The Best Metroidvania Games for IOS iPhone

Update : Somnium added at rank #4.
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Elderand (2023)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements. Dismember demonic creatures and terrifying bosses by wielding brutal weapons in intense skill-based combat. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world.


  • metroidvania
  • gothic
  • boss
  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • platform
  • gore
  • combat
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • action
  • cult
  • hack-and-slash

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HAAK (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • combat

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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists (2022)

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early access IOS iPhone Android Linux PC Windows

This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • gothic
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • dark
  • rpg
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • action
  • action-adventure
  • anime
  • medieval
  • stylized

4

Somnium (2024)

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IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

You trapped in an infinite dream loop. To reach the morning, you must carefully observe your surroundings.


  • vision
  • 3d
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • hidden-object
  • detective
  • puzzle
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • precision
  • simulation
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • realistic
  • mystery

5

Headland (2020)

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IOS iPhone Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Android

A powerful force shatters the imagination core from Nor’s Headland. With his robot friends he has to find the fragments and fight to regain his limitless creativity.


  • sci-fi
  • robots
  • metroidvania
  • chess
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • funny
  • puzzle
  • colourful
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • family-friendly
  • adventure
  • side-scrolling
  • cover

6

Dutch's Chickens (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!


  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • retro
  • hidden-object
  • scroller
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • casual
  • comedy

7

Necrosphere (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4 vita Xbox One IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

A full-blown adventure played with only two keys. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised. Necrosphere is where you go when you die, regardless of being good or bad. You don’t see other people around there. You don’t have anything to do, except waiting for eternity As soon as Agent Terry Cooper hits the Necrosphere, he learns about the portals that can take him back to the world of the living (also called Normalsphere), and his quest to escape the afterlife is set.


  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • bite-sized
  • pixel

8

Mimicry (2022)

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early access IOS iPhone Android PC Windows

A classic dungeon crawler with a spin. Instead of a brave adventurer, play as a chest-disguised mimic and defend your underground home from knightly invaders. Use a mixture of stealth and strategy to clear the floors and restore peace to the society of sentient chests.


  • horror
  • minigame
  • blood
  • 2d
  • space
  • metroidvania
  • cooperative
  • stealth
  • deduction
  • dungeon-crawler
  • gore
  • social
  • platform
  • psychological
  • underground

9

Phantom Blade: Executioners (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android Playstation 4 l IOS iPhone (IOS iPhone) Playstation 5

"Phantom Blade: Executioners" is a fast-paced ARPG. Players will journey down a bloody path of love and vengeance between the characters. The game uses a high-speed move action system. You must be able to solve the darkest mysteries.


  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • noir
  • rpg
  • swordplay
  • action-adventure
  • rogue-like
  • hand-drawn
  • augmented
  • 1980s
  • book
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • steampunk

10

Super Mombo Quest (2021)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Android j Xbox One

Super Mombo Quest is an action-packed precision platformer! A metroidvania with classic arcade mechanics, featuring some crazy combat, challenging combos and plenty of collectibles - all in a huge interconnected world! Bounce and stomp through an enormous interconnected world, doing some intense acrobatics and getting huge combos! A superfast precision platformer that mixes up a Metroidvania world with classic Arcade mechanics.


  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • 2d
  • multiple
  • action-adventure
  • arcade
  • colourful
  • pixel

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