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

Skul: The Hero Slayer - a game in the Side view genre

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

Game released: Linux → 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 the inhabitants...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

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

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 76/100

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...

Tails of Iron

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

Game released: Linux → 17 September 2021

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Tails of Iron is a side-scrolling action-adventure game in a fantasy setting. Playing as Reggie, heir to the Rat throne, you will have to save your kingdom and...

Cyber Shadow

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Indie, Side view, Anime / Manga, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2021

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Cyber Shadow is a dynamic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The world has been taken over by synthetic life forms. A desperate cry for help...

Super Auto Pets

Strategy, Turn-based, Free game, Side view, Casual game, Clicker, Online

Game released: Linux → 24 September 2021

Steam: 91/100

Multiplayer strategy with auto-battle elements, where teams are made up of cute animals with unique abilities. Each character contributes to the overall build, and...

Unbound: Worlds Apart

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

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2021

Steam: 82/100

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...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the original game, our...

Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness

Adventure, Horror, Point & Click, Side view, Old school, Detective

Game released: Linux → 23 March 2021

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 68/100

A detective adventure in the spirit of Lovecraftian horror, inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The story unfolds around private detective Lown...

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark

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

Game released: Linux → 15 April 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark is a point and click adventure puzzle game with a side view. Twin Lakes is a damn town. Damned enough to pay attention...

Ayo the Clown

Role-playing game, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Action

Game released: Linux → 28 July 2021

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Ayo the Clown is an adventure platformer with a variety of puzzles and role-playing elements. You have to help the cute clown Ayo in search of his missing dog Bo...

Lost Ruins

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Slasher, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Linux → 13 May 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lost Ruins is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. The girl wakes up in the twilight of the dungeon. She doesn't remember...

Residual

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Survival, Exploration, Action

Game released: Linux → 9 September 2021

Steam: 66/100

A lonely explorer makes an emergency landing on a strange planet that holds an ancient secret. The character explores a procedurally generated world, gathers food...

Introvert: A Teenager Simulator

Free game, Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Role-playing game, Simulation, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 2 March 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

Introvert: A Teenager Simulator is a free-to-play arcade side-scrolling adventure game with role-playing elements. In the game, the main character is told a...

Mighty Goose

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

Game released: Linux → 5 June 2021

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Mighty Goose is an old-school arcade action game. In this 2D shooter, you take on the role of a bounty hunter named Goose. And it's actually a goose, only armed and...

Luna's Fishing Garden

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Simulation, Platformer, Side view, Sandbox, Farm Simulator, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 16 June 2021

Steam: 93/100

Luna's Fishing Garden is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with life simulation elements. The game will tell the story of young Casey, who ends up on a...

Kathy Rain: Director’s Cut

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

Game released: Linux → 26 October 2021

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 87/100

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut is a side-scrolling point and click adventure. Extended version of the plot: with a longer final part, hundreds of lines of additional...

Aeon Drive

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Cyberpunk, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2021

Steam: 76/100

Aeon Drive is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a sci-fi setting. The action takes you to the neon-lit streets of Neo-Barcelona. You will try on the role of...

Dead Cells: Fatal Falls

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

Game released: Linux → 26 January 2021

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 93/100

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

Dead Age 2

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

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

NoseBound

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

Game released: Linux → 19 January 2021

Steam: 86/100

NoseBound is a classic point and click side-scrolling adventure with a noir style. The game tells the story of private detective Ray Hammond, who is trying to catch...

Martial Law

Adventure, Side view, Visual novel, Free game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 December 2021

Steam: 91/100

Martial Law is a free side-scrolling adventure with visual novel elements. Its main character is one of the inhabitants of communist Poland, abandoned to the mercy...

Miska's Cave

Free game, Arcade, Runner, Side view, Fighting, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Casual game

Game released: Linux → 28 January 2021

Steam: 88/100

Miska's Cave is a free-to-play side-scrolling arcade action runner where you take control of a fighting rabbit named Miska who wants to conquer the cave. The only...

How We Got Here

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Arcade, Free game

Game released: Linux → 18 May 2021

Steam: 84/100

How We Got Here is a rather unusual side-view pixel adventure game about the adventures of a robot on a floating island. The main character discovers that in...

Steel Assault

Arcade, Platformer, Action, Side view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 28 September 2021

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Steel Assault is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place in the near future of post-apocalyptic America. You...

Tomb Rumble

Free game, Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, MMO, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2021

Steam: 73/100

Tomb Rumble is a free-to-play side-scrolling pixel platformer with an MMO component in which players compete to find treasure. The game features hundreds of levels...

The Captain

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Strategy, Point & Click, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 3 December 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

The Captain is a side-scrolling adventure platformer with RPG elements. You have to try on the role of a young spaceship captain who, by chance, finds himself on...

Bro, where's My head???

Puzzle, Arcade, Side view, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Comics, Casual game, Logic

Game released: Linux → 25 March 2021

Steam: 90/100

Bro, where's my head??? is a humorous puzzle platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to help a certain Odin from the land of darkness...

Eddie Hill in the Curse of the Skull Medallion

Side view, Platformer, Action, Indie, Third-person view

Game released: Linux → 29 April 2021

Steam: 94/100

Eddie Hill in the Curse of the Skull Medallion is an indie side-scrolling platformer with action elements. In this adventure, Eddie has to find a skull medallion...

Randy And Teddy Adventure Road

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Action, Exploration, Comics

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2021

Steam: 89/100

The main character named Randy and his puppy Teddy go through levels with challenges and puzzles. There are 5 different worlds: training, stone, sand, metal and...

Unforgettable You

Free game, Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 12 May 2021

Steam: 86/100

Unforgettable You is a free-to-play side-scrolling adventure platformer. You will take on the role of an ordinary person reminiscing about the past, the love of his...

Secret Agent HD

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

Game released: Linux → 30 June 2021

Steam: 98/100

Secret Agent HD is a re-release of the old-school action-adventure platformer with a side view, where you get into the role of Agent 006 — the only hope of...

Romino's Adventure

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Side view

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2021

Steam: 93/100

A free-to-play 2D platformer with puzzle elements in which the player navigates through levels using special objects to make their way...

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