The Best Metroidvania Games for Linux - Page 2

Update : Hydra - Poseidon\'s conspiracy added at rank #49.
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Tres-Bashers (2021)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Tres-Bashers is a 2D monster-bashing adventure featuring a big interconnected map full of cryptids, secrets, and more! Find 40 different monster types and whack 'em with your baseball bat!

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  • metroidvania
  • 2d
  • lore
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • action-adventure
  • magic
  • horror
  • pixel
  • 1980s
  • atmospheric
  • platform
  • colourful
  • funny
  • cute

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Axiom Verge (2015)

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Xbox One Linux PC Windows

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.


  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • virtual-reality
  • retro

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Templar (2025)

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Android Linux PC Windows

Templar is a 2D indie platformer and hack and slash game.

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  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • comic
  • 2d
  • hack-and-slash
  • platform
  • book
  • hand-drawn
  • action-adventure
  • demons
  • dark
  • corridor-to-corridor
  • capturing
  • controller-support
  • tactical

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Timespinner (2018)

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

Enter a time-traveling Metroidvania adventure as Lunais, a young Timespinner on a mission to save the future and unravel the mysteries of the Lachiem Empire. With great combat, pixel-perfect art, and a killer soundtrack, Timespinner is a must-play for fans of the genre. Bring a friend for local co-op and dive into the world of Familiars and time manipulation. Are you ready to control time and take on epic boss battles? Play Timespinner and find out!


What we like:
  • Engaging story and character development
  • Impressive 16-bit aesthetic design
  • Unique time travel mechanics
  • Challenging but adjustable difficulty
  • Great soundtrack, story, and gameplay
What could be improved:
  • Relatively short
  • Redundant weapon options
  • Limited movement abilities
  • Unhelpful pets

  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • time
  • manipulation
  • empire
  • lgbtq
  • travel
  • exploration
  • boss
  • boss-fight
  • combat
  • rpg
  • scroller

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Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists (2022)

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early access IOS iPhone Android Linux PC Windows

This is the story of Xandria, an iron alchemist. She seeks revenge regardless of the consequences. To achieve it, Xandria fights with a powerful whip and the power of chemical elements. Find out more about her in this modern metroidvania adventure.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • gothic
  • 2d
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • dark
  • rpg
  • scroller
  • pixel
  • action
  • action-adventure
  • anime
  • medieval
  • stylized

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Nyaruru Fishy Fight (2022)

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PC Windows Linux

This game is a Metroidvania game with intense battle. Explore the world and collection power-ups with your cute cat girl! When magic curse suddenly occurred in a small town and all the residents grew cat ears, the real cat girl Nyaruru started her way to uncover the truth...

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • anime
  • multiple-endings
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • 2d
  • cute
  • pixel

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Janosik 2 (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

Janosik 2 is a retro action-platformer with metroidvania elements. Get ready to jump, slash, dodge roll, dive, smash and bash your way through deadly traps, mischievous villains and bosses, and more in this sequel to Janosik.


  • platform
  • precision
  • 2d
  • metroidvania
  • swordplay
  • 1980s
  • vampire
  • werewolves
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • retro
  • fantasy
  • adventure
  • historical

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Anima Flux (2024)

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Linux Mac OS Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Anima Flux is a co-op metroidvania with two genetically enhanced soldiers, special agents of a theocratic dictatorial regime. Fight your way through swarms of mutants through a desolate, dystopian space city and save humanity's last stronghold, if, of course, anyone is still alive...


  • cooperative
  • metroidvania
  • dystopian
  • hand-drawn
  • local
  • action-adventure
  • atmospheric
  • survival
  • 2d
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • beautiful
  • controller-support

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Slashboy (2025)

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Linux PC Windows

It's time to protect the world from... Mushrooms. Play as a samurai against a crowd of mushrooms, ordinary and not so. Cut, use magic, but destroy as many mushrooms as you can. Compete with others and prove who is the real mushroom destroyer!

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  • metroidvania
  • beat-em-up
  • rogue-like
  • scroller
  • hack-and-slash
  • 6dof
  • pve
  • magic
  • ninja
  • minimalist
  • nature
  • arcade
  • bullet-hell
  • gambling
  • pixel

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Janosik 2: Prologue (2024)

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Pick up the mantle of the plucky maiden getting ready for her date night that is unceremoniously interrupted by the dastardly duo of Countess Bathory and Baron de Blonde in this prologue to the colourful Janosik 2 retro action-platformer…

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  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • precision
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • family-friendly
  • pixel
  • cute

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