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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Super Win the Game
A nonlinear exploration platformer focused on jumping rather than combat
89% positive
576 reviews
Gloom
A 2D action roguelike about fighting through a Lovecraftian dream
82% positive
576 reviews
Zexion
A sci-fi metroidvania with eight-direction shooting and an interconnected world
90% positive
575 reviews
UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER – The Feast of the Wolves
Giant-robot action adventure mixing third-person brawling with aerial shooting
82% positive
573 reviews
Breadsticks
A 2D platformer where you throw breadsticks to cross obstacles
94% positive
Free
Tsugunohi
Side-scrolling Japanese horror where walking left brings increasingly strange encounters
74% positive
570 reviews
风与鸟 - Wind and Bird
A side-scrolling fantasy RPG about training as an apprentice bard
98% positive
Free
Cat Search In The Wild West
A hidden-object game about finding cats in a western town
95% positive
Free
Valiant Hearts: Coming Home
A 2D wartime adventure mixing puzzles, stealth, and rescue
62% positive
567 reviews
Demo Noitu Love 2: Devolution
A side-scrolling beat 'em up with mouse-controlled combat
92% positive
565 reviews
HerrAnwalt: Lawyers Legacy
A pixel-art action platformer about fighting teachers to rescue students
77% positive
564 reviews
Demo Flashback
Side-scrolling sci-fi action with gadgets and an experience progression system
59% positive
557 reviews
100 hidden fish
Hidden-object searching for fish in a hand-drawn underwater scene
95% positive
557 reviews
Toby: The Secret Mine
A puzzle platformer through shadowy landscapes to rescue kidnapped villagers
66% positive
555 reviews
GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right!
A side-scrolling platformer about balancing pizza on the climb to space
87% positive
553 reviews
Fatal Claw
A 2D metroidvania where a cat absorbs infected creatures' abilities
87% positive
552 reviews
Shiro
A pixel-art platformer built around precise jumps and launch symbols
82% positive
551 reviews
Nocturnal
Side-scrolling action adventure where a flaming sword repels mist
91% positive
550 reviews
Final Vendetta
Side-scrolling arcade brawler fighting through London to rescue a sister
80% positive
548 reviews
Don't Disturb
Side-scrolling puzzle adventure following a dog into the afterlife
86% positive
547 reviews
The Multi-Medium
A 2D puzzle-platformer with a different art style in every world
96% positive
547 reviews
Batography
A side-scrolling adventure about a bat photographing the full moon
97% positive
Free
Demo Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Side-scrolling action platformer about a ninja fighting its creators
86% positive
541 reviews
Song of the Deep
Underwater metroidvania about exploring the ocean in an upgradeable submarine
83% positive
538 reviews