Metroidvanias

An exploration puzzle adventure in mystical ruins. Explore a world filled with puzzles, uncover the magic left behind, discover what's hidden in plain sight, learn the rules and break them.

🌐 Steam

A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.

🌐 Steam

Explore a fully interconnected 3D world where every new ability dramatically expands your freedom. A true non-linear Metroidvania with breathtaking movement, atmospheric sci-fi beauty, and deep environmental storytelling.

🌐 Steam

A bullethell adventure awaits! Join Jack, a reluctant hero, as he battles bizarre enemies, uncovers secrets, meets quirky characters—and hunts down Death’s missing coffee mug.

🎮 Steam

✅ Metroidvania Guru

Chart your own path through a fog-shrouded dungeon in INK MAZE! Design cryptic treasure maps to solve puzzles, outsmart traps, and collect loot hidden within the mist. But when you reach the depths of the maze, will you still be able to decipher the symbols you charted long ago?

🌐 Steam

Not a ton of people played Rusted Moss, but those who have seemed to have really enjoyed it.

Momentum-based platforming built around expressive movement and tight gunplay. Master your elastic grappling hook to explore a vast, cyber-gothic megastructure, where robots piloted by the souls of the dead do penance for their sins.

🌐 Steam, Website

Set in the World of Darkness, Rageborn sees Taylor rise as a pack leader to become Gaia’s fiercest warrior. Master three forms of the Garou, explore the wilds of Alaska, and confront the Wyrm in this visceral action-adventure metroidvania.

🌐 Steam

The lighthouse has gone dark! You awake as Mothboy, last in a long line of lightkeepers summoned when something goes wrong. In this action packed adventure you climb, fight and explore the depths of Cliff Kingdom searching for the lost light.

🌐 Steam

Dig through an odd world full of dangerous creatures. Uncover hidden paths and long-buried secrets. Dirtlight is a metroidvania where the journey runs deep, and offers unexpected ways to explore.

🌐 Steam, Website

I could only find one review, but between that and comments on the internet, it sounds "fine"

The world-famous meme becomes a metroidvania of mental mayhem. Play as Question Hound and explore a collapsing theme park shaped by your everyday worries. Jump, fight, and caffeinate your way through surreal worlds. Everything is fine... probably.

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• Steam
• Switch
• Playstation
• Xbox

✅ The Xbox Hub

Interesting mix, but I was only able to find one review and it said it was solid.

At night, you're a thief, sneaking into dungeons to steal goods. By day, you're a cunning merchant, haggle to sell at high prices. Master the art of stealth, steal the Demon Lord's hidden treasures. Recruit employees, expand your business. Grow from a penniless goblin to a black market tycoon!

🎮 Steam

✅ Tech-Gaming

After the followup to Celeste, Earthblade, got cancelled and some of the dev team quit, at least we get this…

A metropolis crumbles into ruin as powerful Barons satisfy their greed upon souls lost in time. You are but one spirit, with a wooden body left to rot in the wild…

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• Steam
• Website

The underworld lies in ruins, ravaged by evil karma. In this unknown and perilous realm of the dead, you must fight against demonic forces, collect mystical artifacts, face the Yama Kings and the Ghost Emperors, sever the Karma, and reforge the path of reincarnation.

🌐 Steam

Dash and slash through an innovative kinetic metroidvania. The Tower of Time awaits – a rich, handcrafted world fractured by the collapse of time. Slice through foes in tough-as-talons bite-sized battles, and master the way of the bird warrior.

🌐 Steam

A Metroidvania-style action adventure set in the collapsing "Sky City." Play as a life form awakening in darkness, explore decaying areas, interact with NPCs, battle bosses, collect cards, and uncover the truth through stylized art and deep storytelling.

🎮 Steam

Project Ants is a 3D Metroidvania combining the exploration depth of Hollow Knight with the technical hack-and-slash of Ninja Gaiden. Set in a fractured insect kingdom, a fallen Phragmotic Ant Warrior explores a brutal, layered world to uncover the secrets at its core.

🌐 Website

🎮 Steam

Can't find any reviews, but I'm curious. Looks like it could be good.

Explore the haunting, dreamlike fantasy world of BEFORE I GO, a punishing Metroidvania where you embody the innocence of an inner child on an allegorical odyssey towards death acceptance. The end is inevitable, but will you brave the journey?

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• Steam
• Switch
• Playstation
• Xbox

Reviews are surprisingly good. I didn't find one below an 8.5

A Souls-Like Western full of Eldritch horrors. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the darkness that lies beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that may just drive you to madness.

🎮 Steam ✅

• COGconnected
• The Punished Backlog
• Gameliner
• The Gaming Outsider
• VDGMS

Can't find any reviews of it yet 🤷🏼

Explore a dream world as the iconic Little Nemo, armed with toys, candy, and stuffed animals in this cute & colorful Metroidvania adventure. Experience NES-era platformer gameplay in a vast, non-linear world that has been hand-animated frame-by-frame, as you unlock new abilities to progress.

🎮 Steam

Reviews make it sound like it's just a more polished version of the original, which was already beloved.

Become the stealer of forms in GRIME II, a surreal action-adventure metroidvania. Launch tendrils made of hands to absorb foes and summon molds in their shape, as you explore a bizarre lived-in-world obsessed with art.

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• DayOne
• COGconnected
• Loot Level Chill
• SDHQ
• Noisy Pixel
• Gaming Boulevard

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• Steam
• Playstation
• Xbox

Below the Root mentioned. Haven't thought about that since I was a kid playing it on my Grandfather's Amiga in the early 90s...

If there is no "Kodo" and "Podo", we all should riot (this is a reference for anyone close to 50)

A classic hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania action game, it's time for revenge! Use your Beastmaster skills to unleash your inner beast, fight with your heart-devouring sword and end the threat to Arborea, you decide the ending.

🌐 Steam

A 2D action game redefined through Extreme Destruction. Every impact is physical. Enemies aren’t health bars—destroy them outright, or dismantle them until they can’t fight back. You’ll explore a world fallen silent, navigating its weathered ruins sealed in ice to uncover the secrets it buried.

🌐 Website, Steam

They've recently released a demo on Steam

Consumed by a mysterious curse, restore a once lush forest and its inhabitants to their natural state in this action adventure tale. Experience fast-paced combat, puzzles, and the beauty of nature captured in handcrafted pixel art.

🌐 Steam, Kickstarter