The Best 2D scrolling Games

Update : Gradius Origins added at rank #1.
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Gradius Origins (2025)

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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s

Salamander III is the newest addition to the Gradius series, a legendary pioneer in the side-scrolling shooter genre, and comes with the original arcade versions of the previous games.

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  • arcade
  • shooter
  • scrolling
  • 2d
  • compilation
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • retro
  • spin-off
  • platform
  • boss
  • shoot-em-up
  • pixel
  • space
  • vertical

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X-Out: Resurfaced (2025)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Build your fleet and face the alien terror from the deep! Now it’s up to you alone to stop an alien invasion from the depths of the ocean in this legendary, home computer era shoot ‘em up dredged up and faithfully rebuilt for modern platforms – X-Out: Resurfaced!

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  • scrolling
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • submarine
  • 2d
  • shooter
  • side-scrolling
  • enemy
  • horizontally-scrolling
  • aliens
  • underwater
  • abstract
  • attack
  • score

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Slam and Roll (2024)

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early access Xbox One Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Slam and Roll is a modern 2D platformer where you beat enemies by throwing them sport balls. Play 200+ stages while travelling around the world rescuing new characters. A frantic tribute to the '90s arcade "stage clear" games. Play solo or with a friend. Unlimited hours of fun playing 'chaos mode'.

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  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • local
  • arcade
  • platform
  • replay-value
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • retro
  • mind-bending
  • character
  • multiplayer
  • scrolling
  • difficult

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Nonograms! (2024)

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Android PC Windows

Nonograms is a relaxing puzzle game where you use logic and creativity. Your goal is to reveal hidden pictures by filling in specific grid cells, based on numerical clues provided for each row and column. The games in this genre are also known as Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, etc.


  • steampunk
  • logic
  • puzzle
  • board-game
  • scrolling
  • grid
  • tabletop
  • relaxing
  • education
  • replay-value
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • abstract

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Cyber mission (2023)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Side-scroller, with beautiful 2D pixel art, addictive shooter gameplay, classic levels and weapons that will let you perform a symphony of destruction of the alien base in the black eye galaxy.


  • scrolling
  • local
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • multiplayer
  • aliens
  • action
  • military
  • team
  • boss
  • arcade

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Precision Break (2022)

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PC Windows Mac OS

2D Story Based Action Platformer, face off against 6 assassins to save your sister

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  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • scroller
  • platform
  • cartoony
  • arcade
  • hand-drawn
  • action
  • anime
  • scrolling
  • adventure
  • fantasy

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DRAINUS (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.

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  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • scrolling
  • boss
  • horizontal
  • 2d
  • side-scrolling
  • tanks
  • pause
  • shoot
  • action
  • bullet-hell
  • pixel
  • puzzle-shmup
  • mecha-dragon

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Asterix & Obelix: Slap them All! (2021)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows

Asterix & Obelix, return in a new adventure full of slaps! Play as Asterix and Obelix and cross the most iconic landscapes of the saga while facing a host of enemies, in a Beat Them Up filled with action ... and slaps!


  • hand-drawn
  • book
  • horizontal
  • beat-em-up
  • 2d
  • scrolling
  • local
  • cooperative
  • brawler
  • comic
  • adventure
  • fight
  • multiplayer
  • side-scrolling

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Gigapocalypse (2021)

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IOS iPhone Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Become a customizable giant monster with manifold skills in Gigapocalypse, inspired by classical Kaijū movies such as “Godzilla” and “King Kong” and the game classic “Rampage”.

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  • tamagotchi
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • dinosaurs
  • destruction
  • arcade
  • cute
  • boss-fight
  • skill
  • mech
  • 1990s
  • scrolling
  • casual
  • boss

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DISTRAINT Collection (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One

DISTRAINT: Deluxe Edition is a 2D psychological horror adventure game that tells the story of Price, a young man who seizes an old woman’s apartment. Features: * Side scrolling 2D art with dynamic hand drawn graphics * Atmospheric music and sound design * Minimalist interface so your focus never wavers from the experience * Delve into a unique story full of intriguing twists Features: * Side-scrolling 2D with unique, hand-drawn graphics * Atmospheric sound design * Minimalist and efficient interface * Delve into a complex story full of intriguing twists and characters * Includes brief summary of DISTRAINT 1

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  • scrolling
  • psychological
  • hand-drawn
  • horror
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • classic

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