metroidvania

After releasing in late 2020, the monster battling metroidvania mix in Monster Sanctuary was quite a highlight and it's getting bigger and better this year. Moi Rai Games have released a roadmap of their plans and it's...

Coming from the people behind the GZDoom games Shrine and Lycanthorn, their next project is a full commercial game named Vomitoreum that will be a first-person shooter metroidvania set in a nightmarish world. Taking...

Coo, it’s pretty exciting that this gets to be the second year I’ve written a Best Buried Treasures Of The Year list! Admittedly in 2019 the site had only just launched, but it still counts, dammit. I’m just so...

Motion Twin has released a Christmas-themed helping of Dead Cells to keep you busy throughout the coming weeks. It comes with some new toys to play with, and some balance changes for good measure. My personal favourite...

Monster Sanctuary from Moi Rai Games and Team17 has now left Early Access as a finished game, along with a bunch of extra content in the 1.0 update. Clearly and obviously inspired by the likes of Pokemon and other...

Evil Empire and Motion Twin have announced that Dead Cells is getting a brand new DLC in early 2021 and it seems they have a lot more coming to Dead Cells. They've managed to sell over 3.5 million copies now, more than...

Metroid and Metroidvanias are a genre that has made a huge resurgence in the past few years. While many fantastic indie clones have come out lately, I can say that I did not enjoy Outpost Delta very much. With its...

Here's a game I haven't heard of for a few years. Heart Forth, Alicia is an upcoming modern Metroidvania RPG, filled with devious monsters, lethal dungeons, creative puzzles, lively towns & many uncharted...

Do you prefer to buy your games from the indie store itch.io? Good news, another quality game arrived with the platformer adventure Alwa's Legacy. A good chance to remind you about this one, as it's really good....

Dead Cells escaped from Early Access back in 2018, but that hasn't been the end for the Metroidvania roguelike. Plenty of additional free updates and a bit of paid DLC have come after launch, and even now, two years...

[UPDATE: Thomas Puha, Comms Director at Remedy, confirmed that players will be able to choose between two graphical modes for Control Ultimate Edition - Cloud Version on Nintendo Switch.] You know whats crazier? You...

PC, Switch I am so deeply in love with Batbarian. Not because it’s a brilliant Metroid-ish platform game, which it is. Not because it has excellent art and animations, which it does. But because it’s a game that...

After a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter back in 2018 and then over a year in Early Access, Monster Sanctuary is now set for a full release. It's going to leave Early Access on December 8, and they've...

After what seemed like a crowdfunding campaign that might struggle, Girl Genius - Adventures In Castle Heterodyne was comfortably funded passed the initial goal. Coming from Rain Games creators of Teslagrad, World To...

The Game Kitchen and Team17 have now delivered on their promise of official Linux (and macOS) support for Blasphemous as it's now available. Set in a world where a foul curse has fallen upon the land simply known as...

The Game Kitchen and Team17 today confirmed that Blasphemous will finally launch official Linux support on Monday, September 21 after the original 2019 release. "Play as The Penitent One - a sole survivor of the...