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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.

Watcher Chronicles
2D action RPG with difficult bosses and local co-op
87% positive 173 reviews
An Amazing Wizard
2D action roguelite built around combining spells across changing worlds
85% positive 153 reviews
Aura of Worlds
Side-scrolling roguelite platformer where you turn traps against enemies
91% positive 151 reviews
HunterX: code name T
Side-scrolling action RPG with exploration and devil fights
84% positive 148 reviews
Super Roboy
Hand-drawn sci-fi Metroidvania where defeated enemies grant new skills
93% positive 142 reviews
HOMESICKNESS
Point-and-click psychological horror in a daycare with shifting exits
93% positive 85 reviews
DragonLoop: Prologue
Free 2D action platformer with a three-day time loop
94% positive Free
Rusty Rabbit
Side-scrolling action adventure about a rabbit digging through human ruins
73% positive 74 reviews
Star Soraight Fantasy: Magic to reach the sky
Metroidvania adventure through a tower using friends' powers
90% positive 71 reviews
Q2 HUMANITY
Draw your way through physics puzzles with character abilities
89% positive 64 reviews
Powernaut VANGARDT
Retro side-scrolling action platformer built around hunting seven generals
73% positive 52 reviews
Wings of Endless
Pixel-art action RPG with real-time hero swapping and platforming
83% positive 47 reviews
The Golden Eyed Ghosts
Dark fantasy Souls-like with sword combat and consequential choices
56% positive 43 reviews
AOI
2D Metroidvania platformer with switchable weapons and connected maps
71% positive 42 reviews
Disney Illusion Island Starring Mickey and Friends
Hand-drawn 2D platforming across an interconnected island in local co-op
94% positive 34 reviews
Undivine
Dark 2D Metroidvania with Souls-like combat and nonlinear exploration
93% positive 28 reviews