2D side scrolling endless runners come in multiple varieties. The main offerings are geared more towards the ground whether you're running across rooftops, riding slopes or waves, or simply running along the street. The main idea is that you're moving from left to right for as long as you can.
Highest scored apps in the category
Race endlessly across rooftops.
Canabalt is a classic endless runner where you will race across rooftops and avoid obstacles. With a single button control, eight game mode options, and different runners to choose from, you can run for a high score or just for survival.
Take to the skies in this beautifully-crafted physics game.
Tap to dive and release your finger from the screen to soar into the sky. Tiny Wings is a great example of how smart physics can create super-simple (but nevertheless hugely entertaining) gameplay.
Alto's Adventure is a beautiful endless runner that is as tranquil as it is challenging
Alto's Adventure is an endless runner where you must help recover the llamas that have escaped. Along the way, you will hit the slopes, race the elders, grind on wires, perform sick tricks, and fly through the sky as you set out on a journey of recovering llamas and discovering who you are.
AppAdvice's Game of the Year Runner-Up: Alto's Odyssey
Alto and his friends have moved from snowboarding mountains to sandboarding dunes. Alto’s Odyssey breaks the sequel mold continuing what made Alto’s Adventure great, and subtly build upon it. It's a beautiful and compelling game choice that can be enjoyed by any level of gamer.
Apps with average score
A volcano has erupted, and you need to board ahead of the lava flow.
Rad Boarding amps up the genre with over the top multi tricks to throw down. There's also 90s flair combined with boss battles for an over the top boarding challenge.
Ride a dragon to cause as much destruction as possible.
Jump into a mechanical dragon and get ready to dive into zombie-infested worlds and take them out in this challenging auto-runner arcade game.
Adventure Time meets Ski Safari! Shred the slopes of Ooo with Finn or BMO in this endlessly fun downhill adventure.
SKI WITH YOUR BUTT
Slide your way through Ice Kingdom, Fire Kingdom, Candy Kingdom, the Forbidden Dungeon, and the Mystery Mountains to outrun a relentless avalanche!
MATHEMATICAL COSTUMES
Dress Finn up like a ninja,...
Surf across intergalactic hills in this change of pace endless game.
Time Surfer changes the genre by letting the player rewind time to fix a mistake on the fly. Time is limited, so be careful as you maintain momentum across strange lands.
An endless skiing sequel that amplifies the original in numerous ways.
Try to race down a mountain side trying to stay in front of an avalanche with various animals to meet during your descent. The action packed downhill skiing filled with speed, backflips, and crazy animal connections returns with all new fun.
An endless side scrolling and bomb throwing challenge.
Bomb Quijote - a courageous medieval knight - has a secret skill: he can make powerful bombs to destroy his enemies! Unfortunately for him he happens to see enemies everywhere... Running headfirst towards danger he blasts, jumps, collapses and destroys his path through hordes of random obstacles that in his...
Play as your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and race across the rooftops in this endless runner.
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Dash and dodge mines in this action packed game from Noodlecake Games!
Jupiter Jump is an action-arcade game, where you tap the screen to maneuver your astronaut through mines, portals, and gates!
Easy to pick up and play! Play against your friends through Game Center.
A lumberjack themed endless runner with beards, boulders, fallen trees, and more.
The lumberjack endless runner and beard simulator!
Only the beardliest lumberjacks will have what it takes to bound over bouncing boulders, smash through fallen trees, and dive between eagles as you run to the top of Buff Mountain. Unlock dozens of outfits, hats, axes, and beards and show the world that...
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Touch to fall. Fall for speed. Fly for score!
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• You can play for free
• Fast and skilful gameplay
• Compete with your friends' highscores: for free
• Tons of game modes and a secret character to unlock...
Pixel Boat Rush is a frantic boat combat racing game! An easy to learn, hard to master, fun arcade racing game with loads of content! Featured by Apple countless times!
The gameplay mixes a one-touch racing mechanic with 2 weapon/defensive buttons. The progression features an in-depth career mode with RPG-like humoristic...
The Floor is Lava Game - Tap to jump - Don't touch the floor it's lava! The classic kids game comes to mobile.
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The sequel to the worlds first iPhone surfing game, Bobble Surfer, is here! Featuring amazing new wave physics, super easy controls and some of the most fluid water based action you've ever seen!
Chill out in the...
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#1 in the App Store Games category of more than 60 countries!
"It's an endless skater with simple controls, a real sense of progression, and a lot of personality." - CultofMac.com
"A highly enjoyable Endless Runner...it's certainly a heck of a lot of fun to play." - 148Apps.com
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Skate across the rooftops of the world!
Join the awesome Skyline Skaters in their flight from the authorities. Perform hazardous jumps from building to building with only your skateboard to save you!
Choose between daring Skaters, each with their own unique abilities and tricks! Ollie off ramps as you avoid pitfalls and obstacles strewn about the rooftops!
The vigilant rooftop police are always on your tail in their chopper and will stop at nothing to nab you. Get as far as you can before they catch you!
Compete against your friends to get the best high score. Unlock and upgrade new boards to give you new advantages and ways to beat the high scores of the competition.
Get out of the subway and feel the joy of Skyline Skating!
• Action packed adrenalin runner with easy tap controls!
• Escape the Rooftop Police across the Skylines of the World!
• Unlock new cool Skaters with their own unique tricks!
• Compete against friends across platforms: iPhone, iPod and iPad!
• Get special top tuned Boards and blast past the competition!
User reviews:
“Can’t stop playing, very addictive :)”
“A nice mix of Minion Rush and Jetpack Joyride - great fun!”
“Super fun. Great graphics, good control and fast gameplay!”
"It is a crazy race against friends in this jetpack inspired runner ^^"
"Reminds me of subway surfers, but with more action for kids of all ages"
Run-A-Whale is an infinite swimmer where you're a pirate who hitches a ride across the ocean on a whale, of all animals. Ride the waves in style in this beautiful game!
** Winner East Coast Game Conference Indie Prize 2017 **
** Indie Prize Finalist Casual Connect USA 2017 **
** Indie Prize Finalist Casual Connect USA 2018 **
** Official PAX East Indie Showcase selection 2018 **
The Skaven underworld is a rat's nest of deceit, danger, and backstabbing. As an up-and-coming warlock enginseer of clan Skryre, your only goal is to rise through the ranks of the ratmen by building the ultimate engine of destruction: the fastest and most powerful Doomwheel ever made!
Pilot your Doomwheel as it rattles through the battlefield at breakneck speeds in this fast-paced infinite arcade adventure. Dwarves got you down? Doomwheel. Rival clans done you wrong? Doomwheel. Goblin grief? Doomwheel. Shatter, skewer, shock and bounce foes of all shapes, sizes, and races as you claw out territory for yourself across the Old World. Develop a newer, deadlier, Doomwheel in your workshop while fending off the vengeful plots of your backstabbing rivals.
"No man-thing can think to surpass my genius, yes-yes! Let them try!" - Ikit Claw
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* Smash through Skaven, orcs, dwarfs and more
* Survive schemes from rival warlords Ikit Claw, Thanquol, Thorgrim, Grimgor and more
* Take over the Warhammer world, one region at a time
* Upgrade and customize your Doomwheel
* One touch game-play
* Race to the top of the leaderboards
***Never-ending robot run n jump adventure that will leave you on the edge of your seat while you slide and dash through super exciting futuristic worlds!***
**Get your fingers ready for the most sensational running and jumping adventure ever! Ico is eager to rush and dash through the futuristic world and save the Earth from the harm inflicted by pesky alien creatures. Are you ready to help him dodge obstacles and secure freedom for the people of the Earth in his super exciting galaxy adventure and never-ending mega run?
**Download Robot Ico: Robot Run and Jump, one of the most thrilling running and jumping games free and prove you're the ultimate robo runner who will wipe all menacing enemies off the face of the Earth!
**Lightning fast swipe acrobatics!
**Simple and intuitive controls, intense gameplay!
**Swipe up to jump and dodge the obstacles!
**Swipe twice for double jump and even more action!
**Swipe down to slide under obstacles!
**Most stunning level design ever seen in platform games!
**Run, jump, slide, rush, and dash through tons of obstacles in this crazy free running and jumping game!
**Robo Run - collect gems on your galactic adventure!
**A super fun run side-scroller game for kids and adults!
**Log in with Facebook to share your hi-score and challenge your friends to play one of the best tiny “robot games” free!
**Rush into the never-ending crazy run adventure!
***ENJOY THE MIND BLOWING ROBOT RUNNING QUEST IN ONE OF THE COOLEST DASH GAMES FREE***
**You're bored with the old gran, zombie, sonic, panda and other runners on their temple races? It's time for innovation! Experience the best visual and sound effects and take part in the most fun and addicting joyride on the “tiny robots” planet. Rush for your life, dodge sentinels and other random obstacles, collect coins and fulfill various missions as you dash through an endless number of levels in one of the best side-scrolling platform games of today - Robot Ico: Robot Run and Jump free.
***Awesome 3D side scrolling robot runner game that will keep you busy for hours!***
**Classic arcade “run and jump” games were extremely popular in the 90s, and now they are making a huge comeback. If you love to play parkour games and jumping and "running games", this endless mega dash will become your favorite of all action arcade and "adventure games" for kids! We guarantee you that this awesome 3D side scrolling robot defense game will give you an unforgettable running frenzy in the parkour city!
**Go on a free run, and help our robo runner blast his enemies in this super run and jump classic arcade game for children. Start racing towards the dark Temple and show what a jumper you are. Blast the sentinels and escape evil enemies in the best rpg robot running game!
**This new addicting 3d runner differentiates itself in many ways from the pack of free running games for boys available on the market. Robot Ico: Robot Run and Jump oozes fun and excitement, and everything is controlled by a single tap on your phone screen. If you enjoy entertaining robot jumping games, get your racing shoes and let's dash together in the running quest of the year! Don't run slowly like your gran – install this fun coin collecting game, get angry, jump like a ninja and sprint through incredible levels! So, let the jumping mania begin! Run robot run and experience the ultimate fun!
**If you like parkour “jumping games” and “racing games” you will find this free runner extra exciting. This rescue mission is not like ordinary adventure games or mega run games, it is the ultimate speed test and a reflex challenge! While running and collecting coins, avoiding obstacles and fighting angry enemies, make our runbot run endlessly and resist all the attacks. Running with friends has never been more interesting – compete with other players and strive to win the prize for the robot unicorn who has made the wishes of the humanity come true! The angry run begins!
Join this enjoying adventure and have fun running in the cave! Simply touch on the screen to jump up. Be careful, avoid falling down. Collect as much coins as you can. Battle friends for the high score in this enjoying endless game!
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