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.
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Demo Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark
2D Metroidvania with sister-switching combat and Demon Realm exploration
65% positive
586 reviews
Demo Songbird Symphony
A side-scrolling adventure mixing platforming puzzles with rhythm-based singing battles
90% positive
585 reviews
Super Win the Game
A nonlinear exploration platformer focused on jumping rather than combat
89% positive
576 reviews
Zexion
A sci-fi metroidvania with eight-direction shooting and an interconnected world
90% positive
575 reviews
Blaster Master Zero 2
Side-scrolling tank action with top-down shooting across alien planets
88% positive
573 reviews
Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse
2D action roguelite where a cursed hat lets you possess enemies
69% positive
573 reviews
3dSen PC
NES emulator that turns supported games into playable voxel scenes
91% positive
559 reviews
Fatal Claw
A 2D metroidvania where a cat absorbs infected creatures' abilities
87% positive
552 reviews
Demo BAIONLENJA
First-person platforming adventure built around bunny hopping and blade jumps
97% positive
551 reviews
Fearmonium
A hand-drawn metroidvania set inside a boy's troubled mind
83% positive
550 reviews
Kingsgrave
A dark fantasy action RPG where rebuilding unlocks new abilities
80% positive
544 reviews
Demo Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
Side-scrolling action platformer about a ninja fighting its creators
86% positive
541 reviews
Song of the Deep
Underwater metroidvania about exploring the ocean in an upgradeable submarine
83% positive
538 reviews
OVERLORD: ESCAPE FROM NAZARICK
Side-scrolling metroidvania about escaping a tomb by reclaiming lost powers
66% positive
530 reviews
Mr. Sun's Hatbox
2D stealth-action roguelite with recruitable thieves and hat heists
85% positive
521 reviews
Skelethrone: The Prey
A free, side-scrolling metroidvania with Souls-like combat and boss battles
77% positive
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Kalinur
A 2D metroidvania with sword combat and a castle to explore
97% positive
505 reviews
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
Underwater action-adventure with sea monster battles amid humanity's ruins
71% positive
498 reviews
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
Side-scrolling action platformer with wall climbing and aerial scythe attacks
94% positive
493 reviews
KUNAI
Side-scrolling action platformer with grappling hooks and robot enemies
76% positive
490 reviews
Blaster Master Zero 3
Side-scrolling tank action and top-down dungeon shooting across dimensions
87% positive
486 reviews
3000th Duel
Side-scrolling metroidvania with three melee weapon types and forbidden magic
75% positive
481 reviews
Shadow Complex Remastered
A side-scrolling shooter where new equipment opens previously blocked routes
85% positive
477 reviews
Demo 7th Domain:Tree of Chaos
Side-scrolling action roguelike with loot-driven weapon and skill combinations
87% positive
476 reviews