
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.
#1 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.
#2 The Expendables 2 Videogame
The Expendables 2 is an Action-Adventure, Puzzle-Platformer, Combat, Co-op, and Single-player Shooting video game developed and published by Zootfly and Ubisoft. The game offers fantastic gameplay inspired by the movie of the same name, and featuring original characters such as Barney Ross, Gunner Jensen, Hale Caesar, and Yin Yang.
The game lets you choose your character from available and jump into the game world where you have to rescue a Billionaire from the custody of villains and their supporters. You must have to fight against villains and defeat them to release the hostages to complete the missions.
The game offers you a chance to become a hero in your game world and lets you engage yourself in action-packed and adventure-based gameplay. The story is similar to the original movie, offering both action and thrill-packed gameplay for hardcore players.
The game features mini characters and offers many core features to amuse you. With impressive and quite engaging gameplay, brilliant visuals details, and superb mechanics, The Expendables 2 is an incredible video 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 Metal Slug 3
Metal Slug 3 by SNK is a popular and quite addictive Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling, and Run and Gun video game that offers a truly immersive and quite engaging gameplay experience.
Because of being a part of the massive game series, Metal Slug 3 lets you traverse through war-torn environments, blast your way through hordes of never-ending enemy forces, ride in military-grade vehicles and destroy choppers, tanks, and enemy installations and enjoy chaotic yet amazing gameplay ever.
With similar mechanics and visuals to its predecessors, Metal Slug 3 allows you to go hunting down enemy bosses, engage yourself into super-fast-paced combats, use several fantastic weapons such as flame throwers, heavy machine guns, grenades, pipe bombs, and knives, etc.
During the gameplay, you can switch between characters and use their unique abilities, and immerse yourself into well-designed and quite addictive gameplay. With a very action-packed game-play, brilliant visuals and sounds and a level-based game story, Metal Slug 3 is one of the best Action, Run and Gun and Side-Scrolling video games to play.
#5 Super Time Force
Super Time Force is a brilliant Action-Adventure, 2D Retro Run and Gun, and Side-Scrolling video game by the popular Capybara Games available to play on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows.
The game takes you to a beautiful action, and thrill-filled adventure, where you are a part of Elite Soldiers. According to the story, the game destines you to travel between past and present to destroy enemies who are planning an invasion on your planet.
After making the time travel machine, Professor Repeatski builds a mercenary team, and make you a commander because of your special fighting skills. Now, it’s your responsibility to travel rapidly between different timelines in different eras, locate and destroy the enemies using all the heavy weaponry to rewrite the history and save the future.
Other objectives of the game include the discovery of the city of Atlantis and keeping it safe from being destroyed and lost, exploration of environments in search of rare and lost artifacts. Super Time Force offers an action-packed game-play, a beautiful and quite appealing game story along with fantastic visuals and enhanced mechanics.
#6 Dead Pixels
Dead Pixels released back in 2012 by CSR-Studios is a brilliant Action, RPG, Platform, and Side-Scrolling Run and Gun video game. The game tells the story of a Dramatic Zombie outbreak that is triggered by the Toxic Water that reaches the centuries-old graveyard.
The toxic water turns all the dead people into a gory undead creature and starts walking among other people, converting them into their kin. In the game, you assume the role of a survivor with aims of rescuing people, killing undead creatures, and approaches high levels.
Your task in the game is to gather up a team of survivors and heroes, embark on a dangerous journey to eliminate Zombies, explore the torn out world, and scavenge for supplies such as Food, Water, and Weapons. Items and object collection is the crucial part of the game, and it allows you to maintain your health while encountering the Undead and keep killing the Zombies.
To complete the game objectives, you need to take care of your health, collect food and medicine, weapons, and stuff to keep advancing by hunting down the undead. With beautiful 2D visuals, a great story, and an immersive game-play, Dead Pixels is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.
#7 Sacred Citadel
Sacred Citadel is an Action-packed Side-Scrolling, Run and Gun style Sword fighting, and Brawler video game by Deep Silver. The game is a direct sequel to the famous game, titled Sacred 3, offering similar mechanics, gameplay, and story to the said game.
Sacred Citadel allows you to be a Hero who is part of a massive Resistance force fighting against all enemy forces or Ashen Empire who are trying to conquer the world of Ancaria. Your task is to use several weapons such as Axes, Swords, Bows, Arrows, and Knives against the equally equipped enemies, go on a fast-paced Hack-and-Slash routine to eliminate the enemies.
The Evil Ashen Empire has a massive negative agenda and is using gruesome Orcs and Grimmocs to wipe out the Seraphim, the sole protectors, and only power of the Ancaria. You have to be one of the Seraphim, lead several legions, and defeat all the Ashen Empire forces to save the World of Ancaria and to save the remaining people.
Sacred Citadel lets you ride on the chilling mounts, develop unique and rare skills, explore the world around you and gather up all the unusual weapons and collectibles to enjoy. Sacred Citadel offers a brilliant game setting, beautiful visuals, and immersive gameplay to enjoy.
#8 Cobalt
Cobalt is an Action-Adventure, Local Co-op, Side-scroll, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang. The game takes place in the unforgivable environment, in which all the human population has been wiped out.
You get into the role of the protagonist to manipulate the world and uncover the truth behind the scenes. There are different modes, such as Deathmatch, Team Strike, Plug Slam, Survival, Challenge, and more. The game has more than sixty-seven weapons, thirty-three melee weapons, and six hand shields, etc.
You can fight against AI characters in Single-player mode or compete against up to four players in local Multiplayer mode. Through customization, you can modify your weapons according to your taste and can show off your shooting abilities in six different game types.
Explore each level, accomplish the task, and earn experience points to unlock further content. Cobalt offers prominent features such as Six Modes, Eight Maps, Customization, Unique Mechanics, and more. With superb gameplay and superb sound, Cobalt is the best game to play and enjoy.
#9 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is an Action Role-playing, Platform, Side-scroll and Single-player video game created and published by Konami. The game takes place in a stunning castle consists of a variety of levels.
You can take on the role of the protagonist, and your main objective is to explore the castle of Dracula to fight against Richter Belmont, who is the lord of the Dracula’s castle. As you explore the world and unearth secrets, the game updates the map and show your progress.
Collect weapons and use them to fight against foes and defeat them to score the points. Avoid their attack, and acquire power-ups to refill your health bar.
The game becomes more challenging as you gain experience. Engage yourself in side-scroll gameplay experience and dominate all levels of the game. With the stunning environment, beautiful sounds, and the best mechanics, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is the best game to play and enjoy.
#10 Shadow Complex
Shadow Complex is an Action-Adventure, Platform, Shooter, and Single-player video game developed and published by Epic Games. The game offers the 2.5D world and allows the player to choose the character to get into the world.
The player can freely move throughout the land, use different kinds of weapons, and defeat all enemy creatures to progress. It offers various missions, and each will come with new abilities and areas that make the game more interesting. The player gains XP points by killing enemies and try to unlock other stuff using earned points.
Shadow Complex includes core features such as primary campaigns, different modes, various styles, fast-paced gameplay, different weapons, boosters, and powerful enemy creatures. With quite addictive gameplay, well-written storyline, and brilliant visual details, Shadow Complex is offering excellent gameplay to experience.
#11 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.
#12 Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara mixes the elements of Beat ‘em up, Adventure, Role-playing, and Side-scroll games. The game has both Single and Multiplayer modes and takes place in the fictional world invaded by mythical beasts.
Up to four players can select their characters and jump into battle against enemies. The players can partake in melee combat and use melee weapons to take down their foes by controlling their favorite characters. Each hero in the game has unique attributes and abilities.
Completing a set of levels reward the player with experience points to us in unlocking the further items in the game. As the game progress, it becomes challenging, and the players can face skilled foes and their bosses.
Players can use the shield to avoid enemy attacks and defeat the massive dragon using their mighty swords. With lots of prominent features, exciting gameplay, and beautiful sounds, Dungeons and Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara is the best game to play.