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: 8.8/10

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...

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...

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: 7.9/10

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...

Бородач. Понять и простить

Adventure, Free game, Side view, Point & Click

Game released: Android, iOS → 5 August 2016

Players: 7.2/10

Bearded man. Understand and forgive — A shareware point and click adventure with a side view for mobile platforms. The game is dedicated to everyone's...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Unravel

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 9 February 2016

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Unravel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure with various puzzles. The platformer will tell the story of a knitted man — Yarny, who stretches like a ball with...

DISTRAINT

Adventure, Horror, Free game, Side view

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

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 76/100

DISTRAINT is a psychological horror game with a side view for mobile platforms. You have to play as a young ambitious guy Price, who in an unholy way took the...

Rusty Lake Hotel

Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Side view, Horror

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 29 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Rusty Lake Hotel is a side-scrolling arcade adventure game with horror elements inspired by the cult TV series Twin Peaks by David Lynch. The plot centers on...

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...

Karma - Incarnation 1

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 19 October 2016

Players: 9.1/10

Karma — Incarnation 1 is a fun side-scrolling adventure. You have to get used to the role of a worm named Pip, who, according to the plan, was supposed to...

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...

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...

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

Adventure, Horror, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view,

Game released: PC, Mac, Android, iOS → 4 March 2015

Players: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Tormentum: Dark Sorrow is a fantasy adventure puzzle with horror elements. The game's protagonist is deprived of his memory and is imprisoned against his will in a...

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...

Mother Russia Bleeds

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Side view

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

Players: 8.7/10

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...

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...

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...

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...

Bug Butcher

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

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 19 January 2016

Bug Butcher is a futuristic side-scrolling arcade action platformer. Over the course of more than 50 levels, you will have to face countless hordes of aliens alone...

Crusaders of the Lost Idols

Arcade, Strategy, Mini-game / browser-based, Free game, Side view

Game released: PC, Android, iOS, Browser, Mac → 13 October 2015

Crusaders of the Lost Idols is a shareware arcade clicker with a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to go on an exciting adventure through colorful locations...

Artificial Defense

Strategy, Tactics, Side view

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 1 June 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Artificial Defense is a top-down tactical strategy game in the tower defense genre. You have to become the defender of a real server, because it’s no secret that...

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...

Ultimate Chicken Horse

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

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

Players: 8.5/10

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in the style of Super Meat Boy. You have to create levels with a huge number of traps and other...

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...

Neverending Nightmares

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Android, iOS → 26 September 2014

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 71/100

Neverending Nightmares is a side-scrolling adventure horror game. You have to get used to the role of Thomas — a man who has fallen into a long string of...

Dog Sled Saga

Simulation, Racing, Business / Management, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android → 22 September 2016

Dog Sled Saga is a pixelated sled racing game with management simulator elements and a side view. You have to harness horse-drawn dogs to a sleigh and participate...

KWAAN

Arcade, Role-playing game, Online, Adventure, Side view

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

Players: 10/10

KWAAN is an adventure, online role-playing game in pixel style. The main task of the players is to maintain the Kvaan tree of life. By completing mini-tasks against...

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: 5.5/10

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...

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...

Song of the Deep

Arcade, Adventure, Warships / Submarines, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 12 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 69/100

Song of the Deep is a side-scrolling arcade adventure. The setting was a sunken city that hides many secrets and mysteries and where the main character’s father was...

Of Mice and Sand

In real time, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS → 21 December 2017

Players: 7.7/10

Of Mice and Sand is an exciting real-time management strategy with a side view. You have to command a huge mobile fortress inhabited by cute mice. Only you can help...

Dungeon Rushers

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Android → 6 September 2016

Players: 1/10

Dungeon Rushers is a fantasy role-playing game with turn-based combat where you go on a dungeon exploration. All levels are generated randomly and are fraught with...

Mortal Kombat X: Kombat Pack 2

Arcade, Fighting, DLC, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 1 March 2016

Players: 9.7/10

Mortal Kombat X: Kombat Pack is an addition to the side-scrolling arcade fighting game Mortal Kombat X. It adds four more characters to the game, including...

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