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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Demo Shing!
Side-scrolling beat 'em up with right-stick sword combat
78% positive
345 reviews
Sect-Machina
Side-scrolling action platformer set in a cyberpunk society of insects
61% positive
Free
Demo Alice's World
A puzzle adventure where a girl remembers how you treat her
90% positive
344 reviews
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition
A side-scrolling platform adventure with rewind and save-anywhere options
78% positive
344 reviews
Demo Virtua Unlimited Project
A 2D action platformer with VTuber characters and supernatural powers
90% positive
343 reviews
The Warrior
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer where each character sees a different story
97% positive
343 reviews
Panzer Paladin
Retro action-platformer where you break weapons to cast spells
75% positive
342 reviews
Lost Lives
A 2D side-scrolling shooter with scavenging and changing map layouts
90% positive
Free
Demo MURI
A side-scrolling shooter and platformer with DOS-style graphics and sound
93% positive
341 reviews
Steel Rats™
2.5D action platformer with motorcycle stunts and saw-blade combat
65% positive
341 reviews
Chariot
Physics-based puzzle platformer about hauling a king's wheeled coffin
81% positive
340 reviews
Low Oxygen
A puzzle platformer where removing oxygen makes alien plants grow
89% positive
Free
Bang Bang Fruit
2D physics puzzles about aiming fruit onto a cake
61% positive
338 reviews
Demo Reloader: test_subject
Side-scrolling shooter built around manual reloads and counting your bullets
91% positive
337 reviews
Semblance
A puzzle platformer where you reshape terrain to create paths
84% positive
336 reviews
Akatori
Side-scrolling action platformer with a bird that transforms into a staff
71% positive
336 reviews
Elle: Portal
A free puzzle platformer about collecting coins and avoiding maze keepers
93% positive
Free
Star Sky
A side-scrolling walking simulator where pauses reveal hidden story events
78% positive
330 reviews
Demo Crab God
Side-scrolling underwater colony strategy guiding crabs to protect an egg
82% positive
329 reviews
Claire
Survival horror where rising panic makes the environment more threatening
69% positive
327 reviews
Alien Hallway
Mouse-controlled action strategy commanding soldiers against waves of aliens
65% positive
325 reviews
Pid
A puzzle platformer built around placing and riding gravity beams
69% positive
324 reviews
Within the blade
A ninja action platformer mixing stealth attacks with direct combat
86% positive
324 reviews
Demo Unmechanical
A puzzle adventure about a robot searching for a way out
91% positive
323 reviews