Developer Villa Gorilla got this to work on a traditional Metroidvania map with interconnected rooms, which in itself is a feat. Still, it’s also stunningly atmospheric, set on a sunny island ...

The layout of Chasm’s map is randomized ... To me, a person who just wants to play this Metroidvania like a regular game, the fact that it’s a randomized map means nothing apart from room ...

There is arguably no more idiosyncratic descriptor in the entirety of gaming than “Metroidvania ... but challenging you with a unique map layout and progression system.

Action Games "Most of the games that are Metroidvanias are just Metroid games": The director of this Smash Bros-infused Metroidvania hates the word because "it's a silly term and Japan did it ...

The first Metroidvania I have to talk about is Prince ... adding screenshots to mark locations on the map. As much as I play Metroidvanias, I’m notorious for forgetting things, so this feature ...

Welcome to our round-up of the best metroidvania games ... and picking up items that unlock new zones of the map. Within this simple format there is plenty of room for variation and, it turns ...

Animal Well, the phenomenal-looking ethereal Metroidvania with some incredible ... will require you to light up candles to fill out the map, with a focus on the genre's penchant for non-linear ...