Metroidvania for PC — top best games in the Metroidvania genre / Page 10

Slavania — The Power of Drum - a game in the Metroidvania genre

DLC, Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Side view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 May 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 50/100

An add-on for the Slavic metroidvania, the key element of which is the music of the drum and bass group "Neuromonk Feofan", as well as a playable character of the...

Heroine Anthem Zero -Sacrifice-

Role-playing game, Metroidvania, Side view

Game released: PC → 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...

Lunnye Devitsy

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Metroidvania, Side view

Game released: PC → 1 July 2009

Steam: 69/100

This adventure platformer follows an alien who falls from the moon onto a mountainside on a strange planet and must find a way home. The player explores unusual...

Dad Quest

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

Game released: PC → 17 August 2018

Steam: 86/100

Dad Quest is a fun side-scrolling action platformer with pixel art. You, as a dad, will have to use your child as a weapon, throw him at enemies like a boomerang...

CRUDE

Action, Platformer, Side view, Historical, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Horror

Game released: PC → 22 December 2023

The game is about an MMA fighter under the pseudonym Cosmos. Suddenly, the hero is teleported from New York to a ruthless, dark world inhabited by monsters and...

Laika: Aged Through Blood

Arcade, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 19 October 2023

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 83/100

A Western set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The plot tells the story of a tribe oppressed by the invaders. The main character wants revenge in order to return...

Jackroid

Side view, Action, Platformer, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PC → 14 April 2025

Steam: 61/100

A retro-style sci-fi game about traveling through mysterious galaxies and unknown planets. The main character is a machine-human hybrid who is trying to protect the...

Kingless Dungeon

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PC → 13 June 2025

Steam: 92/100

A dynamic adventure in which the player explores an ancient and gloomy dungeon, taking on the role of its owner: the Prince of Shadows. The character was a villain...

Aquaria

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

Game released: PC → 7 December 2007

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: PC → 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: PC → 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...

Invasion Versus

Side view, Shooter, Metroidvania, Arcade, Online

Game released: PC → 2019

Invasion Versus is a side-scrolling arcade shooter. This is a fast-paced, asymmetrical genre game that pits two players against each other. One of them is a mobile...

Outbuddies

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

Game released: PC → 15 October 2019

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Outbuddies is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You will explore Bahlam, the sunken fortress of the Old Gods, located deep in...

3000th Duel

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

Game released: PC → 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...

The Tarnishing of Juxtia

Action, Role-playing game, Fantasy, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 26 July 2022

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 66/100

The Tarnishing of Juxtia is a side-scrolling action RPG platformer set in a dark fantasy setting. As the last creation of the goddess Yuxtia, you will travel...

Kingdom Shell

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

Game released: PC → 5 October 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

The kingdom's defenses were destroyed and nightmarish creatures began to attack local residents. The main character is a half-breed who can resist monsters. The...

Rusty Rangers

Platformer, Roguelike, Side view, Action, Dungeons, Adventure, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PC → 31 July 2025

Steam: 90/100

The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world engulfed in chaos and constant horror. No one remembers what it was like before being captured by the Baron, except...

Juvenate

Platformer, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Action, Adventure

Game released: PC → 30 September 2025

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 85/100

A short game consisting of three levels, each with its own unique environment, enemies, and mechanics. The character runs quickly, jumps on platforms, and fights...

Pigbook

Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

Game released: PC → 15 December 2023

Steam: 77/100

A short pixel adventure set on a small pig island. A pig named Bacon challenges dragons that have suddenly disrupted the locals' lives. In addition to regular...

The Vagrant

Action, Role-playing game, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 13 July 2018

Steam: 88/100

This 2D action RPG with metroidvania elements follows Vivian, a traveling sellsword who pursues her father’s research to uncover the truth about her bloodline and...

Odallus: The Dark Call

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 15 July 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

This fantasy action-platformer draws on classic exploration games and follows Haggis, a weary warrior who takes up his sword again to rescue his son from the...

Unformed

Action, Indie, Role-playing game, Side view, Adventure, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 25 April 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 68/100

A dark metroidvania set in a dark world inspired by Eastern mythology. Players will embark on a dark journey through mysterious lands full of deadly dangers, hidden...

Blaster Master Zero 3

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2021

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Blaster Master Zero 3 is a sequel to the classic side-scrolling action platformer set in a sci-fi setting. You have to help Jason again, and this time go to the...

Soul's Spectrum

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Exploration, Fantasy, Top-down view, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PC → 19 October 2023

Steam: 94/100

The main character finds herself in a mysterious dungeon with monsters and traps, from which she tries to get out. With each death, the heroine's body is...

Savage: The Shard of Gosen

Arcade, Isometric, Indie, Metroidvania, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → Q4 2014

Steam: 77/100

This 2D action-platforming adventure with RPG elements is set in the world of Lor, where a young warrior from Gosen crosses paths with the warlord Aben Bael...

Castle in the Darkness

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania, Indie

Game released: PC → 5 February 2015

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 76/100

This action-exploration platformer with RPG elements follows a knight who awakens in the monster-overrun city of Alexandria after an evil sorcerer and his army...

Project Yora: Zero

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, Free game, Side view, Science fiction, Old school, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2027

A free-to-play side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with pixel art and Metroidvania elements, it puts you in the role of Agent Dora as she battles monsters to...

7th Domain: Tree of Chaos Prologue

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

Game released: PC → 29 July 2024

Steam: 82/100

A free prologue for 7th Domain: Tree of Chaos, in which two locations are open: “Snow Land” and “Crystal Mine” and there are a number of restrictions. The main...

Alwa's Legacy

Metroidvania, Exploration, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 June 2020

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A non-linear adventure with modern retro styling, Alwa's Legacy centers on exploring dangerous dungeons, magical items and ancient secrets. As the player...

Lorera

Free game, Indie, Action, Adventure, Metroidvania, Side view, Puzzle, Platformer, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 15 July 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Lorera is a free-to-play side-scrolling action adventure game with pixel art, set in the mysterious world of Lorera. Puzzles, traps and boss fights await...

Ghost 1.0

Action, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 7 June 2016

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 80/100

This action metroidvania follows a mysterious agent sent by two hackers to infiltrate the Nakamura Space Station and steal a major electronic secret. The station’s...

Unworthy

Metroidvania, Indie, Action

Game released: PC → 29 May 2018

Steam: 79/100

This combat-focused metroidvania follows a nameless warrior who has risen from the grave and wanders a ruined landscape in search of meaning. Robbed of life but...

B.I.O.T.A.

Side view, Metroidvania, Arcade

Game released: PC → 12 April 2022

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 71/100

This 2D metroidvania action-platformer follows a team of mercenaries investigating an alien plague in a mining colony. Players explore a pixel-art world, fight...

Summit

Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 28 April 2023

Steam: 81/100

The main character was one of the few survivors of a giant avalanche. He set out on a journey through a giant open world located on a mountain range to find a...

Death Slayer

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

Game released: PC → 17 July 2023

Steam: 57/100

The game is about a young swordswoman named Asura, who confronts the evil that has plagued her land. Each enemy uses their own unique attack pattern, so you'll have...

Cathedral (2019)

Action, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 31 October 2019

Steam: 74/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Cathedral is an adventure platformer about exploring a vast world and uncovering the hero’s past. Progress involves finding five elemental orbs and making a way...

The Legend of Thabor — Rise of the Mages

Free game, Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Side view, Fantasy, Puzzle, Adventure

Game released: PC → 5 July 2024

Steam: 75/100

Humanity is in a bitter conflict with the four-armed people, so the emperor decides to turn to rogue magicians for help. But not all magicians trust this ruler, and...

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Best Games in the Metroidvania genre for PC