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.
#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 GunLord
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.
#3 Out of This World
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.
#4 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.
#5 Super Time Force
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.
#6 Jet Gunner
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.
#7 Explodemon
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.
#8 Rochard
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.
#9 Outland
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.
#10 Sacred Citadel
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.
#11 Mark of the Ninja
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.
#12 Raze
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.
#13 Castle Crashers
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.
#14 Shadow Complex Remastered
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.
#15 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.
#16 Ultionus
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.
#17 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..
#18 Dead Pixels
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.
#19 Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
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.
#20 Intrusion 2
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”.
#21 Boid
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.
#22 Duck Game
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.
#23 Metal Assault
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.
#24 Song of the Deep
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.
#25 The Mummy Demastered
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.
#26 Claw
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.
#27 Gunman Clive
Gunman Clive is an Action, Side-scroll Shooting, and Single-player video game created and published by Horberg Production. The game revolves around a lone gunslinger in the environment of Wild West as he struggles to rescue the beloved daughter of the mayor from the vicious group of well-armed bandits. It takes place in the historical world of eighteen century, where the player can explore the world from a side-scroll perspective where he must fight enemies around sixteen levels to fulfil the task. He can travel along a two-dimensional platformer full of moving platforms, enemies and traps. Shooting is the heavy emphasis, and the player can collect and pick up weapons like spread shot, laser gun, and explosive bullets. Enemies are different in each level, from bandits to animals who carry rifles. There are three different playable characters available each with unique abilities. Gunman Clive includes prominent features such as Old-school Action, 3D Graphics, Unique Sketch Art-style, Plenty of Enemies, Epic Boss Battles, and more. Check it out, and you’ll love it.
#28 Gunman Clive 2
Gunman Clive 2 is a video game of Action-Adventure and Side-scroll, created and published by Horberg Productions for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 3DS. The game supports Single-player mode only and serves as the sequel to Gunman Clive video game. The story starts after saving Ms Johnson, the protagonist named as Gunman Clive comes back to against locate the town invaded by bandits. To stop the rivals, the player must struggle to explore the world from a side-scroll perspective. The game embarks the player on an epic adventure around the world, facing deadlier and bigger enemies than ever before. The game comes with similar classic gameplay formula like the previous title but deals with more action, platforming elements along improved graphics. It has a series of levels, and each level has its unique difficulty settings. Gunman Clive 2 includes prominent features such as Ricker and more Dynamic Levels, Diverse Environments, Massive Bosses, Tons of new Enemies, etc. Try it out, if you love playing Action-Adventure games.
#29 Alien Carnage
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.
#30 Zed Survival
Zed Survival is an Action, Side-scroll, 2D Shooting, and Role-playing video game created and published by JibbyJib for Microsoft Windows. The game takes place in the stunning world invaded by zombies. The player needs to create his hero and jump into the zombie-infested world where he must struggle to survive horde after horde of zombies. During the gameplay, the player has to gain experience to level up and use his points to unlock new skills. The player can visit shops between battle against zombies to purchase ammo, new weapons, and other useful items. Using the character customization feature, the player can change the appearance of his character and can purchase new stuff for his character using experience points. There are over ten types of zombies and the player can use more than twenty types of weapons while battling against enemies in increasingly difficult wave-based survival gameplay. The game has four challenging stages with different boss fights available. Zed Survival offers prominent features such as Character Customization, Experience Leveling System, 20 Weapons, and more.
#31 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.
#32 Azure Striker Gunvolt
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.
#33 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.
#34 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.
#35 Godzilla: The Series: Monster Wars
Godzilla: The Series: Monster Wars is an Action, Side-scroll and Single-player Shooting video game developed by Crawfish Interactive Ltd. and published by Crave Entertainment, Inc. The game takes place in the 2D world and the title acts as the 2nd game focused on the animated TV series Godzilla. In the game, the player can controls the massive monster named as Godzilla with an objective to save the world from other brutal monsters, but there is a twist in the game that is the military wants him dead. There are ten exciting levels and the player must explore the environment from a side-scroll perspective with various backgrounds and graphics to take down enemies. During the gameplay, the player can perform six attacks including the fire breath, tail whip, or more. The game becomes challenging to play, as the player advances through it. With addictive gameplay, 2D visuals, and smooth controls, Godzilla: The Series: Monster Wars is the best side-scrolling game compared to others.
#36 Superfighters Deluxe
Superfighters Deluxe is an Action, Side-scroll, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by MythoLogic Interactive. The game is the perfect blend of shooting, brawling, and platforming elements in the dynamic sandbox-style world. There are lots of weapons to use, and fun gameplay systems let the player create absurd action chaos. The game has three different modes such as Versus Mode, Campaign Mode, and Survival. In the Versus mode, two to eight players can compete against each other to the death in short rounds. This mode contains twenty maps to explore and can be played with teams. In Survival mode, up to four players holding out against the waves of enemies, struggling to score the highest points, while Campaign mode unfolds the story from the mysterious world. This mode work with both Single-player and co-op with up to four-player. Superfighters Deluxe offers exciting features such as the huge range of weaponry, Cosmetic Character Customization, Map Editor, and more.
#37 Gunstar Heroes
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.
#38 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.
#39 Super Cyborg
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.
#40 Shadow Complex
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.
#41 The Expandables 2
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.
#42 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.
#43 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.
#44 Aztez
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.
#45 Strider
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.
#46 Cave Story
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.
#47 Splasher
Splasher is a 2D Platform, Side-scroll, Action and Single-player video game developed by Splashteam and published by Playdius. The game takes place in the crazy cartoon universe and deals with fast reflexes, speed, and agility. The player assumes the role of the young hero who must explore the world from a side-scroll perspective, the battle against enemies, crush them and fight the boss of the paint factory to progress. The protagonist is armed with a splatter cannon which he can use to launch an attack to rescue the world and stand up to the leader. The pain cannon offers the player with color superpowers. There are numerous levels, and each level provides the traps, security devices, and insane obstacles. It has two different modes such as Speedrun and Time Attack. Splasher includes core features such as Challenging Levels, Fistful of Ink, Time Attack Mode, and more. With excellent mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant music, Splasher is an incredible game to play and enjoy.
#48 Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
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.
#49 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.
#50 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.