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.
Owlboy
Pixel-art action adventure with flying, platforming, and companion combat
83% positive
6,130 reviews
The Gunk
Third-person sci-fi adventure about clearing pollution from an alien planet
86% positive
6,049 reviews
Guacamelee! Gold Edition
2D action-platformer with wrestling moves and shifting between dimensions
93% positive
6,010 reviews
Wuppo: Definitive Edition
2D platform adventure across a strange world to find a home
94% positive
5,980 reviews
Lost Ruins
2D dungeon platformer with deliberate combat and elemental hazards
85% positive
5,806 reviews
You Have to Win the Game
Retro exploration platformer with difficult jumps and hidden routes
93% positive
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The Last Faith
Gothic 2D action game with tough combat and ability-gated exploration
85% positive
5,684 reviews
Hob
Open-world action adventure where solving puzzles reshapes the landscape
88% positive
5,616 reviews
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Dark fantasy 2D action RPG with nonlinear exploration and demanding bosses
81% positive
5,594 reviews
Eastshade
First-person island adventure with painting, exploration, and local quests
89% positive
5,522 reviews
Mega Man 11
Side-scrolling action platformer with robot boss weapons and power boosts
89% positive
5,482 reviews
Yoku's Island Express
Pinball platforming adventure across an island of branching paths
96% positive
5,332 reviews
Dread Delusion
First-person open-world RPG exploring flying lands above an undead curse
90% positive
5,281 reviews
Gato Roboto
A 2D exploration platformer where a cat pilots a mech
94% positive
5,261 reviews
Sundered®: Eldritch Edition
Hand-drawn metroidvania with changing paths and waves of enemies
82% positive
5,178 reviews
Vagante
2D action roguelike with deadly traps and class-based dungeon runs
89% positive
5,037 reviews
Iconoclasts
2D action platformer about an unlicensed mechanic on the run
86% positive
5,019 reviews
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
Four classic side-scrolling action platformers with bosses and stolen weapons
79% positive
5,001 reviews
A Castle Full of Cats
Point-and-click hidden-object game with branching castle rooms and cursed cats
99% positive
4,528 reviews
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon
Retro side-scrolling action platformer with switchable companions and branching paths
94% positive
4,524 reviews
Supraland Six Inches Under
First-person puzzle platformer where new abilities open underground paths
96% positive
4,298 reviews
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
Side-scrolling action platformer with fast swordplay and interconnected areas
81% positive
4,250 reviews
TEVI
Side-scrolling metroidvania with customizable combat and bullet-heavy boss fights
89% positive
4,068 reviews
Chicory: A Colorful Tale
Top-down adventure with painting puzzles in a colorless world
97% positive
3,996 reviews