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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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Top rated free featuredtagged Side Scroller (40 results)

Explore featured games tagged Side Scroller on itch.io. Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or · Upload your featured games to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Plan the perfect birthday party! Scavenge for foods, collect goods, and give the President the best party ever!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(253 total ratings)
Adventure
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Explore a mysterious world with a mysterious magical companion!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(137 total ratings)
Adventure
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Enjoy this textless journey, where all ideas are shared in icons and your powers of observation will be put to the test.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(140 total ratings)
Platformer
A side-scroller shooting platformer! Starring Nadine, the prototype android!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(94 total ratings)
Platformer
When the dead start walking, there's no where to run.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Action
A demake of Terraria, in PICO-8!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(112 total ratings)
Action
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A combo-driven roguelite platformer where you shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Platformer
Soldat meets Battlefield - side-view multiplayer shooter with procedural maps
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(91 total ratings)
Action
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A post-apocalyptic narrative-driven adventure.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(118 total ratings)
Adventure
You must speak with the raven...
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(87 total ratings)
Adventure
An art driven, soul's like, side scroller
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Adventure
Metroidvania style 2D action platformer
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Platformer
Action-packed Japanese-inspired retro SHMUP
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
Epic autoscrolling difficult platformer ! Can you survive the scrolling?
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Platformer
Roguelike in which you are the architect of the dungeon
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(83 total ratings)
Role Playing
Deff is a mercenary death that must hunt down other deaths that no longer want to be deaths...
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Platformer
A side-scrolling action adventure with strong storyline
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Platformer
A short narrative adventure about a deserted half tower/half man. Alone in a world full of humans..
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Adventure
Ancient ruins, weird machines, impending doom...
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Platformer
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Dash your way through collapsing dungeons! Can you escape each room in 10 seconds?
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Platformer
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2D Pixel art run and gun
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
Experience existential dread as the void beckons for you in this short atmospheric narrative about depression.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Who's afraid of the pink bad wolf?
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Action
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A game about a water girl
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Platformer
Action-Platformer about a man who is also a mango.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Platformer
A combination of Risk of Rain and Faster Than Light.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Action
It's just you, and your clones, in this chaotic run and gun action game.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Action
Underwater Exploration shooter (You know, That sub level in Super Mario Land)
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Shooter
Guide robot bounty hunter Tumbleweed through a Game Boy inspired wild west! Made in a week for GBJAM 4.
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
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Deep in the church basement, demons lurk... Can you exterminate them all?
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Platformer
A mouse-driven shoot 'em up for the rest of us!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Retro Metroidvania Side-Scroller
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Platformer
Cyberpunk Arcade Shoot em Up - Pilot Version
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
A Procedural Planet Exploration, Alien Fighting, Mining, Gem Collecting, DNA Collecting Pixel Art Space Adventure.
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
Narrative side-scroller about a working-class mother in 1979, Hong Kong
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Simulation
Intense 80s style 2D shooter with a cyber psychedelic aesthetic
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
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