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
256 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Control Craft 2
Real-time strategy with rapid troop commands and base captures
76% positive
469 reviews
Berserk Boy
Fast 2D action platformer built around dashes and changing powers
85% positive
433 reviews
Dusk City
Pixel-art metroidvania about exploring ruins and fighting mechanical creatures
88% positive
407 reviews
Elypse
Dark fantasy 2D action platformer about dashing through the Abyss
74% positive
405 reviews
Genopanic
2D space-station platformer with mutants and branching endings
77% positive
384 reviews
Twilight Monk
Action RPG with side-scrolling dungeons and overhead world travel
77% positive
378 reviews
Haydee 3
Third-person puzzle shooter through a maze of traps and scarce supplies
85% positive
347 reviews
Saira
Nonlinear puzzle platformer across seven star systems without weapons
80% positive
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INAYAH - Life after Gods
2D action platformer with weapon-switching combat and traversal
77% positive
321 reviews
Romancelvania
Side-scrolling action platformer meets a monster dating show
74% positive
320 reviews
Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm
Third-person fantasy action RPG with ally-assisted puzzles and dungeons
75% positive
318 reviews
Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
Dark fantasy side-scrolling action RPG with tough bosses and choices
78% positive
309 reviews
Master Key
2D action-adventure with open exploration, puzzles, and secrets
91% positive
292 reviews
Rebel Transmute
Sci-fi metroidvania with swappable upgrades and a missing mother
76% positive
286 reviews
Magical Delicacy
Combat-free cooking platformer built around exploring a harbor town
79% positive
286 reviews
Nightmare: The Lunatic
2D action roguelite with weapon swapping and reshuffled nightmare runs
89% positive
272 reviews
TOOK: The Immortal Hero
2D action platformer with hard fights and moon-seeking factions
76% positive
268 reviews
Mask of Mists
First-person puzzle adventure tracking a missing archmage through magical ruins
85% positive
227 reviews
ROLLING STAR
2D Metroidvania with craftable gear and outer-space exploration
97% positive
221 reviews
The Siege and the Sandfox
2D stealth Metroidvania with parkour through a besieged palace
64% positive
211 reviews
Venture to the Vile
2.5D Metroidvania about gaining powers to explore a monster-infested town
77% positive
185 reviews
Welcome to Planet E1d0r4d0!
Pixel-art RPG about hunting ingredients and running an underground diner
75% positive
179 reviews
ReSetna
Metroidvania action platformer with parries and chip-based upgrades
82% positive
176 reviews
Cosmobreeder Yiffai
Retro 2D exploration platformer about rescuing crewmates on an alien world
84% positive
175 reviews