The best fixed screen 2D games

In a fixed-screen 2D game, the gameplay is confined to a single screen with no vertical or horizontal scrolling. The screen remains static, and the overall gameplay occurs within the boundaries of this fixed screen.
Fixed-screen games were common in the early days of video gaming, especially in arcade games. This design was largely due to technical limitations of early hardware, which made scrolling more difficult to implement. As a result, many early arcade classics, such as Pac-Man or Space Invaders, relied on fixed-screen mechanics.

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Space Invaders 2001

Windows XP/98/952001remake3.6/5

Astro Dodge

DOS19823.6/5 Digital Marketing Corporation

Dragons: A Challenge in Chivalry

DOS19863.6/5

Silly Master Blaster

DOS19853.6/5

The Invaders

DOSWindows XP/98/951989remake3.6/5

Volleyball Simulator

DOS19873.6/5 Time Warp Software

Bouncing Babies

DOS19843.6/5

Il Grande Gioco di Tangentopoli

DOS19933.6/5

Popcorn

DOS1988freeware3.6/5 Lacral Software

Scrabble

DOS19893.6/5

Night Mission Pinball

DOS19823.6/5 subLOGIC

Astrotit

DOS1987NSFW3.5/5 Rudeware

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Frac

DOS19903.5/5

Zyconix

DOS1992protected3.5/5 Miracle games

BitStorm

DOS19993.5/5

Bolo Ball

DOS19923.5/5 Soleau Software

Bolo Ball is a DOS game from the mid-1990s. It features a physics-based gameplay where the objective is to knock opponent balls out of an arena. When you start the game, you find yourself in a 2D arena set against a starry, space-like background. You control a colorful ball, which, despite being a 2D sprite, appears somewhat three-dimensional due t...