The most popular multi-directional scroller games
A multi-directional scroller is a video game in which the action is shown in a top-down or isometric perspective and the player can scroll the screen in any direction (vertical, horizontal, diagonal).
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Time Bandit
DOS1989 MichTron
Time Bandit is a classic top-down arcade-style video game that was released in 1982 for various home computer systems, such as the Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, and others. It was developed by MichTron. In Time Bandit, players contro...
Total Annihilation
Windows XP/98/951997protected Cavedog Entertainment
Alien Syndrome
DOS1989 Sega
Alien Syndrome (1989) is a top-down shooter where you save hostages, shoot aliens, and scream internally because you’re always out of time. It’s frantic arcade action at its finest—like Contra had a baby with Gau...
Cloud Kingdoms
DOS1990 Logotron
Boulder Dash 2: Rockford's Revenge
DOS1985 First Star Software
Boulder Dash II is the sequel to the original Boulder Dash game. It was released in 1985 and follows the same basic gameplay mechanics as its predecessor while introducing new levels and features. In Boulder Dash II, players once ...
Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament
DOS1995 Supersonic Software
Boulder Dash Construction Kit
DOS1987 First Star Software
Boulder Dash Construction Kit is both a full game and a level editor, built around the gameplay mechanics of the original Boulder Dash (1984). You still play as Rockford, the pixelated, googly-eyed spelunker, digging through caves...
Monster Bash
DOS1993protected Apogee Software
Arrakis
DOS2000
No relation to Dune (except for being a total rip-off), Arrakis is a homebrew strategy game that feels like a tribute to the sandiest planet in sci-fi. You mine spice, fight vaguely Harkonnen-looking enemies, and try not to crash ...
Moonwalker
DOS1989 Emerald Software
Sensible World of Soccer 96/97
DOS1996protected Sensible Software
Xenopods
DOS1991 Softdisk Publishing
Superfrog
DOS1994protected Team 17
Total Annihilation Kingdoms
Windows XP/98/951999protected Cavedog Entertainment
Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager
DOS1994protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Rescue Rover
DOS1991protected id software
Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix
DOS1990 Zigurat Software
Battle Master
DOS1991 Personal Software Services
In Battle Master (1991), you play as a heavily armored murder-hobo leading an army across a fantasy world that really doesn’t want you there. It’s part action-RPG, part tactical slog, with clunky pathfinding and surpri...
The Neverending Story 2: The Arcade Game
DOS1991 Linel
Football Glory
DOS1995freeware Croteam
Demon Stalkers
DOS1989 Micro Forté
The Chaos Engine
DOS1994protected Bitmap Brothers
The Punisher
DOS1990 Paragon Software
Rotox
DOS1991 Creative Materials
Daemonsgate
Windows XP/98/95DOSLinuxMac OS1993protected Imagitec Design
Clyde's Revenge
DOS1995freeware Moonlite Software
Dark Reign 2
Windows XP/98/952000protected Pandemic Studios
Livingstone 2
DOS1989 Opera Soft
Lyle in Cube Sector
Windows 10/112006
Arnie 2
DOS1993 Zeppelin Games
Arnie 2 is the unofficial Schwarzenegger sim where you run around shirtless with guns bigger than your torso, blowing up helicopters, bunkers, and bad guys in increasingly ridiculous quantities. The plot is somewhere between Comma...