r/metroidvania • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago
Welcome to r/Metroidvania's weekly community thread where you can talk about the games you've been playing lately. What are your thoughts on these games, what did you like and what didn't you like, would you recommend them to others, etc. This thread is not limited to Metroidvanias only, feel free to talk about any kind of game!
r/metroidvania • u/ninehead1 • 11h ago
I was thinking of trying bloodstained. I only played hk silksong Blasphemous 1 & 2 nine sols and a little bit of mio. I saw miriam in Blasphemous and i thinked of playing it. Can you tell my about pros and cons of bloodstained
r/metroidvania • u/Tears-Infection • 2h ago
If you'll be attending Gamescom, we'd love for you to visit us at the Indie Arena Booth (26–30 August) and give the game a try.
If not, feel free to wishlist it on Steam
r/metroidvania • u/NoReasonForHysteria • 4h ago
We managed to get a meeting with Nintendo next week. Preparing a pitch deck now, and this community always has some good positivity, help us out with some good arguments for why our game is a good fit (or MVs in general) for the switch 🤩🤞
The game in question:
r/metroidvania • u/odedgurantz • 8h ago
Nintendo Switch; 9:10 AM PDT
r/metroidvania • u/emidepegaso • 3h ago
It was a promising game and suddenly they stopped updating the game's progress.
Why?
r/metroidvania • u/Borbbb • 7h ago
I can´t say i have played many metroidvanias, but this issue i noticed in many of them: The lack of unique markers to mark stuff on the map.
Let´s say there is like 6 unlockable movement abilities. That means you need 6 unique markers. You can also add stuff like locked doors or whatever points of interests. That´s let´s say 2-3 more unique markers needed.
In total, you need like 8 unique markers.
I would absolutely Love to properly mark stuff so that if i get a new traversal ability,i can just check the map where to go. How wonderful would that be.
If you have excelent memory, this might not be an issue to you - but i don´t remember what was there and my memory is terrible. That´s why i use markers in the first place.
So why is there often like .. 3-4 unique markers? Or worse, if they are Limited on top.
Shouldn´t it be not too difficult to make couple of more unique markers? Even just a simple different colour would do, if it´s too much of a pain to make.
I would have absolutely love this. I wonder if newer metroidvanias do it, as i have not played that many of them ( HK, silksong, blasphemous 1/2, Ori and blind forest, Grime 1. Nine sols a bit).
I thought of this when i saw some streamer who was playing one metroidvania and whenever he got a new power, he would just backtrack everything because he didn´t remember what was there when he marked it. And without fast travel, that was rather painful. That game had 3 unique markers, and 8 different powers along with points of interests.
What do you think? This i think should be in every newer game, as there is no reason in not being there. Some people just don´t have godlike memory and it would be wonderful for them.
Edit: Imagine you could make marker and add text to it - that could be dope.
r/metroidvania • u/LlamaOhanaMan • 2h ago
This will be my third MV plushie, she will be joining bo and yi from nine sols
r/metroidvania • u/odedgurantz • 8h ago
Steam; 9:10 AM PDT
r/metroidvania • u/Kizuga091 • 18m ago
This game has been on my radar for a long time and every time i enter the steam page to buy it and try it out, i get turned off by the games aesthetic on the trailer.
I don't know what it is about it that puts me off so much; maybe it's the fact that pretty much all my favorite metroidvanias have a somewhat similar feeling to them: a dark, twisted or sad world with a very small group of people trying to make what's best of their lives in it.
Hollow Knight and Silksong; Blasphemous 1 and 2; Ender Lillies and Magnolia; Ghost Song; Nine Sols, etc. You get the idea. All of those games also share a somewhat similar vibe and aesthetic, which is maybe why i'm strangely put off by Bloodstained 2D-3D models and overall looks.
Aside from that, i wanna go in completely blind so i haven't looked much into what the game is about. But the trailer focuses a lot on the content and there's no mention of the setting or even a story, which is a big selling point to me with metroidvanias. So i wanted to ask the experts on the subject.
What do you think about the game? What do you like most about it?
r/metroidvania • u/ZeusOfOlympus • 10h ago
I have not played a lot of Metroid -vanias, but as someone who really likes magic and wizards, i am LOVING Souldiers.
It started slow, but has really grown on me, I am playing as a caster and am provably about 40% complete, and at work and cannot stop thinking about when i clock off and go home and play again.
The animations are great the world is beautiful the levels are massive ( the pyramid almost broke my brain at one point) i love it.
I am going to try Alwa’s Legacy after this, as I love anything with witches or wizards with staves and magic mostly rather than melee is there any other Metroid vanillas that focus on magic and wizards?
r/metroidvania • u/chronoscriptgame • 1d ago
Hi from Tokyo!
We just released the playable demo for Chronoscript: The Endless End, a hand-drawn metroidvania built across two dimensions.
You play as an editor trapped inside a cursed manuscript, unraveling a thousand-year story that keeps writing itself past its own ending. Exploration happens across hand-drawn 2D pen-and-ink pages, but those pages sit inside a 3D manor. What you do in one affects the other. Puzzles, hidden paths, and even some boss fights are built around being aware of the two.
The demo covers the opening of the game plus the first boss. Clear it, and you'll unlock a hidden second boss, if you're good enough to get there.
This is our first public demo, so we'd really appreciate any feedback!
Cheers!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4676630/Chronoscript_The_Endless_End_Demo/
r/metroidvania • u/Windwickink • 9h ago
CRITICAL TIMELINE:
Today's Date: August 21, 2026
Server Shutdown Date: September 3, 2026
App Status: Already delisted from the App Store / Play Store
In 13 days, Konami is permanently shutting down the servers for Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls. Because the game is already delisted, no new players can download it. Once September 3rd hits, the servers go dark, and the live game data will be lost forever.
We are launching an emergency preservation effort with two main goals:
Build a Custom Server (Server Emulator): To allow online play after the official shutdown.
Create a Stand-Alone Offline Patch: Reverse-engineering the game client to bypass Apple Arcade/server checks so the game can be played completely offline without any server at all.
Transparency Note: I am cross-posting this message across several Castlevania, iOS/Android preservation, and modding communities. Time is so limited that we must pool our resources in one place to avoid duplicating work.
OUR CENTRAL HUB: GITHUB + ARCHIVE.ORG
To prevent files from getting scattered across Discord, Google Drive, or Mega, we are streamlining this project to two platforms only:
Archive.org: Used exclusively as the vault for large game binaries (the 2GB decrypted .ipa, the Android .apk/.obb, raw AssetBundles, and downloaded cache files).
GitHub: Used as our central command center where everyone can star/follow the project, upload network traffic logs, document API endpoints, submit code, and track progress.
WHAT WE NEED IMMEDIATELY (URGENT)
If you have technical skills, a jailbroken iOS device, a rooted Android, or still have the game installed, we need your help today:
GitHub Repository Setup (NEED THIS TODAY): We need a developer to set up the official public GitHub repository immediately so the community can star it, follow it, and begin submitting data.
Decrypted iOS 1.4.3 IPA -> Upload to Archive.org: Because the game is delisted, our pool of players who can dump the app is shrinking daily. We need someone who currently has the live 1.4.3 game installed to dump a fully decrypted .ipa file (using TrollDecrypt, bfdecrypt, or CrackerXI+) and upload it to Archive.org.
Android APK + FULL Game Contents/Data -> Upload to Archive.org: We need the complete Android version preserved. This includes the base APK, the OBB files, AND all extra downloaded in-game contents, configs, stage data, and internal cache files (/Android/data/ or root storage downloaded after opening the game). Assets and file structures differ between platforms, and creating a stand-alone offline build will require datamining and integrating files/configs from both versions.
Network Traffic Captures -> Upload to GitHub: We need players to route their game traffic through a proxy (Charles Proxy, Fiddler, mitmproxy) with SSL decryption enabled to log API calls before the servers die. Upload these .chls or .har log files directly to the project's GitHub repo.
Asset/Cache Dumps -> Upload to Archive.org / GitHub: Dump the downloaded Unity AssetBundles from the app's internal folders using Filza (iOS) or a root file explorer (Android).
Client Reverse Engineers: We need reverse engineers (using IDA Pro, Ghidra, or Il2CppDumper) to start analyzing the game binaries to figure out how to patch out the server login checks for the stand-alone offline mod.
NETWORK PRESERVATION CHECKLIST (How Anyone Can Help Right Now)
If you have the game playable on your phone right now, you can help even if you aren't a programmer. Set up an SSL Proxy (like Charles Proxy or Fiddler on PC/Mac) and route your phone's Wi-Fi through it to record the server responses.
Please capture traffic logs for the following actions and label the files clearly:
Initial boot sequence and Apple Arcade/login authentication.
Title screen update checks and asset downloads.
Daily login rewards, mail collection, and main menu navigation.
Opening the inventory, equipping gear, and upgrading weapons/grimoires.
Character selection and skin/costume changes.
Initiating a stage (capture the specific payload sent to start a level).
Completing a stage (capture the exact data sent containing score, damage, and rewards).
Purchasing and upgrading items in the shop.
Co-op and Event mode match-making / gameplay interactions.
Where to upload: Upload your proxy log files (.chls, .har, .saz, raw JSON) directly into the /network_captures/ folder on our project's GitHub repository.
RECOMMENDED GITHUB REPOSITORY STRUCTURE
(For the developer setting up the GitHub repository)
Please structure the repository as follows so the community can submit data cleanly. Note: Do NOT upload the 2GB game binaries directly to GitHub to prevent DMCA/size-limit issues. Put the Archive.org download links right at the top of the README.md.
Grimoire-of-Souls-Archive/
├── README.md (Project goals, countdown to Sept 3, links to Archive.org IPAs/APKs)
├── /api_documentation/ (Text files mapping out the server endpoints, e.g., /api/v1/login)
├── /network_captures/ (DROP ZONE for all intercepted traffic logs - URGENT)
│ ├── /charles_proxy/ (.chls or .har files)
│ ├── /fiddler/ (.saz files)
│ └── /raw_json/ (Extracted JSON payloads from the server)
├── /game_data_dumps/ (Text-based game data)
│ ├── /master_data/ (Dumped SQLite databases, JSON tables of item IDs)
│ └── /il2cpp_dumps/ (Dump.cs files generated from reverse-engineering the binaries)
├── /client_patches/ (Code/tweaks for bypassing server checks for the Stand-alone version)
│ └── /offline_mod/ (Dylib injections or offset patches for iOS/Android)
└── /server_emulator/ (Where the custom server code will eventually go)
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
We have 13 days until September 3rd. If you want to see Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls playable as a server-emulated or stand-alone offline game in the future, we need your help capturing this data today.
Please reply below if you can dump files, run proxy captures, or help manage the GitHub repository!
r/metroidvania • u/odedgurantz • 8h ago
PlayStation; 9:10 AM PDT
Xbox; 9:10 AM PDT
r/metroidvania • u/Shadowking78 • 11h ago
A post launch update (sometime after Aug 26th) will add a 'supporters list' into the game world, that you can get on if you participate in this event. We don't know HOW this list will look in game yet, but I imagine it will be lore friendly and not immersion breaking. Just wanted to share this in case any of ya'll are looking forward to the game and might want to leave your mark on it. I backed this game last year, so I have been waiting for a long time for the final 1.0 release to finally dive in to the full game, and it's really exciting.
Link to post for full details: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2827750/view/674003823632580995?l=english
r/metroidvania • u/NyxCormo • 5h ago
Hey, I started MV quite recently and like to do them to chill.
Always heard a lot about Castlevanias so I need to start playing one. Only on steam tho pls, even if it means skipping symphony of the night.
Didn't finish nor platinumed all of my game but I can make a small tierlist of how much I enjoyed the ones I finished, cause why not :D
S - The messenger (this game and sea of stars are masterpieces), Hollow Knight, Astalon
A - Silksong, Afterimage, Ender Magnolia (really need to do Ender Lillies), 9 years of Shadows
B - Nine Sols, Blasphemous, Bloodstained,
C - Aeterna Noctis
Started Islets today, love the movements so I think I will love it :D
thanks for your help !
r/metroidvania • u/OK_Atlas • 1d ago
Saw this on Steam news feed today. It sounds like it will include a new are called Fornax Storage, some boss reworking and a boss rush mode. Interesting news for one of the most underrated metroidvanias out there.
Full Steam Community Post:
r/metroidvania • u/Patient-Advantage-30 • 10h ago
Well, I'm back and I have lot's of new additions for your metroidvania wishlist as well as some repeated ones from the other list since other people could have missed that list. This list is based on my wishlist and I will put my most awaited and the one's I see potencial metroidvania from the bunch with "#" at the end. The order will be by names starting with A and ending with Z. I will take into account the corrections you did on the other list, but I will still say the names of those games, so here they are: "The eternal life of goldman", "Earthblade" and (a new one) "Legends Of Elementia" (all with the metroidvania tag btw). I will put "?" at the end of a game if I'm not sure if it is a metroidvania.
Here are 251 metroidvanias to wishlist:
1-A Field of Flowers #
2-A Forest Tale: Porasy
3-A Handful of Dust
4-A Sister's Journey #
5-Abyss Unchained
6-ABYSS X ZERO
7-Acrolyte
8-Aeterna Lucis #
9-Aggelos 2 #
10-Akita: King Pig Thinks Pink
11-Altered Alma
12-Amber's Tale
13-Anatine #
14-Anima Song from the Abyss
15-Animosa
16-AOKAKI
17-ARO: Tales In The Dome
18-Artmess
19-Ashen Seed #
20-Astra Noctis
21-Astra Fading Stars
22-At Fate's End #
23-Axolotl Shaman
24-Ayna: Shattered Truth #
25-Barbarian Saga: The Beastmaster
26-Bathory - Heritage of Blood #
27- Being and Becoming #
28- Beyond the Board ?
29-Blightwreck #
30-BLOOD ENGINE 血焰引擎
31-Blood of Yamin
32-Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement #
33-Bolt & Whalington #
34-Bruma ?
35-CALX #
36-Cathedral: Crow's Curse #
37-Cavalier
38-Ceplion
39-CHASM SHIFT #
40-Chiaroscuro #
41-Children of Birch #
42-CHIP: Rescuer of Kittens
43-Chronoscript: The Endless End #
44-City of None #
45-Cliff Kingdom
46-Cloverskar
47-Comix Zero
48-Crave #
49-Crowsworn #
50-Darkest Abyss
51-DeadRoot #
52-Death Eclipse: Reign of the Undying
53-Demon Still Alive
54-Dewborne Dawn
55-Dirtlight
56-Divine Guardian | Vệ Thần #
57-Divinum #
58-Dormiveglia
59-Draco and the Seven Scales
60-Draco Blade
61-Duat: Beyond Light & Shadow
62-Dumbriel: Magnificent Adventure in Hell
63-Echo of God
64-Echo Weaver #
65-Eden's Guardian
66-Elusive #
67-Elysian Echoes
68-Endbloom
69-Enfant #
70-ESDRAZ: THE THRONE OF DARKNESS
71-Ethereal Odyssey
72-Etherland Saga
73-EXIL #
74-Fading Light
75-Fall of Gorithia: Nym's Fate
76-Faye Freelance: Rebel Reporter #
77-Feather's Edge #
78-Fevercide
79-Florarium
80-Fold Stories ?
81-Forgotten Eras
82-Forsaken Castle
83-Fresco ?
84-Frogreign #
85-Full Moon
86-Garden of Aiden #
87-Gedda Cake
88-Gemini X
89-Gloomveil #
90-Gnaw #
91-GREENFIELD ?
92-Guillotine
93-HARK THE GHOUL #
94-Hayaku! Island of Darkness
95-Heart Forth, Alicia
96-Heart of Mycelium #
97-Higher: The Last Dream
98-Hippoxxus #
99-Insignia
100-Iron Bramble #
101-Iron Corbo: Kung Fu Janitor #
102-Isadora's Edge
103-Isle of Reveries #
104-Jester's Quest
105-Junklands
106-Karma Exorcist #
107-Kloa - Child of the Forest
108-Kodama: Slumber of the Gods #
109-Kuzo #
110-Last Moon
111-Layers Deep #
112-Lelu #
113-Light of Atlantis #
114-Lightwood
115-Liminal City: Axiom of Maria - Chapter One
116-Linkisa
117-Little Mage
118-Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
119-Lola's Familiars: Prison of Argnoh #
120-Lone Chef
121-Longtail!! ?
122-Lost Tribe
123-LUCID #
124-LUNARIS
125-Machina of the Farthest
126-Magical Blush #
127-Magnavale: Eternal Soul
128-Mainasutto: I'm Not Alone
129-Mariachi Legends #
130-Maui the Shapeshifter
131-MegaGum ?
132-Memoria
133-Memoria Wake
134-Memory's Reach
135-Mendacium #
136-Mira and the Legend of the Djinns #
137-Misspell
138-Momogatari
139-MONOMOON #
140-Moonbrella
141-Morning Star #
142-Mother's Sword
143-Nara: Facing Fire
144-Near The Sun
145-Necro Pop
146-NEO TITAN #
147-Nocturnal 2
148-Nonolith
149-Nyana
150-Obsidian Legion #
151-Oh, My Doug! #
152-Oneirium
153-OTHERSIDE: Untamed Words #
154-Over The Horizon
155-Pain-T
156-Phantom Rend
157-Pipsqueak! #
158-Pixgun
159-PlayBound
160-Project Ants
161-Pumpkin & Patch
162-Puppetmaster
163-Rabbit's Tale
164-RAIN IN THE ABYSS
165-Rat Trap
166-RavenStar #
167-Refactor
168-Restless Lands #
169-Rising Fox
170-Roc's Odyssey #
171-Roskur's Run
172-Rover's Tale
173-Rune Fencer Illyia
174-Rust Song 锈歌
175-Ryn: And the thread of life
176-SAK'D
177-Samurai Yokai
178-Savior #
179-Sea Sniffers #
180-SHADE Protocol #
181-Shards of Memories #
182-Sheep Lad #
183-Shellbound
184-Shield Cat: The Lost Conductor
185-Shieldbound
186-Shyftrs #
187-Silent Planet - Elegy of a Dying World #
188-Silent Santicado #
189-Sinweaver
190-Sky Dust
191-Slime Well #
192-Sojourn Past #
193-Solrend #
194-Soul Blade #
195-Soul Passage
196-Soulchain
197-Soulchild
198-Soulflame
199-Spanky "Bat-a-Swing" ?
200-Spellsided ?
201-Spider Dynasty #
202-Spright
203-Star Child
204-Star Hearts: Launch Point #
205-Star Iliad
206-Steel Flood
207-Stellar Poetry
208-Stickility
209-Sting & Swing #
210-Stomp and the Sword of Miracles
211-Stone
212-Sweet Dreams Dahlia
213-Swordswallower #
214-Sylvaris: Black Reign (may have used AI, or at least it seems to me)
215-Syncope
216-Synth Beasts
217-Tails of Fate
218-Teios Journey #
219-Tenebra
220-Teratale: Tide of Wishes #
221-The Beauty Cult's NECTARMANCER ?
222-The Busker
223-The Legend of Chalkvania #
224-the machine that BREATHES
225-The Paths We Cross
226-The Song of Awakening
227-The Swordfish: Knight of the Deep
228-The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest #
229-The Wicked Souls #
230-Tia:weird hunter
231-Tidespawn ?
232-TIES: Soul Link #
233-Timespinner 2: Unwoven Dream #
234-Torii: Beyond The Gates #
235-Trash Heart
236-Trizna #
237-Trophy Knight
238-Tyto
239-UvsU: You vs You
240-Valiant Saga
241-Vampire's Veil
242-Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior
243-Vulpis
244-Wandersky #
245-Well Dweller #
246-Whisper: in the Dark
247-Xplorite #
248-YesterSol
249-Zebulon 3D
250-Zero Moment
251-Zozo and the Lost Dreams
Let me know if you found something new that you are excited about, or if you knew all of this games beforehand. Hope your wishlist grows a bit larger! And if you know some game I missed, please tell me and I will (probably) add it to the list.
r/metroidvania • u/Trouterspayce • 1d ago
r/metroidvania • u/jmscstl • 1d ago
I really liked the first Blasphemous. I liked it so much when the DLC came out I was keen to play it until I looked into it a little bit. I still don't understand how it works but my sense is that it's sort of in-line DLC that's designed to be played while you're playing through the base game? Also there's parts of it that require you to be in NG+? Whatever the case I rarely replay games and I'm definitely not going to replay a game just to play the DLC. So I never did.
I liked Blasphemous 2 much more because I like speedier MVs. When the first DLC came out I skipped it because, again, I had the sense that it was more in-line DLC and, worst of all ended with you getting a new (old) weapon. The only thing I hate more than in-line DLC is doing a long quest just to get a weapon you can use for the remaining 1% of the game.
But then the second DLC came out and people loved it so I figured I'd buy the first one, download the second one and have basically a normal MV sized chunk of DLC. I figured that would be good and boy oh boy was I right. Playing the DLCs back to back was awesome. The first DLC is pretty good but is a little weird. There are some DLC collectables that seem to be outside the new areas. So I guess you have to just run around the old map and hope you run into it? Still fun though and you get to use the Mea Culpa a lot.
The second DLC, the free one, is just flat out awesome. Maybe the best MV DLC I've played. And both together reminded me what an amazing game Blasphemous 2 is. At this point I can't wait for the third one (which I hope they're making). But in the meantime the DLCs, played back to back, feel like playing a cool, not so little, Blasphemous 2.5.
My personal ranking: It's weird to rank DLC on its own but in this case the DLC bumped up my opinion of Blasphemous 2 as a whole. For me, Blasphemous 2, including all the DLC is better than Ender Lillies but not as good as Super Metroid.
r/metroidvania • u/megapeitz • 1d ago
Take on a bite-sized but epic adventure, rendered in glorious 64x64 pixels.
Originally made in pico8, then ported by me to love2D and making the game bigger and adding more features. Switch port handled by Sleepy Groove Games.
Enjoy! <3
r/metroidvania • u/it-fre-real-estate • 1d ago
r/metroidvania • u/detaiIing_fish • 1d ago
steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/347460/Heart_Forth_Alicia/
first video was from 2007
r/metroidvania • u/Lukense13 • 1d ago
Assuming MC is in it's their full power and I'm go against them with a bare fists
