The Best Metroidvania Games for Playstation 5 - Page 5

Update : Kong: Survivor Instinct added at rank #42.
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Recompile (2021)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

Recompile is a visually stunning Metroidvania style game that takes place within a digital world. The player controls a program that gains new abilities by assimilating new code and can use these abilities to hack and interfere with the world around them. The game rewards players for thinking outside the box and offers multiple paths and endings. The setting and music create a calming, serene atmosphere while still providing challenging combat. The game's unique aesthetic and interesting hacking systems make it stand apart from other games in the genre, and it is likely to be a game that players will continue to talk about.


What we like:
  • Visually stunning
  • Engaging gameplay mechanics
  • Multiple paths and endings
  • Great setting and music
  • Unique aesthetic
What could be improved:
  • Challenging combat
  • Lack of clear mission reminder
  • Some environments are overly bright or lack color
  • Infrequent combat
  • Precision platforming can feel imprecise

  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • exploration
  • multiple-endings
  • puzzle
  • tps
  • combat
  • beautiful
  • 3d
  • bullet
  • nonlinear
  • time
  • hacking
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

42

Kong: Survivor Instinct (2024)

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j PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

When giant monsters fight, no one’s safe. Embark on a thrilling quest of survival in a city that’s become a battleground for Titans. Use the lethal strength of Kong and other monsters to your own advantage in this official Monsterverse game set shortly after the events of Godzilla vs. Kong.


  • metroidvania
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • platform
  • beat-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • 2d
  • realistic
  • maze
  • human-driven

43

The Mobius Machine (2024)

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j PC Windows Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

Discover a vast alien world. Fight the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. Reveal its secrets and find a way to escape. The Mobius Machine is a side-scroller action adventure, with an emphasis on free-form exploration and intense combat.


  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • shooter
  • scroller
  • twin-stick
  • pve
  • underwater
  • exploration
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • aliens
  • robots
  • 3d
  • open-world
  • local

44

AWAKEN: Astral Blade (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Weave your own story in this dark fairy tale. In the mysterious ancient ruins, you will adventure with Tania to reveal her origins and fate. Is there any chance of survival in the darkest and desperate place?


  • metroidvania
  • choices
  • multiple-endings
  • exploration
  • action-adventure
  • roguevania
  • rpg
  • colourful
  • fantasy
  • character
  • bullet
  • souls
  • atmospheric
  • action
  • time

45

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.


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

46

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.


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

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Bioframe: Outpost (2024)

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

Bioframe Outpost is a 2d sci-fi action adventure game, dedicated to exploration, experimentation, emergent gameplay, and narrative. Its photography-based approach to non-linear exploration and action gameplay offers a fresh take on Metroidvania gameplay.


  • metroidvania
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • action-adventure
  • photography
  • space
  • non-linear
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • aliens
  • story

48

Catmaze (2018)

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

Catmaze is a fairy metroidvania inspired by Slavic myths. Age-old tales will come to life in the unforgettable adventure of Alesta, a sorceress whose courage guides her through mysterious paths and dark forests in search of the lost road to Nav, the world of the dead.


  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • character
  • cute
  • narration
  • scroller
  • fantasy
  • action-adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • platform
  • historical
  • anime
  • wizard
  • pixel
  • colourful

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Witchcrafty (2021)

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

Everything you expect from a fairy game, but with a touch of weirdness. A little witch with an unhealthy craving for explosions. Suspicious magic cat. Giant mushrooms trying to kick you.


  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • platform
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • linear
  • magic
  • action-adventure
  • cute
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • retro
  • funny
  • fantasy
  • arcade

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Evil Wizard (2023)

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

Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG that puts you in the shoes of a former Final Boss. Rise from defeat, rediscover long lost powers, and fight to reclaim your castle from an army of so-called heroes.


  • villain
  • protagonist
  • dark
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • metroidvania
  • magic
  • rpg
  • comedy
  • action-adventure
  • hack-and-slash
  • dungeon-crawler
  • action
  • rogue-like
  • top-down

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