The Best Metroidvania Games - Page 2

Update : Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark added at rank #1.
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Exographer (2024)

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j Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Exographer is an exploration game based on science. Become an explorer, stranded in an alien planet, and discover the secrets of an extinct civilization. Gain new powers to avoid dangers and obstacles in your journey, and use your camera to reveal particles and hidden clues.

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  • metroidvania
  • science
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • non-linear
  • sci-fi
  • discovery
  • investigation

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The Holy Gosh Darn (2024)

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j Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X

The Holy Gosh Darn is a narrative adventure with a time-travelling twist. Time travel to jump between the past and present across Heaven, Hell, Earth and Helheim. Uncover information in one timeline to alter things in another in a bid to stop your heaven from going bang. Again.

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  • metroidvania
  • action-adventure
  • adventure
  • narrative
  • time-travel
  • travel
  • cartoony
  • conversation
  • comedy
  • time
  • 2d
  • drama
  • colourful
  • trial-and-error

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Caravan Sandwitch (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

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  • exploration
  • 3d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • metroidvania
  • driving
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • third-person
  • mystery
  • robots
  • futuristic
  • action-adventure
  • interactive

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Crypt Custodian (2024)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4

Crypt Custodian is a charming metroidvania about cleaning up the afterlife. Play as Pluto - a mischievous cat who has died, and is sentenced to be the afterworld's janitor... FOREVER! Hang out with other doomed ghosts, battle beasts, and explore a vastly expansive landscape.


  • metroidvania
  • cats
  • nonlinear
  • hand-drawn
  • cute
  • action-adventure
  • zelda
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • boss
  • platform
  • action
  • top-down
  • dungeon-crawler
  • story

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Castlevania DominuS Collection (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Three incredible action adventure games from the Castlevania series have finally returned, for the first time! But wait, there's more! Haunted Castle Revisited, a redesigned version of the very first Castlevania arcade game, makes its debut!

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • pixel
  • rpg
  • vampire
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • dark
  • remake
  • compilation
  • arcade
  • piracy
  • time-consuming

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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown - Mask of Darkness (2024)

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Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch j

Dash into a stylish and thrilling action-adventure platformer set in a mythological Persian world where the boundaries of time and space are yours to manipulate.

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • precision
  • scroller
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • rooms
  • mythological
  • controller-support
  • action

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Nine Sols (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Mac OS Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X

Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.


  • metroidvania
  • hand-drawn
  • platform
  • souls
  • deflection
  • mythology
  • cats
  • sekiro
  • sci-fi
  • arts
  • martial
  • story
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • gore

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Venture to the Vile (2024)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows j

Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?

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  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • 2.5d
  • lore
  • platform
  • gothic
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • horror
  • narrative
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • colourful
  • open-world
  • 2d

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BIOMORPH (2024)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch j Playstation 5 PC Windows

BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.

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  • metroidvania
  • dark
  • platform
  • exploration
  • lore
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • multiple-endings
  • combat
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • non-linear

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KinnikuNeko: SUPER MUSCLE CAT (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X j Playstation 5 PC Windows

A cat with the body of a bodybuilder fights against aliens in this 2D platformer with anime aesthetics.

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  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • anime
  • scroller
  • comic
  • 2d
  • 2.5d
  • hack-and-slash
  • aliens
  • cats
  • linear
  • book
  • action-adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • cute

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