Games Like Contra for PC

Super Cyborg is an indie, 2D Action, Side-Scrolling Shooter and Run and Gun video game by Arthur Games. The game lets you be a heroic being whose ultimate goal is to save the humanity from the notorious Xirxul Life Form and emerge as a true savior the populace. According to the Super thriller and quite engaging game-play, story and other countless things, Super Cyborg is highly inspired by the Contra series and offers similar aesthetics. With a truly well-written story-line, great visual details and a wonderful central plot, Super Cyborg is a great 2D Action Side-Scrolling video game to enjoy. Do try it out and you’ll love every bit of this cool game.

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..

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.

Intrusion 2 is a cool MMORPG game like “Hero Siege” that lets you be a true soldier in a Sci-Fi environment. Your task is to travel to a hostile planet, conduct a military operation and destroy an illegal weapon manufacturing facility, kill the hostiles and capture the heroes, tame them and bring them back to your planet to train them. “Intrusion 2” is basically inspired by a 16-bit sidescroller that provides with a hardcore action-packed game-play and amalgamates Physics in it to make it more exciting. “Intrusion 2” is a bit different but is a great alternative to “hero Siege”.

Velocity 2X focuses on Shoot ‘em up, Side-scroll and Puzzle gameplay developed and published by FuturLab. The game supports Single-player mode only and available to play on multiple platforms. The story follows the female protagonist, who is abducted by a race of hostile alien, LT. You as the protagonist must use your quick reflexes and the power of teleport to free your friend prison and make an escape. The game mixes the platform, puzzle, top-down and vertical shooting elements and offers fast-paced gameplay. You can explore the world from a side-scroll perspective, use high-tech weapons and encounter enemies to kill. During the gameplay, you must pilot the Quarp Jet through challenging territories using a huge arsenal of weaponry and teleporting technology. There are a series of levels and each level offers brain-teasing puzzles to solve. You can run, jump and shoot your way to fulfill the objectives and earn as many XP points as possible. Velocity 2X includes prominent features such as 50 Dynamic Levels, high Re-playability, High-energy Adventure, Daily Challenges, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

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.

Metal Slug or also known as Super Vehicle 001: Metal Slug is a 2006 Action, Side Scroller Run and Gun video game by Nazca Corporation. With a super cool sense of humor, amazing hand drawn visuals, hardcore side scrolling action, adventure and a blasting nature, Metal Slug is one of the mega Hits of the time. The game allows you to enjoy fast-paced two player action by simply engaging yourself into epic war-based gameplay. Your task is to keep on forwarding into the enemy territory and shoot down continuously storming enemies, blast their vehicles, choppers and mechanical robots, use a number of fantastic aids (tanks and others) throughout the gameplay and eventually reach down to the end of the game level. Confront the mighty and tough bosses, pick up a number of blazing weapon upgrades as you proceed in the game and unleash hell on your enemies. You can also melee attack any of the enemy soldiers, slit their throats or stab them with your sharp edged knife and enjoy the heavily destructible environment of the game. POWs or Prisoners of War freeing is another cool task of the game that lets you free some of the war prisoners and get amazing power ups such as different types of guns, pipe bombs etc. and enhance your fire power. With all the fun things combined, Metal Slug is one of the best ever Action and Run and Gun games ever developed.

Castle Crashers is a 2D Action-Adventure, RPG, Hack and Slash and Beat ‘em’ Up video game by The Behemoth. The game is set in a Fictitious Medieval Era Kingdom and lets you be the Ultimate Savior who frees the Kidnapped Princesses and kills the Evil Magician by the use of his bravery, Sword and intuition. The game takes place in a fictional Medieval Era in a Medieval Universe and it kicks off with the Four brave Knights attending a party, in King’s massive Castle where the evil dark Wizard arrives and steals the Mystical Gem and kidnaps the Princess. As the most Brave and courageous beings, The Kings sends the Knights to rescue the Princess and to retrieve the Gem. According to the storyline, your ultimate goal is to find and defeat the Dark Wizard along with his minions and monster legions. Now in order to complete the game objectives, you must gather your team, go hunt down the bizarre and brutal Cyclops, a strange cat-fish and all the aliens. With a very involving story, epic gameplay, loads of enemies and all the monster fighting fun, Castle Crashers is one amazing Action-RPG video game to play and enjoy.

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.

GunLord is another great Action, Side-Scrolling, Run and Gun Shooter and Platform video game. The game offers 9 main game stages, amazing game-play consisting of fast-paced and action oriented aesthetics, over 40 unique enemy characters, epic boss battles and a lot of other great things. Your task is to explore the world around you, interact with objects and NPCs, go on some epic and quite challenging quests, engage yourself into action and thrill filled enemy encounters, defeat bosses, loot some valuables and upgrades and enjoy immersing yourself into pure awesomeness. If you really love Contra type games, you should totally try this one out, you’ll definitely love it.

Ultionus is a masterpiece if we compare it to a lot of titles of this specific genre. With a lot of similarities to some of the biggest names such as Metal Slug 3, Raze and Brawlhalla, Ultionus offers enhanced gameplay and mechanics. With beautifully created 2D visuals, Ultionus takes you to a whole new level of Action-Adventure and Run and Gun gaming. The game sets you up into the character of a galactic hero named as Serena who gets trolled big time by the enemies and because of that he embarks on a journey to eliminate all of them. Your task is to simply pick up all your guns, grenades and flame throwers, start hunting down the enemies on their own turf and blast your way through the hordes of enemies, kill the bosses and conclude the game levels. With a beautiful setting, cool 2D visuals and an immersive game-play, Ultionus is a brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Duck Game takes you to the Futuristic Year of 1984 where the Ducks are going Wild for the glory. A huge battle is going on between the Ducks and there is no hope for the ones who fear. You as a Super duck are destined to glorify yourself by defeating and eliminating all the rival ducks. In order to show off your superior skills in Duck Hunting, you are allowed to use amazing weapons such as Shotguns, Mind Controlling Rays, Net Guns, Magnet Guns etc. You must use all of your super fighting and shooting skills or else you’ll get roasted with only one good blow. With an amazing 4 player co-op multiplayer game-play, single player challenging mode, amazing weapons, 50 plus levels of pure awesomeness and an in-built level editor, Duck Game is one of the classics to get engaged in. Try it out and you’ll love every bit of this fast-paced Action, Run and Gun and Side-Scrolling video game.

Cave Story is an Adventure, Platform and Single-player Shooter video game developed and published by Nicalis. The story takes place in the cave and revolves around the protagonist who awaken in this cave. After exploring the environment, he discovers a doctor who forces the cave’s inhabitant to battle for him to dominate the world. The protagonist decides to assist the inhabitant and flee them from the coverage of doctor. The game contains a variety of levels and it goes challenging as you advanced. Navigate the world from side-scroll, fight against strange creatures using different weapons and clear the set of levels to shift onto final level where you have to battle against doctor and rescue the innocent creatures. You can collect different weapons during the gameplay and may toggle at any time by pressing the button. Earn experience points and interact with Non-player Characters. Maintain your health bar, you’ll die when your health bar goes to zero. With exciting features, brilliant controls and superb gameplay, Cave Story is the best game to play and enjoy.

Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp is an Adventure, Interactive Drama and Single-player video game developed by Digital Leisure. The game takes place after the event of the first game, in which the protagonist named Dirk has married with his love named Daphne and produced many children. As the story progress, Daphne is captured by an antagonist who an evil wizard is called Mordroc to be forced into marriage. The children and the mother of the protagonist are worried about Daphne, and the protagonist has to save her love once again. You can assume the role of the Dirk, and your primary goal is to explore the environment from the side-scroll perspective, fight against companions of an evil wizard and kill them to progress in the game. You can use the sword to take down enemies and complete several levels to face the boss. You need to fight against an evil wizard at the end of the game and defeat them to save your wife. You must rescue your wife within time. Otherwise, you’ll lose her permanently. With the exciting story, superb visuals, and brilliant mechanics, Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp is the best game to play and enjoy.

The Mummy Demastered is an Action-Adventure, Metroidvania, and Single-player video game published and developed by WayForward. The game offers brilliant gameplay based on the movie The Mummy, released in 2017. The game takes place with the events of the move, with the player assuming the role of the Pradigium soldier under the control of Dr. Henry Jekyll. The storyline follows the struggle of the protagonist who must battle evil forces of Princess Agmanet to save the day. The player can traverse a huge map which opens up as the player advances through the game. Upon killing, the game resets the player as a new character, who then must collect his items from his former selves. There are numerous levels available with increasing difficulties and the player needs to accomplish each one to become the master. The game offers fantastic retro-style graphics and atmospheric soundtracks. It mixes the Adventure, Exploration and Shoot ‘em up elements to offers the thrilling gameplay. The Mummy Demastered includes prominent features such as Fifty Hidden Relics, Obliterate Monsters, Weapons (Flamethrower, Grenades, and more), Shoot ‘em up Action, and more. Try it out.

Metal Slug 3 is an amazingly Addictive Action and Thrill packed Run and Gun video game by SNK. The game allows you to engage yourself into a truly immersive game-play ever. Following the mechanics and game-play style of the previous games in the series, Metal Slug 3 allows you to get into a world of chaos, kill waves of continuously coming enemies and make your way through the blasting environment, eliminate enemy bosses into epic combats and move to the next and challenging level of the game. With a full load of amazing weapons for long range encounters and knives to send enemies to hell while attacking from close vicinity in melee techniques, Metal Slug 3 offers you a chance to immerse yourself into epic action filled environment. With multiple environments, super addictive nature and a very engaging game-play, Metal Slug 3 is one of the best games of this specific genre.

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.

Rochard is an engaging Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platform and Sci-Fi Run and Gun video game by Recoil Games. The story of the game focuses on the main character of the game John Rochard leader of astro-miners who gets hired by the Skyring Corporation to explore and gather resources from an asteroid. While on the Asteroid, the whole team of Rochard vanishes suddenly and he finds himself tied to a strange ancient structure hidden beneath the surface of the asteroid. John frees himself and starts the search of his team when he comes to know about the attack of space bandits. This is where you get into the character of John Rochard and you must start your journey of freeing your team mates from the space bandits. You must also defeat an army of droids and turrets to reach to the command center of the bandits, defeat their boss, free the team mates and evade the asteroid for good. Rochard provides with an astonishingly action-packed, platform oriented game-play, great graphic details and a super engaging game story. Rochard offers an amazing expansion pack Rochard: Hard times for some more thrill, challenging puzzle levels and more downloadable content.

Mark of the Ninja by Klei Entertainment is an Action-Adventure, Side Scrolling Puzzle-Platform, Run and Gun Style Stealth video game. The story of the game kicks off with an attack on a DOJO by a strange force that leaves the protagonist half dead. A female character of the game (Ora) wakes him up and the protagonist starts his journey to avenge the attacking power and all of its allies. Mark of the Ninja lets you be the Ninja and allows you to focus on stealth and platform characteristics. Your objective is to sneak through a series of platforms by staying out of sights of the guards and assassinate your targets silently. The game focuses on your stealth and your sword fighting skills and lets you assassinate your targets by a single slashing blow to their bodies. If a guard sees you, all the lights will immediately turn on and the guards will capture you so you must remain in the dark till the target is executed. Mark of the Ninja allows you to experience an amazing blend of Action-Adventure, Stealth, Platform-Puzzle and Hack and Slash elements. Do try this game out.

Shadow Complex is a 2009’s top trending Action, Platform, Adventure and Run and Gun video game by Microsoft game Studios. The game features the main character named as Jason Flemming and his Girlfriend Claire. The duo goes on an adventure to explore some caves when suddenly Claire vanishes, leaving Jason wandering in the abyss. After multiple call attempts and no response from Claire, Jason sets out to find her and discovers a massive underground Military Complex, with advanced technology and multiple units of soldiers. The objective of the game is to locate Claire, rescue her and find out the truth about the Military installations in deep underground Complex. The players are tasked to get into the character of Jason, Explore the underground Complex, encounter and defeat hordes of hostile forces, find all the power-ups and keep on exploring until they find Claire. With beautiful 2.5D graphics, Side-scrolling action, shooting and exploration elements, Shadow Complex introduces Auto-Aim and Shoot system that helps the players quickly target the enemies and neutralize them. Shadow Complex offers a Metroid series inspired gameplay and mechanics and allows the players to enjoy a totally addictive and engaging experience ever. For all the hard fans of Metroid, Action, and Platform genres, This game would definitely be a great source of entertainment. Do give it a try.

Shadow Complex Remastered is the Remake of the famous Shadow Complex video game. Developed by the same developer, ChAIR Entertainment, Shadow Complex Remastered offers a brilliant combination of Action and Side-Scrolling Platform, Adventure and Run and Gun elements and an entirely new Amplified and modernistic gameplay. The game follows the similar mechanics and provides hours of Exploration, Fast-paced Combats and Melee encounters, enhancements in Graphics and loads of other exciting things. Shadow Complex Remastered is built using the most advanced Unreal Engine and holds a record of 50 Game of the Year and Editors Choice awards. The game includes content from both Original Shadow Complex and Shadow Complex Remastered and offers a non-linear gameplay, a massive game world, loads of different types of enemies, fantastic boss battles, countless new and old Power-ups, an entirely very intense combat-oriented gameplay, incredibly amazing 2.5D graphics and loads of other great things. New and old characters, enemies, new environments, and a user-friendly interface updated visual effects, epic melee encounters, loads of new achievements and 4K resolutions support are among the most prominent features of this great Action, Adventure, and Platform video game.

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.

Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara offers a super-fast-paced 2D Run and Gun Style Sword Fighting game-play in which you as a Warrior have to go on slaying your enemies while going through a Side-Scrolling environment. A number of mythical beasts and Monsters, the game lets you use a number of weapons against the epic enemies and eliminate them in amazing Melee Combats. With a multiplayer Co-op support, Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara lets you enjoy a Classic Arcade Style game-play, challenge your enemies in a competitive environment and defeat them to be glorious warrior. With a number of character selection and customization options, brilliant visuals and an addictive game-play, Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara is a cool game to play. Do Try it out.

Strider is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, Platform, Stealth and Hack and Slash video game by Double Helix Games. The game offers an amazingly fast-paced and action filled game-play in which you act as the finest Ninja Assassin named as Strider Hiryu who works for the Strider Organization. The Strider Assign you the task to assassinate the Evil Grand maestro Meio who is taking refuge in his den in the city of Kazakh. In order to complete the game objectives, you’ll have to go through the hordes of highly trained and fast acting enemy ninjas, kill them by the use of your great sword wielding and platforming skills and by using other sharp edged weapons like shurikan, knives etc. Strider lets you use the Cypher a plasma weapon as your main weapon that can kill multiple enemies with only one good blow. As you proceed to the advanced levels of the game, Strider allows you to use upgrades to enhance your weapons and skills and get blasted upon the enemies as a bolt of lightning, finally reach to the Grand maestro and assassinate him. With an amazingly fast action, great visuals, immersive game-play and a wonderful story, Strider is a great game to play and enjoy.

Boid by Mokus Games is a brilliant new Action, Side-Scrolling, RTS and Fighting and run and Gun video game like Metal Slug 3. The game is about an advanced Bio Organic Drone who crash lands on a planet, releases countless life forms to mutate and evolve just according to the environment, develop special abilities and skills, fight against the native enemies and conquer the world to dominate. Boid offers an amazingly fast-paced and hardcore action filled game-play in which you’ll have to think fast in order to complete the game objectives. You’ll also have to strategize your moves more attentively and act as the sharpest of the thinkers. With wonderful visuals, great story-line and an immersive game-play, Boid is a great game to play and enjoy.

Dragon’s Lair is a 1983 Action-Adventure, Interactive Drama, and Retro Single-player video game created and published by Digital Leisure Inc. The game takes place in the stunning environment consists of dungeons, caves, etc. You assume the role of the protagonist, a knight, and the takes you on an epic adventure where you have to save the princess from the evil dragon. Control the adventurer, find your way through Castle, overcome obstacles, and fight against dragon using your mighty sword. The game combines arcade with combat element. There are a variety of levels, and you must navigate each one to progress through the game. The castle offers different traps, obstacles, and strange creatures loaded with a sword. Dragon’s Lair is also available to play on mobile platforms such as Android and iOS. Become a daring warrior, defeat the dragon and rescue the princess to prove yourself as the best hero. With the exciting story, immersive gameplay, and smooth controls, Dragon’s Lair is the best game to play.

Metal Assault is a Free-to-play, 2D Side-scroll, and Massively Multiplayer Online Shooting game created by Aeria Games. The game offers the similar gameplay to Metal Slug series and introduces awesome modes including PvE and PvP. It has four characters such as Burton, Carl, Marie, and Ai and the player can select one of them to start his game. The objective of the player is to accomplish quests and slaughter enemies to earn experience points. Gather power-ups to battle and enhance the character’s weapons, outfits, and skills. There are a variety of missions, and some of them need the use of vehicles. As the player defeat his opponents within time, the game rewards him with exciting prizes that can be used to unlock a set of weapons and other levels. It has different modes such as Co-op mode, 8v8 deathmatch, Single-player Campaign and more. The game combines the side-scroll with shoot ‘em up element and offers a new mode called Zombie mode. Metal Assault offers core features such as Dozens of Levels, Fight against other players, unlock advanced Weapons, Use Military Vehicles and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Out of This World (also known as Another World) is an Action-Adventure, Platform and Single-player video game developed by Delphine Software. The story centers on the protagonist named as Lester, a scientist who finds himself in a strange world filled with brutal aliens when his experiment goes wrong. The ultimate task of the protagonist is to fight against different forces for his survival and find a way to come out. Take on the role of the protagonist and run, jump and attack through your way and perform specific actions like rocking a cage forth and back. In the beginning, your character is unarmed and can kick at tiny creatures. You can get a pistol from foe after killing him and can use it against enemies. There are a variety of levels, and each level is challenging than previous. Progress through the game and survive as long as possible to score the highest points and find a way to flee. With the best mechanics, addictive mechanics and superb visuals, Out of This World is the best game to play and enjoy.

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is an Action, Side-scroll, Platform and Single-player video game developed by Sunstorm Interactive and published by Ubisoft. The game puts you in the role of the protagonist named as Duke Nukem, struggling to fight against Mech Morphix, who is a mad scientist and trying to transform mysterious creatures into brutal monsters using a radioactive slims. The mad scientist wants to take over the Manhattan Island situated in New York. The game introduces a variety of enemies such as alligators, cockroaches, and more. You must navigate the world from the side-scroll perspective, fight against enemies using multiple weapons and defeat them to reach their boss at the end of the game. Save the world before the time runs out. The game comprises eight chapters, and your character can run, fire, walk, and jump. With addictive features, improved gameplay, interesting story, and breathtaking environment, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is the best game to play and enjoy.

Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is an Action-Adventure, Platform, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by DrinkBox Studios. The game offers an exciting story, in which Carlos Calaca has abducted the beloved daughter of EI President, and make a plan to sacrifice her to merge the living world with the land of dead. It mixes the Metroidvania-style Action, Platform, and Side-scroll elements and takes place in the magical world full of monsters and other strange creatures. The game mainly focuses on melee-combat and lets the player pick up his character from present and jump into the world to battle against enemies. The main job of the player is to explore the land from a side-scroll, kill enemies, face boss fights, and rescue the daughter of the EI President in the parallel dimensions. As the player advances through the event, new features, modes, and extra abilities will be unlocked. Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition includes prominent features such as Endless Fighting Action, Multi-dimensional Platform Gameplay, Unique Combat Moves, Detailed World, New Costumes, and more. Try it out.

Claw is a Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game released by Monolith Productions in 1997. The game is about an anthropomorphic pirate cat, who embarks on an epic quest to locate an ancient amulet while battling against foes and solving mind-bending puzzles. It is the second released of Monolith after Blood. The game mixes the platform element with melee combat and lets the player control the cat and struggle to reach the end of each level, fighting through different foes and overcome obstacles to earn points. The primary weapon of the protagonist is a sword and he can kick or punch when close enough to a foe. He has a pistol with limited bullets and the player can shoot enemies to kill and needs to refill his pistol after the round by gathering spare bullets. It has three modes such as Multiplayer, Custom Levels, and Single-player. The Single-player mode comprises the main storyline. With addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant graphics, Claw is the best game to play.

Alien Carnage is a Side-scroll Platform and Single-player shooting video game developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and developed Apogee Software. The game is divided into four episodes, featuring background music in MOD format and 256 colour VGA graphics. It represents the cartoon-style gameplay and puts the player in the role of the protagonist named as Halloween Harry, who is an agent and embark on an epic mission to save the world from an alien invasion that wants to control over the Planet Earth by transforming the humanity into zombies. In the game, the player attack aliens and zombies using the flamethrower and another type of weapons to rescue the hostages in multiple ways. The player equips with a jetpack which he can use to reach the higher platforms, instead of jumping. Alien Carnage offers key features such as Page Turner, Area 51, Cheat mode, Three Skill Levels, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Azure Striker Gunvolt is an Action, Side-scroll, Platform, and Single-player video game developed by Inti Creates for Nintendo 3DS and Microsoft Windows. The game comes with new gameplay elements such as the ability of Gunvolt to tag foes and target many at one. It focuses on Side-scroll Action Platform gameplay like Mega Man series and puts the player in the role of the amazing character named as Gunvolt, who can run, jump, dash, and shoot enemies his way through numerous levels to become the master. The actions of the player are limited by the energy bar, depletes when the player uses the electric field or movement abilities such as air dashing, double jumping and more. The gameplay revolves around the skills and techniques of the player in moving through challenging stages. The game becomes tough to play, as the player advances through the game. Azure Striker Gunvolt includes core features such as Speedrun Mode, Lightning-based Action, Variety of Bosses and more. Try it out.

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.

Gunstar Heroes is a Run and Gun, Single-player and Co-op video game created by Treasure and published by Sega. The storyline revolves around the Gunstar, the mercenary family who is struggling to fend off the Empire, a dictatorship that is searching to revive an ancient weapon using the four powerful gems buried throughout the planet. The game is played from a side-scroll perspective, and the player commands the character to complete certain levels. There are two playable characters such as Blue and Red, and each represents the different control scheme for the player such as Red being able to shoot without any limit while blue is able to shoot from a fixed position. During the game, the player can use a variety of four weapons such as Lighting, Force, Chaser, and Flame. As the game proceeds, it becomes difficult to play, and further content will be unlocked to play. With immersive gameplay, brilliant graphics, and cool mechanics, Gunstar Heroes is the best game to play.

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.

Dark Matter is a Platform, Survival Horror, and Single-player video game developed by Interwave Studios and published by Iceberg Interactive for Cross-Platform in 2013. The game mainly offers the 2.5D side-scroll gameplay, taking place in the spaceship besieged by a sinister alien and infested with deadly parasites. The game puts the player in the protagonist’s role named Ensign, who must navigate the fetid hallways and abandoned facilities with an aim to scavenge for blueprints and parts, expanding his arsenal to four deadly weapons. It offers a compelling storyline, revolving around the protagonist running into the door, slamming against its cold metal surface. There are over fourteen challenging levels in the gritty tale of space survival, and during the game, the player can use four weapons and four different ammo types. Elemental ammo effects enable the player to dissolve, freeze, or set fire to his foes. There are three different craftable upgrades available to customize the weapons. Dark Matter includes prominent features such as Four Weapons, Collect Scrap, Non-linear Exploration, Storytelling Gameplay, and more. Check it out, and have fun.

Metal Slug 2 is a Run-and-Gun, Side-scroll, Single-player and Two-player Co-op video game developed and published by SNK. It is the perfect combination of Platform and Arcade elements, and it serves as the sequel to Metal Slug, released in 1996. The game introduces several new features to the gameplay, including new vehicles, weapons and the ability to transform the character. It offers the very similar gameplay to its original title where the player controls one of four soldiers, run, jump, and shoot his way through a variety of levels while struggling to complete missions to become the master. During the gameplay, the player must shoot at the waves of enemies to reach the level’s end where the player confronts the boss, who is more extensive and tougher compared to regular enemies. In the game, the player uses a variety of weapons to kill enemies and struggling to rescue innocent citizens. Additionally, the player can perform melee attacks using knife or kicking. The player doesn’t die in the game by merely coming into combat with foes. The player can enhance his shooting and melee abilities by gaining power-ups. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Super Time Force is a brilliant Action, Side-Scrolling, 2D Retro Shooter and Run and Gun video game. The game takes you on an Action and Thrill filled journey where your task is to be part of a team of Elite Soldiers who are destined to manipulate the Space and Time in order to eliminate the enemies. After Discovering the Time Travel, Professor Repeatski build up a team of Elite Soldiers named as The Super Team Force, makes you the team lead and tasks you to travel in time, eliminate the enemies using heavy firepower, and rewrite the history as the Professor Repeatski likes. Unsink the famous and long lost city of Atlantis, Stop Dinosaur Extinction, and explore the world in order to find out the lost artifacts. With a brilliant game setting, cool visuals and a blasting game-play, Super Time Force is a fun game to play.

Jet Gunner is a marvelous piece of art in the genre of 2D Side-Scrolling Action, Run and gun Shooting and Platform gaming. The game offers nostalgia and hardcore action filled game-play, amazingly blasting gunfights, expert level boss battles in an amazing 8-bit Retro environment. With a bunch of addictive main stages, huge arsenal of weapons, challenging game levels, Hardcore and Challenge modes, regular content updates and DLC, great story-line and beautiful visuals, Jet Gunner is one of the best Action, Shooting and Run and Gun video game to play and enjoy. Try it out and entertain yourself good.

Raze is another great Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling and Run and Gun video game. The game allows upto 4 players to fight at once and engage into an amazingly addictive and immersive game-play ever. Set in a utopian world, Raze allows you to be a gun wielder Hero traveling through a luminous neon lit world. Your duty is to battle against the Alien Robots and genetically mutated advanced forms of Zombies, shoot them down in order to save the Earth. You can also be simply an enemy (Alien Robot or Zombie) and fight against the earth saving forces and totally destroy it with all the firepower you have. Raze offers a blasting and quite destructive game-play, super cool visuals, an amazing story-line to follow and two more wonderful sequels to enjoy. Try it out and you’ll love every bit of this brilliant game.

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.

The Expandables 2 is a hardcore Action and Thrill filled video game. With all the Shooting, Run and Gun and Combating routine, The Expandables 2 offers an extremly challenging game-play based on a story from the original movie. With original characters (Gunner Jensen, Barney Ross, Hale Caesar, Ying Yang etc.) and enemies, The Expandables 2 takes you on a journey to free a kidnapped millionaire. The Expandables 2 allows you to engage yourself into epic enemy and boss fights in an unbelievably crazy action and thrill filled environment, where as the team lead, your task is to simply eliminate the enemies and free the kidnapped millionaire. With multiplayer Co-op support, an enticingly immersive game-play, great story and ultra-realistic visuals, The Expandables 2 is one of the best games to play and enjoy if you really like Action, Run and Gun and Shooting genres.

Outland, created by Housemarque is an Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform Gun and Gun video game. Along with a similar game-play and mechanics to a lot of big names of the genre, Outland provides with a unique Polarity System. The story of the game revolves around an unnamed character of the protagonist who is trapped in a bizarre medical condition and keeps on seeing dreams and visions from the far past. After failure of recovering by medicines, the protagonist decides to meet a Shaman. The Shaman tells him about an ancient battle between two witches and a hero and he is the last one from the bloodline of that hero. The witches have resurfaced and the protagonist must stop them from devastating the cities. The responsibility now falls on your shoulders and it becomes your primary objective to stand up and defeat the witches by using your unique skills and sword fighting techniques. All of this happens on Physics-Based platforms and allows you to enjoy the super exciting and thrilling nature of the game. Outland is one of the best Action-Adventure and Puzzle-Platform video games and it will definitely provide you with tons of entertainment. Do give it a try.

Explodemon is a brilliant Action, Run and Gun Shooter and thrill filled video game that offers a wonderfully addictive and quite challenging game-play in which you act as a Robot who only wants to Blow up things. An Alien invasion outbreak serves the Robot well and it goes on a full scale killing spree. This brilliant Action, RPG, Platform and Side Scrolling Shooter offers a totally unique concept of combat and features multiple high intensity weapons. Your task is to simply traverse through the game levels, raid on enemy posts, blow them up and move forward to the next one. One by one, destroy each and every alien outpost and finally eliminate all of them. Explodemon provides with state of the art visuals, a well embedded and well-written story-line and an awesome game-play to enjoy. Do give it a try, it’s fun playing.

Sacred Citadel is a great Action oriented Run and Gun style and Hack and Slash, Fighting video game that sets you up into the character of a Hero who is a part of the Resistance. Set in the world of Ancaria. Sacred Citadel allows you to use Axes, Bows and Arrows, Swords and Knives as your primary weapons and go on an amazing Hack and Slash routine in order to neutralize the enemy infestation in the world of Ancaria. The evil Ashen Empire is the attacker who has enslaves the populace of Ancaria and is using the Orcs and Grimmocs to wipe out the Seraphim, the only protectors of Ancaria. You as the Seraphim must lead your companions into epic battles against the enemies and devastate them to save the realm while riding the terrifying mounts, acquiring the earth shattering skills and looting immensely powerful weapons etc. Sacred Citadel offers an amazing Side-Scrolling game-play and lets you engage into the game in a similar manner as you did in the popular Metal Slug series games.

Aztez is a wonderful Upcoming side-scrolling, Turn-based Strategy and hardcore Brawler video game that lets you engage yourself into an amazing game-play in which your duty is to save Aztez Empire. With the use of your Strategy and Turn-based skills, you’ll have to repel the violent enemy outbreaks by showing off your amazing Beat ‘em’ up skills along with the use of firearms and other conventional weaponry (swords, spears, knives, clubs etc.). Aztez offers a totally unique setting, amazing challenges, and a lot to discover and enjoy. For an amazing Action and Side-Scrolling Run and Gun type Brawler type of game-play experience, you should totally try this game out. You’ll definitely love it.

Dead Pixels is a marvelous new Action-Adventure, Platform, and Side-Scrolling Run and Gun video game that tells the story about a zombie outbreak after the toxic water reaches the graveyards. The recently deceased people have become zombies and they are converting all the people to their kin very fast. You as the Ultimate savior and hero will have to get up, gather your team of heroes and go on hunting the undead until every last one of them is dead again. Exploration, scavenging for supplies such as food, shelter, medicines etc, you’ll have to go on regular trips to different places and find the required supplies. With three main game modes, loads of items to collect and weapons to eliminate the threat etc. Dead Pixels offers state of the art visuals, a great story and an immersive game-play for you to enjoy.

RunGunJumpGun is an Action, Side-scroll, Run and Gun and Single-player video game developed by Good Shepherd Entertainment for multiple platforms. It offers a tough gameplay and puts the gravity-defying weapons in the player’s hands. The game takes place in the three unique worlds, and each world has a set of levels and enemies comprises more than 120 levels. It mixes the Platform, Fast-paced, and 2D Action elements and offers crazy characters. The player needs to select his character and set out himself on an epic adventure to battle against brutal enemies who threatened the world. It offers an Extax System, where the sun has begun to swell planets. The player acts as the Scavenger with a task to get Atomiks to save the world. As the player proceeds, the game unlocks other worlds and levels to explore. The player can immerse himself in a non-stop action gameplay experience and can run, jump and shoot his way through different stages to take down enemies while collecting power-ups and bonuses to enhance his power. RunGunJumpGun includes core features such as Hyperkinetic Soundtracks, Two-button Controls, Surreal Visuals, Marathon Mode, and more. Try it out.

Song of the Deep developed by Insomniac Games and published by GameTrust Games is a Metroidvania and Single-player video game for multiple platforms. It features a stunning story, revolving around a young girl who set out herself on an epic adventure to find her father who disappeared while fishing. The player takes on the role of the female protagonist named as Merryn, who craft a submarine to find her father. The player explores the environment from a side-scroll perspective to navigate the ocean. During the gameplay, he or she needs to locate the special improvements, overcome obstacles, and progress through the game to unlock additional levels. Up to thirty upgrades and more than fifty additional abilities available across new areas of the sea. The environment takes place in the non-linear underwater world invaded by brutal creatures. Song of the Deep includes core features such as Unforgettable Journey, new Abilities, Search for Father, and more. With the exciting story, superb gameplay, and smooth controls, Song of the Deep is the best game to play.