Side view 2024 — top best games in the Side view genre

Asleep: Act 1 - a game in the Side view genre

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Exploration, Old school, Survival horror

Game released: PC, Mac → 10 May 2024

Steam: 92/100

A short pixel-art horror adventure. The player controls a girl named Ana Lucia, who is trapped in the world of her nightmares and trying to escape...

Prince of Persia The Lost Crown

Adventure, Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 18 January 2024

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A reimagining of the Prince of Persia series, the main character of which is the Persian soldier Sargon from the elite group of warriors “Immortals...

Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit

Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Old school

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 8 August 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 87/100

The official spin-off to the Five Nights at Freddy's universe, made in 2D pixel style. Oswald is bored with his city and his life. But everything...

Tekken 8

Action, Adventure, Fighting, Online, Side view

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 26 January 2024

Players: 7/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 90/100

Tekken 8 is a side-scrolling adventure fighting game. In the background, during the battle, you can see dynamic waves and tornadoes, a huge tanker...

Darkest Dungeon 2

Role-playing game, Turn-based, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Medieval era, Gothic

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Mac, Nintendo Switch 2 → 8 May 2023

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A continuation of a unique party RPG, where the heroes’ skills are tied not to abstract indicators of strength, dexterity, intelligence, but to a...

Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns

DLC, Fighting, Side view, Action, Fantasy, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch → 24 September 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 60/100

According to the plot of the add-on, the heroes come together again to repel the ruthless titan Havik. Liu Kang continues to defend his New Era by...

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Side view, Exploration, Remake

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, iOS, Android → 24 September 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

A remake of the colorful Disney Epic Mickey for Wii in 2010. Mickey Mouse embarks on an epic journey across the Wasteland, the realm of forgotten...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike

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

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

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

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

MultiVersus

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

Game released: PC, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 28 May 2024

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Dynamic action function with the side of the side, in which you are offered to play for popular heroes from films and cartoons Warner Bros. The...

Katana Zero

Action, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Indie, Side view, Platformer

Game released: PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, iOS, Android → 18 April 2019

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Katana Zero is a hardcore side-view action game in cyberpunk style. Expect dynamic battles using futuristic technologies, fast movements of the main...

Octopath Traveler

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Side view, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch, PC, Stadia, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 12 July 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A Japanese-style RPG that invites you to set off on a journey with one of eight heroes. Each character has unique abilities and their own storyline...

Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona

Metroidvania, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PC, Linux, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S → 7 August 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 77/100

A dark metroidvania inspired by the Castlevania and Dark Souls series. The main character is the doomed Lord Derek Erikon, who escaped a fatal end in...

Ib

Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 11 April 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Ib is a dark 2D horror adventure game that is a remake of the original game of the same name, released in February 2012. The game is about a girl...

Blasphemous

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Indie

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS, Mac, Linux → 10 September 2019

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A hardcore action platformer made in the spirit of the Castlevania series, but in a bloodier and more brutal form. The player explores the dark world...

Nine Sols

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4 → 28 May 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Adventure action-platformer from the creators of psychological horrors Detention and Devotion. The game tells the story of an awakened hero who...

Legend of mushroom

Role-playing game, Arcade, Adventure, Side view

Game released: iOS, Android → 3 March 2024

Players: 7.6/10

A casual idle RPG where the player controls a small mushroom, gradually turning it from a weak creature into a capable fighter. Legend of Mushroom...

100 Dino Cats

Side view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game, Free game

Game released: PC → 26 February 2024

Steam: 95/100

The player travels through the park with dinosaurs and tries to find all the hidden cats. There are more than a hundred animals in the hand-drawn...

Heroine Anthem Zero 2: Scalescars Oath

Role-playing game, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Anime / Manga, Slasher, Platformer, Adult game, Metroidvania

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4 → 22 February 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Heroine Anthem Zero 2: Scalescars Oath is a fast-paced action-platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting, the plot of...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants

Beat them all, Arcade, Action, Side view, Comics, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 23 April 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 53/100

A cooperative beat-em-up based on the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series from Nickelodeon. The game features local co-op for up to...

Kong: Survivor Instinct

Action, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2024

Players: 9/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Adventure Metroidvania based on King Kong. The game tells the story of oil rig worker David as he tries to find his daughter in a collapsing city. To...

The Case of the Golden Idol

Adventure, Side view, Detective, Puzzle, Point & Click

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 → 13 October 2022

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Side view detective adventure game. The game takes place in an alternate 18th century England, where players will have to unravel 12 of the strangest...

Umbraclaw

Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 30 May 2024

Steam: 85/100

An action-adventure about a cat named Kuon, who finds herself in the Kingdom of Souls after dying in the world of the living—a dangerous dimension...

The Spirit of the Samurai

Action, Side view, Medieval era, Fantasy, Adventure, Metroidvania, Slasher, Indie

Game released: PC → 12 December 2024

Players: 6/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 59/100

The game takes place in feudal Japan and tells about the confrontation with an army of terrible Oni demons, undead and youkai. The game features...

Lost in Play

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Indie, Fantasy, Point & Click

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PlayStation 4 → 10 August 2022

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Young brother and sister are lost in the vastness of their own imagination. Now Toto and Gel must stick together and solve puzzles to return home...

Pilgrims

Adventure, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Replayability, Point & Click, Card game

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.1/10

Steam: 95/100

Pilgrims — an atmospheric side-view adventure from the creators of Machinarium and Samorost 3. The game will delight you with the absence of a...

The Plucky Squire

Arcade, Puzzle, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Action, Third-person view, Fantasy

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S → 17 September 2024

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The main characters are characters from a fairy tale book who manage to get out of their 2D world and get into another reality &mdash...

Anima Flux

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Xbox Series X/S → 7 October 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

A cooperative game that pits two genetically modified soldiers against mutants in a deserted space city. Each character has their own characteristics...

Nikoderiko: The Magical World

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

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 5 December 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A bright adventure with the support of a cooperative, whose heroes want to save a magical island from a villain. There are seven unique worlds where...

Across the Obelisk

Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Card game, Roguelike, Online, Strategy, Side view, Turn-based, Casual game, Adventure, Tactics

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 5 → 16 August 2022

Steam: 81/100

Across the Obelisk is a role-playing roguelike in a fantasy setting with turn-based battles, a side view and the ability to collect a powerful deck...

Yes, Your Grace

Role-playing game, Business / Management, Fantasy / Medieval, Strategy, Historical, Side view, Indie

Game released: PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, Android, Mac → 6 March 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Yes, Your Grace is a management strategy with role-playing game elements in a medieval setting. In the game you will take control of a large kingdom...

CATO: Buttered Cat

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 → 5 September 2024

Steam: 98/100

A colorful puzzle-platformer based on the famous buttered cat paradox. At the heart of the story are two unusual heroes—a cat and a buttered...

The Strange City

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Horror

Game released: PC → 25 November 2024

Players: 7/10

Steam: 48/100

Atmospheric platformer in the spirit of the Little Nightmares series. The game takes place in an otherworldly world in which a certain Agent G is...

BlazBlue Entropy Effect

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania, Procedural generation, Cyberpunk, Replayability

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 14 February 2024

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A dynamic action roguelike in the BlazBlue universe. Familiar characters from the series team up to overcome various challenges and fight hordes of...

A Difficult Game About Climbing

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PC, Mac → 6 March 2024

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 87/100

Hardcore precision platformer in the spirit of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The player controls the climber's hands to ascend a massive...

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Adventure, Side view, Comedy, Exploration, Platformer, Puzzle, Open world

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Mac → 1 August 2024

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 86/100

An absurd comedy game set in the quaint town of Barnsworth. The main character works as a traveling salesman, and in his free time he goes...

The Karate Kid: Street Rumble

Action, Old school, Side view, Beat them all, Cooperative (co-op), Arcade

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 20 September 2024

Steam: 74/100

Pixel bitmap based on the film series “The Karate Kid”. The action takes place in the 80s. The game features 12 levels inspired by locations featured...

Dragon Ball FighterZ

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action

Game released: PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 26 January 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 86/100

The game takes you into the spectacular world of cult manga and anime, turning each fight into a dynamic battle on a grand scale. The game is created...

Contra: Operation Galuga

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

Game released: PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One → 12 March 2024

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Reimagining of the original side-scrolling shooter Contra from 1987. The game includes new levels, enemies, game mechanics, and a weapon system...

The Grinch: Christmas Adventures

Action, Platformer, Side view, Adventure, Casual game, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android → 13 October 2023

Steam: 63/100

The Grinch is once again trying to steal Christmas. He sneaks into the city of Who-ville to steal all the gifts. During his adventures, the hero...

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Best Games in the Side view genre of 2024 (Game released)