- metroidvania
- action-adventure
- pixel
- 2d
- platform
- combat
- Fun combat and movement
- Cute character design
- Competent map design
- Challenging boss fights
- Bullet hell-style airship battles
- Random upgrade rewards can limit options
- platform
- boss
- metroidvania
- cute
- boss-fight
- exploration
- colourful
- pirates
- fight
- atmospheric
- story
- combat
- 2d
- nature
- adventure
- souls
- metroidvania
- scroller
- gothic
- dark
- blood
- lore
- pixel
- fantasy
- 2d
- boss-fight
- horror
- difficult
- platform
- rpg
BIOMORPH (2024)
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BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
- metroidvania
- dark
- platform
- exploration
- lore
- 2d
- nonlinear
- artificial
- intelligence
- multiple-endings
- combat
- comedy
- action-adventure
- hand-drawn
- non-linear
Transiruby (2021)
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Join Siruby and her trusty AI partner in uncovering the secrets of an unknown land in Transiruby, the latest pixelated Metroidvania game from Skipmore! Enjoy thrilling action-packed gameplay with elements of puzzles and riddles, as you collect golden Tranchips to progress to the next stage, freeze enemies for footholds, and transform into a plane or motorbike for added excitement. Satisfy your desire for exploration and discovery as you immerse yourself in this exciting adventure and stunning visuals.
- Satisfying gameplay combining combat and puzzle-solving
- Plenty of content
- Engaging and addicting gameplay
- Tight controls
- Creative interplay between health and munition
- Backtracking can be tedious
- Limited fast travel system
- Absence of a backstory with few interesting characters
- Repetitive combat system
- Shortening of soundtrack
- metroidvania
- pixel
- 2d
- platform
- action-adventure
- hack-and-slash
- scroller
Venture to the Vile (2024)
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Dive into the strange town of Rainybrook, taken over by the “Vile” in this 2.5D metroidvania! Fight your way through treacherous terrains and defeat formidable bosses to absorb their powers! Will you save the town and find your missing friend Ella — or will you give in to the monster you've become?
- metroidvania
- dark
- 2.5d
- lore
- platform
- gothic
- scroller
- multiple-endings
- horror
- narrative
- atmospheric
- action-adventure
- colourful
- open-world
- 2d
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth- (2021)
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Play as Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War ~Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth~, a thrilling 2D action-exploration game. Using your sword and bow, fight against enemies and level up your elemental spirits to gain new abilities. With beautiful graphics and an engaging story by the original creator, both longtime fans and new players will enjoy this Metroidvania-style adventure.
- Fantastic gameplay and puzzles
- Beautiful 2D sprites with great animations
- Good music
- Backtracking is not a chore
- Smooth and responsive controls with continuous influx of new weapons and spells
- Extremely short gameplay for completionists
- Grating music at times
- Potentially difficult fights
- anime
- boss
- novel
- action-exploration
- exploration
- pixel
- "
- boss-fight
- metroidvania
- ikaruga
- 2d
- fantasy
- rpg
- puzzle
- platform
Touhou Luna Nights (2019)
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Touhou Luna Nights is a metroidvania game with stunning 2D graphics and a unique time manipulation mechanic. You play as a maid fighting through a magical world. The game's puzzles and enemies are challenging and imaginative. The game also offers upgrades and new abilities for exploration. Despite the lack of detailed item information and backtracking, Touhou Luna Nights is a top-notch Metroidvania that genre fans should not miss.
- Beautiful graphics
- Smooth gameplay
- Challenging boss fights
- Engaging story
- Impressive sound design
- Short playtime
- Familiar game mechanics
- Frustrating save system
- metroidvania
- faith
- manipulation
- bullet-hell
- beat-em-up
- time
- exploration
- scroller
- anime
- boss-fight
- pixel
- platform
- action-adventure
- 2d
Blasphemous (2019)
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"Blasphemous" is a gripping game that transports you to a twisted world of religion and horror. You play as The Penitent One, the last survivor of the massacre of the 'Silent Sorrow', and must use devastating combos and brutal executions to smite grotesque monsters and titanic bosses. With non-linear gameplay and a variety of different landscapes to explore, you must uncover the many secrets hidden deep inside this nightmarish world to find redemption and break your eternal damnation.
- Great graphics and artistic design
- Challenging and rewarding combat
- Immersive and gruesome enemy character design
- Obscure and difficult progression
- Hieroglyphic map design
- Unpractical fast travel system
- Alleviating penalty for dying required to hunt out each individual location at which you died and recover all of your corpses
- platform
- metroidvania
- pixel
- souls
- gore
- boss
- boss-fight
- gothic
- difficult
- fight
- 2d
- combat
- action
- violent
Infernax (2022)
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Embark on an epic, bloodthirsty adventure in Infernax! With challenging castle-dungeons, multiple endings, and the option to play with friends, this retro side-scrolling platformer keeps you on the edge of your seat. Upgrade your character and unlock new skills to defeat demons and reverse the curse on your homeland. With secret areas to discover and a unique morality system, Infernax offers hours of exciting gameplay.
- Fun co-op
- Multiple fun endings
- Multiple playable characters
- Lots of replayability
- Incredible music
- Lots of instadeath pits
- Weird morality system
- Some metroid-esque elements but not a true metroidvania
- dungeon
- retro
- gore
- boss
- metroidvania
- platform
- old-school
- demons
- dark
- pixel
- classic
- violent
- side-scrolling
- fantasy
- castle-dungeon