Side view for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 2

Salt and Sanctuary - a game in the Side view genre

Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 March 2016

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Salt and Sanctuary is a fantasy platformer with RPG elements and a side view. The game tells the story of a sailor who is shipwrecked off the shore...

Guilty Gear Strive

Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 June 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 91/100

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...

Limbo

Action, Horror, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 24 February 2015

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 88/100

A dark adventure platformer built on the atmosphere of silence, loneliness, and constant danger. The story tells about a boy who sets out to find his...

Skul: The Hero Slayer

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 October 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...

Beholder 3

Strategy, Adventure, Stealth, Simulation, Puzzle, Point & Click, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 December 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 68/100

Beholder 3 is a continuation of the side-view adventure strategy that will take you to a world where totalitarianism has reached almost every...

Blasphemous 2

Arcade, Platformer, Role-playing game, Side view, Action, Horror, Gothic, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 November 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The sequel to the hardcore action platformer that continues the story of the Penitent. The character will take part in epic battles with bosses, each...

Pankapu

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 September 2017

Steam: 74/100

Pankapu: The Gates of Omnia is an episodic side-scrolling action platformer. The events of the game develop in the fantasies of Jaarell, a child who...

Little Nightmares - The Residence

Adventure, Horror, DLC, Puzzle, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 October 2025

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 82/100

Little Nightmares — The Residence is an add-on for the side-view horror adventure Little Nightmares. The main character has to find out who is...

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound

Indie, Platformer, Side view, Old school, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 31 July 2025

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Pixel game from the Ninja Gaiden series. Ryu Hayabusa goes to America, where he must fulfill the will of his father. At this time, an army of demons...

Spiritfarer

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 August 2020

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Carrion

Action, Horror, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 October 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 76/100

The game's protagonist is a creature created in a laboratory that managed to escape from a glass container and start hunting its creators. The huge...

ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 January 2025

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Continuation of Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. The great kingdom of mages flourished, and the created beings known as "homunculi" were meant...

Axiom Verge

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 March 2015

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Axiom Verge is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will play the role of a scientist who, due to an accident, finds...

R-Type Dimensions EX

Action, Arcade, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 December 2018

Steam: 86/100

This side-scrolling arcade space shooter brings together R-Type and R-Type II, with 14 stages in which players fight the Bydo and the Bydo Empire...

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions

Arcade, Fighting, Sports game, Boxing, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 September 2021

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions is an arcade boxing simulator featuring 20 iconic characters from the Rocky and Creed film series. In the game you...

Neon Blood

Cyberpunk, Role-playing game, Side view, Adventure, Science fiction, Indie, Detective, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 November 2024

Steam: 59/100

An adventure role-playing game set in the cyberpunk future of 2053. The main character is former police detective Axel McCoin, who must uncover a...

Inspector Waffles

Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Side view, Old school, Detective, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 October 2021

Steam: 95/100

A detective adventure with pixel art. The main character is Inspector Waffles, an experienced police cat from Cat Town, who is assigned to...

The Case of the Golden Idol

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 July 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Side view detective adventure game. The game takes place in an alternate 18th century England, where players will have to unravel 12 of the strangest...

Celeste

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 January 2018

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Celeste is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer from the creator of TowerFall. More than 250 levels await you, and the locations include...

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 May 2023

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...

Ghosts 'N Goblins: Resurrection

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Adventure, Old school

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 June 2021

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Ghosts 'N Goblins: Resurrection is a fantasy side-scrolling arcade action platformer. The game follows the valiant knight Arthur as he runs, jumps...

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 24 September 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 92/100

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...

Home - A Unique Horror Adventure

Arcade, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 October 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Home is a unique side-scrolling horror adventure in a pixelated style. The main character wakes up in a mysterious dark place and does not know how...

Trials Rising

Arcade, Motorcycle racing, Side view, Racing, Bicycles, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 February 2019

Players: 8/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Trials Rising is a continuation of the popular motorcycle arcade game. You will again have to compete in this world and try to become a real...

MultiVersus

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Online, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Free game

Beta testing: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2022; Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 May 2024

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Dynamic action function with the side of the side, in which you are offered to play for popular heroes from films and cartoons Warner Bros. The...

Ghost Song

Arcade, Side view, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Action, Platformer, Indie, Adventure, Horror, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 November 2022

Players: 9.8/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Ghost Song is an action-adventure platformer in the metroidvania genre with a side view in a dark post-apocalyptic setting. On the desert moon of...

Songbird Symphony

Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 July 2019

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

This musical Metroidvania follows Birb, an orphaned chick searching for his origins in a forest world. He explores interconnected levels, meets their...

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite

Arcade, Fighting, Comics, Side view, Action, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 September 2017

Players: 8/10

Steam: 66/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is a dynamic side-scrolling fighting game for fans of the Marvel universes and legendary Capcom fighters. You can expect...

Dragon Ball FighterZ

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 January 2018

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 86/100

The game takes you into the spectacular world of cult manga and anime, turning each fight into a dynamic battle on a grand scale. The game is created...

Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona

Metroidvania, Action, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 August 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 77/100

A dark metroidvania inspired by the Castlevania and Dark Souls series. The main character is the doomed Lord Derek Erikon, who escaped a fatal end in...

Little Nightmares

Adventure, Horror, Side view, Platformer, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 April 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 94/100

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...

Double Dragon Revive

Fighting, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view, Action, Arcade, Top-down view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 23 October 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 61/100

Fast-paced action in the Double Dragon series, featuring Jimmy Lee, Billy Lee and other iconic characters. The game brings the Lee Brothers into the...

Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse

Online, Roguelike, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Metroidvania, Platformer

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 5 March 2026

Steam: 72/100

A game that supports co-op for up to 4 people. Characters explore dungeons, ruins, and gardens that are automatically generated each time. The game...

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites

Arcade, Side view, Action, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Platformer, Horror, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 September 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 59/100

BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites — remaster of the dynamic side-scrolling slasher BloodRayne Betrayal, where the main character, the seductive...

Umbraclaw

Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 May 2024

Steam: 85/100

An action-adventure about a cat named Kuon, who finds herself in the Kingdom of Souls after dying in the world of the living—a dangerous dimension...

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Fighting, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 October 2014

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 84/100

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2D action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. A colorful world awaits...

Just Shapes & Beats

Action, Music game, Side view, Online, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 31 May 2022

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Just Shapes & Beats is a hardcore multiplayer rhythm game with fast-paced shootouts. Together with your friends you have to survive the attack of...

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

Arcade, Action, DLC, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 June 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course — an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-platformer, designed in the style of classic 1930s...

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore

Arcade, Fighting, Online, Indie, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 May 2016

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Skullgirls: 2nd Encore is an expanded version of a dynamic arcade fighting game with a side view in an anime style. The game features many...

Dead Age

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 7 September 2018

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will...

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Best Games in the Side view genre for PlayStation 4