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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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The Last Faith Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.
Price -67% 8.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Nov 2023
American Arcadia American Arcadia is a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world's most popular reality tv show.
Price -90% 2.09€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Nov 2023
Hitler is my crush Hitler is my Crush is an absurd adventure in which you will plunge into the world of black humor and satire. You have to take on the role of a girl who is in love with Hitler and does not want to share him, and go on an absurd journey with Hitler, who is captured by saboteurs.
Price 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Nov 2023
SANABI SANABI is an exhilarating stylish dystopian action-platformer. Play as a legendary retired veteran and use your signature prosthetic arm to jump over cliffs and skyscrapers, zip through bullets and traps and defeat powerful enemies.
Masterpiece
Price -64% 4.52€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Nov 2023
The Elephant Collection Say helloaphant to jmtb02’s classic series of elephant games–now remastered into one elephant-sized package!
Hidden gem
Price -92% 1.30€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Nov 2023
Salt and Sacrifice Join your fellow Marked Inquisitors in this online coop successor to award-winning 2016 Soulslike Salt and Sanctuary.
Price -93% 1.39€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Nov 2023
Alien Hominid HD The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
Hidden gem
Price 11.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Nov 2023
Alien Hominid Invasion Old friends and bitter enemies await as you invade Earth alongside a Mothership full of alien friends! Blast, beam, and bite your way through an endless swarm of enemies as you and up to three of your fellow hominids cause mayhem with a huge arsenal of weapons, mutations, and acrobatic maneuvers.
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.4
Release 01 Nov 2023
Mining Mechs Unleash your inner miner as you commandeer a high-tech Mining Mech! Mine for valuable resources and upgrade your mech for even bigger hauls as you explore the underground. Fun to play alone or with up to 7 friends in online co-op multiplayer!
Price -78% 0.66€
Rating 8.6
Release 27 Oct 2023
Laika: Aged Through Blood Laika: Aged Through Blood is an action-adventure Metroidvania set in a post-apocalyptic western world. Play as Laika, a coyote mother and fierce warrior, and carve your motorbike through a land ravaged by betrayal and loss as you uncover dark secrets in the pursuit of vengeance against oppression.
Price -90% 2.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 19 Oct 2023
Mosa Lina a hostile interpretation of the immersive sim, where nothing is planned, and everything works
Price 7.79€
Rating 9.0
Release 17 Oct 2023
The Mildew Children: Chapter 1 Featuring a blend of 2D adventure and visual novel. Chapter 1 is the very beginning of the grim tale about a village inhabited only by children who follow savage pagan traditions. A young witch Kyrphel, along with her sisters, are bound to perform a macabre Ritual in order to save their village.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Oct 2023
Draw Welcome to the world of Draw, a 2D sidescroller and visual novel! Armed with nothing but a pencil, play as “Stickman” as you explore a brand-new world. Solve puzzles by drawing into the game, meet new friends while dodging scribble monsters, and make memories that’ll never be erased!
Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Oct 2023
BIT.TRIP RERUNNER The classic rhythm platformer is back as BIT.TRIP RERUNNER + RUNNER MAKER! The fun of the original now sports fresh mechanics, art, and soundtrack – plus RUNNER MAKER, which allows you to create custom levels. A must-play for rhythm newbies, experts, and everyone in between.
Hidden gem
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Sep 2023
Fading Afternoon Seiji Maruyama is a middle-aged yakuza recently released from prison. Known as "Gozuki" (one of the demon generals from Buddhist mythology) he is the power that his oyabun counts on. But there is one thing his aniki is not taking into account: Maruyama is getting old.
Price 19.50€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Sep 2023
Gunbrella Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.
Price -83% 2.54€
Rating 8.1
Release 13 Sep 2023
MEGA MAN X DiVE Offline Mega Man X DiVE reimagined the world of the Mega Man X series, and now it's getting an offline version! Strengthen your characters and weapons with a variety of powerups to make them all your own. Then test them out in the side-scrolling action of "what-if" worlds in Mega Man X!
Price -82% 5.66€
Rating 7.7
Release 31 Aug 2023
Blasphemous 2 The Penitent One awakens as Blasphemous 2 joins him once again in an endless struggle against The Miracle. Dive into a perilous new world filled with mysteries and secrets to discover, and tear your way through monstrous foes that stand between you and your quest to end the cycle once and for all.
Price -91% 4.32€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Aug 2023
30XX Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Price -60% 7.80€
Rating 8.6
Release 09 Aug 2023
Sclash Sclash is a plug’n play 2D samurai fighting game full of tension where one hit is enough to kill. Play as a hand-drawn samurai in beautiful painted settings and fight your opponent in epic solemn duels where each move matters. Manage well your stamina, breath and take your time to land a deadly hit.
Price -93% 0.60€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Aug 2023
Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons The Double Dragon brothers return in this fresh addition to the iconic franchise. With roguelite elements, every playthrough is a chance at new action. Tag in with 2 of 4 starter characters or unlock 20 additional characters, each with their own special moves and playstyles. Online & Local Co-op.
Price -94% 1.65€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Jul 2023
Portal Dungeon Portal Dungeon is a side-scrolling Roguelite adventure game that supports up to 4 players in co-op mode. You control an adventurer as you and your friends bravely set out to find the last portal in this world. Go forth! Defeat powerful enemies! Save the world!
Price -74% 3.98€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jul 2023
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors Alluring audio! Pixel art perfection! Beat-em up beauty! Discover how hard a 32,000kg ninja hits with The Ninja Saviours!
Price 19.50€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Jul 2023
Gravity Circuit Gravity Circuit is a flashy action packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Follow Kai, a lone operative war hero who harnesses the mysterious powers of the Gravity Circuit, on an adventure in a futuristic world inhabited by sentient robots.
Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Jul 2023
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals Five years after the events of OXENFREE, Riley returns to her hometown of Camena to investigate mysterious radio signals. What she finds is more than she bargained for.
Price 19.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Jul 2023
Kingdom Eighties Kingdom Eighties is a short story-based standalone expansion set in the Kingdom universe. A rad adventure of micro-strategy and base building in vivid ‘80s neon. Defend your town against the mysterious Greed and discover the secrets of your family lineage!
Price -86% 1.69€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Jun 2023
Nocturnal Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what secrets lie beyond the Mist in this intense 2-hour-long action-platformer game. Get ready to wield the flames and burn everything!
Price -92% 1.52€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 Jun 2023
Planet of Lana In a world torn between nature’s grace and cold machine invasion, one girl and her companion must rely on their bond to survive and protect what they hold dear. Their story of hope, loss, and love will stay with you long after the journey ends.
Price -97% 0.62€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 May 2023
Bread & Fred Grab your best bud for help in this new co-op challenge to help two adorable penguins, Bread and Fred, reach the top of the snowy summit. Time your jumps, cling to walls and swing across gaps to see how far you can make it before you tumble all the way back down the mountain.
Price -89% 1.69€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 May 2023
Afterimage Afterimage is a hand-drawn 2D action adventure that emphasizes fast-paced combat with diversified character builds, non-linear levels, and a gripping story set in the ruins of a fantasy world.
Price -94% 1.61€
Rating 7.7
Release 24 Apr 2023
Teslagrad 2 Lumina, a young Teslamancer, finds herself stranded after her airship crash lands in Wyrmheim, a remote and treacherous land to the North. Embark on a dangerous adventure, exploring a gigantic, abandoned tower looming over a fjordside valley, on a quest to get Lumina home and back to her family.
Price -97% 0.73€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Apr 2023
Deepening Fire Deepening Fire is a side-scrolling action adventure game. Choose different classes, with appropriate equipment, explore hidden complex map, defeat powerful enemies, expose the conspiracy of the chaotic world, experience the souls-like battle
Price 11.79€
Rating 7.0
Release 19 Apr 2023
Lone Fungus A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
Price -95% 1.06€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2023
Wall World Explore the mysterious Wall World on your giant robospider: mine for valuable resources, upgrade your equipment to fight off hordes of monsters, and discover exotic biomes in-between attacks. Will you be able to survive and learn the secrets of the Wall World?
Price -96% 0.33€
Rating 8.9
Release 05 Apr 2023
9 Years of Shadows Fight to bring beautiful colors back to a hand-crafted world of darkness and discover the story of Europa, a young warrior, and her ghostly childhood companion, Apino.
Price -94% 1.12€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 Mar 2023
Low Oxygen Explore an abandoned facility on the planet you've crashlanded, solving puzzles with strange plants along the way.
Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Mar 2023

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