Best Metroidvania games on PC
Games built around exploring interconnected areas, gaining abilities or tools, and returning to earlier locations to open previously inaccessible paths. Combat and platforming are common.
- Exploration of interconnected areas
- New abilities unlock new paths
- Combat and platforming challenges
Related: Platformer, Adventure, Action, Souls-like
837 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
837 games
AI filter: hide games with AI content
Customize
Hollow Knight
Challenging 2D Metroidvania through a ruined underground bug kingdom
96% positive
537K reviews
Hollow Knight: Silksong
An exploration platformer with acrobatic combat across an insect kingdom
86% positive
402K reviews
Dead Cells
Fast 2D action roguelite with branching runs and permadeath
97% positive
168K reviews
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
Third-person Jedi adventure with lightsaber combat and Force-powered exploration
88% positive
163K reviews
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Hand-painted Metroidvania platforming through a wounded fantasy world
96% positive
149K reviews
Demo Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition
Third-person superhero action with stealth, gadgets, and detective work
96% positive
68K reviews
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Atmospheric 2D Metroidvania focused on fluid platforming and exploration
94% positive
67K reviews
Demo Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
Open-world superhero action with stealth, brawling, and detective work
96% positive
61K reviews
Blasphemous
Gory 2D Metroidvania through a cursed world of twisted religion
89% positive
59K reviews
CONTROL Ultimate Edition
Third-person supernatural action with telekinetic combat and shifting environments
86% positive
55K reviews
Skul: The Hero Slayer
Side-scrolling action roguelite built around swappable skull powers
93% positive
54K reviews
Ori and the Blind Forest
2D action platformer with ability-based exploration through a dying forest
93% positive
53K reviews
Rain World
Difficult 2D survival platformer about escaping predators and deadly rain
93% positive
51K reviews
ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Dark fantasy Metroidvania where defeated bosses become combat allies
93% positive
46K reviews
Nine Sols
Hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania built around precise parries and bosses
94% positive
42K reviews
CARRION
Gory 2D puzzle Metroidvania where you play the monster
94% positive
36K reviews
Demo ASTLIBRA Revision
Side-scrolling action RPG with time travel and flexible character builds
94% positive
32K reviews
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Gothic side-scrolling action RPG with castle exploration and varied builds
93% positive
31K reviews
ICEY
Side-scrolling action where you can defy the narrator
90% positive
27K reviews
ANIMAL WELL
Puzzle platformer with nonlinear paths and secrets beyond the ending
95% positive
24K reviews
Death's Door
Isometric action-adventure about a crow tracking a stolen soul
92% positive
21K reviews
Salt and Sanctuary
2D action RPG with tough combat and branching island exploration
88% positive
21K reviews
Blasphemous 2
Difficult 2D Metroidvania with weapon swapping and grotesque bosses
90% positive
18K reviews
Pseudoregalia
3D Metroidvania with acrobatic moves and open-ended castle exploration
97% positive
18K reviews