Garena Contra: Return
Garena Contra: Return is an Action, Side-scroll, Run-and-Gun, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed by Garena Games Online for both mobile devices. The game retains the side-scroll shooting aspects and introduces duo mode, as well as new features. With HD graphics, 3D characters, super sound, and animation effects, you’re going to experience the extraordinary gameplay. In the world, you need to unleash your inner warrior and must select an arsenal of heroes and weapons to challenge yourself in PVP battles, team modes, and face off challenging bosses. During the game, you can join the legendary heroes named Lance and Bill in their struggle to fight against menacing aliens to rescue the world. Ultimate championship, 2v2 Conquer the Battlefield, PvP Fun Mode, etc. are prominent new modes of the game. There are different types of weapons available, and you can run, jump, and shoot your way through a set of levels to take down enemies using modern weapons. Garena Contra: Return includes prominent features such as Touch controls, PvP Fun Mode, Team up with Friends, Battle for Victory, and more.
#1 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.
#2 Metal Slug 3
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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 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.
#8 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#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 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.
#13 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.
#14 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.
#15 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.
#16 Metal Slug
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.
#17 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.
#18 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..
#19 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.