The Best Metroidvania Games for Linux - Page 4

Update : Big Butt Bobby added at rank #50.
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EMUUROM (2022)

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EMUUROM: the nonviolent creature-scanning metroidvania! Explore the ecosystem. Comprehend the creatures. Save the species.

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  • collector
  • creature
  • metroidvania
  • nonlinear
  • wholesome
  • nature
  • cozy
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • platform
  • pixel
  • cute
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • retro

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Necrosphere (2017)

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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.

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

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Robot Wants It All (2019)

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Robot wants stuff! Go get it for him in this compilation of the metroidvania Robot Wants series, including an all-new Robot adventure!

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  • metroidvania
  • scroller
  • family-friendly
  • robots
  • pixel
  • character
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • retro
  • fast-paced
  • old-school
  • action
  • exploration
  • single-player
  • platform

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La-Mulana (2012)

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LA-MULANA is an “Archaeological Ruin Exploration Action Game,” bringing the classic appeal of adventure with the punishing difficulty of retro-inspired gaming. Search inside ancient ruins, seeking out the “Secret Treasure of Life” – which sleeps in the sprawling ruins of “LA-MULANA” and is said to be the beginning of all civilization.


  • metroidvania
  • platform
  • unforgiving
  • remake
  • puzzle
  • 2d
  • retro
  • exploration
  • scroller
  • difficult
  • action-adventure
  • controller-support
  • pixel
  • msx

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Akurra (2023)

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Explore mystical islands, make strange new friends, and unlock epic secrets in the atmospheric open world puzzle adventure Akurra!

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  • sokoban
  • collectathon
  • metroidvania
  • logic
  • mythology
  • retro
  • top-down
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • cute
  • old-school
  • 2d

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Climb Challenge - Find Items 5 (2024)

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Hidden-object adventure game. The player needs to run around the location and look for objects in secret places, climbing into them along walls and ledges.

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  • japanese
  • rpg
  • 3d
  • grand-strategy
  • moba
  • battler
  • metroidvania
  • board-game
  • jrpg
  • rogue-like
  • racing
  • sport
  • old-school
  • card
  • simulation

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Ginsha (2023)

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GINSHA is a unique atmospheric pixelart Action Adventure Platformer with special Gravity Shield and Dash Mechanics. It combines a versatile Platformer core with RPG, Souls and Crafting Elements to an Anomaly among Metroidvania games.


  • metroidvania
  • souls
  • platform
  • 2d
  • scroller
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • underwater
  • driven
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • open-world
  • fast-paced
  • mystery
  • futuristic

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Alwa's Awakening (2017)

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Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.


  • platform
  • retro
  • metroidvania
  • pixel
  • puzzle
  • dungeon
  • boss-fight
  • boss
  • adventure
  • retro-designed
  • side-scrolling
  • chiptune
  • 2d
  • vintage

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The Mummy Demastered (2017)

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The Mummy Demastered throws you into a 16-bit-inspired battle against the undead in a 2D, nonlinear, action-packed adventure. As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and magical artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet. Your Prodigium teammates are already on the scene, but HQ lost contact with them hours ago; only by exploring tombs, forests, abandoned tunnels, and the cursed streets of London will you discover the fate of your allies.


  • metroidvania

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Dreaming Sarah (2015)

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Dreaming Sarah is a surreal adventure platformer game with puzzle elements, an engaging environment, an incredibly diverse cast of characters, and of course, a young girl named Sarah. Sarah has been in an accident and is currently in a coma. It's up to you to help her wake up by exploring her dream world. Features: * Explore mysterious psychological areas * Collect, equip and use items * Interact with a vast cast of weird characters * Solve brain-teasing puzzles

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  • surreal
  • philosophical
  • platform
  • metroidvania
  • psychological
  • psychedelic
  • walking-simulator
  • puzzle
  • abstract
  • supernatural
  • exploration
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • relaxing
  • adventure

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