Metroidvania for PC — top best games in the Metroidvania genre / Page 9

Resurrested will - a game in the Metroidvania genre

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

Game released: PC → 1 August 2022

A medieval soulslick action game made in a side-scroller format. The game features hardcore battles with an emphasis on timing and exploration of dark...

Imp of the Sun

Indie, Platformer, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 24 March 2022

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 69/100

A 2D action-platformer in which the Imp of the Sun explores sprawling, hand-crafted environments. Players navigate complex levels with platforming skills and fight...

Fearmonium

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

Game released: PC → 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...

The Light of the Darkness: Origins

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

Game in development: PC → 2027

The Light of the Darkness is an action-adventure fantasy action RPG with platformer and slasher elements. A long time ago, a world arose, divided into Light and...

Pulse Jumper

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

Game released: PC → 6 February 2021

Steam: 84/100

Pulse Jumper — arcade side-scrolling indie platformer. Your goal — get to space and chat with friends on the space station. But you must have time to...

Sect-Machina

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

Game released: PC → 10 September 2023

Steam: 59/100

The main character is a butterfly who went to explore the city of insects to get to the bright lights. The settlement is divided into areas where certain types of...

Slavania

Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Side view, Fantasy, Medieval era, Slasher, Hunting / Fishing

Game released: PC → 14 March 2024

Players: 7.6/10

Steam: 61/100

The game takes place in a dark medieval world based on fairy tales. The main character explores different locations filled with monsters to collect information...

BioGun: Clinical Trial

Adventure, Side view, Action, Platformer, Metroidvania, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 26 January 2024

Steam: 84/100

A colorful metroidvania where, according to the plot, all dogs began to die out en masse due to an unknown virus. One of the scientists decided to introduce a...

Ex Vitro

Side view, Arcade, Platformer, Metroidvania, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: PC → 31 January 2024

Steam: 94/100

A dark game in which the main character plunges into the ruins of a military research center, where he encounters various horrors. The locations are divided into 8...

Koboo: The Tree Spirit - Prologue

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

Game released: PC → 26 June 2024

Steam: 90/100

Free prologue to the game Koboo: The Tree Spirit. The gamer, in the form of a tiny spirit, fights with hunters to restore the balance of the ancient ecosystem. You...

Templar

Action, Platformer, Side view, Demons, Metroidvania, Slasher

Game released: PC → 14 January 2025

Steam: 79/100

A prequel to Templar 2, telling the story of the last Templar knight who must save humanity. The world is plunged into chaos caused by the red plague, under the...

Chronoscript: The Endless End

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Action

Game in development: PC → 2027

A dark adventure about an editor trapped in a manuscript. The action unfolds in two worlds: the writer's manuscript-strewn estate and the ink-illustrated pages of...

Worldless

Adventure, Platformer, Turn-based, Side view, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 20 November 2023

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 85/100

The player explores a formless world, battling enemies. Battles are turn-based, but you'll need to choose the right actions at the right moment. As you progress...

Secrets of Raetikon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Metroidvania

Early Access: PC → 7 January 2014; Game released: PC → 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...

Hot Tin Roof

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

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 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...

Clockwork Ambrosia

Exploration, Metroidvania, Platformer

Game released: PC → 12 May 2026

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Clockwork Ambrosia is a steampunk metroidvania with run-and-gun platforming, following Iris, an airship pilot who must fight an army of deadly robots and monsters...

Mystik Belle

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

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 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: PC → 28 May 2020

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...

Soul's Spectrum: Awakening

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

Game released: PC → 29 September 2023

Steam: 88/100

A free prequel that reveals the beginning of the events of Soul's Spectrum. The main character finds herself in a mysterious dungeon with monsters and traps, from...

Marko: Beyond Brave

Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Slasher, Comedy, Fantasy, Medieval era, Metroidvania, Action, Exploration

Game released: PC → 17 September 2024

Steam: 63/100

The main character makes his way through dense forests and crumbling castles, where he fights corrupted creatures and avoids difficult traps. Regular enemies and...

FLASHLOOP

Adventure, Metroidvania, Side view, Science fiction, Indie, Futurism (Future), Action

Game in development: PC → 2027

After the ship crashes, the captain finds himself on an uninhabited planet, where every new discovery makes him doubt that no one lives here. The player travels...

Environmental Station Alpha

Metroidvania, Adventure, Indie

Game released: PC → 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: PC → 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: PC → 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: PC → 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...

The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms

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

Game released: PC → 7 November 2020

Steam: 86/100

The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms — indie side-scrolling platformer with action elements. A young girl wearing a magic hat must navigate the Witch's Labyrinth to...

WarriOrb

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

Game released: PC → 28 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 76/100

WarriOrb is a side-scrolling action-adventure platformer set in a fantasy setting. In a Victorian-era fantasy world, a war rages between industrial superpowers. As...

Awaken - Astral Blade: First Contact

Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Free game, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 11 October 2024

Players: 7/10

Free prologue for Awaken — Astral Blade. The game takes place in a dangerous jungle, where, under the influence of some red energy, animals and plants began...

Layers Deep

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

Game in development: PC → 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...

Guns & Thorns

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

Game released: PC → 19 February 2026

Steam: 83/100

The main character embarks on a journey where he is attacked by fierce eagles. The character loses an important item needed for the further road. Therefore, he has...

Besitupia: Mediator

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Metroidvania, Survival horror

Game released: PC → 3 May 2026

Players: 10/10

Steam: 81/100

A science fiction adventure with elements of horror and puzzles, in which the hero wakes up from a state of parabiotic suspension with almost no memories. The...

Blaster Master Zero 2

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

Game released: PC → 29 November 2019

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Blaster Master Zero 2 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 into the...

Noreya: The Gold Project

Metroidvania, Exploration, Platformer

Game released: PC → 21 June 2024

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This pixel-art metroidvania is set in a dark fantasy world where the protagonist must choose between the Gods of Light and Shadow and the gods of Corruption and...

Faerie Afterlight

Puzzle, Platformer, Action, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Fantasy, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 28 September 2023

Steam: 69/100

Kradyrev smashed the light into pieces, scattering each fragment. Kimo and Whispy try to navigate this surreal world to collect the missing rays. As they discover...

Legion of Judgment: Fallen Angel

Platformer, Side view, Dungeons, Metroidvania

Game in development: PC → 2028

The main character makes forays at night and single-handedly wages a war against the werewolf guild that has taken over the world. His day job is to manage the old...

Rusted Moss

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Old school, Metroidvania

Game released: PC → 23 April 2023

Steam: 88/100

The main character travels across the map with the help of her grappling hook, fighting her way through witches and rusty machine monsters. The unique grappling...

Xenosis

Free game, Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration, Platformer, Cyberpunk, Shooter

Game released: PC → 15 May 2023

Steam: 78/100

A pixelated metroidvania about a journey through an ancient temple captured by alien creatures. Armed with a blaster, the hero explores a mysterious structure...

Ebenezer and the Invisible World

Metroidvania, Side view, Fantasy, Platformer, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 3 November 2023

Steam: 73/100

A game based on the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge and a team of shadowy allies battle a wealthy industrialist and his private guard to...

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Best Games in the Metroidvania genre for PC