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Hot Tin Roof - a game in the Metroidvania genre

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

Game released: Mac → 20 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

This noir mystery combines platforming, exploration and Metroidvania elements as private investigator Emma Jones investigates a series of grisly murders. Her...

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...

Mystik Belle

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

Game released: Mac → 22 May 2015

Steam: 86/100

Mystik Belle is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. You have to go to the amazing school of magic Hagmore. Freshman witch Bella...

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...

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...

Environmental Station Alpha

Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: Mac → 22 April 2015

Steam: 81/100

This retro-styled metroidvania follows a robot sent to investigate an abandoned space station and discover what happened there. Wildlife has overrun the station...

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...

Super Win the Game

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

Game released: Mac → 1 October 2014

Steam: 89/100

This exploration platformer follows You Have to Win the Game and centers on traversing an open-ended world in search of hidden secrets. The player explores a large...

Zolg

Metroidvania, Adventure, Action

Game released: Mac → 2 December 2016

Steam: 78/100

A minimalist top-down shooter in which the player explores levels, fights enemies, and takes on bosses. Five types of power-ups can be collected along the way...

Layers Deep

Action, Slasher, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Side view, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game in development: Mac → 2027

A small onion, just sprouted in late autumn, finds itself in a world that is rapidly fading. The gothic atmosphere is saturated with destruction and secrets, and...

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...

Aquaria

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Puzzle, Sandbox, Metroidvania, Indie, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 13 November 2008

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Aquaria is a metroidvania set in a vast underwater world filled with living creatures and ancient secrets. Naija, a solitary ocean dweller, searches for her family...

Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Metroidvania

Game released: Mac → 14 March 2014

Steam: 84/100

This action-platform adventure in a Metroidvania style follows the Powerpuff Girls as they explore Townsville and try to recover their lost powers. Blossom, Bubbles...

You Have to Win the Game

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Free game

Game released: Mac → 6 May 2014

Steam: 92/100

An exploration platformer with the look and sound of 1980s PC games, set among the ruins of a lost world. The player runs and jumps past deadly pitfalls while...

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...

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