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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Kong: Survivor Instinct
Side-scrolling action-adventure about a father surviving attacks by giant monsters
71% positive
344 reviews
Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition
A side-scrolling platform adventure with rewind and save-anywhere options
78% positive
344 reviews
DREADTOME
First-person horror shooter set in a library of forbidden knowledge
94% positive
Free
Demo MURI
A side-scrolling shooter and platformer with DOS-style graphics and sound
93% positive
341 reviews
Chariot
Physics-based puzzle platformer about hauling a king's wheeled coffin
81% positive
340 reviews
Akatori
Side-scrolling action platformer with a bird that transforms into a staff
71% positive
336 reviews
Stray Blade
Souls-inspired action RPG where combat victories change the surrounding world
69% positive
332 reviews
Demo EMUUROM
A puzzle platformer where studying creatures opens new paths
89% positive
330 reviews
Saira
Nonlinear puzzle platformer across seven star systems without weapons
80% positive
Free
Inexistence
Side-scrolling metroidvania with customizable character stats and equipment
63% positive
326 reviews
Alice Escaped!
A Wonderland action metroidvania built around a hammer-and-gun tag team
79% positive
326 reviews
Ascent DX
A pixel-art metroidvania where discoveries determine how your journey ends
99% positive
Free
Skautfold: Usurper
Metroidvania action RPG where precise dodges restore your defenses
67% positive
322 reviews
Retro Game Crunch
Seven 8-bit-style games spanning platformers, puzzles, cards, and shooters
82% positive
321 reviews
Romancelvania
Side-scrolling action platformer meets a monster dating show
74% positive
320 reviews
Tombwater
A top-down Soulslike set in a monster-infested Wild West town
91% positive
317 reviews
Dogolrax
A 2D adventure platformer that frequently changes how you play
69% positive
316 reviews
Metamorfose S
A 2D metroidvania with equipment crafted from enemy drops
80% positive
315 reviews
RWBY: Arrowfell
Side-scrolling action-adventure with special abilities for combat and environmental puzzles
72% positive
315 reviews
LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias
A puzzle platformer built around wind powers and changing seasons
85% positive
314 reviews
Cathedral
Side-scrolling metroidvania where magical items open paths to new areas
74% positive
314 reviews
Demo Skelethrone: The Chronicles of Ericona
Dark fantasy side-scrolling action RPG with tough bosses and choices
78% positive
309 reviews
Fear the Timeloop - Prologue
Third-person survival horror where bleeding out starts the cycle again
84% positive
Free
Demo DOOMBLADE
A side-scrolling metroidvania where sword attacks double as aerial movement
79% positive
308 reviews