Side view for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 12

Dreaming Sarah - a game in the Side view genre

Metroidvania, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 March 2021

Steam: 90/100

The girl Sarah got into an accident and is in a coma. You need to explore the dream world, collect objects and communicate with strange characters to help her wake...

Residual

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 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...

Crawl

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Dungeons, Online

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 December 2017

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Crawl is a fast-paced action roguelike with side-scrolling RPG elements. The game features a variety of dungeons that are randomly generated. The game is designed...

Hungry Shark World

Arcade, Action, Free game, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 July 2018

Players: 8.3/10

Hungry Shark World is a free-to-play arcade action game with a side view. In the role of a shark, you have to quench your hunger by eating various sea creatures...

Blaster Master Zero

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 March 2017

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Blaster Master Zero is an 8-bit side-scrolling action platformer based on the 1988 Blaster Master game. The new edition features the unique style of the original...

Shattered: Tale of the Forgotten King

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, First-person view, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 April 2022

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Shattered: Tale of the Forgotten King is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer. Powerful creatures called Demiurges began to rule the world of Hypnos after the...

Miles & Kilo

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 July 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Miles & Kilo is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer. A little boy, Miles, and his faithful dog, Kilo, find themselves stranded on an island after a plane...

Summer Catchers

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Runner, Side view, Racing

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 February 2021

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Summer Catchers is a cute racing arcade game with a side view, made in pixel style. The game tells the story of a young girl from the north who has never seen...

ANNO: Mutationem

Indie, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Side view, Futurism (Future), Cyberpunk, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 September 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 73/100

ANNO: Mutationem is an indie action role-playing adventure game in the style of futurism and cyberpunk, with a side view. Welcome to a world covered in neon lights...

Gearshifters

Arcade, Racing, Top-down view, Action, Shooter, Roguelike, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Gearshifters is a whirlwind racing action arcade game with bagel elements and a top-down view in a post-apocalyptic setting. In the game you will set out to conquer...

Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 December 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 66/100

Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX is a side-scrolling anime fantasy RPG game. In this game you will be able to raise, train and fight just like in the original. You can...

Capcom Fighting Collection

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 June 2022

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Capcom Fighting Collection is a collection of classic games from Capcom, which includes ten...

Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Side view, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 April 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A pixelated remaster of the original Final Fantasy VI with new graphics and sound. The War of the Magi has wiped out all magic from the world. A thousand years...

Souldiers

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 June 2022

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Souldiers is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. Together with other fighters fighting for the glory of their kingdom, you...

Disney Illusion Island

Arcade, Online, Platformer, Side view, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2023

Players: 2/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Mickey and his friends explore the mysterious island of Monot to find three mystical books and save the world from disaster. Characters can unlock special abilities...

Asterix & Obelix Slap Them All! 2

Beat them all, Action, Side view, Comics, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer, Arcade

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 November 2023

Steam: 79/100

The plot of the second part tells how Asterix and Obelix go to Lutetia in search of the stolen Golden Eagle, a precious symbol of the Roman legions, in order to...

A Highland Song

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 December 2023

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Moira McKinnon goes on an exciting adventure. To reach the sea, Moira must first cross the Scottish Highlands — a wilderness full of paths, peaks, shortcuts...

Toki Tori 2

In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Metroidvania, Open world, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 23 February 2018

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world puzzle adventure follows Toki Tori, a young chicken tasked with saving a forest island from a floating crystal and strange pollution. Along the way...

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 September 2018

Players: 5.4/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer that is the spiritual successor to 1987's Great Giana Sisters for the Commodore 64...

Rive

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 November 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

RIVE is a futuristic shooter-platformer about space scavenger Roughshot, who becomes trapped aboard a mysterious starship and has to form an unexpected alliance...

Candle

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Indie, Puzzle

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 July 2018

Players: 5.1/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Candle is a side-scrolling arcade platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to take on the role of the brave young man Teku, who is trying to save the shaman from...

Wuppo

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 5 September 2019

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Wuppo is a side-scrolling pixel arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to help a cute round creature who has lost his home. And now he has to go on a...

Kirby Star Allies

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 16 March 2018

Players: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 73/100

Kirby Star Allies — A cooperative arcade action platformer with a side view, in which a cute pink round character named Kirby, armed with an impressive sword...

Dragon Marked For Death

Arcade, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Anime / Manga

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 January 2019

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Dragon Marked For Death is a side-scrolling arcade action RPG in a fantasy setting from the creators of Mega Man Zero and Azure Striker...

Vagante

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Roguelike, Side view, Online

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 27 January 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 69/100

Vagante is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer that features permadeath and procedurally generated levels. A dangerous adventure awaits you in a dark fantasy...

Lumines Remastered

Arcade, Music game, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Match-3 (Three in a row), Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 June 2018

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Lumines Remastered is an updated version of the arcade side-scrolling match-3 rhythm puzzle game for modern platforms. In it you have to throw two-color blocks down...

Flip Wars

Arcade, Online, Action, Top-down view, Puzzle, Tactics, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 May 2017

Metacritic: 53/100

Flip Wars is a competitive arcade puzzle action game for four people. You have to control colorful robots, whose main task is to capture as many colored tiles as...

Rainswept

Adventure, Puzzle, Side view, Detective, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 July 2020

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Rainswept is a side-scrolling adventure detective game with a variety of puzzles. Detective Michael Anderson is sent to the small town of Pineview to help the local...

Young Souls

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Fighting, Slasher, Futurism (Future), Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 March 2022

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Young Souls is an arcade co-op action-slasher with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game will tell the story of...

Degrees of Separation

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 February 2019

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Degrees of Separation is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer set in a fantasy setting. The game will tell the story of two heroes — Amber and Rhyme...

One Hand Clapping

Adventure, Platformer, Music game, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 December 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

One Hand Clapping is a side-scrolling indie musical platformer that challenges you to sing into your microphone to solve puzzles and unlock the power of your voice...

Liberated

Action, Adventure, Comics, Side view, Cyberpunk

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 June 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Liberated is an exciting side-scrolling action game made in the form of a comic book. The events of the game take place in a gloomy world where the authorities are...

Minute of Islands

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 March 2021

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Minute of Islands is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer set in a post-apocalyptic setting. In the game, you will take on the role of an experienced...

Skybolt Zack

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 November 2019

Steam: 89/100

Skybolt Zack is a fast-paced arcade action platformer with rhythm game elements and a side view in a sci-fi setting. In the game you have to try on the role of the...

VirtuaVerse

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Side view, Cyberpunk, Point & Click, Old school

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 October 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 75/100

VirtuaVerse is a cyberpunk adventure game in which you will travel to the near future, where artificial intelligence has taken over everything. The main character...

Rogue Lords

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Rogue Lords is a dark fantasy roguelike in which the player leads a squad of devils. The squad includes various monsters and characters known from films and fairy...

Aeon Must Die!

Action, Indie, Side view, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Role-playing game, Adventure, Beat them all, Metroidvania

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 October 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 50/100

Aeon Must Die! is an indie side-scrolling action game in a futuristic style with tactical and side-scrolling RPG elements. Eon, the fearsome Emperor of the...

Berserk Boy

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 March 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 82/100

An old-school whirlwind platformer with lots of enemies, colorful graphics and the like, in which the player takes on the role of Kay, a young hero who controls the...

Backworlds

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Backworlds is a side-scrolling adventure puzzle platformer in which you can influence the game world using a special eraser. This is what the main game mechanics...

Deck of Ashes: Tome of Dimensions

DLC, Role-playing game, Card game, Roguelike, Side view, Strategy, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 April 2022

Steam: 16/100

Deck of Ashes: Tome of Dimensions — an expansion for the intriguing mix of card game and roguelike Deck of Ashes. It adds another playable character, an elf named...

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Best Games in the Side view genre for Nintendo Switch