Best Metroidvania Games To Play In 2026

Metroidvanias, also known as search-action games, are everywhere. What was once a relatively niche genre has become extremely popular in recent years, especially as AAA and indie publishers alike explore their own distinct takes on the genre with added mechanics, interesting settings, and worlds to explore. The best metroidvanias are games that provide massive maps to explore, obstacles to conquer, and progression systems with constant “eureka” moments during your journey. There are so many to choose from that it can be hard to find the one that’s right for you.
We’ve combed through the massive library of games in the genre, and found tons of examples to help you get started on a 2D dive into this stylish field of games. This isn’t meant to be a definitive list of the best of all time, but rather a sampling of great games that are widely available to play right now. The selections below are listed in alphabetical order, and we regularly reexamine this list to add the latest and greatest.
And if you’re looking for much more about metroidvanias as a whole, be sure to check out all of our coverage Metroidvania Week, a full week devoted to commentary and celebration of this iconic genre.
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Animal Well

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: May 9, 2024
Developer: Billy Basso

This critically acclaimed indie was in progress for years under a single developer, and when it finally released, it was worth the wait. Animal Well is a metroidvania that also belies a puzzle box of secrets hiding in plain sight. Unfolding the mystery will take platforming and exploration as you’d expect, but also some sharp note-taking and observation skills. The deeper you go, the more mysteries and environmental puzzles there are to explore, for a truly engrossing experience unlike anything else.
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Axiom Verge series

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Developer: Thomas Happ Games

A gorgeous homage to Super Metroid, the Axiom Verge games merge gripping stories with incredible moment-to-moment gunplay. What makes the Axiom Verge approach feel so special is a truly staggering assortment of weapons, which range from your run-of-the-mill blasters to exotic guns that rip reality itself apart. Possibly the biggest draw of Axiom Verge is the atmosphere that it invites you to explore, as the alien nature of these levels, coupled with the isolation that you’ll have to endure, is cold and unnerving.
These stages also house secrets that can distort their own design, breaking their own reality while dropping heavy theological questions into the mix that are coated with the nostalgic appeal of 8-bit graphics. If you’re not in the mood to start pondering the very nature of existence, though, the Axiom Verge games easily function as a brilliant fusion between Metroid and Contra that feel constantly rewarding when you dive headfirst into them.
Read our Axiom Verge review and Axiom Verge 2 review.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Developer: Rocksteady Studios

Rocksteady’s Arkham series is renowned for setting a high-quality standard for superhero games. But while later entries would lean more heavily into the open-world aspect, Batman: Arkham Asylum is much more focused and tightly contained, centering on plumbing the depths of a single, dense environment. When a routine drop-off of the villainous Joker to Arkham takes an unexpected turn, Batman is trapped and surrounded by the supervillains he’s locked up. The brooding game is a fight for survival mixed with a detective story as he explores the environment, unlocks new Bat-gear he’s stashed away for emergencies, and even improvises with some of the villains’ tools. The sequels were fantastic in their own right, but this original is a slick, modernized metroidvania.
Read our Batman: Arkham Asylum review.

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Blade Chimera

Platforms: PC, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: January 16, 2025
Developer: Team Ladybug

Blade Chimera is a direct homage to one of the greats, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, due to its similarly styled (and gorgeous) pixel art and silver-haired protagonist. But the tightly designed metroidvania forges an identity of its own with a near-future setting that has you hunting down yokai-like demons. When a demon fuses itself to the protagonist, Shin, he has to both investigate deep mysteries about himself and his companion, while hiding the truth from his comrades. The dystopian future lets you use any combination of melee weapons and ranged firearms, and the story goes to some surprising places.

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Blasphemous

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Developer: The Game Kitchen

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, especially in video games! Drawing a heap of inspiration from ye olde European Catholic imagery, Blasphemous creates a world to explore that is both horrifying and fascinating, while also providing great combat and a library of lore to sit through and read. Combat sequences are beautifully animated, themes of death and rebirth can be found everywhere, and the game is a brutal challenge that doesn’t show any mercy to heretics. A metroidvania that throws some uncomfortable religious content your way, Blasphemous is an appealing prospect for anyone looking to venture out of their usual comfort zone in this genre.
Read our Blasphemous review.

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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Developer: ArtPlay

The pitch for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night was an appealing one when it first hit Kickstarter several years ago: a new series led by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night director Koji Igarashi, working to create a spiritual successor to the legendary Konami game for a new generation of platforms. Crowdfunded before you could even crack a whip, Bloodstained arrived a few years later and provided a gothic castle of familiar content. A few decades removed from its primary inspiration, Bloodstained’s combat never fails to feel satisfying, there’s a secret to uncover in every corner, and a smorgasbord of post-launch updates turned this game into a must-play entry in the metroidvania genre.
Read our Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night review.

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Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow

Platforms: Game Boy Advance, included in Castlevania Advance Collection on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch platforms
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Developer: Konami

Considered by many to be a high-water mark for the Castlevania series following the Symphony of the Night template, Aria of Sorrow was the third and final Castlevania game on Game Boy Advance. While Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance both have their charms, Aria of Sorrow was refined to a mirror shine and became an instant classic. It featured intricate stage design and rock-solid combat, supported by a new Tactical Soul system that rewarded you for hunting down all the monsters in Dracula’s keep. It also featured an original story in an unusual near-future setting, which capitalized on our fascination with Dracula’s extended family. While original GBA carts could be hard to come by, Aria of Sorrow is available as part of the Castlevania Advance Collection, which sports quality-of-life features like save states and rewind, along with multiple regional versions.
Read our Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow review.

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Castlevania: Dominus Collection

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: August 27, 2024
Developer: Konami

Symphony of the Night will always be regarded as the quintessential metroidvania experience by fans. Konami’s shift to the Game Boy Advance led to Castlevania games that, while the quality was definitely there, could never match the feeling of the PlayStation classic. The Nintendo DS was a 32-bit handheld console that was home to three wonderful metroidvanias, each bringing its own gameplay ideas while matching the graphical finesse of SotN, and Castlevania: Dominus Collection is the best way to experience them all.
Dawn of Sorrow is a direct sequel to Aria of Sorrow, building on its foundations while adding smart changes that encourage exploration and combat. The DS original also had gimmicky touch-screen controls that were seldom used. While the breakable blocks are an unavoidable part of the adventure, the more egregious seals now use button controls, which is far better, since needing to whip out a stylus to finish any boss battle was a dissonant experience. Thankfully, the other two games, Portrait of Ruin and Order of Ecclesia, were far less reliant on the DS hardware and needed minimal changes.
They’re also impeccable metroidvanias that knocked it out of the park with their fun gameplay mechanics; Portrait introduced a tag-team mechanic that deeply affects both combat and exploration, while Order of Ecclesia’s glyph-based combat was the inspiration for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. For any metroidvania fan, these three games should be in your collection as they still mark the gold standard for the genre. Oh, and when you want to switch to a more conventional classic Castlevania experience, Haunted Castle Revisited is a joyous remake of a hideous quarter-munching arcade game (also included for prosperity) and the first “new” game in the series in years.

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Crypt Custodian

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: August 27, 2024
Developer: Kyle Thompson

Crypt Custodian is the rare top-down metroidvania, which at times makes it almost resemble a classic Legend of Zelda game. As an adorable kitty-cat named Pluto who has recently died, you accidentally anger the wrong afterlife overseer and get sentenced to eternal janitor duty. The whimsical premise has you meet up with other ghosts, battle fiendish monsters, and discover new powers to explore the lush, hand-drawn landscape.

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Dead Cells

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Developer: Motion Twin, Evil Empire

Dead Cells may not be the first game that adopted a Dark Souls influence and drifted from metroidvania stylings into roguevania territory, but it’s easily one of the best games of its genre. Raising the bar and creating a template for progression that other indie games would be inspired by in its wake, Dead Cells provides action that ranges from manageable to unrelenting as you progress further in the game, an expansive arsenal of weapons, numerous abilities, and a march forward through some of the most challenging bosses ever faced in the genre.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry–a lot–but that journey behind enemy lines is worth it for the bragging rights alone. It’s little wonder, then, that not only did Dead Cells get Konami’s blessing to feature Castlevania-themed DLC, but that Evil Empire, the developers of that DLC, would go on to make Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, the first new metroidvania in the series in over a decade.
Read our Dead Cells review.

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Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist

Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: March 25, 2024
Developer: Adglobe

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist is a fantasy, side-scrolling Metroidvania that also features elements of action-adventure games and RPGs. The graphics are 2D, but the levels in the game offer a plethora of vibrancy and different post-apocalyptic environments that capture and hold your attention. As for gameplay, Bloom in the Mist has you play as a character named Lilac, who needs to use her power to save an entire race of people. As you progress through the game, you’ll need to navigate through different levels using movement mechanics as well as battle enemies using Lilac’s inherent and evolving powers. You can collect new gear, upgrade Lilac’s abilities, and meet companions with varying skillsets along the way as well.

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Environmental Station Alpha

Platforms: PC
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Developer: Hempuli Oy

At first glance, Environmental Station Alpha might seem like your standard retro-style metroidvania set in a deserted space station. If you’re playing through for the first time, it can be completed without affecting that assumption. But Environmental Station Alpha is developed by Hempuli Oy–the same solo developer that released Baba Is You–and much like the latter title, it has plenty of hidden depth which really makes it shine, especially in the post-game.
Environmental Station Alpha boasts exceptionally clever puzzles that take advantage of the huge world around it, filled with secrets and clearly inspiring modern titles such as Animal Well. It has fun, varied boss fights, which are reached via satisfying and solid platforming sections, and traversal and combat are both made more interesting by an early-game upgrade that we won’t spoil for you here. While ESA was originally released in 2015, it was rebuilt and re-released in 2024 with Steam Deck and more extensive Mac support, so you can now play it in more ways than ever before.

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Gato Roboto

Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Developer: Doinksoft

You control a cat in a robot suit. That’s it, that is the primary appeal of Gato Roboto. Not enough for you? Well then, strap yourself in for a monochromatic ride through strange territory as you guide Kiki the cat through various obstacles and hazards. Gato Roboto does very little to stand out from the metroidvania pack in terms of innovation, but the game shines with just how well it approaches the format. It has tight controls, the minimalist art style is effortlessly charming, and it poses a proper challenge for even the most seasoned of Metroid hunters.

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Guacamelee series

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Developer: Drinkbox Studios

The Guacamelee games may have design elements that are evocative of Super Metroid, but you’d never think of this tag team of wrestling mayhem as clones of the Nintendo original. The digital DNA may be there as a foundation, but Guacamelee goes its own way with satisfying punch-’em-up action, dazzling level design, and top-rope platforming that go hand-in-hand with each other. The gameplay never feels less than polished, every element exists in harmony with other action-packed systems, and the energy on display is infectious.
Guacamelee 2 is the stronger game in this duo with its more polished design, but the original is still an absolute treat to play even after its original debut so many years ago. Chalk this pair up as the best metroidvanias for wrestlemaniacs in your home.
Read our Guacamelee review and our Guacamelee 2 review.

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Hollow Knight and Silksong

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Developer: Team Cherry

Both of Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight games are phenomenal metroidvania adventures that utilize vibrant art direction, evocative music, and huge interconnected worlds to tell stories of flawed monarchs, fallen gods, supernatural afflictions, and unyielding heroism. Oh, and, uh, adorable bugs. It’s tough to pick a clear winner between the two. While the original game’s Hallownest oozes with a hauntingly creepy atmosphere that devours you in its lingering tragedy the deeper you descend, Silksong smartly builds on its predecessor’s shortcomings to deliver a more approachable and hopeful tale, faster and more frenetic combat, and more rewarding platforming challenges. You can’t really go wrong either way, but if we had to pick one, we’d go with Silksong.
Whether you’re descending into the bowls of a forgotten kingdom in the original Hollow Knight, or ascending to the peak of a holy pilgrimage in Silksong’s Pharloom, exploration is the key spotlight of the series. Team Cherry has put thoughtful consideration into every environment, intentionally (and as sequence breakers have demonstrated, also unintentionally) building in multiple avenues to reach your goal to reward both curiosity and tenacity. These odysseys through bug- and spider-inhabited worlds are littered with fascinating nuggets of lore and clues as to how both game’s respective kingdoms fell, and the hunt to uncover the truth in either game is one of the most engrossing experiences in any metroidvania.
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Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: April 17, 2024
Developer: Primal Game Studio

If you’re searching for a Metroidvania with RPG elements and challenging combat, then look no further than Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree. Set in a fantasy world ruled by darkness, Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree features beautiful 3D graphics, side-scrolling gameplay, and Souls-like combat. At the start of the game, you can pick between six classes that all offer unique abilities and gear. You can also create your character, something not often found in Metroidvanias. From there, you’ll embark on a journey across an interconnected world, battling monsters, upgrading your character, and speaking to NPCs all in an effort to determine the fate of your world.

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Metroid Dread

Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Release Date: October 8, 2021
Developer: MercurySteam / Nintendo

Metroid Dread is the first all-new 2D game since Zero Mission in 2004, and continues where the story left off in the other Game Boy Advance metroidvania: Metroid Fusion. It came as a pleasant surprise for Switch owners at first, but beneath the surface is a deceptively terrifying metroidvania that will keep you on your toes. The map is characteristically massive, full of secrets and opportunities for exploration. However, Dread expands on the light horror element that was a defining feature of Fusion with the addition of EMMI: merciless machines that stalk you through parts of stages. Each one has different behaviors, preferred patrol paths, and ruthless ways to chase Samus down if it even catches a glimpse of her. You’ll need to keep your wits about you in this galactic adventure.
Read our Metroid Dread review.

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Metroid Prime Remastered

Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Release Date: February 8, 2023
Developer: Retro Studios / Nintendo

When Metroid Prime premiered on the GameCube, it showed the world that Nintendo was still the master of innovating in the space. Years later, Metroid Prime Remastered on Nintendo Switch gave the classic a facelift and some quality-of-life tweaks, but mostly kept the excellent original intact. Set in the middle of the Metroid continuity, Metroid Prime sends Samus to Tallon IV in pursuit of Ridley. The translation of Metroid into a 3D series retained its quiet, moody exploration and storytelling told mostly through scanning the flora and fauna of the strange environment. Combat got a major advancement with lock-on targeting, letting you smoothly strafe around deadly space pirates and otherworldly creatures. Most surprising is that this all feels like a natural extension of the core of Metroid in a 3D space, which earned Retro Studios well-deserved plaudits.
Read our Metroid Prime Remastered impressions.

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MIO: Memories in Orbit

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2
Release Date: January 20, 2026
Developer: Douze Dixièmes

For those looking for an eerily beautiful metroidvania that challenges your reflexes in both combat and its platforming obstacles, MIO: Memories in Orbit fits the bill. You are a small robot revived after a great cataclysm renders a ship, known as The Vessel, into a perpetual state of decay, drifting ever onward. Tasked with liberating Pearls from other robots that have abandoned their duties, you’ll slide across snow drifts in the ship’s cooling unit, or sneak through pipelines and vents to avoid the rogues skulking the corridors.
In addition to progression upgrades that you would see in many metroidvanias, you can also install modifiers to Mio; early examples include healing shields for free or seeing enemy health bars at a glance. In order to use them, though, you need to have enough memory slots available. This gives players an early dilemma: which is more important? Do you add a little more damage to the last hit in a combo by sacrificing being able to see your remaining health? Is an extra health point more important than being able to heal for free?
This carries over to the game’s story, filled with haunting themes of abandonment, loss of purpose, and loss of self. Perseverance is a constant in MIO: Memories in Orbit, whether it’s the robots trying not to lose control, or yours as you face a difficult boss or jump.

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Momodora: Moonlit Farewell

Platforms: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: January 11, 2024
Developer: Bombservice

The Momodora franchise is quite well-known within the metroidvania community, and this one is arguably the best game the series has to offer. The game sees you take control of Momo, a priestess who is traveling alone through demon-infested lands to sanctify the surroundings. Momodora: Moonlit Farewell won’t take you too long to beat, but there are boss fights, challenging enemy encounters, different puzzles, and gorgeous levels to explore. Combat is definitely a highlight, as Momo can utilize a flurry of attacks and combos in addition to several movement mechanics that help her stay alive.
Moonlit Farewell offers its rewarding combat system with multiple play styles as well as an in-depth world to explore, full of unique environments, enemies, and lore to uncover.

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Monster Sanctuary

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: August 28, 2019
Developer: Moi Rai Games

A metroidvania-meets-monster-tamer in the vein of Pokemon, Monster Sanctuary has you explore the world while building up a wide stable of creatures to do your bidding. Like Pokemon, each monster has its own stats and abilities. But as a platformer, they also enable your exploration abilities, like allowing you to glide short distances or go underwater. It’s an inventive combination that rethinks both metroidvanias and Pokemon-like games at the same time.

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Nine Sols

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Release Date: May 29, 2024
Developer: Red Candle Games

Featuring a rich hand-drawn art style and Sekiro-inspired combat, Nine Sols is perhaps one of the more unique entries, deserving of the acclaim it received. The striking art style and smooth animation evoke its Eastern and Cyberpunk influences in gorgeous detail with its sharp 2D graphics, but that wouldn’t mean much if it didn’t have the gameplay chops to back it up. Nine Sols delivers there as well, with tight and responsive combat that will test your defensive reflexes, mastery of the grappling hook and other abilities, and of course, how ruthless you are with a blade.

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Ori series

Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Developer: Moon Studios

Both Ori games are jaw-dropping adventures that blend some of the best artistic design in the business with pinpoint precision, but Ori and the Will of the Wisps is easily the superior sibling here. Both games feature a meaty core of exploration, combat, and using abilities to access previously gated-off areas, but Will of the Wisps is the game where those mechanics shine best and polishes them to create an action-packed experience that’s smooth as silk.
They’re the type of games that’ll have you screaming in despair when you fail yet again to nail that one jump, cheering when you’re getting over a seemingly impassable hurdle, and curling up into a ball of depression after you’re left floored by the tear-jerking story haymakers that both games deliver. Superb examples of what the metroidvania genre is capable of, both games bring charm and heartbreak to the table with enjoyable platforming, hard-hitting action, and exquisite visuals.
Read our Ori and the Blind Forest review and Ori and the Will of the Wisps review.

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Owlboy

Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Developer: D-Pad Studio

Owlboy is a pixelated Metroidvania that utilizes a different style of combat than you might be used to. Instead of using traversal or traditional weapons as a means to fight enemies, you use Owlboy’s companions, which he carries around from level to level. As you progress to different levels, you’ll encounter several enemy types that require different strategies and equipment to defeat. Of course, there are also still plenty of puzzles to solve and loot to find as you thoroughly search every area you come across.
Owlboy is a more relaxing and laid-back Metroidvania, but it can be enjoyed by any fan of the genre.

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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: January 18, 2024
Developer: Ubisoft

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is the latest in a trailblazing series, showing it can still innovate when exploring a new genre. This time, we explore through the eyes of Sargon, a young warrior of a clan named The Immortals, a 2D, exploration-based take on Persian mythology. This is a masterful example of the form, with tense combat that’s exciting in a way that many metroidvania games struggle to be, but that doesn’t come at the cost of its exploration bona fides. In fact, The Lost Crown innovates with smart ideas like Memory Shards to help mark your place for further exploration as you gain more powers, and a Guided option to subtly point you in the right direction. You can expect to see lots of other metroidvania games in the future copying some of these ideas.
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SteamWorld Dig series

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Developer: Image & Form / Thunderful

A pair of excellent metroidvanias with a heavy emphasis on exploration in a handcrafted world, SteamWorld Dig and its sequel are charming and compact-sized games that mix deconstruction of the world around you with some thrilling combat. While the first SteamWorld Dig is a quirky adventure with some wonderful locales, the sequel is a vastly superior follow-up that offers more satisfyingly destructible environments, a better selection of tools to dig your way through to new challenges, and a more polished gameplay loop that rewards you for your progress. It’s more focused, cuts plenty of fat off of the original game’s foundation, and the journey to the center of a hostile planet is full of surprises along the way.
Read our Steamworld Dig review and our SteamWorld Dig 2 review.

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Yoku’s Island Express

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Developer: Villa Gorilla

Yoku’s Island Express is an odd coupling of genres, a concept on paper that shouldn’t work, and yet it’s an extraordinary experience that successfully fuses metroidvania elements with pinball. All the usual exploratory features from a metroidvania are present, but getting around levels and various hazards requires guiding your little bug-man and his precious egg around a world of organic bumpers and flippers that’ll send the resilient hero careening all over the screen. There’s a definitive path through each stage that’s fun and adorable, combat is largely swept to the side in favor of exploration, and the whole experience is both easy to grasp and rewarding for any pinball wizards who have a firm grasp on the mechanics of the classic arcade genre.
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Xanthiom Zero

Platforms: PC
Release Date: July 28, 2023
Developer: MathanGames

The almost unknown but fantastic cult hit Xanthiom Zero goes back to the origins of the genre by modeling itself after the original Metroid. The 8-bit-style graphics have a simplistic elegance, even as the game takes advantage of modern technology by shaping and sizing the corridors of Planet 4-514 to fit whatever is needed from them. As always, you’ll uncover items that will help unlock new paths, but Xanthiom Zero sets itself apart by offering dozens of items to find, rather than a handful. Similarly, your weapons can be combined to create more than 5,000 permutations. All of that helps this game defy its retro appearance to feel utterly modern.

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