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
827 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo Journey of Realm：Dawn Dew
Turn-based fantasy RPG mixing platform exploration with customizable combat styles
97% positive
2,388 reviews
9 Years of Shadows
Side-scrolling Metroidvania with elemental armor inside a mechanical fortress
78% positive
2,384 reviews
Castlevania Advance Collection
Four retro 2D action games set in Dracula's castle
91% positive
2,380 reviews
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
2D action platformer with interconnected ruins and demanding sword-and-magic combat
83% positive
2,362 reviews
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD
Side-scrolling action adventure tracing a family's conflict with Dracula
84% positive
2,293 reviews
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder
2D Metroidvania with sword-and-gun combat in a steampunk city
80% positive
2,288 reviews
Little Noah: Scion of Paradise
Action roguelite with shifting dungeons and customizable ally combos
92% positive
2,288 reviews
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
Side-scrolling action platformer with fast swordplay and interconnected areas
83% positive
2,284 reviews
Infernax
Side-scrolling action RPG with choices that change quests and abilities
92% positive
2,241 reviews
UNSIGHTED
Pixel-art action adventure where friends run out of time
93% positive
2,238 reviews
The Desolate Hope
Side-scrolling sci-fi platformer with RPG battles against a computer virus
92% positive
Free
La-Mulana
2D action platformer built around cryptic puzzles in ancient ruins
79% positive
2,199 reviews
Patch Quest
Twin-stick roguelite shooter where you lasso monsters for their abilities
94% positive
2,154 reviews
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero
Side-scrolling action platformer with dance transformations and magical attacks
90% positive
2,125 reviews
The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare
A side-scrolling platformer about a stuffed bear fighting through nightmares
85% positive
Free
Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
Side-scrolling action platformer where defeated dragons change your form
85% positive
2,083 reviews
Demo Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Top-down action-adventure using yoyo tricks for combat, puzzles, and exploration
98% positive
2,071 reviews
Dark Devotion
2D dark-fantasy action RPG with branching, one-way temple paths
74% positive
2,053 reviews
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
A 2D exploration platformer where pirate gear replaces lost magic
94% positive
2,041 reviews
Castlevania Anniversary Collection
Eight classic side-scrolling action games about fighting Dracula
80% positive
2,035 reviews
Demo Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune
Side-scrolling fantasy Metroidvania with character switching and hidden passages
81% positive
2,016 reviews
Ghost 1.0
A side-scrolling action platformer about possessing robots aboard a space station
90% positive
2,006 reviews
Tower Hunter: Erza's Trial
Side-scrolling action roguelite with tower runs that reset on death
71% positive
1,996 reviews
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
A 2D action RPG with tough battles across snowy rat lands
79% positive
1,982 reviews