Abuse
Abuse is a Side-scroll, Run and Gun, and Action video game developed by Crack Dot Corn and published by Electronic Arts. The game lets the player step into the shoes of the protagonist named as Nick Vienna, who has been unjustly sent to a prison where the staff are doing unethical medical experiments upon the prisoners. During gameplay, a prison riot appears, and the experiment goes terribly wrong. The inmates inside the prison except for Protagonist get infected with a deadly virus known as Abuse that turns them into monsters. The protagonist arms himself and get ready to battle against monsters through a variety of stages to prevent himself from being infected, and then struggle to escape from the prison complex. The player explores the environment from a side-scroll perspective, run, jump and shoot his way through various levels to take down enemies while collecting points. The basic gameplay comprises fighting against enemies and solving the tricky but simple puzzles, usually involving switches. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and smooth controls, Abuse is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.
#1 Mercenary Kings
Mercenary Kings is another great title that offers aesthetics similar to Contra series games and provides with a brillian Action filled Shooting and Run and Gun experience. This addictive Action, Side-Scrolling, Run and Gun video game offers fantastic Crafting options and allows you to loot whatever you want. Mercenary Kings features beautiful old school combat system similar to the one in award winning Metal Slug, Contra and Monster Hunter series and offers action-packed encounters with enemies and bosses. Interaction with NPCs, Crafting weapons and other items, multiple challenging game missions, Multiplayer Co-op support, brilliant visuals and an immersive game-play, Mercenary Kings is a fun game to play.
#2 Oniken
Oniken is a Fast-paced Action, RPG and Side-Scrolling Run and Gun Shooter and Sword Fighting video game by JoyMasher. The game offers 6 challenging missions, 11 bosses and a lot of other enemies to fight, 2 main game modes (Hardcore and Boss Rush) along with a brilliant game setting, cool visuals and an engaging game-play. According to the storyline, a global war wipes out almost all of the humanity form earth and a Mega Corporation known as Oniken seizes the power and starts writing the fate of the remaining populace. Because of unjust system and brutality of the Oniken, a small faction starts the movement to liberate the people and this is where you get into the play. As the Ninja Warrior named as Zaku, your task is to join the Faction, lead the soldiers of freedom into epic wars against the mega Corporation and finally cleanse the world from its tyrant existence. Oniken is a great new Action, Shooting and Run and gun video game to play and enjoy.
#3 8-Bit Commando
8-Bit Commando is a great 2D Contra clone according to its Action, Side-Scrolling, Run and Gun Shooting and Platforming aesthetics. This crazy addictive game is developed by 2DEngine offers epic enemy encounters along with action-packed boss battles and takes you on a totally new side of Side-Scrolling and Shooting gaming. Featuring multiple types of game modes, ability to lead a team, great commando skills and your will to survive in a massive bullet hell is what makes this game even more engaging and it embeds you in the system so tight that it latterly feels like being part of the wonderful game-world. With superb Action RPG, Side-Scrolling and Shooting elements, 8-Bit Commando lets you have a gaming experience of a life time. Try it out for a Contra like game-play and mechanics and enjoy the ultimate fun.
#4 Broforce
Broforce is a cool Platform-based, Side-Scrolling Run and Gun video game by Free Lives. The game sets you up into the character of a Hypermasculine Action-hero and a Commando named as Bro who goes on a journey to save his Bro Teammates and to kill the terrorists. Secondary objectives of the game include enemy Bosses elimination and the recovery of War Prisoners who are held captive by the enemies. Broforce offers a greatly inspired gameplay and mechanics from the popular Metal Slug series games and allows you to enjoy a similar gameplay with a different story and locations. Your task is to simply go deep behind the enemy lines and eliminate hordes of enemy forces operatives, blast your way through mechanical beings, attacking Heli Copters, tanks, use a number of fantastic upgrades (a number of different weapons, firepower and others) on the way to finish the game levels and enjoy a blazing action and thrill filled gameplay. With an amazingly fast-paced action and thrill, cool visuals and an addictive game-play, Broforce is a fantastic game to play.
#5 Expendabros
Expendabros is a cool Action, Side-Scrolling, Platform and Run and Gun video game. The game offers all the Expendables level of the game and lets you go in epic missions to fin and kill the ruthless and cunning arms dealer named as Conrad Stonebanks. Set in the Eastern Europe, Expendabros lets you take on the role of a Commander, swarm down to the thick forests of Eastern Europe, lead your teammates, take out all the enemy forces and reach down to Conrad, kill him in a bloody battle and finally rescue your brothers in arms. With a hardcore Action and Thrill filled game-play, beautifully created visuals, sounds and all the stuff combined, Expendabros is one amazing game to play and enjoy.
#6 Bleed
Bleed is a cool Side-scrolling Action and Run and Gun MMORPG game similar to the popular Metal Gear video game that lets you be a girl named Wyrn who has a big arsenal of weapons and she wants to be a true hero. Your task is to help her take down some great heroes of the time and be an ultimate hero who doesn’t know what defeat is. Bleed provides with a fast-paced and action filled game-play, a great story, some amazing quests/adventures, cool upgrades, great visuals and much more. With all the beautiful 2D graphics, an addictive and immersive gameplay and fantastic game mechanics, Bleed is a really good Side-Scrolling Action and MMORPG video game to play and enjoy..
#7 Cuphead
Cuphead is an action, side-scrolling, run and gun, single-player, and multiplayer video game published and developed by Studio MDHR Entertainment. The game offers a beautiful world in which you assume the role of the titular character known as Cuphead, who must battle his way against a set of bosses through various levels to repay a debt to the devil. The game offers a series of levels based on continuous boss fights.
You have infinite lives and have to keep weapons to destroy enemies. You can explore the world from a side-scroll and shoot fire continuously to defeat various bosses to move to the next level. After gaining enough points, you can purchase new weapons and charms from the market using your points or coins. You use the Charms to gain special abilities like an extra life. The game looks easy to play in the beginning, but as you proceed, it becomes tough to master. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.
#8 Mass O’ Kyzt
Mass O’ Kyzt is an Action, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game developed and published by AlexHoratio. The game offers the arena-based platform gameplay wherein the player can upgrade his enemies. In the game, the player assumes the role of the astronaut, who is fighting against aliens on the planet Ky, the home of the psychic hivemind race called the Kyzt. During the gameplay, the primary objective of the player is to destroy the masses of aliens, living on the planet to advance through the story. There are a variety of levels and the player must struggle to demolish as many Kyztlings as the player possibly can. The game becomes difficult to play as the player advances through it and further features will be unlocked to enjoy. The player explores the from the side-scroll perspective, run and jump his way through a series of stages while defeating foes to become the master. With exciting features, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Mass O’ Kyzt is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.
#9 Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition
Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition is the perfect blend of 2D Side-scroll, Pixel-Graphics, Action, Platform, and Shooting elements developed and published by Tribute Games Inc. The game takes place in the brilliant world, where the player serves as the part of the Mercenary Kings, who is the most skilled team of warriors hired on Earth to protect the humanity. According to the storyline, the player must embark on an epic adventure when the comrades have fallen, and various fearsome forces have seized a tropical island top-secret laboratory base. The player manipulates the world from a side-scroll viewpoint, use the character equipped weapons to kill enemies while struggle to restore the peace to become the hero. During the gameplay, the player is capable of crafting and customizing the guns and blades or can upgrade the armour body. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, in Single-player mode the player can do actions alone while in Multiplayer mode, the player can form a team of four players to take down enemies to save the world. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#10 Unepic
Unepic is the mixture of Role-playing, Platform, and Metroidvania elements developed by Francisco Tellez De Meneses and published by Ninagamers. The game introduces the number of role-playing elements like skill points, levels, and equipment. It offers non-linear gameplay inspired by the Maze of a Galiious video game. During the gameplay, the player can use the number of ranged and melee weapons to kill the enemies. The player explores the world from the side-scroll perspective, use crafting elements to build weapons and use to take down enemies to score the skill points. The game rewards the player with prizes for completion of difficult and long challenges and lets the player purchase the combat equipment like a flamethrower, laser guns, and rocket launchers. The game comes with an addictive storyline revolves around the protagonist named as Daniel, who was an average guy. According to the storyline, the player acts as the great video gamer, a huge fan of science-fiction movies and the Role-playing games. The player was teleported to the strange castle in the midst of a Role-playing game. Now, the player must struggle to find a way out to his real life. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and smooth controls, Unepic is the best game to play.
#11 Super Time Force Ultra
Super Time Force Ultra is a Pixel Graphics, Action, Platform, and Side-scroll video game developed and published by Capybara for multiple platforms. The game comes with action-packed gameplay with a time-traveling twist. It takes place in the sci-fi world where the player is in control of the time, and can bend and stretch it to his advantage on the battleground. During the gameplay, the player can rewind the time and select when to jump back into the action. He can team up with his selves in the Single-player or Co-op modes. There are nineteen unique characters available and each character has its unique abilities and weapons. The player can battle in six different time periods, from the past to future. The player explores the sci-fi world from a side-scroll perspective, run, jump, and shoot his way through numerous levels to kill enemies while using his special abilities to overcome challenging obstacles. Super Time Force Ultra includes prominent features such as 19 Playable Characters, Extra Modes, Collectibles, Mess up the Time-space Continuum, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Platform games.
#12 Not A Hero
Not A Hero is an Action, Side-scroll Shooting, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Stealth elements developed by Roll7 and published by Devolver Digital. The game comes with a thrilling story, in which the purple rabbit bunnylord has traversed back in time from 2048 to be elected as Mayor to rescue the land. It takes place in the fictional setting, and the story focuses on the protagonist, who struggle the world from devastation and alien invasion. During the gameplay, the player needs to show the inhabitants why he is the best to be elected and recruit a team of anti-heroes to clean up crime in the city. It revolves around 2D side-scroll shooting gameplay offered in Pixel art-style. There are nine protagonists available from which the player needs to select his favourite one at the beginning of each level. Each hero has its unique attributes in the game. In the game, the player is armed with primary weapons that can be upgraded with a series of upgrades found on the map. Not A Hero includes prominent features such as Dynamic Missions, Next Level Shootouts, Roster of Not Heroes, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.