Tag: Metroidvania
Inspired by Metroid and Castlevania, this includes games that involve a connected world design, lots of exploration, backtracking, and a constant feed of new unlocks expanding the explorable space of the world.
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Moonlight Pulse
Furry character switching metroidvania about fighting a virus invasion inside the body of a giant celestial world turtle? Sounds like a fun time.
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Ato
Ninja cat metroidvania where you just want to find your kidnapped child and wife. With a whole story told without a single word in a large connected world of stunningly beautiful pixel art, this is definitely up there on the list of very good metroidvanias.
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Islets
A super cute metroidvania with a modest level of diffficulty. Explore through 5 disconnected maps with the goal of trying to reconnect them by activating the island’s cores, then explore new areas of each island through the new connections that are made by bringing the islands together again.
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The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Sadly not about actual foxes, but a very compelling detective metroidvania nontheless! Though this game isn’t for the faint of heart, it’s not a horror game, but it is incredibly lovecraftian. Lots of creepy locales and tentacles amongst the stuff that wants to kill you, oh and if you’re arachnophobic, you might wanna hold off…
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Ori And The Blind Forest
Ori is an interersting one, unlike most other games in the genre, it’s a metroidvania that isn’t focused on combat, but rather a lot of tricky platforming through difficult terrain and spiked tunnels. There are some enemies that get in your way, but in general the way to tackle them is to just dodge their…
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Rabi Ribi
Bunny girl with a hammer, what could go wrong. Well, a lot, I suppose. Somehow all the bunnies have disappeared and Erina, our protagonist, has turned into a bunny girl instead of a bunny? Whats going on? Whats this bunny phenomenon thats making every other girl on the island try to capture you? Guess you’ll…
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Vision Soft Reset
A short little metroidvania game where you play as an oracle who can see the future. You land on a planet and explore, and you might notice a timer in the top corner. As you adventure, you’ll find checkpoint stations, where you can save your progress. But not only does this save your items and…
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Monster Sanctuary
It’s not a Pokemon game! Monster Sanctuary is a monster collection game, where you hatch monsters to be a part of your team, and then explore a world to battle wild monsters or other keepers in strategy heavy 3v3 battles. The world that you explore is a vast 2D platformer, where the monsters you have…