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Action 07 August 2018

An action game with roguelike and metroidvania elements by indie French studio Motion Twin. During the game, you explore a grim castle, whose elements (such as chambers, cloisters, and sewers) are procedurally generated. Given the permadeath system, it means that each new gameplay is a fresh experience, during which you can discover new parts of the fortress. An important aspect of Dead Cells is combat, which is very difficult.

Action 02 November 2023

The sequel to a 2019 soulslike action platformer. Blasphemous II retains its predecessor's pixel art and enemy design inspired by medieval Christianity.

Action 15 November 2023

An action platformer metroidvania. The Last Faith stars Eric, traversing a dangerous gothic city, trying to learn the truth about an ancient prophecy and the corruption consuming the land.

Arcade 14 November 2014

A sandbox platform game by indie studio Re-Logic, sometimes called the 2D version of the popular Minecraft. There is no set goal; your task is basically to shape the randomly-generated world around you. At first you only have a few basic tools, which allow you to dig and find resources, chop wood, and create simple structures. As the game progresses, due to the extensive crafting system, you discover better tools, allowing you to create advanced materials and to fight monsters.

Action 25 September 2018

Hollow Knight is a 2D metroidvania game developed by the indie studio Team Cherry. The game takes us to a fantasy underground world located bellow the city of Dirtmouth. The place attracts numerous adventurers, who disappear without a trace when they enter it. We play as an adventurer who decides to face the challenge and find riches, fame, and the answers he is looking for in that underground world. The game is presented from a side-scrolling perspective.

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An exploration game that eludes standard genre classification, developed by independent studio Chucklefish. Starbound combines elements of a 2D sandbox platformer and a strategy game. As you play, you explore and colonize other planets, provide for their inhabitants, construct useful items and vehicles, as well as fight hostile aliens. The game is set in a procedurally generated world,providing a great amount of freedom to the players.

Action 25 June 2020

A hybrid of a classic platform game and of a metroidvania game. The player assumes the role of a ninja warrior who must save his village.

Action 11 March 2016

An expanded edition of the warmly received platform game developed by Moon studio in 2015. The story of Ori and the Blind Forest focuses on the titular spirit of the forest who is trying to learn something about itself and the world that surrounds it. The game lacks any dialogues and the story is told by using the gameplay and mute cutscenes. As for the mechanics, the game belongs to the subgenre called metroidvania.

Action 10 September 2019

A soulslike action platformer. Blasphemous features high-quality pixel art visuals and has us facing down hordes of nightmarish enemies inspired by medieval Christianity.

Action 11 March 2015

A two-dimensional platformer with RPG elements, produced by Moon Studios, an independent developer. It belongs to a subgenre called metroidvania. We assume the role of a young and inexperienced forest spirit who will try to learn more about himself and the world around him during his long journey. In the game we explore vast areas full of hidden passages and shortcuts while solving puzzles and facing challenges testing our agility.

Action 06 March 2023

The largest and most ambitious expansion for Dead Cells, released in 2018. The expansion offers a storyline directly related to the Castlevania series, two new biomes, three bosses and fourteen weapons.

Action 03 September 2020

A two-dimensional platform action game in which we control Sakuya Izayoi, a heroine known from the Touhou Project series. The production has a dynamic gameplay and manga graphics in the style of pixel art. The independent studio Team Ladybug is responsible for its creation.

Action canceled

Vigil: The Longest Night is a classic metroidvania set in a universe of dark fantasy, characterized by a high level of difficulty, challenging combat, grotesque monsters and an interesting graphic design. Glass Heart Games is responsible for the creation of the game.

Action 15 September 2021

Platform action game enriched with elements taken from the genre of metroidvania. The main character of Flynn: Son of Crimson is the title boy, whose shoulders are responsible for stopping the expansion of the hellish dimension of The Scourge, which is absorbing more and more parts of the continent.

Action 14 July 2021

Batbarian from Unspeakable Pixels studio is an action game in pixel art style, containing also features of RPGs, platformers and puzzle games. We play the role of a barbarian who, together with his companion Pip (a magical bat), travels through dark caves.

Action 04 October 2017

Two-dimensional action adventure game, belonging to the sub-genre of metroidvania. At Omega Strike we have several characters to choose from and we travel through a vast open world. An independent Woblyware studio is responsible for creating the game.

Action 12 July 2019

Largely inspired by the Wonder Boy series, a Metroidvania title with action RPG elements. During the game, we assume the role of Aggelos – the hero traveling through the fantastic world of Lumen and fighting invaders from another dimension. Thanks to the pixel-art visuals and a catchy, chiptune soundtrack, the game strongly resembles 16-bit classics.

Arcade 24 January 2019

An old-school platformer, metroidvania game, in which we play as the titular character of Jack. Armed with a sword, the hero wanders through a grim underground cave in search of his beloved Nara, who was kidnapped by a powerful orc named Korg. While observing the action from the side, we solve environmental riddles and face numerous opponents. Over time, we acquire the tools and skills necessary to reach previously unavailable locations.

Arcade 20 March 2020

A continuation of a stylish old-school platform game that had us travel through Aztec ruins as Lemeza Kosugi, an agile archeologist similar to Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones. La-Mulana 2 enables us to assume the role of the daughter of that hero, who had turned out just like her father, traveling through mysterious, inaccessible locations while wearing her trademark hat. The new adventure takes us to Scandinavia, and introduces a plot inspired by Nordic legends.

Action 24 December 2019

Metroidvania type game, in which we play the role of Haggis - a warrior trying to tear his son out of the claws of dark forces. While playing in Odallus: The Dark Call, we travel through extended levels and face adversaries, gradually increasing the combat potential of the protagonist.

Arcade 09 November 2018

A two-dimensional arcade platformer with RPG features from Discord Games studio. Chasm tells a story of a soldier who returns home after a long war. He arrives in an abandoned mining town and discovers most of its inhabitants have disappeared after entering a mysterious temple, deep down beneath the village. Our hero decides to stop the awakened evil, rescue the town’s inhabitants, and then safely return to his home.

Arcade 21 November 2018

A sequel to the 2013 metroidvania title, developed by Image & Form. Once again, the players are taken to a unique world that combines steampunk with western setting, this time as a female robot looking for her missing friend. The gameplay of SteamWorld Dig 2 doesn’t depart from the groundwork of its predecessor, focusing on digging underground tunnels to reach places of interest and find treasures we can spend to upgrade our equipment.

Action 18 January 2019

A sequel to the well-received game Guacamelee!. The players once again assume the role of Juan Aguacate who faces a global threat.

Action 21 December 2018

A two-dimensional metroidvania action game developed by independent studio Thunder Lotus Games – the producer of the warmly-received Jotun. In Sundered, the player assumes the role of a wanderer who travels through a ruined, post-apocalyptic world. The story of the game is strongly connected to its mechanics, as the price of the progress of the protagonist is paid with his humanity – what powers the player decides to wield, will have impact on the ending of the game.