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Best Side Scroller Games on Steam

Filter the Steam catalog for top-rated Side Scroller games. Every title listed here is aggregated based on positive community reviews and active player feedback. Compare current discounts below to get the best deal on your next game.

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Signs of Life Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer you can play alone or with friends in online co-op multiplayer. Explore a procedurally generated world, discover hand-crafted locations, and uncover the story of the life that was here before you.
Price -35% 10.06€
Rating 7.3
Release 09 Nov 2026
One Way Tickets “One Way Tickets” is a roguelite incremental adventure game where you embark on a exciting journey in a fantasy world. Choose your vehicle, equip your device and face challenges from all kinds of enemies. Ram! Unload bullets! Swing with all your might! Keep growing and push forward!
Price -44% 10.28€
Rating 8.1
Release 22 Oct 2026
Silver Pines Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
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Price -26% 18.65€
Rating 9.1
Release 08 Oct 2026
Fallen Tear: The Ascension A story-driven Metroidvania where the allies you choose to bond with change how you fight and explore. Journey through the high-fantasy world of Raoah, uncover lost civilizations, and forge bonds that shape your path through a land on the brink of collapse.
Price -25% 18.74€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Sep 2026
Well Dweller Well Dweller is a dark fairy-tale metroidvania, full of charming characters living in a wretched kingdom. Play as Glimmer - a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to save his family.
Price -20% 11.40€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 Sep 2026
Happy Wheels Choose your inadequately prepared racer, and disregard severe consequences in your desperate pursuit of short-lived victory.
Price 4.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Sep 2026
Divinum Divinum is an action-adventure that blends stylish, expressive combat with rewarding exploration. Master devastating combos and craft unique builds to repel mysterious invaders and uncover your island's hidden truth.
Price 14.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Aug 2026
TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
Price 3.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Aug 2026
Fatal Claw Dive into Fatal Claw, a Metroidvania game in vibrant 2D artwork. Explore the arcane underworld your way with Kisha. Your ultimate goal is to find the key to the surface world alongside other survivors, while vanquishing infected enemies and absorbing their power. Start your clawsome adventure now!
Price -65% 8.62€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Aug 2026
Volkolak: The Will of Gods Volkolak: The Will of Gods is an epic 2D soulsvania in a dark Slavic fantasy setting, with hand-drawn animation. Explore an enchanted world full of secrets and enemies. Your choices will lead to several endings: become a warrior, a werewolf, or join the darkness.
Price -73% 4.51€
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Aug 2026
Soul's Remnant Soul's Remnant is a 2D platformer MMORPG focused on social gameplay and exploration! Customize your character, and conquer dungeons and bosses in this mysterious world. Play with friends or make new ones - just watch out when night falls!
Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 13 Aug 2026
Doloc Town Play as a young scavenger and construct your vertical farm one platform at a time under extreme weather. Evolving from a scrap-gathering survivor into an easygoing farming tycoon. Transform the climate, and remake the wasteland into your personal Eden.
Price -74% 5.25€
Rating 9.0
Release 05 Aug 2026
Akatori A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.
Price -14% 12.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 05 Aug 2026
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.
Price -60% 7.25€
Rating 8.7
Release 21 Jul 2026
DUNGEON SLASHER Navigate maps filled with enemies, destroying all who get in your way! Use a variety of character, artifact, and skill synergies to defeat the dungeon!
Price Free to play
Rating 6.2
Release 16 Jul 2026
Deer & Boy A runaway boy meets a lost fawn, and together they cross a quiet, dangerous world. Solve puzzles, climb, and slip past threats as your companion grows from a fragile newborn into a powerful deer. What you cannot do alone, you learn to do together.
Price -67% 6.61€
Rating 8.7
Release 23 Jun 2026
Sister Ray 2D RPG about the brutal daily life of Ray - an artist struggling with addiction, who takes care of her little sister. Look after your condition - no one should know about the addiction. Improve your skills, sell paintings, do everything to ease the withdrawal. Survive and look for a way out.
Price -63% 4.47€
Rating 8.8
Release 01 Jun 2026
HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES HOLY GRAIL for DUMMIES is a colorful and absurd action-platformer about Buckethead, a hero past his prime, in a world that, let's be honest, has seen better days...
Hidden gem
Price -20% 7.03€
Rating 8.9
Release 08 May 2026
TetherGeist TetherGeist is a challenging precision platformer that rewards practice and perseverance. Guide Mae and her axolotl spirit, Bao, on a wholesome coming-of-age pilgrimage while mastering Astral Projection, a tether that links Mae to her spirit and is the source of her strength.
Hidden gem
Price -70% 4.80€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 May 2026
HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME Corporations turned crime-infested streets into profit margins for bounty hunters and John Sawyer is going to make a killing. Hunt, die, upgrade, repeat in this explosive roguelite prequel where every strategic upgrade strips away more flesh and builds a cybernetic fighter one chrome limb at a time.
Price -36% 10.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 May 2026
Mining Merchant Mining Merchant is a relaxing mining and shopkeeping adventure game. Mine by day to uncover rare ores and gems, then craft jewelry to sell in your shop by night. Rebuild your uncle’s business solo or in co-op and uncover the mystery behind the nightly earthquakes.
Price -50% 3.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 01 May 2026
The Last Gas Station In a world where electric cars reign supreme, you are now the owner of an old gas station out in the wilderness. Establish trade, develop your business and uncover the secret of this strange place in the compact gas station simulator.
Price -58% 5.93€
Rating 8.3
Release 28 Apr 2026
Slimeward Slimeward is an idle game where players build and upgrade a village, recruit heroes, and defeat Monster 'Slime' that fell in front of the house one day,
Price 3.15€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Apr 2026
REPLACED Follow R.E.A.C.H., an AI trapped in a human body, on a cinematic adventure through an alternate 1980s America. Explore an atmospheric cyberpunk world full of high-stakes action wrapped in a unique 2.5D pixel art style.
Price -15% 17.19€
Rating 8.2
Release 14 Apr 2026
Gods of Sand Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.
Price -41% 4.84€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Apr 2026
Evitania Online - Idle RPG Online Idle RPG with an open world without the grind of classic MMORPGs. Collect rare loot, develop your character, master professions, craft powerful gear, and defeat challenging bosses as you progress endlessly.
Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Apr 2026
Towerborne Towerborne is an exciting side-scrolling Action RPG Brawler. As an immortal warrior journey across a crumbling world, uncover the mystery of the fallen City of Numbers, and push back the corruption threatening humanity’s survival.
Price -49% 12.79€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Feb 2026
Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition Celebrate 30 years of Rayman with the definitive edition of the platforming classic, featuring 5 versions, 120+ extra levels, and an exclusive documentary on the creation of the limbless hero.
Price -40% 11.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 13 Feb 2026
Sakura Gozen In Ouma, samurai Sakura Ouka, jobless and foolish, loses her home. She aids Suzune, sparking a quest to revive the Sakura Style. They aim for the Gozenjiai, facing trials in a Japanese-style action RPG. Complete requests, build reputation, and master thrilling battles to win!
Price 16.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Feb 2026
Touhou Blooming Soul Follow Hata no Kokoro as she explores and defeats enemies on the stage of Gensokyo. The game contains many randomized elements such as items, skills and maps. Players can utilize a variety of different playstyles, making each run uniquely different from the last.
Price 5.15€
Rating 9.1
Release 30 Jan 2026
Craftlings Build a bustling settlement in a 2D logistics puzzle. Guide tiny workers through the routes you create, connect production chains, and solve handcrafted missions. Charming to watch, rewarding to figure out.
Price 19.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Jan 2026
Fickle Card Legend A side-scrolling, non-turn-based card battle game. Level up, collect gear, and challenge stages and bosses with a unique card-clash combat system. Designed for the '80s generation who are tired of modern generic titles. No AFK, no easy wins. New-gen players, choose wisely.
Price 7.79€
Rating 6.4
Release 07 Jan 2026
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition Tomba is back for more in Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition, a celebration of the often overlooked sequel to the legendary platformer, Tomba!
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Dec 2025
Terminator 2D: NO FATE Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
Price -34% 19.98€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Dec 2025
Light Up The Town A cozy, creative Christmas decorating game! Play as Bean, a young ferret, and fill a snowy Colorado town with festive lights. Toss decorations, make each scene your own, and explore 18+ handcrafted levels.
Hidden gem
Price 14.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Dec 2025
Agreeee Can you 'play' this game!? To play the thrilling action game, you must agree to all 12 terms and conditions.
Price 4.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2025

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