Side view

Simulation, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Cooperative (co-op)

August 18, 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Spiritfarer is a fun management simulator with a side view that tells the story of death. You take on the role of a ferryman for the dead and build your own ship to...

Astral Ascent

Action, Roguelike, Side view, Slasher, Platformer, Cooperative (co-op), Indie, Fantasy

April 12, 2022

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 85/100

Four heroes with unique personalities try to escape from the Garden, an astral prison guarded by 12 godlike and treacherous Zodiacs. The game has dozens of unique...

The Rogue Prince of Persia

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy

May 27, 2024

Players: 8.1/10

Metacritic: 81/100

Adventure action roguelike in the Prince of Persia series. The game tells the story of the Prince's confrontation with the Huns, who fell under the influence of...

Beholder: Conductor

Simulation, Business / Management, Comedy, Side view

April 23, 2025

Players: 8.7/10

Spin-off of the Beholder series. The main character is a train conductor who is tasked with monitoring passengers, reporting incidents and carrying out important...

Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days

Action, Adventure, Side view, Survival, Crafting, Zombies, Survival horror

April 10, 2025

Players: 8.6/10

A side-scroller in the Into the Dead series about survival in a zombie apocalypse. The action takes place in Texas in 1980, where the once vibrant town of Walton is...

Trainwatch

Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Trains, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

2026

A narrative adventure with elements of time management, life simulation, and horror from the creator of The Cat Lady, Downfall , and Lorelai. The main character...

Heave Ho

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

August 29, 2019

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Heave Ho is a side-scrolling co-op arcade puzzle platformer. In the game you can gather a friendly team of up to 4 people to go on a dangerous journey, where the...

Girlfight 2024

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

September 16, 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Girlfight 2024 is a fast-paced side-scrolling fighting game for adults that will offer you one-on-one fights with sexy girls as playable characters. Features...

Grime 2

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

March 31, 2026

Players: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 82/100

Continuation of the metroidvania about a hero with a black hole instead of a head. The new part is dedicated to the Formless — a vile creature that can absorb...

Sheltered

Role-playing game, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view

March 15, 2016

Players: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 64/100

Sheltered is a procedurally generated adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. After many died in a nuclear holocaust, you are lucky enough to survive in a...

Guilty Gear Strive

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Anime / Manga

June 8, 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...

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection

Action, Fighting, Collection, Side view

October 30, 2025

Players: 3.2/10

Metacritic: 82/100

The ultimate compilation of the Mortal Kombat fighting game series, featuring 20 different games released across the 90s and 2000s on consoles and arcades. The...

The Walking Dead: Streets of Survival

Arcade, Action, Post-apocalyptic, Beat them all, Side view, Old school, Zombies

September 18, 2026

An arcade beat 'em up in the universe of "The Walking Dead," based on the events of the storyline "All-Out War." The game brings familiar heroes into a brutal...

Darkest Dungeon 2

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

October 26, 2021

Players: 8.6/10

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 very real mental...

4:AM

Adventure, Stealth, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

2026

A cinematic stealth adventure in a dark world of the near future, where the usual laws of reality no longer apply. At exactly 04:00, Ayla wakes up among the ruins...

Trine 6: Together in Time

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Casual game, Fantasy

March 4, 2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Continuation of the popular series of cooperative games about the wizard Amadeus, the thief Zoya, and the knight Pontius. The story begins with a robbery that went...

Kingdom 3: Rising Realms

Strategy, Adventure, Simulation, Side view, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Fantasy, Medieval era, Construction

2027

The third part begins with a catastrophe. The world is shattered, buildings have turned into ruins, lands are deserted, and the inhabitants have scattered across...

Leisure Suit Larry - Wet Dreams Dry Twice

Adventure, Side view, Adult game

October 23, 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...

Rayman Legends Retold

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

October 1, 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

An updated version of the colorful platformer Rayman Legends, which brings back Rayman, Globox, and their friends to the vibrant world of the Dream Glades. This...

100 Dino Cats

Side view, Puzzle, Hidden Objects, Casual game

February 26, 2024

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 picture. There is...

Divinum

Action, Slasher, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Old school, Metroidvania

August 28, 2026

In the center of the story is a girl named Fior — one of the defenders, born with the fate of a Guardian and outstanding combat skills. An unknown threat descends...

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view

December 14, 2010

A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game take place on an infected space station...

Little Nightmares

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Platformer, Puzzle

April 27, 2017

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 81/100

A dark tale in which the main character Six must find a way out of an underwater vessel filled with creepy creatures. The inhabitants of the in-game world also...

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded

Clicker, Action, Side view, Casual game, Comedy

June 28, 2016

A humorous clicker about fighting cock Min McCallister, who went on a journey to save his kidnapped girlfriend Candy. The game features 11 missions, an endless mode...

God of War: Sons of Sparta

Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Old school

February 12, 2026

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 64/100

An adventure platformer with a side view in the God of War series. The game tells the story of two Spartan brothers before the tragic events that separated their...

Broken Age

Arcade, Adventure, Indie, Side view

January 28, 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 79/100

Broken Age is an exciting point-and-click side-scrolling adventure from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. The game will tell two parallel developing...

Sakura Apprentice

Visual novel, Simulation, Adult game, Side view, Adventure

August 26, 2019

Players: 9.2/10

Sakura Apprentice is a side-scrolling adventure game for adults in which you take on the role of a hero trained by a charming girl named Freya. She wants to make...

DNF Duel

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

June 28, 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Fighting game set in the Dungeon Fighter Online universe. The game features 16 characters with unique skills and personalities, 8 battle arenas, and 7 diverse...

Banana

Side view, Clicker

April 23, 2024

Players: 7.2/10

A minimalistic and casual game in which the gamer clicks on a banana. The task is to call as many as possible. Every three and eighteen hours a random banana may...

Cast n Chill

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Clicker

June 16, 2025

Players: 8.5/10

A relaxing fishing game in the background where you can explore calm lakes, rivers and oceans at your own pace. The game requires you to catch fish, sell them for a...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

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

March 20, 2020

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...

Chained Echoes

Role-playing game, Side view, Turn-based, Indie, Japanese role-playing game, Exploration, Old school

December 8, 2022

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

Old school RPG with turn-based combat. Events take place in a colorful fantasy world on the continent of Valandis. A group of heroes embark on a dangerous journey...

The Longing

Adventure, Side view, Puzzle, Arcade, Platformer

March 5, 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Metacritic: 79/100

The Longing is an unusual game, the main feature of which lies in its length. The fact is that it will take 400 days to complete the game. Even if a player enters...

Poly Bridge 2

Side view, Puzzle, Logic, Strategy, Simulation

May 28, 2020

Players: 7.6/10

Sequel to the game about building bridges. The player is engaged in creating various structures that help vehicles get over ponds and cliffs. In the continuation, a...

Back to the Dawn

Role-playing game, Strategy, Adventure, Top-down view, Indie, Side view

November 3, 2023

Players: 9.5/10

Metacritic: 81/100

An atmospheric adventure that takes you into the harsh reality of a maximum-security prison colony inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. Every day is a survival...

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Deathmaster

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Dungeons, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Warhammer 40K

2027

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A grim 2D action-platformer that tells the story of a mercenary named Vihnik, who seeks to climb the hierarchical ladder of the Eshin clan and earn the coveted...

About Cannons & Sparrows

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania

2027

In the center of the story is a little cannon that hatched from a bird's egg in a forgotten forest. It knows neither its purpose nor its own abilities, but its...

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

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

September 24, 2024

Players: 9.7/10

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 Disney characters...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Side view, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval

February 19, 2020

Players: 8.7/10

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...

Huntdown: Overtime

Action, Shooter, Cyberpunk, Roguelike, Side view, Old school

May 7, 2026

Players: 7.6/10

Prequel to the action-platformer Huntdown. The events unfold in futuristic New Detroit in the year 2084 — a grim metropolis where corporations have replaced...

Best Games in the Side view genre