
Super Contra
#1 Rochard
Rochard is an Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling Platform, and Run and Gun video game set in a Sci-Fi environment. The game lets you be the main protagonist named John Rochard, a Commander of the Astro Miners.
Because of his research, gun, and leadership skills, a mega-corporation known as Skyring Corporation approaches Rochard and hires him for an Asteroid Exploration and resource collection. Rochard accepts the task given to him by the Skyring Corporation, gathers up his team and reaches to the Asteroid.
While on Asteroid, John Rochard, along with his whole team, gets abducted and, upon waking up, finds themselves tied, and jailed in a strange prominent ancient Structure underneath the surface of the Asteroid. The place where you start controlling the protagonist. Your task is to get into the character John Rochard, free yourself from the restrains, look for your team, and find out who attacked you.
After fleeing the team and discovering the weak points of space pirates, you must attack back to take on bandits and waves of Droids. Destroy enemy using weapons such as deadly turrets, tower mounts, and warfare vehicles, and try to reach the command center to destroy the base and leave the premises.
#2 Outland
Outland offers a beautiful combination of Action, Platforming, Run and Gun type Hack and Slash, and Side-Scrolling game elements. Created by the famous developer Housemarque, Outland provides you with similar gameplay and mechanics to the top-notch games such as Rochard, Metal Slug 3, Treasure Ikaruga, and Silhouette Mirage and mixes up Platforming elements with the beautifully designed Polarity System.
The game allows you to be an unnamed protagonist who has dementia and sees the bizarre dreams and visions from the far future and past. He tries hard to control his Dementia with drugs but fails and decides to meet a Shaman, who will inform him about it along with a story of two horrible ancient witches and a courageous hero. The story starts almost 30,000 years ago when a hero tries to put Witches behind bars deep in the dungeons but fails to resurface and dies.
The shaman tells the protagonist that he is the last descendant of that courageous hero, and he holds his bloodline. The witches are out of prison, and that is why he is having that bizarre dream and dementia. The only way to cure himself is to defeat the witches and send them back to the dungeons.
Your task is to stop the witches from destroying the villages, wield your sword, travel on platforms and defeat all the minions of the witches, go through several hard puzzles and riddles, reach down to the dark lair of the witches and beat them to complete the game objectives. With a fascinating story, beautifully designed and detailed visuals, immersive gameplay, Outland is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#3 Mark of the Ninja
Mark of the Ninja is a fast-paced Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling, Platform, and Sword fighting video game that lets you be a skilled Ninja who embarks on an epic journey to defeat enemies who attacked his DOJO.
The story of the game kicks off with the protagonist sitting quietly in His DOJO when a strange force attacks and defeat all of his fellow ninjas and leaves the protagonist half dead. Unable to move, the protagonist fades out and wakes up on the voice of a female Ninja named Ora, who tells him all about it.
The protagonist gets up and embarks on an epic journey to avenge the attacking force. Your task in the game is to be the Ninja, develop and practice your unique stealth and platforming skills, get out in the open environment and start dropping the guards on the path. You must use your stealth abilities and remain out of the sight of the guard, travel in dark areas, and hunt your targets.
As it is mostly a stealth-based game, so you must kill your enemies silently, slash your way through dense security areas, reach your primary goal, kill the guard ninjas or destroy the machines, complete the objectives and complete the game. With all the stealthy nature, amazingly engaging game-play environment, and brilliant visuals plus the sounds, Mark of the Ninja is an immersive game to enjoy.
#4 Aztez
Aztez is a marvelous new Action, Side-Scrolling, and Run-and-Gun-style Brawler video game that takes you to the great Aztec Empire and lets you explore and maintain it by defending it against the enemies, building and gathering resources.
The game focuses on the Aztec Empire set in the Era of Mexica of Tenochtitlan Aztez, offering brilliant and quite action-packed brawling aesthetics. Your duty, as an Aztez Warrior, is to repel all the brutal attacks by the enemies, beat them up, and enjoy immersing yourself into an epic gameplay experience.
There are several tasks, and each one is full of unique challenges and new enemies that the player has to defeat. Aztez lets you defeat enemies using several weapons such as Spears, Swords, and Sticks. Before choosing the gun, you have to gather up armies of Aztec heroes and embark on legendary quests to destroy enemies, eliminate the most drastic plagues, and devastate your political and economic enemies.
While playing the game, you have to make mega alliances to protect your people and the Great Aztec Empire at any cost. With a brilliant setting, beautiful visuals and sounds, Great characters, and fast-paced gameplay, Aztez is one of the most engaging and quite addictive games to play and enjoy.
#5 Shadow Complex Remastered
Shadow Complex Remastered is an Action-Adventure, Shooter, Puzzle-Platform, Sci-Fi, and Single-player video game developed by Chair Entertainment and published by Epic Games. The Remastered pack of the game introduces lots of new features, upgrades, weapons, and missions, etc.
The gameplay is similar to its main installment, in which the player can control the protagonist who can explore the sci-fi world and complete a variety of tasks to progress through the plot. The game world is full of powerful enemies venturing each corner, and the player must defeat all of them to unlock new missions.
The game introduces a new world that offers more powerful enemies. Shadow Complex Remastered comes with the most prominent features, such as unlock new achievements, new weapons, open-world design, power-ups, hundreds of additional items, and new modes.
#6 GunLord
GunLord is a Hardcore Action, and Thrill-filled Side-Scrolling Run and Gun and Platform video game developed by NG: Dev Team. There are nine main modes and stages, introducing thrilling and quite action-packed gameplay along with 40 equally equipped enemy characters.
The game features insane and epic boss encounters and allows the player to experience a well-written storyline. During the gameplay, you control a protagonist to explore the world, interact with NPCs and objects to reveal secrets. Embark on epic journeys, quests, and adventures, go against several different types of enemies, defeat the bosses and loot the resources to earn points to buy upgrades and unique power-ups.
GunLord allows you to use seven different types of weapons, such as Bounce Blaster, Nuclear Wheel Bombs, Snake Beams, Spread Shot, Power Shot, Phoenix, and Super Wave. Encounter your enemies and defeat them by cracking up them hard. With a very action-oriented game-play, beautiful 16-bit visuals and sounds, and a spectacular game setting, GunLord offers a Very Turrican game series like game-play and mechanics.
#7 Mercenary Kings
Mercenary Kings is a brilliant combination of Action-packed Side-Scrolling Run and Gun and Platforming video game elements by Tribute Games. The game is available to play on multiple platforms, such as Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, and Steam.
The game offers a similar environment, mechanics, and gameplay to Metal Slug. It allows you to walk, jump, and blaze your way through numerous levels while fighting against hordes of enemies and their bosses. Using the crafting system, you can craft several objects, weapons, and armor, to use in the completion of objectives such as rescue the hostages, defeat the enemy bosses and individual units, etc.
With beautifully created Old School visuals and combat system, thrill-filled gameplay and all the beautiful things, Mercenary Kings is a fantastic Action, Run and Gun video game to play and enjoy.
More About Super Contra
Super Contra is a Gun and Run, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Konami. It is a sequel to the original title, Contra, that is offering almost similar gameplay to the primary installment.
There are two protagonists, such as Lance Bean and Bill Rizer, and the story unfolds that both characters are on another world invaded by an alien invasion. The brutal force of aliens is planning to destroy humans, and fulfilling their unholy plans by sending their fierce units to send to smash whatever they find moving.
It allows the player to replace his weapons with one of four different weapons, merely destroying the flying capsules that appear through all the missions. Super Contra consists of the five stages that take place in various locations, such as military bases, jungle, and alien world.
Super Contra provides content-rich story, fantastic game mechanics, quite addictive gameplay, and beautiful visual details.