive
626 reviews
Deadswitch Combat
A 2D multiplayer shooter with customizable weapons and vehicles
81% positive
Free
Demo Capsized
2D action platforming with a jetpack and physics-based combat
81% positive
625 reviews
Windforge
Side-scrolling sandbox RPG with buildable airships and destructible terrain
68% positive
623 reviews
WazHack
Side-scrolling roguelike dungeon crawler where time advances only when you act
89% positive
622 reviews
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary
A puzzle-platformer where you guide a girl using two fireflies
68% positive
618 reviews