Side Scrolling

Electropy is a side scrolling action arcade title with a fundamental gameplay twist. Rather than directly moving your character, the idea is to grapple on to floating polygons in order to swing your way to the goal. The game features a wide selection of power-ups such as gravity change,...

A side-scrolling shooter that turns boundless space into one big warzone. Enter the ravaging struggle between insects and humans and make sure not a single alien escapes its part of free lead. Star Defender 4 has 8 extra large and unique missions, each with a devastating Boss. Featuring 100...

A side scrolling action arcade title with a fundamental gameplay twist. Rather than directly moving your character, the idea is to grapple on to floating polygons in order to swing your way to the goal. The game features a wide selection of power-ups such as gravity change, invincibility, and...


Platforms: Mac

This is a quirky manga/japanimation inspired side scrolling shoot'em up game. An alien fleet is headed for earth, you are the earth's last hope. You are armed with a fast ship and powerful plasma rockets. You'll face an onslaught of enemy foes. The game includes: multiple alien ships to...


Platforms: Windows

Side-scrolling worm game with 13 different levels of increasing difficulty. OpenGL hardware recommended, but not required.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Cave Story is a freeware side scrolling action/adventure/plat former title with leanings towards Wonderboy and recent sidescrolling Castlevania titles. You control a little amnesiac who runs around helping out these rabbit-ish creatures called Mimigas while trying to find your way out of the...


Platforms: Mac

Electropy is a side scrolling action arcade title with a fundamental gameplay twist. Rather than directly moving your character, the idea is to grapple on to floating polygons in order to swing your way to the goal. The game features a wide selection of power-ups such as gravity change,...


Platforms: Mac

U-Boot is a very enjoyable side-scrolling submarine game for your Mac. Navigate your submarine. Shoot torpedoes and mines. Avoid dangerous obstacles (mines, jellyfish, enemy submarines,...). Collect bonuses and power-ups (stars, shields, propellers, torpedoes,...). There are three game types and...


Platforms: Mac

Biofenzy: Frag The Zombies is a fast-paced side scrolling action game. To fight against those bio-infected monsters, now your abilities promoted! In Biofenzy, you will be able to shoot with 4 weapons at the same time, and an amazing adrenaline


Platforms: Mac

Jet Dudes is a very enjoyable side-scrolling jet flying game! Choose one of three dudes and try to fly as far as you can. Avoid enemies or shoot them down. Get bonuses and extra score items. - awesome graphics - e


Platforms: Mac

Victory Day is a fun side-scrolling shooting game for your Mac! In Victory Day, you play as a Soviet or as an American soldier during WW2. Your soldier heroically fighting hordes of enemies. He has to defeat all enemies, he has to destroy enemy leadership


Platforms: Mac

Take the role of the Witch and crush your opponents in this wonderful fantasy side scrolling shooter. Be the toughest Witch and exterminate tons of goblins, gnomes, wizards, ghosts, zombies and many, many more fantasy creatures. Rich and detai


Platforms: Mac

Word War vi is a side scrolling arcade game in which you pilot your vi-per craft through core memory eradicating the emacs processes by firing -9 signals at them, or injecting NULL pointers into their execution stream while evading OS defenses.


Platforms: *nix

BMTG3 (Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green) is a strategy game for for Linux, Windows and Mac. Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green (BMTG3) is a side-scrolling or 1-dimensional strategy game that pits two people against each other in a duel over a stretch of land. Each player is positioned in a bunker...


Platforms: *nix

Plasma Burst is a fast paced side-scrolling shooter with great graphics, rag-doll physics, and extreme violence. There are 16 challenging levels which require the player to develop strategies to avoid being shot down. Different routes to take through each level make for fun gameplay when trying...


Platforms: Windows, Windows 7

If you have not played AstroAvenger, you have no idea what a cool space shooter is. Using advanced 3D technology, AstroAvenger features top-notch graphics, excellent sound effects and tons of blasting fun. The question is can you handle so much space fighting? AstroAvenger is split into 5...


Platforms: Windows

The game takes place on the space outpost Terra-12. It was hit by cosmic radiation, which mutated most of the life forms on the outpost. The radiation was followed by a group of aliens lead by robotic "governors". As the half-human half-cyborg flying machine of the title, you are faced with many...


Platforms: Windows

MBSideScroller is a free and fun, tile based side-scroller beat-em-up with a parallax background. MBSideScroller is set in a medieval time era. MBSideScroller is written in the Java programming language


Platforms: Mac

An amazing fast-paced action game combining the latest 3D visual effects with the classic side-scrolling shoot'em up formula. Full game features: - 13 full-action packed levels! - A choice between 10 different weapons! - Upgrade your weaponry system up to 7 levels of power or buy highly...


Platforms: Windows

Platypus is one of the most unique looking games ever created. All of its visuals were created using photographed plasticine (clay). Help the peaceful land of Mungola defend themselves against the attacking hordes of Collosatropolis! A huge variety of clay-animated enemies oppose you, but you...


Platforms: Windows