What is a good (recent) 2d-style/side-scroller action games? (Can also be top-down zelda-clones)

[J1M]

The Mummy Demastered is a nice metroid-like game with excellent pixel art.

 

[aweigh]

 

[Shinji]

"From the creators of Momodora"

I thought they were working on a "Momodora Souls"?


But thank God they kept working on a side-scroller game, this 3D Momodora game they were working on was really a step back in many ways.

 

[Twizman]

Boss battle theme from Maldita Castilla is so good..evokes a feeling of evil revealing itself.

 

[Young_Hollow]

Haven't bought it yet but this seems like a nice Zelda clone : https://store.steampowered.com/app/651680/Shalnor_Legends_Sacred_Lands/

 

[Jack Of Owls]

The Mummy Demastered is a nice metroid-like game with excellent pixel art.

Haha, love that title. "The Mummy Demastered."

 

[Gerrard]

Ignore the IP uh?

It's my call to "please try to get past what you might think is super weeb thing" - I personally think touhou is great.

Nah, those kinds of people that are turned away by it can fuck right off, and you shouldn't be trying to convince them either.

 

[Valestein]

Ninja Gaiden (NES) like game.



And this one is like classic Castlevania



(They're on PC too of course)

 

[Valestein]

Speaking of top-down Zelda clones, there's this game.



Same dev also made this, which is basically a more hardcore Metroid with challenging platforming and boss fights.

 

[Valestein]

Have this promising looking Contra-like on my steam WL.

 

[Valestein]

Here's a Ninja Gaiden-like that is yet to be released but is worth keeping an eye on.



(It's also coming to PC)

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Volgarr is pretty damn cool. It's an homage to Rygar and it's hard as fucking shit. One of the best things to come out of Kickstarter.

It's not recent but if you haven't played it yet, Goku Makaimura Kai on the PSP (it's a jp-only version of Ultimate Ghouls and Ghosts directed by the original series creator, Tokuro Fujiwara) is also excellent. It's also balls to the wall hard.

Really wish they'd of released that on more stuff than the fuckin' PSP. Could have probably been big on XBOX LIVE like Pac-Man Championship Edition and Galaga Legions ended up being.

 

[Valestein]

There's also the revamped version of Wild Guns by the same people.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Yeah, I love the original Wild Guns, I really need to get Reloaded. Wish more companies would do updates (remakes?) for older stuff like they've done with those two games.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Anyone try Unepic or Ghost 1.0?

 

[Valestein]

Here's a good Sonic/Ristar/Gunstar Heroes/Other Sega games-like that's pretty challenging (i died over 20 times on the final boss and even the regular enemies can fuck you up pretty good) and with three playable characters.



There's a sequel in the works as well with now four playable characters.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Yeah, i liked this one.

 

[Valestein]

Collection with all four Mega Man Zero games and the two ZX ones is coming to PC (and modern consoles).

 

[CallMeSnek]

Hollow Knight is one of those "best game ever" sort of deals. It's easily in my top 3 games of all time. Pretty much perfect.

 

[Fishy]

Not sure what you've played already and how recent you want your recommendations, so...

- It's rather easy and linear, but I loved Guacamelee. Luchadors, alternative graphic style, warm colours, shit puns based on geek culture or mexican food, melee combat system with combos that doubles up as movement skills unlocking areas, chickens, the Devil... It even has 2 player coop. I loved every single minute of it. Have yet to play the second one so can't speak for it.

- Axiom Verge is a one-man love letter to Super Metroid. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good and your first blind run should have you puzzled for a bit as to where to go next in true metroidvania style. Shitloads of weapons, sadly most are useless or unneeded as you get the best one very early, but it's fun to hunt them down. Codes to find and use to change some layout, a unique 'glitch gun', some optional entire glitchy areas, it's very worth playing at least once. The speedrun is cool too, there's some great movement to be found, although the character sprite is too static and never feels as good as Samus running around.

- Environmental Station Alpha, another super metroid like, but in extreme pixel style. Don't let the graphics fool you though, it's quality and has everything you'd expect from a metroidvania and more. Includes some extreme platforming as optional content.

- Not as good as the previous hand crafted ones, A Robot Named Fight is still worth trying imho. It's kind of a procedurally generated Super Metroid. So each run will have a different layout, contain different weapons, powerups and bosses. It's all about adaptating to the seed and making the best from the hand you're being given. And of course, you can specify a seed if you want to, so if you enjoy a specific layout or have regrets after dying, you can always retry that one instead of going for a new one.

 

[Great Deceiver]

I wanted to like this game, the soundtrack is amazing and the sprites are really cool, but I found that it's just boring, easy and the enemies are too bullet-spongy. A shame.

Bonus Hiroyuki Iwatsuki goodness:

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

New Shovel Knight looks like it could be good.

 

[Valestein]

Promising looking game by the makers of Blazing Chrome.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

I liked Savage: The Shard of Gosen, even though played its demo only for a bit (btw there is a free demo available on steam):