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Metal Slug 7 is a Run and Gun, Side-Scrolling, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game by SNK Playmore for Nintendo DS. It is the eighth title in the series of Metal Slug that consists of more than six levels with three different modes (Beginner. Normal and Hard). Each level of the game comes with new challenges and increasingly difficult gameplay than the last one. The game has up to six playable characters, such as Clark Still, Marco Rossi, Tarma Roving and Ralf Jones, etc.

Before starting the action, the player needs to choose one of six soldiers and get into the game world where he can use weapons to kill all creatures to progress. At the end of each level, the player confronts a powerful enemy boss that puzzles with lots of advanced weapons. Metal Slug 7 offers the most prominent features, such as lots of secret levels, various upgrades, a vast range of arms, melee attacks, and the new game world.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Mercenary Kings is a brilliant combination of Action-packed Side-Scrolling Run and Gun and Platforming video game elements by Tribute Games. 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.

Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge is an Action, Side-Scrolling, and Run and Gun video game that offers immersive gameplay. It provides a mixture of multiple genres, such as Metal Slug, Raze, Brawlhalla, etc., offering more enhanced gameplay and mechanics. With fast-paced gameplay, fabulous old-school 2D visuals, and a brilliant plot, the game lets you experience Action, Side-Scrolling, and Run and Gun game from a whole new perspective.

The game enables you to be the main protagonist of the game named Serena, a skilled Mercenary and a Galactic Hero. Because of the continuous enemy attack and big-time trolling, Serena vows to destroy the enemy’s pride by devastating their bases and sabotaging their plans. To complete objectives, you need to lace yourself up with guns, grenades, and flame throwers, embark on an epic journey to defeat the enemies.

Traverse through multiple and different environments to make your way through the hordes of enemy troops, and attack their bases to destroy them for goods. There are several challenging levels, and each one is offering a set of goals to achieve. At the end of each level, the player needs to defeat a massive boss. With a fantastic game setting, beautiful visuals, and engaging gameplay, Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge offers a beautiful combination of Action, Side-Scrolling, and Shooting aesthetics.

Expendabros is an Action, Run and Gun, Side-Scrolling, and Platform video game based on the movie of the same name and allows you to enjoy a different kind of experience. The game lets you control the protagonist, a mercenary Commander, who embarks on a journey to hunt down the most notorious and cunning arms dealer named Conrad Stonebanks.

Set in the heart of East Europe, where you, as a commander, aim to control a team of mercenaries in the darkest forest of Europe. During the gameplay, you must hunt down all allies and soldiers of Conrad, encounter all equally equipped enemy special forces, and defeat them to approach the lair of the Antagonist Conrad.

While playing the game, you can engage yourself in epic duels with the antagonist and beat him to free other mercenaries to complete the game objectives. The game allows you to control multiple characters at the same time or switch between them to use their unique abilities and skills to enjoy the game. With a hardcore action and thrill-packed gameplay, beautiful game setting, and state-of-the-art visuals and sounds, Expendabros is a fabulous Action, Run and Gun, and Side-Scrolling video game.

Super Time Force is a brilliant Action-Adventure, 2D Retro Run and Gun, and Side-Scrolling video game by the popular Capybara Games. The game offers 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 makes 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 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.

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 rewards 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.

Jamestown is a Run and Gun, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game with Action-Adventure elements developed and published by Final Form Games. With a Steampunk theme, the game takes place on the planet Mars in an alternate reality of a History of the 17th Century. The whole planet is a British Colony where all the Spanish and Martians accommodate. With similar gameplay to other shooter games of this type, Jamestown lets you control one of the four different types of Ships, lace it up with unique and devastating weapons.

After that, the player needs to go on an epic adventure to hunt down your enemies, destroy their ships and bases, loot their resources, and collect gold that will help you trigger the Vaunt Mode. Vaunt Mode covers your ship with a shield for a specific amount of time, increases your firepower, and lets you damage your enemies more than ever, and earn you a double score.

With both single-player and multiplayer game modes, Jamestown enables you to engage yourself in fast-paced combats, kill the enemies by destroying their ships, encounter powerful bosses, defeat them to absorb their powers, ranks, and weapons, etc. The brilliant four-player Co-Op mode lets you engage in epic battles with your friends, team up and destroy your enemies for goods, switch between the players and enjoy immersing yourself into Part top-Down Part Side-Scrolling and blasting game-play.

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 aim 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 immersive gameplay, Dead Pixels is a fantastic game to play and enjoy.

Aztez is a marvelous new Action, Side-Scrolling, and Run-and-Gun-style Brawler video game created by Team Colorblind. The game 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 in 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.

Duck Game is a 2D Action, Side-scroll, Single, and Multiplayer Shooter video game published by Adult Swim Games and developed by Landon Podbielski. The game takes you in the historic year of 1984, where ducks go wild in a massive battle for glory. Dominate the fight by blasting your friends with net guns, saxophones, mind control rays, shotguns, and more.

There are over fifty stunning levels with fifty new weapons. Through level editor, you can create your stage and send your friends as a challenge. Your character can jump and pick up weapons during the battle to use and kill opponents. While playing the game, you have to avoid the enemy attack, score more points, and fight for glory.

In Single-player mode, you must battle against AI characters and defeat them to move to the next level. Duck Game offers core features such as 2 to 4 players in Local Multiplayer mode, Fifty Levels, Level Editor, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Raze 3 is a browser-based Online Action and Side-Scrolling Run and Gun video game. It lets you be part of a Neon Lit game world where your task is to run, jump and traverse through a world full of Alien Robots and gun-wielding Zombies. You are survival, and your ultimate objective is to shoot down deadly creatures to ensure your survival and approach the high stages. As a multi-skilled Hero, you must stop the enemies from destroying the world.

The game lets you choose your side, jump into the devastating world, and try to fend off alien invasion to defend the world from it’s too late. To complete the game objectives, you must kill your opponents and enemies using Several weapons such as Shotguns, laser Guns and Machine Guns, and more. With a blasting and immersive gameplay, fantastic visual details, and an epic story, Raze 3 is a great Action, Side-Scrolling, Run, and Gun video game to play.

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 the 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.

Jet Gunner is an action-adventure, 2D platformer, run and gun, and single-player shooting video game developed and published by Sinclair Strange. The game provides you a combination of Action, Adventure, and fighting aesthetics and allows you to engage yourself in epic gameplay. In the game, you must have to fight against vicious enemies and fight their bosses to defeat them and complete Stages full of challenging objectives.

It includes several Stages, and each Stage features unique enemies and bosses. The game introduces run-and-gun elements and lets you move forward to Run and shoot while jumping over the obstacles using standard controls. Your character wields a gun as his weapon, so you better be good at aiming and shooting.

It includes many core features such as Six Stages, heaps of Weapons, a Retro arcade-style environment, fantastic Soundtracks, Challenge Mode, Hardcore Mode, and Leaderboards. With excellent visuals and sound, impressive and addictive gameplay, and weird mechanics, Jet Gunner is an incredible game as compared to a lot of other Run-and-Gun Games.

Super Cyborg is a 2D, Puzzle, Platformer, Action, Side-scrolling, Run and Gun, Single-player, and Co-op video game created and published by Arthur Games. The game takes place on a fictional island full of challenges and deadly creatures to defeat. Super Cyborg provides an unlimited run and gun action gameplay in which you take on the role of Battle Cyborg. According to the story, the game sends the protagonist on an epic adventure to investigate a mysterious and strange Island.

Very horrible and powerful aliens called Xirxul life form, awaken by the scientists, and now they are destroying everything in the world, humans are in danger, and they need somebody to help and rescue them from vicious aliens. Now it’s your responsibility to save innocent people and kill the extraterrestrials. You wield a gun with massive power and the ability to damage the aliens, so get into the world and destroy the aliens. The game is specially designed for hardcore Action and Run and Gun enthusiasts.

The game features more than seven different levels, and each is full of numerous strange creatures and monsters. The deadly creature is destroying everything that moves. The game lets you choose your character to jump into the world and fight against enemies using the standard controls. With impressive gameplay, outstanding mechanics, stunning visuals, and a well-written story, Super Cyborg is a beautiful game to play and enjoy.

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.