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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 portmanteau 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).
Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist is a 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania. The player controls Lilac, who traverses the game world doing a mixture of platforming, exploration, and combat. As the player progresses through the game, they collect upgrades and new abilities which enables them to access new parts of the game world.
Really, this entry could be swapped out with any game in the Metroid series, 2D or 3D. Metroid Prime Remastered almost made it on the list, as did Super Metroid and Metroid Fusion — there’s a ...
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.
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Crowsworn is a Metroidvania with elements of the soulslike genre. [4] It takes place in Fearanndal, a fallen kingdom beset by a curse. The player takes control of a protagonist with the appearance of a plague doctor, who wakes up in a coffin suffering from amnesia.
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.