Offering a mysterious and gorgeous world to explore, smooth and creative platforming challenges, and competent if rudimentary ...

Mio: Memories in Orbit nails the fundamentals of the Metroidvania format with excellent exploration, tense platforming, and ...

Sunnyside Games has announced that its flame-wielding Metroidvania Nocturnal 2 is in development for Nintendo Switch.

We trace the history of the Metroidvania genre to find the best representative from every console generation.

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It’s been a very busy week of fun game releases ...

Mariachi Legends is a brutal, pixel art, combat-oriented Metroidvania set in the heart of Mexico. You play as Pablo Cruz, a detective who has agreed to a deal with Death herself. She has given Pablo ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

Deep within the forest, at the bottom of a well, lives the only creature brave enough to challenge the Queen. Play as Glimmer- a tiny bird armed with a matchstick - who must burn the wicked queen to ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

There was a time when the only games I played were platformers. I grew up with Mario and Mega Man, and so I naturally assumed that those were the best sorts of games. And while I still love ...

The Metroidvania genre is all about gaining new abilities and backtracking to previously inaccessible locations to progress further in the game. There are tons of Metroidvania games out there on the ...