Best Fast-Paced Side Scroller Games on PC

Re.Surs

Cool game kind.

pros:

great visual style. Very atmospheric and stylish levels.
action battles as you need to use hero abilities in time.
different weapons with which you can kill demons.
different bosses, not very difficult though, it’s okay.
intricate strange plot.
good jokes)
good price.
I liked the crazy dancing letters)))

cons:

some bosses and fights pissed me off.
some basics 2d scroller shooterics are not presented, but mechan yeah it’s experimental.

– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game

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Quite a cool game, of course not without drawbacks.

cool stuff:

1. Lots of action, especially in the end. Almost Serious Sam sometimes, but you always have proper gun to destroy demons.

2. Some bosses remind old good game console games.

3. Surprisingly lots of stuff for indie game - several main characters, lots of guns, lots of demons

4. Complex and interesting plot, but sometimes there is a feeling like watching Dune without reading book - very interesting, but understood nothing.

5. One of plot twist in the middle reminded me half life, that was quite cool.

– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game

Re.Surs on Steam

3D Gravity Rocket

Great game, unique and interesting gameplay.

– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game

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3D Gravity Rocket is a physics/action puzzle game, and basically a ripoff of the old Moon Lander game. You have thrust and you can tilt left or right, while gravity pulls you down. Drive your clown car looking spaceship with bug eyes and a propeller through each level to collect the physics defying nuts.

Resolution and controls are locked, but this is so bad it’s disqualified long before getting to the finer points of what makes an acceptable PC game.

This is basically some amateur shovelware that got dumped into crapware tier game bundles like Daily Indie Game, and shouldn’t be seriously considered as a game by anyone.

– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game

3D Gravity Rocket on Steam

Flain - Tao force & Cubes

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– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game

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It’s up to you to defend the earth, youngster. Come on!

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Manual achievement:

0/0

– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

Flain - Tao force & Cubes on Steam

POG 5

best game ever made

– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game

POG 5 on Steam

The United SPACE of America

Use your shoulder cannon and proton sabre to blast your way through HUSK soldiers, ships, robots, alien animals and much more in this fast paced, action side scrolling bullet hell shooter! Absorb enemy fire to unlock powerful abilities, unlock story sequences and much more!

In the year 2010, Earth received a signal from the Cygnus region of the Milky Way from a hostile collective of extra terrestrials that refer to themselves as the HUSK. With the threat of their invasion looming, Earth used the 102,492 hour warning (11 years) to focus their efforts to prepare and develop technology to thwart the incoming dark omen. The Husk arrive and shatter the Earth into pieces leaving the entire country of The United States drifting as asteroids throughout the solar system. Citizens of the country survive thanks to false atmospheres installed on all regions of the country. Now their only hope lies with the President of the United States equipped with his shoulder cannon and proton sabre to bring all of the asteroids together and become the United Space of America and crush the invading HUSK forces.

The United SPACE of America on Steam

Exception

If you like neon, flashy graphx, platforming games and EDM, then this game is absolutely something for you …

You play as a thread in a computer (that’s the story, don’t ask), and play a meatboy-esque game where time is of importance but you have way more abilities; you can also attack enemies… and during the game you’ll be able to upgrade your character…

I got this game in a bundle and as an ’80s kid, this game almost made me drop my jaw the first time i saw it… i did drool though :)

– Real player with 28.0 hrs in game

Really good game, I enjoyed it a lot so far. There’s nice cut scenes and a story in between finishing every world and the game looks very nice too. Not to mention how cool the gameplay is. It gets increasingly harder but yet not too challenging. Also after playing through the game once, you can play through it again to get all the bytes and unlock all the upgrades. And after that you can replay the levels individually again to get your name on the speedrun leaderboards. However, there were a few bytes that I’m pretty sure were impossible to pick up (altough i might just be missing something). Also, the final level wasn’t challenging enough in my opinion. Good game in general and I would say it’s worth the price.

– Real player with 19.4 hrs in game

Exception on Steam

Steel Assault

First of all, this game is an absolute piece of art, there’s no doubt about it. This goes beyond gorgeous visuals and a banger OST - this thing truly captures the essence of nineties' shooters at their best, cleverly hiding modern game design under retro look&feel. The level design is generally more thought out and balanced, there are no blatantly unfair or frustrating things to be found, and the controls are as tight they ever were. For me, these things already make up the asking price.

Now, the game is not without it’s problems, though. People tend to complain about the amount of content. That criticism I don’t agree with. Most people complaining about that have played the normal difficulty through in a couple of hours and feel the game is through. But as the devs have explained, the real game is the hard mode. I’m pretty sure most of us will NOT clear that on the first sitting, and there’s plenty of game left after normal mode playthrough.

– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game

The fact that the developers listened so much to our feedback from the demo already deserves praise. I’m not going to go into details, but basically, they improved on basically every aspect of the game by a lot and made the more frustrating parts less frustrating, or non-existent.

While it’s a joy to see all the differences and improvements in the game compared to the demo, the game itself is fantastic. It’s a high adrenaline action platformer, where split second decisions will always demand your focus pretty much all the time. It really wears down your fingers, but this is exactly what we came for. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t just for oldschool platformer veterans, since now they added difficulty levels which is a welcome addition. Don’t EVER feel bad for playing it on Easy or Very Easy. Get familiar with the feel of the game, the different type of enemies, stages, etc. Then if you feel like you’ve mastered that difficulty level, you can always challenge yourself by playing it one difficulty level above. But it also pleases the more hardcore crowd. The Normal difficulty I feel like is just right, it offers a good challenge.

– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game

Steel Assault on Steam

aMAZE Gears 2

It’s just another aMaze game, this time with obstacles.

There’s a bit of challenge. Collect some pieces and get to the goal, but don’t get hit by obstacles. Also, lots of dead-ends.

The problem is that your gear slides forward a tiny bit when you stop, landing you right in a saw. This makes the controls rather unbearable, and may frustrate a lot of people. The collision detection sometimes also felt a bit strange to me.

If you like these games, it may be something for you. But for me, it feels unpolished.

– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game

If you played just about any game in the aMAZE series, you’ll know what to expect here. Not as laidback as some of them as there are traps to avoid. Patience or memorizing the patterns is the name of the game in same of the levels lest you become frustrated. An easy enough game to 100%.

– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game

aMAZE Gears 2 on Steam

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