Side view 2012 — top best games in the Side view genre

Mortal Kombat (2011)

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PS Vita, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC → 11 May 2012

VGTimes: 10.0/10

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Mortal Kombat (2011) is the ninth fighting game in the Mortal Kombat series. The game is both a continuation and a restart of the franchise. The game's plot begins...

Machinarium

Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Android, iPad, Linux, Mac, PC, PS Vita, iPhone, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, iOS, Xbox One → 10 May 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Machinarium is an amazing quest about the robot Josef, who seeks to return his beloved. The game has mesmerizing hand-drawn graphics and truly mind-bending puzzles...

Castle Crashers

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, PlayStation 4 → 27 August 2008

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Castle Crashers is a furious side-view co-op action game designed for 4 people. The game takes place in the fictional Middle Ages, in which an evil sorcerer steals...

Worms Revolution

Action, Strategy, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 10 October 2012

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Worms Revolution is the legendary return of the side-scrolling turn-based tactical action strategy game to the Worms series. The game was created using a new game...

Bridge Constructor

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 16 October 2013

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 62/100

Bridge Constructor is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. Using the proposed materials, you have to build the strongest bridge that can withstand various types of...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Android, PS Vita → 11 January 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

Another World

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Side view

Game released: 3DO, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, DOS, Genesis, SNES, Windows 3.x, Android, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita → 21 October 1994

Players: 9.7/10

Young physicist Lester Knight Chaikin is conducting a physics experiment at a synchrotron when suddenly lightning strikes the facility. As a result of the reaction...

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, Mac, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 24 May 2013

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2D action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. A colorful world awaits you, filled with...

Chaos on Deponia

Adventure, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 23 November 2012

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Chaos on Deponia is a continuation of the point and click adventure. Rufus could have come to his senses, become friendly and considerate, and it would not have...

Street Fighter X Tekken

Action, Fighting, Anime / Manga, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, iOS → 11 May 2012

VGTimes: 6.0/10

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Street Fighter X Tekken is a fast-paced side-scrolling arcade fighting game that combines the two universes of Street Fighter and Tekken. Dozens of familiar heroes...

Awesomenauts

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game, Side view

Game released: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 2 May 2012

Players: 6.4/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Awesomenauts is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MOBA action game. The events of the game will take you to the distant year 3587, in which there is a great...

Nihilumbra

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iPad, iPhone, PC, Mac, Linux, PS Vita, Wii U, Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS → 27 June 2012

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Nihilumbra is a platform puzzle game developed by BeautiFun Games that will take you into a world of unusual adventures and abstract inclination. You will play as a...

Gunman Clive

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, Android, Nintendo 3DS → 3 January 2014

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Gunman Clive is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with a beat 'em up style. The game takes place in 1800, where the player controls the main character...

Bad Piggies

Arcade, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iOS, Mac, Android, PC, Windows Phone → 27 September 2012

Players: 8.3/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Bad Piggies is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game. The bad pigs are hunting for eggs again — but, as usual, nothing goes according to plan. You have to...

Hungry Shark Evolution

Arcade, Action, Side view

Game released: iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV → 24 October 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Hungry Shark Evolution is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You have to take control of a very hungry shark and head out into the frantic violence of the ocean...

Scribblenauts Unlimited

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Arcade, Side view

Game released: Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC, iOS, Android → 6 December 2013

Metacritic: 74/100

Scribblenauts Unlimited — side-scrolling arcade adventure puzzle game. Welcome to an adventure in a vast world where your most powerful tool is your...

Vessel

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 1 March 2012

Players: 6.3/10

Vessel is a fun puzzle platformer with action elements and a side view. The events of the game take place in the amazing world of mechanical machines that have...

The Dream Machine

Adventure, Horror, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac → 14 December 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 75/100

The Dream Machine is a plasticine point and click adventure with horror elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a certain Victor Neff, who one day...

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective

Game released: iOS, Nintendo DS, PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 16 December 2010

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 86/100

The main character is Sissel, the spirit of a deceased man, capable of inhabiting objects and controlling them. The goal of the game is to find out the cause of the...

Cave Story+

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Nintendo 3DS → 22 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Cave Story+ is a supplemented and improved version of the arcade action-platform with the side of the Cave Story. You have to go to a fascinating world where an...

10,000,000

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Indie, Match-3 (Three in a row), Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Linux, iOS, Android → 15 January 2013

Players: 5.5/10

10,000,000 — Action role-playing roguelike in a fantasy style with puzzle elements and a side view. In this game you have to run non-stop, overcome obstacles...

Abyss

Arcade, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS → 23 August 2012

Abyss is a side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer. The game takes place in 2034. The planet's natural resources are depleted, and the survival of humanity is...

Toki Tori

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Arcade, Side view

Game released: Android, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, Linux, Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2011

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Toki Tori is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer where the goal of each level is to collect all the scattered eggs. And to achieve this goal, the player will...

Waking Mars

Arcade, Platformer, Adventure, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 4 December 2012

Players: 1/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Waking Mars is a side-scrolling arcade adventure platformer. In 2097, life was discovered on Mars. During the mission to make first contact, you find yourself...

Derrick the Deathfin

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Android → 16 June 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Derrick the Deathfin is a unique side-scrolling arcade adventure game with a world made entirely of paper. You will plunge into a bizarre underwater world, where...

The Tiny Bang Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: iOS, PC, Mac, Android, Windows Phone, Linux, Nintendo Switch → 28 January 2012

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 63/100

The game takes place in a funny universe where you need to piece together a planet destroyed by a meteorite. The game uses point-and-click mechanics in the best...

NiGHTS into Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 2, SEGA Saturn, PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 → 21 February 2008

NiGHTS into Dreams is an arcade adventure action-platformer with a side view, set in the World of Dreams. This world is divided into Nightopia and Nightmare. It is...

Home

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, PlayStation 4, PS Vita → 31 August 2012

Home is a unique side-scrolling horror adventure in a pixelated style. The main character wakes up in a mysterious dark place and does not know how exactly he got...

Karateka (2012)

Arcade, Fighting, Indie, Action, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Wii U → 18 December 2012

Metacritic: 60/100

Karateka (2012) is an indie tactical fighting game with action and arcade elements. The game takes place in a feudal universe. Your mission is to save your beloved...

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee

Action, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Android, DOS, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PC → 12 April 2012

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is a side-scrolling action platformer with puzzle elements. Chosen by the fickle finger of fate, Master First Class was catapulted into a...

Snapshot

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Logic, Side view

Game released: PC → 30 August 2012

Snapshot is a side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. The game will tell the story of a cute robot named Peak, who is collecting mysterious energy scattered...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 29 January 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 25 July 2013

Players: 5.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer that is the spiritual successor to 1987's Great Giana Sisters for the Commodore 64...

Dungeon Fighter Online

Arcade, Online, Free game, Side view, MMO, Action

Game released: Xbox 360, PC → 13 July 2012

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 53/100

Dungeon Fighter Online is a free-to-play Japanese-style side-scrolling multiplayer action role-playing game. Expect an exciting 2D action game with an epic...

Gateways

Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC → 12 September 2012

Metacritic: 72/100

Gateways is a puzzle platformer in which a scientist explores a huge laboratory filled with many mysteries. You can use teleporters to jump from one place to...

Draw Slasher

Arcade, Action, Slasher, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, PS Vita, Android → 13 October 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Draw Slasher is a side-scrolling arcade action slasher about a ninja named Hanzo. While Hanzo was learning the way of the ninja, pirate zombie monkeys kidnapped his...

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

Arcade, Platformer, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view

Game released: PC, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 → 15 August 2012

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in which you become an alien bubble and try to destroy all of humanity. The game...

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1

Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Android, iOS, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, Windows Phone, Xbox 360, Amazon Fire TV → 25 January 2011

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is a side-scrolling action platformer. Dr. Eggman has returned and in an attempt to finally get rid of Sonic, he returns to his best...

Jetpack Joyride

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: iPad, iPhone, Android, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PSP → 1 September 2011

Players: 8.1/10

Jetpack Joyride is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. It's time to join Barry Steakfries and equip cool jetpacks, dress up in stylish suits and drive crazy...

Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken

Arcade, Action, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 → 18 October 2011

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 75/100

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Best Games in the Side view genre of 2012 (Game released)