The Best Metroidvania Games for Android

Update, : Lumien added at rank #14.
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Unsighted (2021)

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UNSIGHTED invites you into a post-apocalyptic world where you have a ticking clock before your own expiration. With Metroidvania-like gameplay, fully interconnected world, and an interesting story that allows for tough choices, the game provides a balanced mix of exploration, combat, and character progression. With additional modes like co-op and rogue-lite, UNSIGHTED guarantees a high replay value. A game that creatively brings several game designs together to make a fun and polished game.


Pros:
  • Balanced mix of gameplay elements
  • Interesting story with tough choices
  • High replayability with additional modes
  • Polished sound and graphics
  • Responsive controls
Cons:
  • Writing could be better
  • Characters feel one-dimensional
  • Dialogue interrupts gameplay

  • pixel
  • exploration
  • boss
  • top-down
  • robots
  • metroidvania
  • dungeon
  • combat
  • puzzle
  • war
  • post-apocalyptic
  • souls
  • platform
  • rpg
  • crafting

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Pronty (2021)

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Android PC Windows

Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.

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  • metroidvania
  • underwater
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • multiple-endings
  • cartoony
  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • cute
  • colourful
  • difficult
  • souls

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HAAK (2020)

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early access Android IOS iPhone PC Windows Nintendo Switch

HAAK is a Metroidvania-Platformer. As the mysterious wanderer Haak, you embarked on an epic expedition across the vast cyber-wasteland to find your lost brother. Explore deserted cities and metro, refine your weapons and hack skills, and uncover the secrets behind metal and dust.


  • platform
  • underground
  • dystopian
  • metroidvania
  • comic
  • post-apocalyptic
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • book
  • rpg
  • exploration
  • puzzle
  • hand-drawn

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Thread (2022)

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PC Windows Android

A puppet themed platformer metroidvania with a focus on platforming rather than combat. Throw your crystal scissors into walls to create your own platforms, explore a twisting and mysterious land, and solve puzzles on a worldwide scale.

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • precision
  • dark
  • souls
  • underground
  • 2d
  • collectathon
  • post-apocalyptic
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • open-world
  • fantasy
  • pixel

5

Dandara (2015)

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BOUNDLESS EXPLORATION - Traverse across the esoteric world of Salt through fast and fluid jumps off any surface, unhindered by gravity, in lovingly crafted environments. BEAUTIFUL AND IMMERSIVE WORLD - A visual and auditory wonderland comes to life through gorgeous handcrafted pixel art and original soundtrack compositions.


  • metroidvania
  • boundless
  • platform
  • pixel
  • trivia
  • reflexes
  • 2d
  • exploration

6

Dutch's Chickens (2023)

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PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore, discover secrets, gain awesome abilities and use them to find all your lost chickens!

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  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • retro
  • hidden-object
  • scroller
  • family-friendly
  • puzzle
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • colourful
  • casual
  • comedy

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Medusa (2022)

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PC Windows Android

A Metroidvania about Medusa searching for a foregone creature called the Ancient Sludge. Explore eight unique regions, face hordes of menacing enemies and acquire items to help you on your adventure.

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  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • underground
  • runner
  • platform
  • action-adventure
  • hidden-object
  • magic
  • minimalist
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • exploration
  • cute

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Necrosphere (2017)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Playstation 4 vita Xbox One IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch

A full-blown adventure played with only two keys. Become the recently deceased agent Terry Cooper and escape the underworld while facing the toughest, meanest and most difficult obstacles ever devised. Necrosphere is where you go when you die, regardless of being good or bad. You don’t see other people around there. You don’t have anything to do, except waiting for eternity As soon as Agent Terry Cooper hits the Necrosphere, he learns about the portals that can take him back to the world of the living (also called Normalsphere), and his quest to escape the afterlife is set.


  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • bite-sized
  • pixel

9

WIZ (2022)

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Explore the secrets of a banished land in this cute and dark Metroidvania, use your spells and abilities to reach new areas and find your path back home.

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  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • magic
  • 2d
  • platform
  • story

10

Xolotl (2022)

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Jump, dash, and swim in this epic adventure! Explore the vast Aztec lands in an axolotl action-platformer! Xolotl is a tough, 2D action-platformer, in which your goal is to regain your godly form and powers.

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  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • action-adventure
  • precision
  • 2d
  • nonlinear
  • cooperative
  • exploration
  • controller-support
  • nature
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • pixel

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