The Best Metroidvania Games for IOS iPhone

Update : Absence of Light added at rank #5.
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Elderand (2023)

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Nintendo Switch IOS iPhone Android Xbox Series X Xbox One PC Windows

Only the strong will conquer this gruesome action platformer with RPG elements. Dismember demonic creatures and terrifying bosses by wielding brutal weapons in intense skill-based combat. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world.


  • metroidvania
  • gothic
  • boss
  • lovecraftian
  • rpg
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • platform
  • gore
  • combat
  • action-adventure
  • character
  • action
  • cult
  • hack-and-slash

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HAAK (2020)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone Android

Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!


What we like:
  • Fun platforming
  • Great combat mechanics
  • Well-designed levels
  • Good controls
  • Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
  • Linear with stingy ability gating
  • Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
  • Inconsistent exploration
  • Poor translation
  • Lack of boss variety

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

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BlazBlue Entropy Effect (2023)

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PC Windows Mac OS IOS iPhone Android

Artistic and Magnificent Combat Action, incredibly satisfying combos! Numerous characters, hundreds of moves! This unique action roguelite game will bring you an experience that exceeds expectations.


  • rogue-like
  • metroidvania
  • cyberpunk
  • procedural
  • beat-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • replay-value
  • 2d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • pixel
  • multiple-endings
  • action
  • currency

4

Headland (2020)

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IOS iPhone Android Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

A powerful force shatters the imagination core from Nor’s Headland. With his robot friends he has to find the fragments and fight to regain his limitless creativity.


  • sci-fi
  • robots
  • metroidvania
  • chess
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • funny
  • puzzle
  • colourful
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • family-friendly
  • adventure
  • side-scrolling
  • cover

5

Absence of Light (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows IOS iPhone

"Absence of Light" is an exploration based shoot 'em up that combines intense bullet-dodging combat with a metroidvania-style level design. Solve, shoot, and shine your way through the kingdom of Luminara and reawaken the light!


  • soundtrack
  • metroidvania
  • bullet-hell
  • nonlinear
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • stylized
  • abstract
  • atmospheric
  • action-adventure
  • minimalist
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • open-world

6

Dutch's Chickens (2023)

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


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

7

Dungeon X Dungeon (2023)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows

Arcadia 's best treasure hunter Luke is a dungeon hunter to prevent the resurrection of the Evil! We invite you to the world, which is filled with interesting stories, encounters with friends, action games that will defeat invulnerable monsters and use various elements to get through the dungeons.


  • metroidvania
  • dungeon
  • dungeon-crawler
  • linear
  • 2d
  • platform
  • mystery
  • pixel
  • frame-by-frame
  • atmospheric
  • old-school
  • retro
  • 1980s
  • scroller

8

Castlevania: SotN (2020)

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Xbox One IOS iPhone Android

Added Android 12 compatibility.


  • platform-adventure
  • metroidvania
  • achievements
  • rpg
  • vampire
  • multiple-endings

9

Night Gate (2022)

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Night Gate is the result of crossing an open-world Castlevania with the action of Resident Evil. You play as a Vampire Hunter on a quest to kill the Master Vampire, Grendel! Set in the swamps of the American South, take your Airboat to explore in a 20+ hour open-world RPG horror game.


  • metroidvania
  • vampire
  • rpg
  • tps
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • third-person
  • survival-horror
  • 3d
  • shooter
  • survival
  • open-world
  • ish
  • character
  • rings

10

Dandara (2015)

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

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

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