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This category describes games that have been classified as falling into the Metroidvania genre of gameplay, a specific type of action-adventure game (as well as platform game, generally) that features a large interconnected game world that progressively becomes more accessible as the player collects power-ups.
Metroidvania [a] is a sub-genre of action-adventure games and/or platformers focused on guided non-linearity and utility-gated exploration and progression. The term is a partial blend of the names of the video game series Metroid and Castlevania, based on the template from Metroid (1986), Castlevania II (1987), Super Metroid (1994), and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997).
These are the best metroidvania games you can play on Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and more.
Laika: Aged Through Blood is a 2023 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania video game developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Headup Games.The game, set in a Western-style post-apocalyptic world, follows Laika, an anthropomorphic coyote, as she tries to protect her family and village from the encroaching Bird empire.
Ultros is a 2024 Metroidvania video game developed by Hadoque and published by Kepler Interactive. Players control a space traveler who wakes on an alien spaceship that imprisons a demon. It is available for macOS, Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox Series X/S. Ultros received generally positive reviews from critics.
Knytt Underground is a side-scrolling open action-adventure, with the exploration of a metroidvania. [1] Its gameplay fuses the mechanics of Nifflas' earlier games. From Knytt it borrows the freedom to climb vertical walls as well as being able to safely fall from any height (barring hazards like lava and acid, but unlike Knytt water is not hazardous).
Players explore a steampunk city in a post-apocalyptic world. Gestalt: Steam and Cinder is a Metroidvania game, a subgenre of platform games that emphasize exploration. As the bounty hunter Aletheia, they explore under the city and attempt to learn more about both its history and a mechanical threat.
After the events of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by a ghost who requests his help in stopping an greedy industrialist. Ebenezer and the Invisible World is a Metroidvania game in which players gather items and power-ups, fight evil ghosts, and attempt to save the poor people of London.