Best Metroidvania

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is an action-adventure game set five years after *Revenge of the Sith*. Cal Kestis, a former Jedi Padawan, evades the Galactic Empire’s Inquisitors while seeking to rebuil...

Super Metroid is a 1994 action-adventure game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It features bounty hunter Samus Aran’s mission to the planet Zebes. The objective involves recovering a stole...

Metroid is a 1986 action-adventure game centered on Samus Aran’s mission to recover stolen Metroid organisms on the planet Zebes. The narrative involves confronting Space Pirates attempting to replica...

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is an action role-playing game released in 1997 for PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game follows a direct continuation of the narrative established in Castlevania:...

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is an action role-playing game released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance. It represents the third and final main installment within the Castlevania series for that system,...

Metroid II: Return of Samus is a 1991 action-adventure game for the Game Boy. The title tasks players with eliminating Metroids on the planet SR388, orchestrated by bounty hunter Samus Aran and the Sp...

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow was a 2005 action role-playing game created by Konami, serving as the first installment in the series for the Nintendo DS. It followed up on the narrative established in Ca...

Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest is an action role-playing game released in 1987 and 1988 for the Famicom Disk System and NES respectively. The player controls Simon Belmont as he seeks to defeat Dracula...

Metroid Fusion is a 2002 action-adventure game for the Game Boy Advance featuring bounty hunter Samus Aran. She investigates a space station overrun with parasitic X organisms, continuing the Metroid...

Tails Adventure, released in 1995 for the Game Gear, features Tails as the protagonist on Cocoa Island. Players navigate a non-linear environment collecting items to progress and battle enemies. The g...

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions is an action-adventure game featuring four distinct Spider-Man iterations drawn from alternate Marvel universes. Each variant, voiced by established actors, navigates...

Metroid: Zero Mission is a 2004 Game Boy Advance title created by Nintendo. The game serves as a remake of the 1986 Metroid, incorporating revised graphics and gameplay mechanics. It retains the core...

Wario Land 3 is a 2000 platform game for the Game Boy Color developed by Nintendo R&D1. The game’s narrative involves Wario rescuing a captive individual from within a music box. It was released in Ja...

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows debuted in 2008 across Windows, PlayStation 3/Wii/Xbox 360, PlayStation 2/PSP, and Nintendo DS platforms. The game presented three distinct gameplay styles – an open world,...

Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin was released in 2006 for the Nintendo DS. It introduced cooperative multiplayer gameplay to the Castlevania franchise and included English voice-overs, a feature previous...

Kirby & the Amazing Mirror is a 2004 Game Boy Advance platform game created by HAL Laboratory, Flagship, and Dimps. The title features a Metroidvania gameplay style where Kirby journeys through the Mi...

Aquaria is a 2007 action-adventure game developed by Bit Blot featuring Naija, an aquatic humanoid character. The gameplay involves swimming, combat, and utilizing songs to manipulate the environment...

Metroid: Samus Returns is a 2017 action-adventure game for Nintendo 3DS based on the 1991 Metroid II: Return of Samus. The game tasks players with controlling bounty hunter Samus Aran as she eliminate...

Owlboy is a platform-adventure game developed by D-Pad Studio. Its creation spanned from 2007 to its release in November 2016. The title’s development involved a lengthy period before becoming availab...

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is a platform game developed by Oddworld Inhabitants and published by GT Interactive. Released in 1998 for PlayStation and Windows, it serves as a spin-off from *Abe’s Oddysee*...

Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia is a 2008 action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS. The game centers on Shanoa, a member of an organization tasked with confronting Dracula following the disappearan...

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is an action role-playing game released in 2001 by Konami for the Game Boy Advance. It served as a standalone entry within the Castlevania franchise and debuted on the...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is an action role-playing game created by ArtPlay and published by 505 Games. Released in June 2019, it serves as a spiritual successor to the Castlevania series acro...

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is an action role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance released in 2002. The game follows Juste Belmont, Simon Belmont’s grandson, fifty years after the events of C...