Discover your own legend in Lucid. Platform through a crystalline world torn apart by calamity, absorb powerful abilities that expand movement and enhance combat against a diverse cast of enemies and bosses, all in gorgeous pixel art inspired by the golden age of 2D sidescrollers.

A colorful action platformer with metroidvania elements and a staff that unlocks unique combat techniques and new ways to overcome obstacles. Explore beautiful worlds, fight monsters, and help Mako stop the amber storms that poison all living things.

Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.

Become the stealer of forms in GRIME II, a surreal action-adventure metroidvania. launch tendrils made of hands to absorb foes and summon molds in their shape, as you explore a bizarre lived-in-world obsessed with art.

Sophie: Starlight Whispers is an adventure game with metroidvania elements, featuring pixelated graphics, a deep narrative, and fully dubbed in Portuguese. Explore a vast map and put an end to the dark creatures that terrorize the kingdom of Sharan.

A Metroidvania x Roguelite, where you advance using a cursed hat. Use a variety of magic or possess your enemies to reach the lowest levels! Bring back loot, build new facilities in your village, make a living and strengthen yourself for the next battle! Supports up to 4-player multiplayer.

MIO: Memories in Orbit is a 2.5D side-scrolling metroidvania platformer. Players control a robot named Mio who explores a vast spaceship called the Vessel, gaining new abilities such as wall climbing, dodging, grappling, and gliding while fighting machines that have gone rogue. Combat emphasizes aerial fighting, and players can equip modifiers that adjust their abilities at the cost of modifier slots. Currency called Nacre is used to purchase upgrades and is lost on death, and fast-travel devices serve as save points across the ship.

VELASTER is a gruesome 2.5D side-scrolling action combat game set in the Middle-earth called Malum. You will find yourself growing in battles against various monsters and bosses. Take revenge that remains in your fading memories.

A 2d action-packed roguelike about an ape protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

"Hotel Barcelona," where serial killers from all over the United States are said to have gathered. You must defeat them and check out before all the blood is spilled.

Japanese game creators SWERY65 and SUDA51 have teamed up to create this ambitious work. Don't miss it.

Hollow Knight: Silksong is the epic sequel to Hollow Knight, the epic action-adventure of bugs and heroes. As the lethal hunter Hornet, journey to all-new lands, discover new powers, battle vast hordes of bugs and beasts and uncover ancient secrets tied to your nature and your past.

INAYAH - Life After Gods is a thrilling action-platformer with metroidvania elements. Immerse yourself in a story with multiple choices, explore diverse biomes, face more than 20 bosses, and develop your character with a unique progression system.

A fateful night of sorrow and ancient magic changed the life of a young child forever, and with it, everything else as mankind knew it. For 9 long years, the world has been submerged in the deepest of shadows, robbing every object and living creature of their color, their joy, and most importantly, hope.

Many brave souls have tried to venture inside the corrupting depths of Talos Castle, a long-abandoned orphanage from which the curse stemmed. All have failed, except for one. Armed with little other than her halberd and sheer nerve, Europa’s daunting quest is clear: enter the castle, find the source of darkness, and return color to the lands before it is too late.

Take the role of the resurrected Adrestia and embark on an epic journey to prevent your twin sister from unraveling the universe. Master acrobatic combat, explore the Greco-Roman space vessel Atromitos, and shape your destiny in Somber Echoes.

Mandragora is a story-driven, side-scroller action RPG set in a universe of gorgeous paint strokes and inevitable tragedy. Slash, burn, and rage against the creatures beyond the town walls. Light your Witch Lantern, navigate through the dark plane of Entropy, and tear reality asunder.

Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark is a 2D action adventure starring two new characters. Servants of the Dark takes the tight action players enjoyed in Gal Guardians: Demon Purge and vastly increases the exploration and collection elements, shifting genres completely to a full Metroidvania for an all-new experience.

Wait... A muscular cat that fights aliens!?

Get ready to enjoy this crazy 2D platformer adventure starring KinnikuNeko! A cat with the body of a bodybuilder who will fight against a big alien army that has invaded planet Earth and captured all its inhabitants. He will be accompanied by his friends Lemon and Keita, a girl and a boy who haven't yet been captured by the evil beings from outer space.

Go through different levels fighting with your muscles until you find the way to save humanity.
Watch out! The slender and ferocious General Pitaya, together with her two henchmen, will not make it easy for you!

Decades after the Rain of Death, a new journey begins in the Land of Fumes, where mystical powers lie beneath the earth. The kingdom’s desire for conquest led to the creation of the Homunculi, machine-like artificial life forms prepared to execute the king’s will. A recent resource-harvesting mission gone awry caused toxic vapors to emerge from underground, driving both man and machine to feral madness.

As the Homonculi devolve into dangerous creatures, guide Lilac –- an “Attuner” with the power to purify those infected by the fumes — on a quest to save the kingdom. With the help of friendly machines and spirits who fight in Lilac’s stead, fend off mechanized legions of lunging carcasses, cannonball-firing corpses and chainsaw-wielding goblins terrorizing the land.

Turn foes into friends by exorcizing corruption from enemy bosses. Wield their powers to add 30 different abilities to Lilac’s combat repertoire in an enhanced battle system where she can equip up to four special abilities at once. Improve Lilac’s odds of surviving this hunt for lost memories by leveling up attack strength, HP, and armor.

Explore the depths, heights and far corners of the kingdom for lore-filled relics. Collect and trade gold for upgraded items at the Blacksmith’s storefront. Combine story fragments from the kingdom’s fleeing inhabitants with Lilac’s forgotten memories. Seek the truth in an atmospheric hand-drawn setting set to the soothing serenades of returning musical group Mili (Ghost in the Shell, Goblin Slayer) with a brand new original soundtrack available for purchase at launch.

Step into the pixelated world of TEVI, an action-packed 2D adventure that seamlessly blends Metroidvania, bullet hell, and spectacle fighter elements. Traverse a vast interconnected world marked by strife and uncover hidden secrets. Encounter a diverse cast of allies and enemies featuring angels, demons, and cute animal ears. Upgrade gear and collect new ones to enhance your abilities. Customize your build to suit how you want to play. Slash, dash, shoot, and execute flashy combos to vanquish bosses in epic showdowns.

PIKO PIKO 2 is a 2D metroidvania-inspired platformer following the adventures of Piko, a senior student at the Hammer Academy who joins a blacksmithing competition to prove that her plastic Piko toy hammer is the strongest of them all! Along with her best friend, a half-fox by the name of Nyan, Piko embarks on an adventure to defeat her classmates and claim the title of best blacksmith! But who knows what troubles await them...

Orphan of the Machine is an adventure game for current/next gen consoles and PC. The story takes place during the 60's - in the middle of (a fantasy take on) the Cold War. Russia, in their growing paranoia, begin developing cities underwater to hide from the threat of American espionage. Their construction disrupts sea life, and as the game begins, a baby dolphin wakes to find her entire family gone. What would you do if put in this situation? Where would you go? Instead of just placing markers on the map telling you exactly where to go, we let you explore and figure out what it is you want from the game. Do you believe your family is still alive? Could you find them? Could you seek out a new home? The game plays similar to a Metroidvania. The screen scrolls in all directions (in a 2.5D space) and there's a map to track your progress. You will need to collect certain items or abilities to get to new areas. As you grow and get deeper into the world, combat will become important to survive the most vicious of predators.

Best Xbox Series X|S Metroidvania Games

Lucid

Akatori

Witchfall

Constance

GRIME II

Voidwrought

Sophie: Starlight Whispers

Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse

Minishoot' Adventures

MIO: Memories in Orbit

VELASTER

Dunjungle

Hotel Barcelona

Hollow Knight: Silksong

INAYAH - Life after Gods

9 Years of Shadows

Somber Echoes

Mandragora

Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark

KinnikuNeko: SUPER MUSCLE CAT

BIOMORPH

Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist

TEVI

Piko Piko 2

Orphan of the Machine

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