Side view 2016 — top best games in the Side view genre

Beholder - a game in the Side view genre

Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Logic, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS → 9 November 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Beholder is a side-scrolling adventure strategy game where you have to spy on people. The story of the game will tell us about Karl Stein, a citizen of a...

Inside

Arcade, Platformer, Logic, Side view

Game released: Xbox One, PC, PlayStation 4, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 29 June 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 91/100

Inside is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer with survival elements from the creators of Limbo. The plot centers on a lonely boy who is hiding from...

Street Fighter 5

Arcade, Fighting, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4 → 16 February 2016

Players: 6.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Street Fighter 5 is a side-scrolling arcade fighting game in the popular Street Fighter series. In a simple and understandable form, the game will introduce you to...

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...

Unepic

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch → 25 July 2014

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Unepic is a side-scrolling action-platformer RPG in a fantasy setting. You will play as Daniel, who, due to strange circumstances, finds himself in the ancient and...

The Final Station

Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 30 August 2016

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Action platformer in a post-apocalyptic setting. The player will have the opportunity to become a train driver in a desert world, carrying his passengers from...

Punch Club

Role-playing game, Boxing, Business / Management, Sports game, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 8 January 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Punch Club is a boxing sports game with RPG elements that tells the story of a boxer searching for his father's killer. The game is made in pixel style and...

Slain: Back from Hell

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Slasher

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS Vita → 24 March 2016

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Slain: Back from Hell is an action-adventure platformer in a gothic setting. The story follows the doomed hero Bathoryn as he travels through a Gothic world and...

Salt and Sanctuary

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PS Vita, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 28 March 2017

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Salt and Sanctuary is a fantasy platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a sailor who is shipwrecked off the shore of an unknown...

Pankapu

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 21 September 2016

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who once...

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...

Lost Castle

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 → 1 September 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Worms W.M.D

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

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 23 August 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Worms W.M.D is a turn-based tactical action strategy game with a side view. A continuation of the popular game series, where two squads of worms will clash again in...

Moto X3M Bike Race Game

Side view, Motorcycle racing, Arcade

Game released: iOS, Android → 3 March 2016

Players: 6.4/10

Moto X3M Bike Race Game is an arcade motorcycle racing game with a side view. In this game you have to drive off-road motorcycles to overcome challenging obstacles...

Tricky Towers

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 2 August 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Tricky Towers is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game inspired by the popular Tetris. As in the original game, you have to build a tower from familiar figures and...

Hue

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Rayman

Platformer, Side view, Action, Arcade

Game released: DOS, Game Boy Advance, Jaguar, Nintendo DSi, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, SEGA Saturn, PC, Game Boy Color, iOS, Android → 1995

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Rayman is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. In this game you have to find and save all the Electuns — unusual little creatures. After this, you can...

Five Nights at Freddy's World

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC → 12 February 2016

Players: 7.1/10

Five Nights at Freddy's World is an animatronic RPG where gamers won't have to fear the little characters. The gameplay is done in a turn-based mode, familiar to...

Mighty No. 9

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Mac, Linux → 21 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 52/100

Mighty No. 9 is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer that is the spiritual successor to the Mega Man series. At the beginning of the 21st century, there was a...

Zombie Night Terror

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Android → 20 July 2016

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Zombie Night Terror is a side-view management strategy set in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to control a squad of zombies, whose goal is to infect...

Demon Hunter

Arcade, Action, Free game, Side view

Game released: Android → 31 October 2016

Demon Hunter is a shareware side-scrolling arcade action game for mobile platforms. You have to become a demon hunter and use various abilities to destroy monsters...

Turmoil

In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 → 2 June 2016

Players: 8.4/10

A side-view real-time management strategy game set in North America at the end of the 19th century. The beginning of the oil rush, a small town and the struggle for...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 15 March 2016

Players: 8/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to survive in a...

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch → 5 September 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Mother Russia Bleeds is a side-scrolling arcade action game. You advance through the level, destroying all enemies along the way using hand-to-hand combat and...

Oxenfree

Adventure, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch → 14 January 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Oxenfree is a mystical adventure with a side view about teenagers who decide to spend a weekend on a mysterious island. The main character, along with her friends...

Reus

Strategy, God Simulator, In real time, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac, Linux → 16 May 2013

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Reus is a side-scrolling real-time management strategy game set in a fantasy setting. You have to take control of the universe as mighty titans, possessing all...

Rive

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

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Linux → 13 September 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 77/100

Ironcast

Role-playing game, Strategy, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Logic, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row)

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 26 March 2015

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Ironcast is an engaging role-playing strategy game with elements of a match-three puzzle set in a Victorian steampunk environment. To protect Great Britain, the...

Dead Age

Role-playing game, Horror, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 4 November 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will forever have to...

Rabi-Ribi

Action, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch → 28 January 2016

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Rabi-Ribi is a Japanese-style 2D side-scrolling action platformer. In the game you will find a huge world to explore, where you will take on the role of a quirky...

Kingdom: New Lands

Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 9 August 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Kingdom: New Lands is a side-view pixel management strategy set in a fantasy setting. You will become the ruler of your own kingdom and face various tasks, which...

Move or Die

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 → 21 January 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Move or Die is a fun side-scrolling arcade platformer for a noisy group. The game is a collection of mini-games in which several people can participate. Among the...

Poly Bridge

Arcade, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 12 July 2016

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 73/100

The game allows you to build bridges from different parts. Buildings must comply with the laws of physics, especially those parts that relate to the resistance of...

Mortal Kombat XL

Arcade, Fighting, Collection, Side view

Game released: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC → 4 March 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Mortal Kombat XL — game collection of the popular arcade fighting game with a side view in the Mortal Kombat universe. The game takes place 25 years after...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, PC → 10 May 2016

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many interesting female...

Shantae: Half-Genie Hero

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

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Wii U, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch → 20 December 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 81/100

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 12 October 2016

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 79/100

GoNNER is a brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. The game tells the story of the friendship between Hiccup...

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS → 10 April 2015

Metacritic: 70/100

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an atmospheric “point and click” adventure with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. A terrible epidemic turns...

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...

Manual Samuel

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 14 October 2016

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 67/100

Manual Samuel is a fun adventure game that tells the story of Samuel. He is handsome and rich, but most importantly, he is dead. Samuel decides to make a deal with...

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Best Games in the Side view genre of 2016 (Game released)