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Game » consists of 19 releases. Released Aug 06, 1986
A side-scrolling action-adventure platformer featuring Sylvie, who can turn into a lime. Commissioned for Indiepocalypse #34
A compact exploration-platformer for Switch and PC. Explore multiple areas of Sector 781 for the weapons and upgrades needed to take down its guardians.
Inspired by Irish folklore, Song of the Deep is a 2D, side-scrolling, underwater action-adventure game from Insomniac Games.
Side-scrolling 2D action RPG about a sailor shipwrecked on a mysterious island.
A platform game in Metroidvania style that challenges players with puzzles, upgrades, and action.
A Metroidvania style game developed by "Hempuli".
A sidescrolling action-adventure that takes inspiration from Super Metroid and other "Metroidvania" games. The player controls Trace, a scientist who finds himself in a strange and hostile world.
A retro-themed 2D action game, inspired by sidescrollers like the early Castlevania games.
A top down shoot 'em up and platformer in one adventure. Velocity 2X is the sequel to the award winning Velocity, and features fast paced gameplay and a teleport mechanic. The heroine Kai Tana blasts, tele-dashes and jumps through interior sections then returns to her Quarp Jet to continue her fight against the Vokh.
A classic NES inspired platformer game from Robert Maher, successfully funded on Kickstarter
Recreating the look and feel of late-'80s and early-'90s computer platforming games, MURI is a sci-fi platformer that puts the player in an experimental armor suit as they destroy an army of robots to discover the fate of humanity.
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate is a 2.5D interpretation of the Arkham games by Armature Studio. It features non-linear exploration and a focus on using items to progress, mechanics typically associated with the "Metroidvania" sub-genre.
Full Bore is a underground puzzle adventure.
Guacamelee! is a side-scrolling Metroidvania style game featuring a luchador on a quest through dual worlds to save El Presidente's daughter.
You Have to Win the Game is an exploration platformer with a early DOS aesthetic.
Poacher is a game developed by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw in which you play as a hunter from Yorkshire who proceeds to do Metroidy things in order to save the local game warden as well as the world.
UnEpic is a metroidvania-style 2D platformer RPG, but with a much heavier focus on the RPG side of things than usual.
With art design by legendary animator Michel Gagné, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet sees players investigating the source of an ominous corruption spreading through the galaxy from within their small but powerful flying saucers.
The first major 2D entry into the world of "open world" sandbox action-adventure games, Terraria is inspired by 16-bit platformers and allows players to mine for ores, craft new equipment, and fight monstrous bosses in a large procedurally-generated world.
Exploration platform game currently available for XBLIG and PC (via IndieCity and Desura).
FiNCK is an upcoming two dimensional platformer by Nifflas with a strong 8-bit feel stated by Nifflas to be influenced by Super Mario Bros. 2 and the independent game Lyle in Cube Sector.
Reluctant hero Jason Fleming investigates a hidden underground complex to rescue his girlfriend Claire in this Metroid-style action-adventure game.
Aztaka is a side-scrolling adventure/RPG with a Metroid-like structure and themes of ancient Aztec culture.
Mega Man returns to his roots in this deliberately retro side-scrolling platformer that simulates the style and simplicity of the first six Mega Man games.
Aquaria is a 2D underwater Metroidvania game, in which players explore the underwater world of Aquaria while exploring the history of the world and the protagonist, Naija.
Bounty hunter Jenosa Arma went against her instincts and took the job anyway. Now she's trapped in a giant research lab in space, fending off a parasite called Scurge. She must get to the root of the infection before it takes over everything--including her own body.
Initially a freeware "Metroidvania"-style 2D platformer game created entirely by Daisuke Amaya for the PC, Cave Story follows the tale of a silent amnesiac in a long-winding cavern filled with monsters (including the friendly rabbit-like Mimigas). It received numerous enhanced ports by Nicalis for computers and Nintendo consoles.
Ninja Five-O is a Game Boy Advance game featuring a grappling-hook wielding ninja sent on hostage rescue missions. It features fast, challenging gameplay, and went sadly overlooked during its lifespan.
Metal Slug 2nd Mission is the second Metal Slug game released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color. Take control of new characters Gimlet and Red Eye as they attempt to destroy an evil group intent on world domination.
A Japan only WonderSwan game starring Mega Man in a fight with a shadow version of himself leading an evil group of robots known as the Dimensions.
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