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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 ratedfrom 2018 tagged Side Scroller (243 results)

Explore games from 2018 tagged Side Scroller on itch.io. Featuring gameplay that moves horizontally across a scrolling background, with characters typically walking, running, or · Upload your games from 2018 to itch.io to have them show up here.

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When the dead start walking, there's no where to run.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Action
Meteor 60 seconds! is a simple, fun, comic-like action game
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Simulation
A post-apocalyptic narrative-driven adventure.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(118 total ratings)
Adventure
Fight monsters, complete quests and play minigames to lvl up, get shiny equipment and powerful skills in this crazy RPG!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Platformer
A LISA-inspired game about a cycle.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Role Playing
Wherever you go, whatever you choose, know that you are loved. CW: References to abuse
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
2D Sidescroller dueling game with direction-based combat. A mix of Nidhogg and Mount & blade.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Fighting
Trials game with awesome moves based on the real life sport.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Sports
Play in browser
A 16-bit style, action exploration platformer, about a paladin and her fight against evil.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Action
SNEAK UP TO HIM AND STAB HIM GOOD
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Action
Mystery-thriller puzzle adventure about a strange boy: Evan.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
A grim side scroller about recovery
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
A short 2D horror narrative prototype inspired by Silent Hill 2 and Gustavo Viselner's pixel art
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
Trapped in her own Subconscious, Mira wakes up to find herself in dark but strangely familiar place.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Platformer
Why spend hours searching for a suitable game to waste your life playing, when they're all here
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Arcade-style dungeon crawler with tactical sword & shield combat
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Action
An 8-bit Viking Rampage!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
A 1-4 player local multiplayer game
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
Boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
Side-scrolling space cleaning simulator with pixel graphics.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Furiously Fast Action Shoot 'em up.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Action
Old-school beat 'em up set in a cyberpunk Neo-Barcelona (prototype demo)
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
Comedy? Magical girls? RPG? HECK YEAH.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
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
Getting over it with a Fish
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
A game about a water girl
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Platformer
A retro, 8-bit style run-and-gun inspired by Saturday morning cartoons of the 80s!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
A small mall maintenance robot on a quest to help his new friend.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play as Aqua the TentaCat, who visits an mysterious island to find more of his own kind.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Bard's Lesson is a game about a bard fox and his journey to become a maestro, a master bard.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Platforming game with a jetpack!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
2D open-source Javascript custom engine platformer. Help brave rabbit find her home!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Retro side-scrolling shooter
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
A drawn on film shmup
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Shooter
Pew Pew Pew !
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Shooter
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