Side view 2014 — top best games in the Side view genre

Geometry Dash - a game in the Side view genre

Arcade, Platformer, Sandbox, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 22 December 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Geometry Dash is a fast-paced arcade platformer where you have to jump and dodge over various obstacles. The game has many levels that will bring many challenges...

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...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Ouya, Xbox One → 28 April 2015

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

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...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: Mac, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, PS Vita, iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, Nintendo Switch → 21 December 2011

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his missing...

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

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

Game released: PC, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Xbox One → 26 June 2014

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 88/100

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is an old-school pixelated platformer about Shovel Knight, who must destroy his enemies to save his beloved and defeat the evil...

BattleBlock Theater

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, Mac, Linux → 3 April 2013

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

BattleBlock Theater is a side-scrolling multiplayer action platformer. There are a total of eight different modes available in the game. In Soul, the player will...

This War of Mine: Final Cut

Action, Historical, Business / Management, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Simulation

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 14 November 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

This War of Mine: Final Cut — an enhanced and complete edition of the atmospheric adventure with survival elements and a side view. The package includes an expanded...

Wormix

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

Game released: iOS, Android, PC → 10 August 2013

Players: 8.3/10

Wormix is a side-scrolling arcade turn-based strategy game based on the popular Worms series. As in the original game, you have to assemble a team of cute and...

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...

Out There

Science fiction, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, In real time, Side view, Top-down view, Roguelike

Game released: iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, PC, Mac, Linux → 27 February 2014

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Out There is a fantasy adventure indie roguelike with elements of real-time strategy and a side view. In this game, you play as an astronaut who woke up from...

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker

Simulation, Business / Management, Puzzle, Side view, Adult game

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 22 April 2015

Metacritic: 72/100

Kitty Powers' Matchmaker is a fun dating simulator. The player runs his own dating agency under the leadership of Kitty Powers. You'll have to match endless clients...

Year Walk

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Wii U → 6 March 2014

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Year Walk is a side view adventure with puzzle elements from the masters from the Simogo studio. The game is published by Simogo. It seems that Year Walk turned out...

Duck Game

Arcade, Online, Action, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Ouya, Nintendo Switch → 4 June 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 83/100

Duck Game is a side-scrolling multiplayer arcade action game. The game takes us to 1984, where ducks rule the world. The game has the ability to fight up to 4...

Knock-knock

Arcade, Horror, Logic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, PS Vita, Xbox One → 4 October 2013

VGTimes: 7.0/10

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 57/100

Knock-knock is an adventure puzzle game with horror elements and a side view. In the depths of a dense forest there is a wooden house. A man lives in this house...

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: 8.8/10

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...

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...

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...

Chariot

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, PC, PlayStation 3, Android → 22 October 2014

Players: 9.3/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Chariot is a side-scrolling adventure co-op puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with a friend, you will have to try on the roles of a beautiful...

Flockers

Arcade, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS → 19 September 2014

Metacritic: 64/100

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Braveland Wizard

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows Phone → 4 December 2014

Braveland Wizard is a turn-based strategy game with a side view in a fantasy setting. Continuation of the classic game in the spirit of "Heroes of Might and Magic...

Marvel Contest of Champions

Arcade, Fighting, Free game, Side view, Comics

Game released: iOS, Android, PC → 10 December 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 76/100

A free-to-play fighting game set in the Marvel Universe, where heroes and villains from across the multiverse battle each other in epic duels. The player takes...

SteamWorld Dig

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo 3DS, PC, Linux, Mac, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch → 20 November 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

SteamWorld Dig is a charming side-scrolling arcade action-platformer about a robotic miner named Rusty, who arrives in a small town with the goal of finding...

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, PS Vita, iOS, Android → 18 May 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 58/100

htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary — side-scrolling adventure arcade puzzle game. You will control a firefly, whose main task is to illuminate the path and guide the...

Castlestorm

Arcade, Action, Strategy, In real time, Indie, Side view

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Wii U, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 29 May 2013

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Castlestorm is a fun side-view tower defense strategy game. Clouds are gathering in the sky... There is a war between knights and Vikings. The game features...

Never Alone

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Amazon Fire TV, Wii U, PlayStation 3 → 18 November 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Never Alone is an arcade side-scrolling indie adventure platformer. You play as the girl Nunu and her arctic fox companion. You have to solve the mystery of an...

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Arcade, In real time, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 21 May 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood is an adventure arcade puzzle platformer with a side view. You have to save the main character's brother from the evil Lord Mustasho...

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...

2064: Read Only Memories

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Visual novel, Cyberpunk, Side view, Combat robots

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Ouya → 17 January 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 78/100

2064: Read Only Memories is a Japanese-style sci-fi adventure visual novel with pixel art. The game takes place in the world of the future, namely in the city of...

Guacamelee!

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC, Mac, Linux → 10 April 2013

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Guacamelee! is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. The plot revolves around the brave Mexican Juan Agacata, who must save the daughter of the President of...

The Swapper

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Wii U, Xbox One → 30 May 2013

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer in a sci-fi setting. In this game, a lone astronaut will explore a cave created by aliens. In order to get to its secrets...

Braveland

Strategy, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view

Game released: Android, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS → 23 April 2014

Players: 3.9/10

Braveland is a turn-based strategy game with a side view in a fantasy setting. You will embark on a dangerous journey filled with battles and exciting adventures...

Ultra Street Fighter 4

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view

Game released: Xbox 360, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 → 7 August 2014

Players: 6.2/10

Ultra Street Fighter 4 is the most complete edition of the arcade side-scrolling fighting game Street Fighter 4. The game brings significant changes to the balance...

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...

Magicite

Arcade, Role-playing game, Online, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 9 June 2014

Players: 9.2/10

Magicite is an action role-playing platformer with procedurally generated levels. The player, together with his friends, will have to explore the dungeons. The game...

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...

Trials Frontier

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Stunts, Motorcycle racing, Side view

Game released: iOS, Android → 9 April 2014

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Trials Frontier is an arcade racing action game with elements of stunts. You'll be able to control your bike with incredible precision and move your weight back or...

Viktor

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: PC → 13 June 2014

Viktor is a dynamic arcade shooter with a side view. Victor's story begins in Eos, a world divided into two realms: the Overworld and the Netherworld. The fragile...

Outland

Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC, Mac, Linux → 16 June 2011

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Outland is a fantastic action-plate with a side of the side, where you have to use the forces of light and darkness in an epic journey to save the world from the...

Cats are Liquid

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android → 25 July 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Cats are Liquid is a funny arcade platformer with a side of the side, where you have to take a cat under control, which behaves as if it is a drop of liquid. The...

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Best Games in the Side view genre of 2014 (Game released)