Side view 2021 — top best games in the Side view genre

Mortal Kombat 11 - a game in the Side view genre

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

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Stadia, PlayStation 5 → 23 April 2019

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Mortal Kombat 11 is a continuation of the series of brutal fighting games, known for their deadly finishing moves and bloody fatalities. Players will enjoy a new...

Little Nightmares 2

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2 → 11 February 2021

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Little Nightmares 2 is a continuation of the horror platformer with quest elements. This time a co-op has appeared in the game and the two of you will have to...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android → 23 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge complex and its...

Octopath Traveler

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch, PC, Stadia, Xbox One → 12 July 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Octopath Traveler is a Japanese-style side-scrolling arcade RPG. Embarking on an exciting adventure, you can choose one of eight characters. Each of the characters...

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...

Guilty Gear Strive

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, PlayStation 5 → 8 June 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Guilty Gear Strive is a new entry in the side-scrolling fighting game series set in the popular Japanese Guilty Gear universe. The list of fighters includes your...

Slay the Spire

Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Card game, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android, Xbox One → 23 January 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Slay the Spire is a card-based role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to climb to the top of a dark tower, passing...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

Role-playing game, Strategy, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 76/100

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager is a dark role-playing roguelike with turn-based combat and a side view in a fantasy setting. You have to build a...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iOS, Android → 21 January 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Skul: The Hero Slayer is a side-scrolling pixel platformer. People have attacked the demon fortress and are trying to destroy their leader. Most of the inhabitants...

Until We Die

Action, Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: PC → 3 June 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Until We Die is an exciting action game with strategy elements and a side view, where you have to defend your base from the invasion of extraterrestrial monsters...

ScourgeBringer

Action, Indie, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Roguelike

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, Android, PlayStation 5 → 21 October 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Metacritic: 77/100

ScourgeBringer is a dynamic action-platformer with a side view and roguelike elements from the creators of NeuroVoider. The events of the game unfold in a...

Ninja Arashi 2

Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Role-playing game

Game released: iOS, Android → 2 March 2021

Players: 7.8/10

Ninja Arashi 2 is a side-scrolling RPG adventure platformer. You play as an enraged Arashi who finally escapes from a frozen prison created by Dosu, a brutal evil...

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions

Arcade, Fighting, Sports game, Boxing, Side view

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 3 September 2021

Players: 5.9/10

Metacritic: 63/100

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions is an arcade boxing simulator featuring 20 iconic characters from the Rocky and Creed film series. In the game you will challenge...

EA SPORTS UFC Mobile 2

Fighting, Sports game, Simulation, Side view

Game released: Android → 20 July 2021

Players: 5.3/10

EA SPORTS UFC Mobile 2 is a side-view sports fighting game simulator. This game brings you real MMA fighting action like never before. You'll be able to challenge...

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice

Adventure, Side view, Adult game

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android → 23 October 2020

Players: 5/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice is a continuation of a series of exciting point and click adventures about forty-year-old balding heartthrob Larry Laffer...

Huntdown

Arcade, Shooter, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 12 May 2020

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Huntdown is an arcade side-scrolling pixel shooter with platforming elements in a sci-fi setting. You will go to a dark world of the future, where the police have...

Neighbours Back From Hell

Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, iOS, Android → 8 October 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Neighbors Back From Hell is a modern re-release of two parts of the How to Get Your Neighbor puzzle. The new product received updated graphics, doubled frame rate...

Spelunky 2

Arcade, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S → 29 September 2020

Players: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Spelunky 2 is a sequel to the fun side-scrolling arcade platformer with procedurally generated levels. This time you have to embark on an adventure as the child of...

Mutazione

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, iOS, Xbox One, Android → 19 September 2019

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 78/100

Mutazione is an atmospheric side-scrolling adventure in a fantasy setting. More than 100 years ago, a meteorite fell on a tropical resort. Almost all the...

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

Action, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Role-playing game

Game released: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 22 June 2021

Players: 8.6/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. The setting is the fallen kingdom of Outland...

Evergate

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

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 1 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Evergate is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. The events of the game take place in an amazing afterlife, where two souls have to change their fate and...

Night in the Woods

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 5 → 21 February 2017

Players: 9.1/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Night in the Woods is an arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. The game tells the story of a twenty-year-old cat who was expelled from college for truancy. After...

Melon Playground

Arcade, Simulation, Side view

Game released: Android → 27 August 2021

Players: 7.6/10

Melon Playground is a side-scrolling arcade simulator. In this game you have to test different types of weapons on a person who supports the physics of movements...

Lamentum

Adult game, Adventure, Action, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 27 August 2021

Players: 8/10

Lamentum is a dark side-scrolling action adventure game set in New England in the mid-19th century. The game tells the story of a young aristocrat named Victor. He...

Unbound: Worlds Apart

Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Logic, Puzzle

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One → 28 July 2021

Metacritic: 78/100

Unbound: Worlds Apart is an atmospheric puzzle platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. The main character, named Soli, can create magical portals...

Eternal Cave Escape

Platformer, Action, Side view, Indie, Free game

Game released: PC → 6 August 2021

Eternal Cave Escape is a free side-scrolling pixel action platformer. In the game you play as a miner who is lost in a dark cave. There are no checkpoints in the...

My Friend Pedro

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 20 June 2019

Players: 8.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

My Friend Pedro is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer that will remind many of Max Payne. You will play as a heavily armed hero who kills hundreds of...

Sheltered 2

Business / Management, Strategy, Side view, Post-apocalyptic, In real time

Game released: PC → 21 September 2021

Players: 5.2/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Sheltered 2 is a continuation of the management strategy with turn-based battles and a side view in the world of the post-apocalypse. One of the main innovations of...

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince

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

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Stadia → 8 October 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is a sequel to the popular side-scrolling puzzle platformer in a fantasy setting. This time, three heroes will go in search of the...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Role-playing game

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

Karma - Incarnation 1

Arcade, Adventure, Puzzle, Side view

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

Players: 9.4/10

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...

Worms Rumble

Action, Strategy, Tactics, Side view, Third-person view, In real time, Shooter

Game released: PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 1 December 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Worms Rumble is a new part of the tactical action strategy with a side view in the legendary Worms series of games about funny worms. The sequel was the first game...

Mayhem Brawler

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Comics, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 19 August 2021

Mayhem Brawler — a fresh take on 90s side-scrolling beat 'em ups, influenced by the success of Streets of Rage 4. You will be able to choose one of three heroes...

Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story

Arcade, Side view, Music game, Indie, Runner, Action

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch → 16 November 2021

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story — a dynamic arcade runner with rhythm game elements and a side view in the League of Legends...

Aeterna Noctis

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

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 15 December 2021

Metacritic: 69/100

Aeterna Noctis is a side-scrolling adventure role-playing action platformer in a fantasy setting. The Supreme God Chaos cursed his creation, forcing the dominant...

Nuclear Day

Action, Simulation, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Android → 29 June 2021

Players: 7.3/10

Nuclear Day is an action game with simulator elements in a post-apocalyptic world with a side view. Radiation, hunger, disease and suffering are everywhere. And...

Super Meat Boy Forever

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Action, Runner

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 10 January 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the hardcore arcade runner Super Meat Boy. The game has a full story, six new chapters and twice as many bosses. Meat Boy and Band-Aid Girl try to...

Backbone

Adventure, Stealth, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 8 June 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Backbone is a noir detective role-playing game in the spirit of Wolf Among Us, where all the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The game tells the story of...

Pinstripe

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Nintendo Switch → 24 April 2017

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 74/100

Pinstripe is an atmospheric side-scrolling exploration adventure from developer Coma and Skinny. The events of the game take place in Hell, where the main character...

Tetris Effect

Arcade, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Virtual Reality (VR)

Game released: PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 18 August 2021

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 92/100

Tetris Effect — a classic arcade puzzle game for PlayStation VR virtual reality devices from the creators of Rez. The game is dedicated to the "Tetris syndrome...

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Best Games in the Side view genre of 2021 (Game released)