Side view for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 17

Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure - a game in the Side view genre

Adventure, Side view, Indie, Visual novel, Point & Click, Comedy, Hidden Objects

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 August 2017

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Demetrios — The BIG Cynical Adventure is a fun visual novel with puzzles and a side view. The main character is a slob living in Paris named Björn Thonen. One...

Feist

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 December 2016

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Feist is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle platformer. The game combines a minimalist art style and physics reminiscent of Limbo. As a small black animal, you will...

King of Fighters 14

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 September 2016

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 79/100

King of Fighters 14 is a fighting game centered on the KOF tournament, which brings together 50 combatants, including returning characters and newcomers. The roster...

Shadow Complex Remastered

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 May 2016

Players: 6.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Shadow Complex Remastered is a re-release of the arcade action platformer Shadow Complex, the original version of which appeared on the Xbox 360 in 2009. The plot...

Pharaonic

Role-playing game, Action, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Slasher, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 July 2016

Steam: 77/100

Pharaonic is a side-scrolling action RPG that will take players to Ancient Egypt. You have to explore the cursed kingdom to solve the riddle of the Red Pharaoh. The...

Me and My Dinosaur

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view

Game canceled: PlayStation 4 → 14 May 2016

Me and My Dinosaur is a side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer. The game tells a fascinating story about the friendship of a little boy and a dinosaur. A boy...

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 March 2017

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a side-scrolling action platformer. You have to go explore the dark lands where the curse has fallen. Evil is penetrating...

Super Daryl Deluxe

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 April 2018

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Super Daryl Deluxe is a side-scrolling comedy adventure RPG. The main character is teenager Daryl, who has to while away his days at a new school. But it was not...

Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition

Arcade, Fighting, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 January 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 87/100

Street Fighter 5: Arcade Edition is an expanded and expanded version of the side-scrolling arcade fighting game Street Fighter 5. It features six storylines based...

Dragon's Crown Pro

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 February 2018

Players: 8.4/10

Dragon's Crown Pro — an improved version of the fantasy 2D role-playing action game for PlayStation 4. You will find improved visuals and support for 4K...

Patapon 2 Remastered

Arcade, Action, Strategy, Music game, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 January 2020

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 75/100

Patapon 2 Remastered is a re-release of the second part of the arcade rhythm game with a side view and action strategy elements. You will play the role of a deity...

GoNNER

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Indie, Platformer, Shooter

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 May 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 79/100

GoNNER is a brutally challenging 2D platformer with roguelike elements and procedurally generated levels. The game tells the story of the friendship between Hiccup...

Exception

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 13 August 2019

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Exception is a fast-paced side-scrolling arcade action runner set in a sci-fi setting. The game takes place inside a computer system infected with a malicious...

Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Side view, Space

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2023

Steam: 92/100

A dynamic arcade shooter that transfers to the atmosphere of films of the 50s. History follows the Lieutenant Kaya - the ace of the Royal Air Force of Great...

Liberated

Action, Adventure, Comics, Side view, Cyberpunk

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 April 2022

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...

Escape From Tethys

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Action, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 August 2020

Steam: 76/100

Escape From Tethys is a side-scrolling retro Metroidvania about a scientist exploring a mysterious planet. The events of the game will take you to the hostile...

Samurai Shodown 5 Perfect

Side view, Action, Fighting

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 July 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Samurai Shodown 5 Perfect is an old retro-fiting, published specifically for the collection samurai shodown neigeo collection. The game was not officially released...

Rogue Lords

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 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...

Olija

Arcade, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Action, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 January 2021

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Olija is a pixel platformer about Faraday, a shipwrecked man who ends up in the mysterious country of Terraphage. He is armed with a legendary harpoon, which he...

Gonner 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 November 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...

Hell is Other Demons

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 October 2025

Steam: 92/100

Hell is Other Demons is a fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. The game has you exploring a vast, hand-crafted world filled with...

Spidersaurs

Arcade, Side view, Comics, Platformer, Shooter, Comedy, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Science fiction, Cooperative (co-op), Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 July 2022

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Spidersaurs is a fun side-scrolling arcade action platformer with sci-fi elements. Ugly spiderosaurs — hybrids of dinosaurs and spiders — have broken...

Prison City

Side view, Platformer, Action, Science fiction, Old school, Futurism (Future)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 November 2023

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 84/100

The events of the game take place in 1997. The city of Detroit has become an impenetrable mega-prison. One day, a group of terrorist hackers seized control of this...

qomp2

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 February 2024

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Reimagining Pong. The player controls a ball that needs to be guided through the location. The level features enemies and various traps. The controls are simple...

KinnikuNeko: SUPER MUSCLE CAT

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 March 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

An unusual action platformer about the struggle of a bodybuilder cat with alien invaders. In the role of a furry bodybuilder, players clear locations of aliens to...

Abathor

Platformer, Fantasy, Side view, Old school, Adventure, Arcade, Cooperative (co-op), Slasher, Action, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 July 2024

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 89/100

A pixel game with support for 4-player co-op mode, in which a group of brave heroes must save Atlantis. The people angered the gods, who sent monsters in revenge...

Neva: Prologue

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 February 2026

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 77/100

White butterflies lead Alba to the remote swamps, where she finds a lost young wolf. Trying to escape the deadly marshes, they gradually learn to trust each other...

Dawn of the Monsters

Action, Adventure, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 March 2022

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Dawn of the Monsters is a manga-inspired, side-scrolling kaiju beat ’em up about a battle to defend Earth from an invasion by the giant Nephilim. The Defense...

The Pedestrian

Puzzle, Logic, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 January 2021

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The Pedestrian is a 2.5D puzzle platformer in which a pedestrian icon moves through public signs set within a dynamic 3D world. This textless adventure conveys its...

Headlander

Arcade, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Science fiction, Action, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 July 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This side-scrolling action-adventure is set in a retro-futuristic world where humanity has transferred its minds into robotic bodies and is ruled by a deranged...

Saturday Morning RPG

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Saturday Morning RPG is a fantastic side-scrolling RPG with turn-based combat. The developers took inspiration from cartoons and the culture of the eighties. The...

Pang Adventures

Arcade, Action, Side view, Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 April 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Pang Adventures is a side-scrolling arcade action game. The game continues the story of Buster Bros., which was released back in the 90s. You have to use a variety...

10 Second Ninja X

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2016

Players: 3.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 79/100

10 Second Ninja X is a re-release of the top-down action platformer 10 Second Ninja, recreated in HD quality. As a jumping and fast ninja, you have to run through...

Wardrobe

Adventure, Side view, Point & Click, Indie, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 March 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Wardrobe is a 2D humorous point and click adventure with a side view. The game is inspired by classic quests from the 90s, including: Monkey Island, Day of the...

Tricky Towers

Arcade, Puzzle, Board / Group Game, Side view, Online, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 August 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Tricky Towers is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game inspired by the popular Tetris. As in the original game, you have to build a tower from familiar figures and...

Assault Suit Leynos

Arcade, Action, Futurism (Future), Side view, Combat robots, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 July 2016

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 67/100

Assault Suit Leynos is a side-scrolling sci-fi arcade action game. The game is a re-release of the popular Assault Suit Leynos for the Sega Mega Drive. You have to...

Freedom Finger

Side view, Comedy, Music game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 24 March 2020

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Freedom Finger is a music-driven, side-scrolling shooter set in a cartoon world, with action spanning more than 30 levels. As the player progresses, they shoot...

Battle Planet: Judgement Day

Arcade, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Side view, Virtual Reality (VR), Action, Indie, Top-down view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 17 October 2019

Steam: 87/100

Battle Planet: Judgment Day is an arcade futuristic top-down shooter with augmented reality for mobile platforms. Your hero randomly finds himself on an unknown...

Let Them Come

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 December 2017

Steam: 84/100

Let Them Come is a 2D side-scrolling arcade shooter with a pixel art style, where you have to clear multiple levels from hordes of disgusting aliens and terrible...

The End Is Nigh

Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 April 2019

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 82/100

The End Is Nigh is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy. You will play as a character named Ash...

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Best Games in the Side view genre for PlayStation 4