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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CODE Bunny
Side-scrolling action platformer where attacks double as movement tools
93% positive
153 reviews
After Death
A side-scrolling metroidvania with alternate versions of each area
88% positive
152 reviews
Demo ZOE Begone!
Hand-drawn arcade shooter with looping arenas and score-chasing combat
99% positive
152 reviews
Demo Bat Boy
A side-scrolling action platformer built around baseball bat combat
94% positive
152 reviews
Demo Project X: Light Years
Side-scrolling space shooter with a roguelite career mode
95% positive
152 reviews
Dashy Square
A rhythm-based platformer with one-click controls and vehicle power-ups
85% positive
151 reviews
Aura of Worlds
Side-scrolling roguelite platformer where you turn traps against enemies
91% positive
151 reviews
Keepers of the Trees
Local co-op puzzle platformer where you grow plants to progress
52% positive
Free
Highly Likely
A side-scrolling adventure about a Ukrainian farmer's risky oil venture
74% positive
149 reviews
Demo Midnight Girl
A point-and-click heist adventure inspired by comics and Sixties cinema
93% positive
149 reviews
PP
A pixel-art platformer built around an urgent trip to the toilet
86% positive
149 reviews
Beeftacular
A precision platformer about clearing rotten meat against the clock
76% positive
148 reviews
Everybody Wham Wham
A winter adventure built around competitive snowman building and sabotage
97% positive
148 reviews
HunterX: code name T
Side-scrolling action RPG with exploration and devil fights
84% positive
148 reviews
Demo Spinch
A psychedelic platformer where your babies become ammunition against bosses
70% positive
147 reviews
Type Knight
An arcade typing game about fending off approaching undead enemies
89% positive
147 reviews
The Underground Man 2
Pixel-art brawling and platforming with dark humor and pop-culture references
80% positive
147 reviews
BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites
Side-scrolling vampire action with hack-and-slash combat and dangerous platforming
61% positive
147 reviews
The Original Moorhuhn Hunt
Arcade shooter about hunting chickens against a ninety-second clock
97% positive
147 reviews
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PixelBoss: Shattered Depths
Hardcore 2D platformer with deadly traps and timing-based combat
79% positive
147 reviews
Freedom Finger
Side-scrolling shooter where captured enemies become weapons for your hand-shaped ship
92% positive
146 reviews
Demo DEEP FOG
Side-scrolling horror adventure about strange events in a fogbound city
80% positive
146 reviews
Nuclear Day
Side-scrolling survival adventure with choices about who gets left behind
68% positive
Free
KRAMPEN
A horror adventure through a winter forest with a violent past
93% positive
145 reviews