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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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Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance As punishment for her transgressions, Ingrid is sent to hell. As she struggles through the darkness that hungers to consume her heart, she makes her way toward redemption. Her fate is in your hands.
Price -91% 0.97€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Mar 2023
Stickman Trenches Stickman Trenches is a Real Time Strategy game in which you need to manage your men and weapons and build up your defenses in the brutal trenches of Stick World War 1.
Price -50% 2.94€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Mar 2023
Gal Guardians: Demon Purge In order to save their school after it turns into a massive demonic castle, two "Demon Hunter" sisters slash and shoot their way through this 2D action adventure. Players can swap between control of both characters on the fly, each with entirely different skillsets.
Price 23.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Feb 2023
Soul Guardians Soul Guardians is a 2D cross-scroll action RPG game. Hired as a mercenary of the Empire, the protagonist goes on a journey to stop the conspiracy of the Dark Forces Undertaker. Raising unique characters, collecting and combining chain arts to enjoy your own hot action!
Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Feb 2023
Elderand Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements. Dismember demonic creatures and terrifying bosses by wielding brutal weapons in intense skill-based combat. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world.
Price -91% 1.86€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Feb 2023
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
Masterpiece
Price 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 02 Feb 2023
The Multi-Medium The Multi-Medium is a visually unique 2D puzzle platform adventure in which you play as an interdimensional explorer lost in the multiverse. Travel to diverse worlds, each drawn or painted by hand in a different medium and style, in search of your place in the cosmos.
Hidden gem
Price 6.89€
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Jan 2023
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Price -87% 2.33€
Rating 8.0
Release 12 Jan 2023
Glimmer in Mirror Glimmer in Mirror is a 2D story-rich action shooting game. Play as Shiro in a collapsed world, to meet various unique NPCs and monsters, and gradually uncover the truth of the world through a gripping story.
Price -35% 9.09€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Jan 2023
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World : The Game Complete Edition Rediscover the beloved 2D arcade-style beat 'em up inspired by the iconic comic and movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!
Price -67% 4.94€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Jan 2023
Burnhouse Lane Burnhouse Lane tells a story of Angie Weather, a one foot in the grave agency nurse attempting to complete five impossible tasks in order to win her life back. Solve puzzles, make friends and enemies, run, hide and fight in this dark adventure that'll take you on a trip to another world and back...
Price -15% 11.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 02 Dec 2022
GOODBYE WORLD "GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.
Price 11.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Nov 2022
Breadsticks A speed-based platformer with throwable platforms! Travel through the dangers in the woods as a fox boy to join afternoon tea with Mr. Bear.
Hidden gem
Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Nov 2022
HerrAnwalt: Lawyers Legacy You’re a Lawyer who tries to save students from a crazy headmaster. You need to survive a variety of school lessons and fight the different teachers
Price 5.00€
Rating 7.4
Release 04 Nov 2022
Ghost Song On the desolate moon of Lorian, a long-dormant Deadsuit awakens from slumber. Journey beneath the surface on an atmospheric 2D adventure of self-discovery, ancient mysteries, and cosmic terror. Explore winding caverns and acquire new abilities to unearth this alien world’s long-buried secrets.
Price -88% 2.43€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Nov 2022
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Price -91% 1.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Oct 2022
Terror of Hemasaurus A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
Price -96% 0.65€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Oct 2022
Azure Striker GUNVOLT 3 The next installment in the high-speed 2D action Gunvolt series is finally here with Azure Striker Gunvolt 3. Balancing both an involving story and satisfying gameplay, Gunvolt 3 is the most extravagant entry in the series yet!
Price 25.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2022
ASTLIBRA Revision Confront time and fate in the 2D action RPG, Astlibra Revision. Explore meticulously crafted worlds, fight brutal boss battles, and upgrade your skills to take down enemies lurking around every corner.
Masterpiece
Price -30% 14.69€
Rating 9.3
Release 13 Oct 2022
Moonscars Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
Price -73% 5.40€
Rating 7.8
Release 27 Sep 2022
Han'yo After witnessing her village being destroyed and slaughtered by the Oni demon, Hiroko has only one goal: revenge. Join this young samurai in this 2D side-scrolling platformer.
Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 24 Sep 2022
Little Orpheus A technicolor side-scrolling narrative adventure game inspired by classic movies including Flash Gordon, Sinbad, and The Land that Time Forgot. Join our bold yet hapless hero as he explores lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, prehistoric jungles, and lands beyond imagination.
Price -96% 0.22€
Rating 6.4
Release 13 Sep 2022
Freedom Planet 2 The fast paced platforming of Freedom Planet returns! Become a full-time cartoon heroine and use abilities and items suited to your play style to explore the world of Avalice and defend its animal citizens!
Price -66% 8.62€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Sep 2022
One Dreamer Manipulate the world around you by editing source code in an adventure game about a burnt out indie game developer's quest to fulfill a lifelong dream.
Price 13.29€
Rating 8.3
Release 09 Sep 2022
100 hidden turtles Hidden object game in the undersea world setting. At first black and white hand-drawn graphics in a cartoon style. Then the game becomes colored. Animated fish and algae.
Hidden gem
Price 0.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Sep 2022
CounterSide Everything has another side Urban Graphic Novel RPG "CounterSide" A world where conflict never ends between Counters and Corrupted Objects after the Administration Failure We invite you to a journey to save the Reality.
Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 01 Sep 2022
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!
Price -95% 0.65€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2022
Islets Take to the sky and reunite a fragmented world in this surprisingly wholesome metroidvania! Help Iko adventure across beautiful hand-painted islands, receive letters from a quirky cast of characters, and face powerful monstrous adversaries.
Price -83% 3.33€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Aug 2022
HAAK HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.
Price -89% 1.79€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Aug 2022
Tribal Hunter An action platformer with size-changing mechanics. Be quick and nimble or large and in-charge!
Price 14.79€
Rating 9.2
Release 21 Aug 2022
Cursed to Golf Cursed to Golf is a challenging golf-like adventure where every shot counts. Players are tasked with making it out of Golf Purgatory to become a Golfing Legend. With insane hazards, otherworldly power-ups and tons of replayability, will you make it back alive or will you forever be… Cursed to Golf!?
Price -68% 6.43€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Aug 2022
Axiom Verge 2 Explore a sprawling, alien world in the sequel to the award winning Axiom Verge.
Price -82% 3.14€
Rating 7.7
Release 11 Aug 2022
Gun Devil GUN DEVIL is an explosive platformer about rescuing your kidnapped hell wife from Satan's child, the Caramelized Dumbass and his Pimp Legion.
Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Aug 2022
LOST EPIC LOST EPIC is a 2D side-scrolling action RPG about a war between gods and humanity. The player becomes the deity-defying knight, God Slayer, and explores the world known as Sanctum to bring the Pantheon of Six to their knees.
Price 17.49€
Rating 6.9
Release 27 Jul 2022
Dungeon Munchies Hunt down monsters to cook and eat them! You’ve been revived in a massive underground complex and you must leave this bizarre facility. Aided by the undead Necro-Chef Simmer, you must stay safe, get fed, find a way to get out
Price -6% 15.81€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Jul 2022
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Play more of your favorite arcade hits from yesteryear. Includes SONSON for free!
Price -94% 4.10€
Rating 6.6
Release 21 Jul 2022

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