Side view for Nintendo Switch — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 22

The Legend of Tianding - a game in the Side view genre

Side view, Action, Platformer, Slasher, Anime / Manga, Comics, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 November 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

The Legend of Tianding is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer in a comic book style. The game will tell the story of a young Taipei vigilante, Liao...

New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 2 December 2022

Steam: 55/100

Remake of the classic platformer Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja from 1991. One night, people from one tribe stole all the women from another tribe. Cro-Magnons Joe...

The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors

Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 October 2019

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Remaster Ninja Warriors (1989), to which the developers added additional moves and combos, 2 new characters, 2-player co-op, as well as improved graphics...

Ugly

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 September 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

The player explores the depths of the aristocrat's sick mind, which are filled with scary monsters and puzzles. Using the mechanics of mirroring a character, you...

Gunbrick: Reloaded

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 9 April 2020

Steam: 97/100

The player controls a cube character and explores a world divided into 5 unique locations. You need to solve puzzles and fight mutants and psychos using a gun and a...

Sigma Star Saga DX

Role-playing game, Shooter, Top-down view, Side view, Science fiction, Old school, Space, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 April 2026

Steam: 95/100

Updated and expanded version of Sigma Star Saga from 2005. The game combines side-scrolling battles with top-down planet exploration. The player takes on the role...

Shadow Blade: Reload

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 March 2019

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Shadow Blade: Reload is a side-scrolling action platformer about Kuro, a ninja tasked with restoring balance to a modern world where ancient clans are locked in a...

Super Mighty Power Man

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Side view

Frozen: Nintendo Switch → 2018

Super Mighty Power Man is an arcade side-scrolling sci-fi action platformer that is the ideological successor to the Mega Man series. The events of the game will...

Fall Part 2: Unbound

Action, Adventure, Side view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 February 2018

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This side-scrolling action adventure continues the story of a dystopian world through the perspective of Arid, an AI infected by an unknown program. After breaking...

Mr. Run and Jump

Side view, Platformer, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 25 July 2023

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 78/100

A 2D platformer about Mr. Run and Jump and his faithful companion, Leap the Dog, journeying through the dangerous Realms of Color. The duo must collect Power Gems...

Necrocosmos

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Side view

Frozen: Nintendo Switch → 5 June 2020

Anticipation Rating: 3.3/10

Necrocosmos is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action game set in a Metroidvania style. Each player will start the game with a unique star map and will be able to...

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: 76/100

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...

Black Future '88

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Cyberpunk, Adventure

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 21 November 2019

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Black Future '88 is a fast-paced side-scrolling arcade action game with procedurally generated levels. The events of the game will take you to the gloomy year of...

Azure Reflections

Arcade, Shooter, Anime / Manga, Side view, Indie, Action, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 30 August 2018

Steam: 87/100

Azure Reflections is a hardcore Japanese-style side-scrolling shooter. Enemies come from all sides with a never-ending stream of bullets. Strike back with timely...

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...

The Great Perhaps

Adventure, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Indie, Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 July 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 54/100

The Great Perhaps is an exciting side-scrolling adventure set in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of an astronaut who returns to the Earth destroyed by...

Endless Memories

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 7 October 2022

Players: 3/10

Endless Memories is an action-adventure game with role-playing elements and a side view that will take you to the amazing world of dreams. In each of them you will...

Foregone

Platformer, Side view, Action, Slasher, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 13 October 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Foregone is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer in which the main character is trying to save the city of Kalagan from complete destruction. The game has a...

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...

Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Collection, Action, Historical

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection is a collection of old-school fighting games that includes seven games: Samurai Shodown (1993), Samurai Shodown 2, Samurai...

Fallen Legion Revenants

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 19 February 2021

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Fallen Legion Revenants is a turn-based strategy role-playing game with turn-based combat and visual novel elements in a fantasy setting. In a world covered in...

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws

Role-playing game, DLC, Fantasy / Medieval, Roguelike, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 24 August 2020

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Children of Morta: Paws and Claws is a top-down RPG expansion set in a fantasy setting. Night hunters, creatures of the day. They howl, growl, hiss, and snarl: but...

Gonner 2

Indie, Platformer, Arcade, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Roguelike, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Shooter

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 22 October 2020

Steam: 68/100

Gonner 2 is a sequel to the brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. Hikk returns again, and this time he will...

Capcom Arcade Stadium

Arcade, Fighting, Racing, Side view, Top-down view, Action, Free game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 February 2021

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Capcom Arcade Stadium is a shareware program for launching cult retro games from Capcom. You will find classic shooters, fighting games, action games, adventures...

Tomba! Special Edition

Action, Platformer, Side view, Old school

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 1 August 2024

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Remaster of the action-platformer Tomba! from 1997. The story centers around a pink-haired wild boy named Tomba, who embarks on an exciting journey to save his...

Runbow

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Casual game, Action

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 3 July 2018

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Runbow is a side-scrolling platformer where shifts in the colourful background affect the platforms and obstacles: anything matching the background disappears...

Unit 4

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 March 2019

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Unit 4 is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. Evil aliens seize a sacred artifact from the tribe of the main characters and...

Get Me Outta Here

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 29 November 2019

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 100/100

Get Me Outta Here — A side-scrolling sci-fi arcade shooter for mobile platforms. You play as mustachioed Farmer Joe, who has been kidnapped by aliens and is...

Rage in Peace

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 November 2018

Steam: 89/100

Rage in Peace is a bloody side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. One fateful day in Timmy's life, the Reaper of Death appears with news that he will die today...

Black Bird (2018)

Replayability, Side view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 18 October 2018

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

After dying at a street corner, a young girl is reborn as the ominous Black Bird. The kingdom regards the bird as one of the great calamities spoken of since...

Bleed 2

Arcade, Action, Side view, Indie

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 8 March 2018

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Bleed 2 is a continuation of the fun arcade action game with a side view. As in the original, you will again have to save the world from an impending disaster in...

Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 26 September 2019

Players: 7/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX is an arcade action-platformer with a side view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Mega Man 10 and Mighty No. 9...

Desert Child

Arcade, Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Side view, Racing, Shooter

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 11 December 2018

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 55/100

Desert Child is a dynamic racing arcade game with RPG elements and a side view in a sci-fi setting. In the game you will try on the role of a young and talented...

Some Distant Memory

Indie, Adventure, Side view, Futurism (Future), Casual game

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 14 November 2019

Steam: 93/100

Some Distant Memory is an interactive side-scrolling adventure set in a post-apocalyptic setting. 300 years after the end of the world, people's hope of...

Mable & The Wood

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Horror, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 October 2019

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Mable & The Wood is a side-scrolling Metroidvania adventure with horror elements set in a dark fantasy world. The plot tells the story of a mysterious girl named...

Tanuki Justice

Action, Side view, Platformer, Indie, Fantasy / Medieval, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 10 December 2020

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Tanuki Justice is a fast-paced platformer with cute run-and-gun pixel graphics. The gameplay of the game is simple, but very rich and suitable for those who like...

Monkey King: Master of the Clouds

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Arcade, Shooter

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 6 September 2018

Steam: 68/100

Monkey King: Master of the Clouds is a fun side-scrolling retro platformer. You will take on the role of Mike Chen, who travels on a flying cloud and confronts...

Blind Fate: Edo no Yami

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction, Cyberpunk, Slasher, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 15 September 2022

Steam: 62/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Blind Fate: Edo no Yami is a fast-paced side-scrolling cyberpunk slasher game. Welcome to Edo, the dark age of machines, during a time when the Shogunate rules...

Azure Striker Gunvolt 3

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Futurism (Future), Action, Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 28 July 2022

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Azure Striker Gunvolt 3 is a continuation of the dynamic action platformer with a side view in a fantasy setting with a touch of futurism. You will find an...

Sonic Superstars

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

Game released: Nintendo Switch → 17 October 2023

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy travel to the North Star Islands to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman. Heroes use new abilities, the power of which is bestowed by the...

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Best Games in the Side view genre for Nintendo Switch