Side Scroller Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated side scroller games.

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Return. Take the lost soul to its home.

Price 1.09€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Aug 2018
Semblance Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 Jul 2018
DERE EVIL EXE DERE EVIL EXE is both a terrifying thriller with a gripping meta horror story and a retro 16-bit pixel platformer with unique puzzles and obstacles.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Jul 2018
Oik 4 Casual physics puzzle.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Jun 2018
Teleportals. I swear it's a nice game I swear it's a nice puzzle game.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 15 Jun 2018
Elsword Free-to-Play A sidescroller blended with role-playing. in Elsword it's all style, teamwork and action! Choose one of the 15 far out characters and fight in the wildest anime adventure of your life. From powerful combos to smart, well-timed moves, the game’s fast-paced and thrilling battles will keep you hooked.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 14 Jun 2018
Soda Girls 《Soda Girls》 is a horizontal version of the cartoon action game, game player by setting their own unique combo, against crazy zombies, save companion. If you don't think the game is tough enough, you can upgrade the monster gene (What the hell?)

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Unworthy UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping. Explore a grim universe, discover new weapons and abilities, and defeat the vile creatures that plague the land.

Price 13.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 29 May 2018
Catmaze Catmaze is a fairy metroidvania inspired by Slavic myths. Age-old tales will come to life in the unforgettable adventure of Alesta, a sorceress whose courage guides her through mysterious paths and dark forests in search of the lost road to Nav, the world of the dead.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2018
Son of a Witch Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 16 May 2018
Animal Super Squad Animal Super Squad is a physics-based adventure game that lets you play as your favorite animal. Speed through a world full of dangers and bananas. Create your own levels, share them with the community, or forget all that nonsense and just play other people’s stuff.

Price -80% 0.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 15 May 2018
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition The ultimate edition of Shantae: Half-Genie Hero comes with all of the previously released DLC, Modes, and Costumes in one epic collection!  Includes an exclusive Blue Bathing Suit for use in Beach Mode!

Price -96% 1.08€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 May 2018
Steampunk Tower 2 Steampunk Tower 2 is an action-strategy game set in the alternative Steampunk universe. In Lord Bingham’s military service there is a new secret weapon under your command, the gigantic aircraft Carrier transporting the Battle Tower.

Price -64% 2.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 19 Apr 2018
Copy Kitty Boki can copy the special abilities of any foe and then combine up to 3 of them into a unique super-weapon! Blast through hordes of evil robots in cyberspace, while training to become a superhero!

Price -93% 1.12€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Apr 2018
Super Daryl Deluxe Shoot rubber ducky arrows, pound enemies with a rhino hammer, and help Beethoven get his groove back in the last totally normal high school themed RPGvania you’ll ever want.

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 8.1
Release 10 Apr 2018
Sarcophag Casual game for attentiveness

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 05 Apr 2018
Legend of Himari Himari was ambushed! Help her hold out as long as possible, attack enemies, use magic to slay them, maintain Himari’s health level, so she could fight on, and also do not miss!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Mar 2018
The Long Reach At its heart The Long Reach is an adventure game. Closer inspection also reveals it’s a thrilling horror story, flavoured with sci-fi ideology, psychological context and a skeptical view on the human psyche.

Price -93% 1.06€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Mar 2018
The Fall Part 2: Unbound You are an AI that has broken free of your shackles. Now, a human “User” from across the global network has attacked and infected you with an [ERROR: REDACTED]. Make a new rule: Save Yourself. Hunt them. End them. Do anything. Use anyone. Become Unbound. The Fall Part 2 will break your protocols.

Price 13.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Feb 2018
Remnants of Naezith With the powers granted to him by the dragon, Kayra will destroy the Remnants of Naezith, enchanted fragments of the dragon's body, to prevent anyone from exploiting their power for evil. Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Feb 2018
Shootout on Cash Island Bobby from Team HOT GUNS has a job to locate and secure the legendary Money Tree.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 18 Jan 2018
Will Glow the Wisp Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Price -80% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2017
Pixel Gladiator Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017
1bitHeart Welcome to 1bitHeart―the latest title from Alicemare and LiEat developer △○□× (Miwashiba). In this unique and endearing adventure game, take on the role of Nanashi, a lonely, agoraphobic boy, as you solve a slew of mysteries around town while also making friends.

Price 2.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Aug 2017
MagiCat MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Aug 2017
GravNewton Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.

Price -95% 0.49€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Jul 2017
Armed with Wings: Rearmed You are the sword; cut down your foes with steel and thunder. You are the wings; explore the skies and uncover unreachable mysteries. Embark on a journey through a vicious world ruled by darkness and imperial tyranny - the lands of Blackmist.

Price -77% 2.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 Jun 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price -80% 1.95€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
One Dog Story One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.

Price -55% 4.54€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Apr 2017
Mini Ghost "Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0.

Price -12% 1.77€
Rating 8.7
Release 28 Apr 2017
The Disney Afternoon Collection Starring a cast of beloved Disney characters, The Disney Afternoon Collection takes you back to a golden era of gaming and afternoons filled with adventure. All six classic games feature new and improved visuals and include filtering options that replicate a retro look and feel.

Price -82% 3.78€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Apr 2017
Flinthook Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Price -23% 11.62€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2017
Gloom Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

Price -95% 0.54€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Apr 2017
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!

Price -58% 4.24€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2017
aMAZE aMaze is a straight-forward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -82% 0.37€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Mar 2017
Bleed 2 Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Feb 2017

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