Metroidvania for Mac — top best games in the Metroidvania genre / Page 2

Saga Of Sins - a game in the Metroidvania genre

Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Arcade, Metroidvania, Side view, Medieval era

Game released: Mac → 30 March 2023

Steam: 76/100

The game takes place in a dark fantasy world with demons, monsters and dark magic. There are several characters available that you can switch between during battle...

Chasm

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Roguelike, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 31 July 2018

Players: 5.9/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Chasm is a side-scrolling adventure RPG action platformer in a fantasy setting. You have to try on the role of a young recruit performing his first mission...

Exile's End

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2015

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Exile's End is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer set in a futuristic setting. The game takes place in the distant future, where the megacorporation...

Lost Ruins

Arcade, Side view, Anime / Manga, Action, Shooter, Platformer, Slasher, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 13 May 2021

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lost Ruins is a hardcore side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with a retro theme. The girl wakes up in the twilight of the dungeon. She doesn't remember...

Anima Flux

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Cooperative (co-op), Old school, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Mac → 7 October 2024

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 78/100

A cooperative game that pits two genetically modified soldiers against mutants in a deserted space city. Each character has their own characteristics and skills...

Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 7 October 2019

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Shantae and the Seven Sirens is an anime-style side-scrolling adventure arcade platformer. The game is a continuation of the series of tropical adventures of the...

Dandara Trials of Fear

Side view, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 7 February 2018

Steam: 85/100

Dandara Trials of Fear is a side-scrolling fantasy action-adventure platformer. The citizens, once free-spirited, are now oppressed and isolated. But all is not...

Minishoot' Adventures

Shooter, Casual game, Top-down view, Old school, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 2 April 2024

Steam: 98/100

Metacritic: 87/100

A colorful metroidvania about flying on a spaceship. The game's story revolves around a certain Exile who came to the surface, destroyed the protagonist's village...

Watcher Chronicles

Role-playing game, Action, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 19 January 2022

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Watcher Chronicles is a hardcore side-scrolling action RPG platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. In the game you have to go to conquer purgatory, filled with...

Control Craft 2

Strategy, In real time, Futurism (Future), Tactics, Side view, Collectible card game (CCG), Metroidvania, Shooter

Game released: Mac → 15 February 2016

Steam: 72/100

Control Craft 2 is a fun, top-down tactical strategy game set in a sci-fi setting where you have to fight the forces trying to invade our planet. Wave after wave of...

Frontier Hunter: Erza's Wheel of Fortune

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Anime / Manga, Dungeons, Exploration, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 26 July 2024

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Erza is a legendary huntress who has become a spearhead in the Empire's military campaigns. With its help, the majestic...

Ogu and the Secret Forest

Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle, Top-down view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 29 July 2024

Steam: 93/100

The player explores a colorful world with hand-drawn characters, where he solves many puzzles. During the journey, he can meet different creatures that need help...

Dandara

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 6 February 2018

Players: 7/10

Metacritic: 72/100

Dandara is an adventure action-platformer with a side view. You will witness the story of a young girl named Dandara, who wakes up in a world unfamiliar to her and...

Mr. Sun's Hatbox

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Comedy, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 20 April 2023

Steam: 85/100

The evil Mr. Moon and his criminal gang robbed a small but proud courier company, stealing a box of hats for Mr. Sun. The hero, thirsting for justice, assembles a...

Dreaming Sarah

Metroidvania, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 13 March 2015

Steam: 90/100

The girl Sarah got into an accident and is in a coma. You need to explore the dream world, collect objects and communicate with strange characters to help her wake...

Headlander

Arcade, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Science fiction, Action, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 26 July 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This side-scrolling action-adventure is set in a retro-futuristic world where humanity has transferred its minds into robotic bodies and is ruled by a deranged...

Refactor

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Construction, Strategy

Game released: Mac → 29 March 2022

Steam: 83/100

Refactor is a side-scrolling, physics-based adventure puzzle platformer. The game takes place in a very bizarre world, which in itself is a huge puzzle. You can...

Stargazer

Adventure, Side view, Casual game, Arcade, Platformer, Metroidvania, Fantasy / Medieval

Game released: Mac → 27 August 2024

Steam: 65/100

A dark pixel game in which the main character returns to his hometown after several years of absence. He must save his people from a dark wizard. The character uses...

Toki Tori 2

In real time, Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Metroidvania, Open world, Side view

Game released: Mac → 11 July 2013

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This open-world puzzle adventure follows Toki Tori, a young chicken tasked with saving a forest island from a floating crystal and strange pollution. Along the way...

Wuppo

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2016

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Wuppo is a side-scrolling pixel arcade action platformer with RPG elements. You have to help a cute round creature who has lost his home. And now he has to go on a...

Alwa's Awakening

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 2 February 2017

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Alwa's Awakening is a classic side-scrolling adventure platformer. The main character Zoya really loves video games. And one day, when she sat at the monitor and...

Dark Light

Indie, Action, Adventure, Side view, Cyberpunk, Futurism (Future), Role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 29 September 2022

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 94/100

A sci-fi metroidvania in a cyberpunk setting, where the world is experiencing an apocalypse after an invasion of supernatural creatures. The player must make his...

Fearmonium

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: Mac → 20 May 2021

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 85/100

Fearmonium is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer with Metroidvania elements. The game takes place in the mind of a boy named Max, who once saw several clowns...

Heroine Anthem Zero -Sacrifice-

Role-playing game, Metroidvania, Side view

Game released: Mac → 23 December 2016

Steam: 61/100

This side-scrolling fantasy role-playing game follows Wanin, a forest keeper, and Shama Kutami, a wandering cat-girl whose paths cross in a world recovering from...

Finding Teddy

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Point & Click, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: Mac → 3 December 2013

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This point-and-click adventure puzzle follows a little girl whose teddy bear is stolen by a monster emerging from her cupboard. She follows it into a magical world...

Necrosphere

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Side view, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 1 September 2017

Steam: 91/100

Necrosphere is a hardcore side-scrolling pixel action platformer with very simple controls, consisting of just two buttons. The main character dies and ends up in...

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

Action, Shooter, Futurism (Future), Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 17 April 2012

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This 2D action-adventure with shooter and metroidvania elements follows a journey toward the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet. The protagonist explores...

Secrets of Raetikon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Early Access: Mac → 7 January 2014; Game released: Mac → 17 April 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 58/100

This 2D action-adventure with an open world takes place in the Alps, where a bird explores the wilderness and traces of an ancient culture. The player flies through...

Valdis Story: Abyssal City

Arcade, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 8 September 2013

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 83/100

An action platformer with metroidvania elements, Valdis Story: Abyssal City follows the warrior Wyatt as he explores the ruins of a long-lost holy city. In a world...

Wolfhound

Action, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Old school, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game in development: Mac → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

Old-school metroidvania with a side view, set on a mysterious island in the Bermuda Triangle, where a secret Nazi base is hidden. The player takes on the role of...

Shadow of Oryda

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Open world, Metroidvania, Arcade

Game in development: Mac → 2026

The plot is built around survival after a spaceship crash on a dangerous planet. The main character wakes up among the wreckage and sees only misty ruins, sandy...

3000th Duel

Action, Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Slasher, Role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 13 December 2019

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 71/100

3000th Duel is an indie adventure platformer with slasher elements and a side view. The hero sets off towards the unknown, remembering almost nothing about himself...

Haiku, the Robot

Arcade, Side view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 28 April 2022

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

This adventure platformer with Metroidvania elements takes place in Arcadia, a mechanical world inhabited by corrupted robots and machinery. The player explores...

Heart Forth, Alicia

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Side view, Metroidvania, Japanese role-playing game, Action

Game in development: Mac → 2026

Heart Forth, Alicia is a classic Metroidvania with action RPG elements and a side view. The events of the game unfold around the young sorceress Alicia, who sets...

Circuit Thunder

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Adventure, Role-playing game

Game released: Mac → 25 October 2024

Steam: 80/100

The game takes place on the planet Photonus. The protagonist embarks on a journey to retrieve an artifact and prevent enemies from destroying the planet. The...

La•Mulana

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Mac → 15 April 2013

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 82/100

La•Mulana is an archaeological action-platformer about exploring ancient ruins said to hold the Secret Treasure of Life, the beginning of all civilization. Players...

Robot Named Fight

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: Mac → 7 September 2017

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Robot Named Fight is a side-scrolling arcade action platformer in a sci-fi setting. You will go on a dangerous journey through a randomly generated world in order...

Crystal Project

Role-playing game, Adventure, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Tactics, Fantasy, Japanese role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2022

Steam: 91/100

Crystal Project is a Japanese-style RPG adventure game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. You have to go to conquer a large open world, find crystals and...

Song of Decay

Action, Adventure, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Metroidvania, Slasher

Game released: Mac → 28 February 2026

Steam: 100/100

The player, in the role of the legendary hero of Greek mythology, Orpheus, embarks on a quest to find Eurydice. They will have to explore abandoned mausoleums...

Mable & The Wood

Adventure, Action, Indie, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Role-playing game, Horror, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 23 August 2019

Steam: 59/100

Metacritic: 62/100

Mable & The Wood is a side-scrolling Metroidvania adventure with horror elements set in a dark fantasy world. The plot tells the story of a mysterious girl named...

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Best Games in the Metroidvania genre for Mac