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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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Action
Your master has tasked you with an urgent delivery…
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Puzzle
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A Runner Game where the luck is the main concept
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Interactive Fiction
Poor Benny wants to escape his captivity! Can you help him get back home?
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Puzzle
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2D Side-Scrolling Shooter I made in about a month in Unreal Engine 4.
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Action
Oh no, little Timmy lost his balloon! Can you bring him a new one?
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Platformer
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​Play as Milton XIV and cause as much destruction as possible but don't get caught in the act by, Shrodinger!
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Platformer
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Made for Cozy Spring Jam 2024
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Adventure
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Racing
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Survive as long as you can against thousand of creatures!
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Survival
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Game for GGJ 2025
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Adventure
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A game about creativity and frustration.
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Platformer
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Action
Help Filemon escape the raging volcano!
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Platformer
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Demons are coming to take over the world and Giuseppe is not letting that happen. (best played in full screen)
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Platformer
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Game Jam Halloween Theme
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Platformer
A retro-themed side-scrolling shooter
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Shooter
Escape shoddy workmanship!
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Action
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Give it a fling!
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Puzzle
Help little Piros escape the Dungeon.
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Platformer
2D Endless Runner based on Electricity Generation for the WHGJ :)
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Platformer
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Side scrolling action adventure / Metroidvania like game created for the #9DayMV Jam.
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Action
Fight the onslaught of monsters and stop the invasion!
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Action
A fan made game about Stevie T set in a sci-fi universe.
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Action
Last title of the IWBTBG series.
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Action
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Platformer
Space shooter/Sidescroller
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Action
One human, one droid and a Scavenger class space ship. Enter the Star Hulk Icarus on one last mission.
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Action
Deep inside a hyper quantum computer a holy booting process has started ... #GlobalGameJam
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Puzzle
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Can you sneak onto the rocket to get to the ball of cheese in the sky?
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Platformer
11-year old Ava loves to play games, but her mother doesn’t approve! Help her get rid of those nasty chores!
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Platformer
Will you master the portals powers and take up the challenge?
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Platformer
A Unity based vertical scroller for UCI VGDC Winter 2017 that will stress you out
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Platformer
A classic 2D platforming adventure
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Platformer
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Side-Scroller story game
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Adventure
Save the Mushroom Forest by defeating the Alien Invaders
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Shooter
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