Metroidvania for PC — top best games in the Metroidvania genre / Page 6

Yoku's Island Express - a game in the Metroidvania genre

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

Game released: PC → 29 May 2018

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

Yoku's Island Express is an arcade action-platformer adventure with side-scrolling pinball mechanics. You will try on the role of a beetle named Yoku, who landed on...

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch

Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Steampunk, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 3 October 2021

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch is an atmospheric action platformer with a side view in a dieselpunk setting. In the game you will try on the role of a rabbit who...

Micetopia

Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 16 December 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 37/100

Micetopia is a classic side-scrolling Metroid set in a medieval mouse kingdom with magic and dragons. The main character, a brave mouse, lived quietly in his...

UROS: A Trip Through Shadows

Free game, Action, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 13 July 2021

Steam: 61/100

UROS: A Trip Through Shadows is a 2.5D action game with platformer elements, set in a dream world. The evil god Strogobor has enslaved the dream world with terrible...

Pronty: Fishy Adventure

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

Game released: PC → 19 November 2021

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Pronty: Fishy Adventure is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer in a fantasy setting. In the game you have to help Pronty and his faithful assistant Bront...

The Devil Within: Satgat

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

Early Access: PC → 9 April 2024; Game released: PC → 21 November 2024

Steam: 78/100

The main character is Kim Rip, a royal guard who is trying to uncover the secrets of the Black Sting and cleanse the world of its vice. The source of demonic power...

Kingsgrave

Top-down view, Puzzle, Action, Metroidvania, Fantasy / Medieval, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC → 17 April 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 81/100

The main character is a king who rises from the dead to protect his kingdom from monsters. The character helps residents reclaim their homes, obtains resources and...

Tombwater

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Open world, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Exploration, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 31 March 2026

Steam: 91/100

Hardcore pixel 2D action with elements of soulslike and metroidvania. The events of the game unfold in a dark Wild West. The player takes control of a lone...

Avoidvania

Top-down view, Indie, Free game, Runner, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Parkour

Game released: PC → 1 August 2026; Early Access: PC → 25 September 2021

Steam: 95/100

An adventure game where a small cat finds itself in a huge castle, drawn by a mysterious scent coming from its tower. Inside, a tangled maze of corridors awaits...

Scurge: Hive

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Role-playing game, Science fiction, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 10 October 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This isometric science-fiction action game follows bounty hunter Jenosa Arma, sent to a remote planet to investigate a disaster at a research laboratory and recover...

Exile's End

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Meganoid

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

Game released: PC → 29 March 2017

Steam: 63/100

Meganoid is a hardcore side-scrolling action platformer with roguelike elements. As a mysterious hero, you have to go into dungeons and destroy as many enemies as...

Necrosphere

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Earthblade

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

Game canceled: PC → 23 January 2025

Anticipation Rating: 10/10

A colorful action-platform from the creators Celeste. The game will tell the story of Noba, a mysterious child of fate, who returns to Earth after a long absence...

The Bounty Huntress

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

Game released: PC → 2 July 2021

Steam: 66/100

The Bounty Huntress is a side-scrolling action-adventure game with Metroidvania elements in a fantasy setting. In the game, you take on the role of a bounty hunter...

Watcher Chronicles

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

Game released: PC → 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...

HunterX

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

Game released: PC → 29 April 2022

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 79/100

HunterX is an action-adventure platformer with role-playing elements and a side view in a fantasy setting. On the night of a dark purple moon, a girl who seems to...

Moonscars

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Slasher, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 27 September 2022

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 73/100

Moonscars is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. Under the dark moonlight, the fierce clay warrior Gray Irma fights, driven by a lonely goal: to find the...

Venture to the Vile

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Open world, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 22 May 2024

Steam: 72/100

The game is about a hero who is looking for his missing best friend Ella. On his way there are various dangers and opponents, by killing whom he can absorb their...

Evil Wizard

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Slasher, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 May 2023

Steam: 84/100

A humorous game with pixel graphics in which the gamer controls a defeated villain. The character must regain his strength to take revenge on the heroes. You also...

Deviator

Action, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 2 August 2024; Game in development: PC → 2027

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 67/100

A colorful metroidvania with an emphasis on the mechanics of parrying attacks. Players travel through uncharted deserts and mysterious cities, plunging into...

Yars Rising

Metroidvania, Side view, Action, Platformer, Comics, Cyberpunk, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: PC → 10 September 2024

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 66/100

A young hacker, Amy Kimura, is hired by a mysterious client to infiltrate the sinister QoTech corporation. The heroine embarks on an exciting adventure where she...

Janosik 2

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Fantasy, Old school, Indie

Game released: PC → 9 December 2024

Steam: 95/100

The famous Slovak mountaineer and robber Janko Janosik finds himself in the center of dangerous events. This time it is not his comrades who need saving, but...

Blighted

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2027

A role-playing action game with a dark world, created by the authors of Guacamelee! and Nobody Saves the World. The story centers on the sole survivor of the...

Apotheon

Action, Beat them all, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PC → 3 February 2015

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Apotheon — A fast-paced side-scrolling action platformer. The main character Nikandreos will have to climb Mount Olympus to gain the power of the gods. Only...

Alwa's Awakening

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 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...

Greak: Memories of Azur

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 17 August 2021

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Greak: Memories of Azur is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer. You will take on the role of three siblings: Grek, Adara and Rydel, who will guide them...

Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial

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

Game released: PC → 12 October 2019

Steam: 70/100

Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial is a side-scrolling action RPG with roguelike elements. You have to make your way through a huge tower with randomly generated rooms. The...

Rot In A Porcelain Dream

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Fighting, Slasher, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Side view, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 2/10

Rot In A Porcelain Dream is a side-scrolling action-RPG slasher game set in a dark fantasy setting. The game will delight you with a combat system in the spirit of...

Holl Space 5D6

Role-playing game, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Third-person view, Cyberpunk, Exploration, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 21 May 2021

Steam: 60/100

Holl Space 5D6 is a role-playing slasher game with a third-person view and horror elements in the cyberpunk genre. In each episode, you control a different...

Overlord: Escape From Nazarick

Anime / Manga, Action, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Slasher, Fantasy / Medieval, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 15 June 2022

Steam: 65/100

Overlord: Escape From Nazarick is a side-scrolling, fantasy-adventure action-platformer with anime elements. Clementine wakes up to find herself imprisoned in the...

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise

Action, Roguelike, Platformer, Side view, Fantasy / Medieval, Role-playing game, Steampunk, Point & Click, , Exploration, Dungeons, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 28 June 2022

Steam: 94/100

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise is a side-scrolling action-adventure roguelike set in a fantasy setting. As Noah, you will travel to ancient ruins to uncover their...

Islets

Arcade, Side view, Adventure, Metroidvania, Platformer, Fantasy, Action, Open world

Game released: PC → 24 August 2022

Players: 9.5/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Islets is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with Metroidvania elements in a fantasy setting. Aiko is an aspiring warrior who explores the skies and earth...

Ascent DX

Side view, Platformer, Metroidvania, Exploration, Open world, Adventure

Game released: PC → 26 March 2025

Steam: 98/100

The game takes place on a square screen of 64 x 64 pixels. The ship’s ship crashed on an unknown planet. The character explores magnificent jungle, lifeless deserts...

Other Worlds India

Metroidvania, Casual game, Open world

Game released: PC → 20 January 2017

Steam: 62/100

This 2D metroidvania features an open world inspired by early-2000s RPG platformers, including Castlevania and Metroid. The player explores locations accessible...

Impossible Mission 2

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

Game released: PC → 11 September 2020

Steam: 100/100

This action platformer with puzzle elements follows an attempt to infiltrate the futuristic fortress of Professor Elvin Atombender, a mastermind bent on world...

Wuppo

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

Game released: PC → 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...

Blaster Master Zero

Action, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 14 June 2019

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Blaster Master Zero is an 8-bit side-scrolling action platformer based on the 1988 Blaster Master game. The new edition features the unique style of the original...

Tamarin

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 10 September 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 60/100

Metacritic: 40/100

Tamarin is a fun third-person action platformer in which you take on the role of a small tamarin monkey who has survived an insect attack and now embarks on a...

The Guise

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

Game released: PC → 20 October 2020

Steam: 64/100

The Guise is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer with RPG elements. The plot tells about an orphan boy named Ogden. He disobeyed the owner of the orphanage...

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Best Games in the Metroidvania genre for PC