Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Metroid Prime, and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are all among the best Metroidvania games of all time.

Forever ensnared in a love-fued between 1800s literature and modern gaming, Eman Fatima tries her best to appease both her hobbies by tapping away at her keyboard and writing about her favorite games ...

Impactful upgrades in Metroidvanias encourage exploration, sometimes leading to slow starts. Some Metroidvanias are immediately fun due to fluid controls, accessible gameplay, or immersive world ...

Metroidvanias offered open-world maps before open-world games were cool. Perhaps with some restrictions. Progression might eventually be limited by certain barriers that require the collection of a ...

D Metroidvania game Akatori will launch for PC via Steam on August 5, followed by PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on August 12, and Switch 2 in 2027, developer Contrast ...

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Ronald is a Contributor at DualShockers with more than a decade of experience covering video games. He began writing about games in 2013 through public forums, reviews, news, and opinion pieces, ...

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Hollow Knight Silksong might still be under wraps, but it's still a very good time to be an action platformer fan right now with plenty of competition heating up for the best Metroidvania games of ...

Metroidvania fans like myself spent all of 2024 impatiently waiting for Hollow Knight: Silksong, but we didn’t really need to. Take a step back, and you’ll see just how good of a year 2024 was for the ...

“Metroidvania: The First Decade is the culmination of a project I began more than 20 years ago, back when this style of game had largely vanished and the general public had more or less forgotten ...