Platforming/metroidvavnia games.

Salt and Sanctuary

I'm a huge fan of Metroidvania games, it's one of my favorite genres. I'll list only the ones I've played on Steam

METROIDVANIA GAMES

BEAT THESE

• Hollow Knight - One of the best ever created.
• Guacamelee - Great game. Some really challenging areas where it feels like you need to do hand gymnastics with the controller lol.
• Chasm - A really good game. It got a lot of shit for low drop rates, but it never bothered me. A update that just came out the other day increased those so many should find it better now.
• Wonder Boy: The Dragons Trap - A really nice old school remake that you have the option to play in retro mode if you wish.
• Cave Story+ - A really older game worth checking out.
• Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight - A nice lite Metroidvania. Unfortunately short and the ending was ..almost non existent.

NEED TO BEAT STILL

• Hell Yeah! - This is probably the biggest underestimated Metroidvania games out there. The game is a ton of fun.
• Yoku's Island Express - A really fun pinball style Metroidvania. Pinball fans and Metroidvania fans should definitely check it out.
• Odallus: Dark Call - It's a nice call back to the older games of the genre. You'll definitely feel like you are playing a game from the NES.
• Dandara - This is my least liked title on the list as I'm not a fan of character movement system. Your character is stuck to the spot they are in with no free movement and you can only move place to place by aiming a directional arrow and pressing the button to where you want to go. Even with my not liking the moment system it's still a good unique Metroidvania.

NON METROIDVANIA PLATFORMERS

I've played a ton of them on Steam so I'll just list some of the ones I've played and I think are good and enjoyable.

• Gris
• Cuphead
• Fall Guys
• Risk Of Rain
• Risk of Rain 2
• Spelunky
• Portal
• Super Meat Boy
• Broforce
• Fez

I love Metroidvanias. My absolute favourite one was Dust: An Elysian Tail.

The latest one I had been playing was Hollow Knight. I sorta stopped because I got into playing something else at the time. When I do go back to playing it, I'll probably just start over. lol.

I seen a few people mention Guacamelee. I have the Super Turbo one I got as a freebie, but it's windows only. Have to keep an eye out for the Gold version since it's playable on mac. =)

ICEY, Touhou Luna Nights, Azure Striker Gunvolt, 20XX (just those that weren't mentioned yet).
Another shoutout for A Hat in Time too, main game is cute but postgame DLC is brutal.

My Steam metroidvania holy trinity is Hollow Knight, Ori and La-Mulana, with HK being the best game in the entire genre.

I love them. My favorites are Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Ori and the Blind Forest (Ori and the Will of the Wisps is really good too!).

My favorite is Magicians & Looters and perhaps, more recently Touhou Luna Nights.

I've enjoyed A Robot Named Fight a fair bit, worth a look during a sale

Shadow Complex is really good

I am not particularly knowledgeable about the genre. Only played a few of those titles and two stick out, as they were the most recent. I must admit, I've gained a recently found fondness of the genre.

As far as my experiences go, I really enjoyed Axiom Verge. It was free on Epic and I had my old PC back then, low performance games were the preferred ones. I decided to try it out. Best choice I made that month! The scifi-ish atmosphere is phenomenal, the music is fire, the gameplay is very enjoyable. I would recommend it if You have not played it already!
The other metroidvania I played is my first ever steamgifts prize, Chasm. Its a nice looking, pleasant experience. Not as "unique" per se as Axiom Verge, but good nontheless. Played it on hard, which gave a decent challenge.
Hollow Knight and Iconoclasts are on my backlog. Both seem to be right up in my alley, but I did not have the mood to play them so far. xD I will eventualy get to them.
I am also planning to buy Timespinners sometime. Yes, beside my backlog, I am looking forward for new titles as well. I am my biggest enemy. xD
Overall, there is a certain charm of the genre: exploring mysterious places and events, the satisfaction of unlocking formerly closed routes, often having lovely retro-esque graphics... there is a lot to love about metroidvanias. Its easy to get hooked upon them. :)

Darksiders was nice. Platforming with Rayman, Mario, Kirby was fun. Ori and the Blind Forest was great! Cuphead is still to beat.

Thanks for the gib. Still waiting for a bigger sale of Cuphead & the Mega Man Series :P

Played few metrroidvania games, but my fave is Hollow Knight and Sundered. Tough but exciting.

I’m surprised no one mentioned cave story or seasons after fall

If my definition of metroidvania is correct, I would have to go with Psychonauts and Brutal Legands, than again I am really not sure.

Sundered is my small contribution/suggestion.

I'm not a fan of the genre even though I like how it has many titles that are visually stunning, but the backtracking etc isn't for me...yet I found myself enjoying this particular title because the generic mobs all contributed points to the immense skill tree, the navigation is well mapped, the skills themselves and the fights were engaging and the graphics and animation are superb.

So many persons don't really know about Valdis Story: Abyssal City and how good it is. Very challenging and polished.

All of my favorites was mentioned above, so i'd recommend The Lecard Chronicles 2.

I should probably recommend The Adventure Pals. GREAT game and currently on one of the latest Fanatical deals.

I call these Platventures, because I don't like the term, Metroidvania. For one, it's a clunky fusion; Metrovania would've been better, but at least we've stopped calling them Castleroid. That one always made me think of the gargoyle from Conker's Bad Fur Day; ever sit on a piece of Gothic architecture for- nevermind. My other bone of contention is that Metroid didn't start the subgenre, and Castlevania didn't innovate any of its staples. If you think about the very first Metroid, all of the mobility power-ups can be found within 5-10 minutes of your starting point, and then you have potentially hours of exploration; that's not much of a power-up-based progression. Metroid 2 was almost completely linear, as was Fusion, same with Zero Mission, and while the Prime subseries follows this pretty well, they're technically ineligible, because this subgenre refers to 2D sidescrolling games. The only Metroid game that really qualifies is Super Metroid. As for Castlevania, Symphony of the Night gets credit for bringing weapons/armor/shields/etc., a magic meter and spell library, healing rooms, fast travel, elementals, and none of that is new to those of us who've played Super Adventure Island 2 on the SNES, which actually had 2 different fast travel features. I'm sure that if I thought about it, I could come up with an earlier one that has a leveling feature, too.

Anyway, I think I love this subgenre, but I need to spend more time with it. Yes, I've been playing these since the NES - Blaster Master was probably my first - but until recently, there were very few of these, and most of them were extremely high quality. We've seen an incredible surge in popularity for these lately, and it wasn't until recently that I'd played some bad ones. The ones that come to mind that weren't very good were Sundered and Apotheon, if you're wondering, As for the good ones, I have quite a few, but I'm going to limit it to my favorites.

• Adventure Island 4 [NES]
• Blaster Master [NES]
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance [Game Boy Advance]
• Legacy of the Wizard [NES]
• The Messenger [Multiple]
• Outland [PC]
• Super Adventure Island 2 [SNES]
• Super Metroid [SNES]
• Ufouria: The Saga [NES]

I have a few more that may or may not count, because they have an overworld that does not blend seemlessly to the rest of the game. If that doesn't make them ineligible, these definitely count, because while the areas are broken into individual stages, what upgrades you've uncovered will most definitely determine where you can and cannot go. Think Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.

• Bionic Commando [NES]
• Demon's Crest [SNES]
• Shinobi 2: The Silent Fury [Game Gear]

Would anyone consider the Darksiders franchise a platformer? Just picked up 3 today and and it feels like one, sort of like the first two do.