Side view for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Side view genre / Page 7

Deck of Ashes - a game in the Side view genre

Role-playing game, Card game, Roguelike, Side view, Indie, Strategy

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 21 April 2022

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 69/100

Deck of Ashes is an interesting mixture of a card game and a roguelike. You'll explore procedurally generated levels in search of new cards to build a powerful...

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mr. X Nightmare

Arcade, Side view, DLC, Fighting, Action, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 July 2021

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Streets Of Rage 4 — Mr. X Nightmare — an expansion for the old-school side-scrolling beat 'em up Streets of Rage 4. After the events of the original game, our...

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 modern era...

Scott Pilgrim EX - Back in the Band

Action, Adventure, DLC, Platformer, Beat them all, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 August 2026

Steam: 100/100

Three new playable characters have been added to the expansion — Stephen Stills, Kim Pine, and Knives Chau. Each character has their own fighting style: Stephen...

Thomas Was Alone

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Adventure, Side view, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 November 2014

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Thomas Was Alone is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer with puzzle elements. In this game, you have to guide a group of rectangles through a series of...

Oddworld: Soulstorm

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 April 2021

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 64/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Oddworld: Soulstorm is a continuation of the arcade platformer with a side view, where we will once again play as Abe the Mudokon. The events of the game will...

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...

Mooseman

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 July 2018

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Mooseman is a side-scrolling arcade platformer set in a fantasy setting. Long ago, the world was created from the shell of a duck egg by a god named Yen. In the dim...

Axiom Verge 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Axiom Verge 2 is a continuation of the side-scrolling pixel action platformer in a sci-fi setting. In the sequel you will find new characters, skills and game...

Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition

DLC, Arcade, Fighting, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 February 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition is an expansion for the side-scrolling arcade fighting game in the popular Street Fighter series. In the updated version you will...

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea

Arcade, Roguelike, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, DLC, Action, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 January 2022

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Dead Cells: The Queen and the Sea is an expansion for the hardcore side-scrolling action-slasher inspired by the Dark Souls series. In the expansion, you will...

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 favor of a...

The Coma 3: Bloodlines

Action, Adventure, Visual novel, Side view, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 April 2026

Players: 1/10

Steam: 85/100

An adventure horror about survival, where the player must hide and run from pursuing monsters in the dark mirror dimension "Coma". The plot revolves around three...

Tekken 6

Action, Fighting, Arcade, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 17 October 2023

Players: 7.5/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Tekken 6 is a side-scrolling arcade action fighting game. In this game you have to fight with other characters to become the champion of the tournament. A large...

Leo's Fortune

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 September 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Leo's Fortune is an arcade indie platformer. Complete 24 levels of this colorful game. Solve puzzles and avoid dangerous...

Guns, Gore & Cannoli

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Beat them all, Indie, Side view, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 December 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Guns, Gore & Cannoli is a 2D arcade action shooter inspired by 1970s exploitation and grindhouse films, classic gangster movies, and old-school arcade...

Nova-111

Adventure, In real time, Futurism (Future), Turn-based, Side view, Science fiction, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 August 2015

Steam: 79/100

This science-fiction adventure combines puzzles with a mix of turn-based and real-time gameplay. After a failed scientific experiment, a ship’s pilot travels across...

Braid Anniversary Edition

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Logic, Side view, Action

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 May 2024

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 86/100

Anniversary Edition of Braid. The creators invited the original game's artist, David Hellman, to help update the visual style. But the changes aren't limited to...

Moons Of Darsalon

Action, Adventure, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 February 2025

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A pixel-art action game about rescue missions on the moons of the planet Darsalon. Teams of miners have gone missing during their missions, and the player must...

9 Monkeys of Shaolin

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Historical, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 16 October 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 71/100

9 Monkeys of Shaolin is a side-scrolling co-op arcade action game from the creators of Redeemer. Expect thrilling gameplay based on the techniques of the ancient...

Gleamlight

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 August 2020

Players: 5.3/10

Steam: 37/100

Metacritic: 42/100

Gleamlight is a side-scrolling indie adventure platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. You will set off to conquer the amazing stained glass world to unravel the...

SteamDolls - Order of Chaos

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Adult game, Indie, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania

Game in development: PlayStation 4 → 2026

Steam: 90/100

SteamDolls — Order Of Chaos is a side-scrolling stealth action adventure game in the Metroidvania format, made in a steampunk style. The game takes place in a...

Punch Club 2: Fast Forward

Business / Management, Role-playing game, Sports game, Boxing, Isometric, Side view, Adventure, Cyberpunk

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 July 2023

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 80/100

The continuation of Punch Club, but in a cyberpunk future setting. The player controls a boxer and tries to make him a champion. The character can upgrade...

Magical Delicacy

Fantasy, Platformer, Exploration, Business / Management, Side view, Adventure, Role-playing game, Crafting, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 1 October 2025

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Witch Flora prepares food and potions in her shop kitchen using the right ingredients. Between culinary experiments, you can walk around the city and meet the...

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded

Clicker, Action, Side view, Casual game, Comedy, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 July 2018

Steam: 94/100

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...

Run Heroes Run

Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Tactics, Roguelike, Side view, Comedy, Procedural generation, Clicker, Strategy

Game in development: PlayStation 4 → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Tactical roguelike with dynamic battles. The player gathers a team of heroes, equips them for adventure and tries to find a way to save a world on the verge of...

Awesomenauts

Arcade, Online, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Free game, Side view, MOBA

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 March 2014

Players: 6.4/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Awesomenauts is a free-to-play 2D side-scrolling MOBA action game. The events of the game will take you to the distant year 3587, in which there is a great...

The Messenger

Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 19 March 2019

Players: 8/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 84/100

The Messenger is a side-scrolling pixel action platformer. When an army of demons lays siege to his home village, a young ninja breaks through a cursed world to...

Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows

Arcade, DLC, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 17 September 2015

Players: 10/10

Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows — You play as the Plague Knight, a villainous master of alchemy, on his own adventure. Using his maniacal scientific mind...

Hue

Arcade, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 August 2016

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Hue is a side-scrolling arcade puzzle game with platforming elements. In it you have to remake the world by changing its background color. Together with a character...

Mages of Mystralia

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 August 2017

Players: 5.7/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Mages of Mystralia — A colorful action adventure with a side view in a fantasy setting. The events of the game take place in a world where magic is strictly...

Planet Alpha

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 September 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Planet Alpha is a side-scrolling adventure arcade action platformer. The main character wakes up on a planet unknown to him, which has become home to hundreds of...

Creaks

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 July 2020

Players: 9/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Creaks — an adventure puzzle-platformer with a side view from the creators of Samorost and Machinarium. The events of the game revolve around a young guy who...

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 February 2020

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 93/100

Dead Cells: The Bad Seed is a hardcore side-scrolling action slasher expansion inspired by the Dark Souls series. Two new locations await you, in which there will...

WWE 2K Battlegrounds

Action, Fighting, Side view, Wrestling, Sports game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 September 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 56/100

Metacritic: 58/100

WWE 2K Battlegrounds is an arcade spin-off from the main WWE 2K series, dedicated to the fights of miniature wrestlers. Battlegrounds features the familiar battles...

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 Lorian, the...

9 Years of Shadows

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 31 July 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 74/100

The main character explores a dark castle filled with dangerous creatures in order to lift the curse that has stripped the earth of all its flowers. The dormant...

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game

Arcade, Action, Fighting, Side view, Adventure, Online

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 14 January 2021

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a fun side-scrolling action game based on the original Scott Pilgrim vs. the World movie. Following the story of the...

Angry Birds: Star Wars

Arcade, Futurism (Future), Star Wars, Side view

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 November 2013

Players: 7.2/10

Metacritic: 86/100

Angry Birds: Star Wars is a fantastic arcade game in the style of Star Wars with a side view. Levels take place both on standard terrain and in outer space. The...

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today

Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Point & Click, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 October 2016

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow comes Today is an atmospheric “point and click” adventure with a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. A terrible epidemic turns...

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