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.
#1 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.
#2 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.
#3 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.
#4 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.
#5 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.
#6 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.
#7 Velocity 2X
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 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.
#9 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.
#10 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.
#11 Super Time Force Ultra
Super Time Force Ultra is a Pixel Graphics, Action, Platform, and Side-scroll video game developed and published by Capybara for multiple platforms. The game comes with action-packed gameplay with a time-traveling twist. It takes place in the sci-fi world where the player is in control of the time, and can bend and stretch it to his advantage on the battleground. During the gameplay, the player can rewind the time and select when to jump back into the action. He can team up with his selves in the Single-player or Co-op modes. There are nineteen unique characters available and each character has its unique abilities and weapons. The player can battle in six different time periods, from the past to future. The player explores the sci-fi world from a side-scroll perspective, run, jump, and shoot his way through numerous levels to kill enemies while using his special abilities to overcome challenging obstacles. Super Time Force Ultra includes prominent features such as 19 Playable Characters, Extra Modes, Collectibles, Mess up the Time-space Continuum, and more. Try it out, if you love playing Platform games.
#12 Not A Hero
Not A Hero is an Action, Side-scroll Shooting, and Single-player video game with an emphasis on Stealth elements developed by Roll7 and published by Devolver Digital. The game comes with a thrilling story, in which the purple rabbit bunnylord has traversed back in time from 2048 to be elected as Mayor to rescue the land. It takes place in the fictional setting, and the story focuses on the protagonist, who struggle the world from devastation and alien invasion. During the gameplay, the player needs to show the inhabitants why he is the best to be elected and recruit a team of anti-heroes to clean up crime in the city. It revolves around 2D side-scroll shooting gameplay offered in Pixel art-style. There are nine protagonists available from which the player needs to select his favourite one at the beginning of each level. Each hero has its unique attributes in the game. In the game, the player is armed with primary weapons that can be upgraded with a series of upgrades found on the map. Not A Hero includes prominent features such as Dynamic Missions, Next Level Shootouts, Roster of Not Heroes, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#13 Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition
Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition is an Arcade, Action-Adventure, and Single-player video game developed by Roll7 and published by Devolver Digital. The game is set in the stunning world invaded by anthropomorphic rabbit and other creatures. Players take on the role of the protagonist, who must clean the city by deadly creatures. The game sets out Steve and his team on an epic mission where they can use their unique skills to slide, dive, shoot, and conquer behind the political platform. During the gameplay, the player needs to eliminate the criminal in three different districts and persuade voters. There are several levels and each level has a set of objectives that the player can complete by one selecting one of nine heroes and each offering a unique gameplay style and crime murdering abilities. Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition includes prominent features such as Roster of Not Heroes, Nine Heroes, Dynamic Missions, Run-and-Gun Gameplay, Next Level Shootouts, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love the game.
#14 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.
#15 Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank
Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank is an Action, Side-scroll Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by PopCap Games for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. In this game, the player controls a powerful tank through an array of stages of opposing enemies. The tank can move only right and left direction, while the main weapon of the player is a turret gun, can be aimed in a 180 degree. The storyline of the game deals with a Red Star invasion, and the player assumes the protagonist’s role, a commander of an Atomic Tank to repel the invasion back into its main headquarter of Red Star. The game’s premise is the collective forces of Communism. There are over nineteen missions available along with two different modes such as Mission Mode and Survival Mode. In mission mode, the player needs to blast his way through countless enemies and take down the boss at the end. This mode enables players for three lives in each mission. Upon taking down the boss, the player explores the armoury, where one can achieve different power-ups and upgrades for use in missions. After defeating the first nine boss stages, the player needs to take down the same nine bosses in the nine levels, until the final stage. However, the final boss is unique in armour and weapon. The Survival mode grants the player alive, and he is tasked with surviving through endless waves of enemies until the tank is smashed.