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Side Scroller

Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or jumping from left to right. Often includes platforming elements and side-view perspectives.

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Mega Man X Innocent Impulse
An open world Mega Man X fangame
Solren
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Action
Terra - A Terraria Demake
A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
cubee
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(115 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Washout Spire
A platformer for weirdos
June Flower
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Platformer
KING OF MACHINES
Face judgement.
CURSED BOOTLEG INC
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Action
From the Shadows
Explore a mysterious castle in this cooperative puzzle platformer.
Gamagora
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Platformer
GIF
KLOSTERTRIEKA
dogfight your way up to heaven
bonitāka
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Shooter
Voiceover
Whose voice will you listen to?
Altren Worlds
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Super Blue Boy Planet
2D retro pixel platformer side scroller
Nannings
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Heavens Below
A journey to the dark deep underwater Abyss.
Mojiken Studio
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Platformer
Space Outlaw Alice
Hissatsu Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Brawn, Scorn and Ammo
A free, retro inspired, run-and-gun platformer!
CritCorsac
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Dark Space
Retro side-scrolling shooter
Taska
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
SHUT IN - [Demo]
Fight yourself. Die trying. The psychological horror/dark comedy game that hates you as much as you hate yourself.
HiddenTrack
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Pillars of Anguish
Challenge your patience
Outfrost
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Platformer
Through the Dead City
Squad-based zombie survival in a procedural world.
Chronomatic
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
Metanet Hunter CD
Suit up for this side-scroller.
NIGHT KAWATA
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Kuggs
Sci-fi, Platformer
Deathwish Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Platformer
GIF
Space Barnacle
A charmingly violent metroidvania
Doomlaser
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Platformer
Shackled
Discover a place of corruption, where you will be tested by darkness and bound by light.
ShackledGame
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Jolt: Fully Charged
Save the world from calamity in this love letter to 16-bit era gaming!
Darkera Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Platformer
Val & Tine - A Surrealist Horror Metroidvania
A creepy-cute side-scroller in a food world
LosAlamosGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
Spaceship
Old-School Retro Arcade Game: Spaceship
tetramatrix
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Shooter
The Bend
Take a dive into the deep and mysterious
Pale Hand Horror
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Left on Read (DEMO)
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Draw
Welcome to the doodle world! Draw into the world and solve puzzles!
Jay
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
One-Thousand Cuts
Instant-Death Samurai Combat
BanjoToadStudio
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
Anemone
A short sidescroller game about a girl who goes through 5 stages of grief.
senshi.labs
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Soaring
Challenging chicken climbing platformer !
alexsollazzo
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Platformer
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a 2d Action Platformer Metroidvania where the player must explore the city of Tourmaline
Varpyg
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
Smash Ringtail Cat: The Ultimate Glitch Annihilator
Glass Seastar
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Cow's Revenge
Indie Platformer Pixel Art Free Open Source Game
pipoypipagames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
Hunters - Relic of Stars - Stage 1
The first chapter in a massive six part adventure!
Rhete
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
Fox Game Demo
An early demo of a Metroidvania game about a Fox
HexagonNico
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Ill-Fated Twins
Twins Cursed to Kill each other each explore there own path of the Corrupted Kingdom.
Elena-Ware
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
The Call of Krul'ar (Demo)
Expand your lands to escape that which lurks in the darkness.
Devious_Oatmeal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Card Game
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