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.
Unbound: Worlds Apart
Side-scrolling puzzle-platformer where portals change gravity and time
83% positive
1,339 reviews
Pronty
Underwater Metroidvania where a robotic swordfish serves as your weapon
91% positive
1,323 reviews
StarBreak
Free-to-play 2D action platformer with permadeath and alien boss fights
79% positive
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Castle In The Darkness
Retro action platformer with tough fights and hidden secrets
77% positive
1,286 reviews
Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition
2D action platformer built around leaping between surfaces
81% positive
1,275 reviews
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
Side-scrolling platformer with creature transformations and alternate campaigns
88% positive
1,268 reviews
Ultros
2D sci-fi exploration platformer with time loops and gardening
77% positive
1,268 reviews
Wings of Vi
2D precision platformer with deadly hazards and demanding boss fights
79% positive
1,259 reviews
AWAKEN - Astral Blade
2.5D action platformer with parries, upgrades, and hidden paths
82% positive
1,255 reviews
LOST EPIC
Side-scrolling action RPG with customizable weapon skills and god battles
72% positive
1,138 reviews
Dragon Marked For Death
Quest-based side-scrolling action RPG with varied characters and online co-op
77% positive
1,110 reviews
Toki Tori 2+
Open-world puzzle platformer where whistles and stomps influence creatures
85% positive
1,105 reviews
La-Mulana 2
2D action platformer built around cryptic clues in ancient ruins
86% positive
1,086 reviews
Gunbrella
Side-scrolling action adventure with a gun that doubles as an umbrella
85% positive
1,052 reviews
Voidwrought
Dark 2D Metroidvania with relics, boss fights, and shrine building
78% positive
1,032 reviews
Super Panda Adventures
2D action platformer with sword combos and nonlinear exploration
92% positive
1,028 reviews
Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope
Retro 2D platformer with shovel combat and hidden treasure
94% positive
1,011 reviews
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU
Side-scrolling action adventure about a shaman seeking his father's spirit
83% positive
986 reviews
Guns of Fury
Run-and-gun platforming meets ability-gated exploration and mech combat
88% positive
986 reviews
The Knight Witch
Flying Metroidvania with bullet-hell combat and customizable spell cards
72% positive
969 reviews
ITORAH
2D action platformer about a lone human among masked beings
73% positive
959 reviews
PowerSlave Exhumed
First-person shooter through Egyptian tombs with upgrade-based backtracking
89% positive
943 reviews
Fe
3D puzzle-platform adventure using songs to enlist forest creatures
78% positive
934 reviews
The Darkest Tales
Side-scrolling action platformer starring a bear in twisted fairy tales
71% positive
932 reviews