Zexion
A love letter to NES Metroid, for better and worse Zexion wears its influences openly, leaning hard into the aesthetic and structural DNA of the original NES Metroid while building
6 / 10
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Fireboy & Watergirl 3: The Ice Temple Review: The Series' Toughest, Buggiest Entry Yet
Oslo Albet's official Steam port of the third flash-era co-op classic adds a slippery, momentum-based ice twist that reviewers find genuinely harder and more satisfying, but this entry is also the first in the series to draw repeated reports of crash bugs.
5.9 / 10
Mother Machine
A cooperative platformer about customisable gremlin creatures climbing procedurally generated alien caves for a mysterious robotic overseer, with genuinely great movement let down by recurring bugs and an expensive DLC.
5.9 / 10
Emberbane
An elemental Metroidvania with real ideas underneath the bugs Emberbane casts players as a fire-and-earth-and-wind-and-water fighter working through an elemental world, built aroun
5.8 / 10
Atomic Owl
A retro-inspired action platformer starring an owl ninja who fights his way through a neon pixel-art world with a transforming arsenal, undercut by inconsistent voice acting, a stiff dash, and a handful of progress-blocking bugs.
5.7 / 10
BoxBoxes Review
A Ninety-Nine Cent Platformer About Shapes Fighting Shapes BoxBoxes is a $0.99 2D platformer in which you play a small white box traveling through three kingdoms — Circles, Triangl
5.5 / 10
Etherborn
A gorgeous, gravity-shifting 3D puzzle platformer in the Monument Valley mould, held back by a camera that a large share of players find genuinely disorienting and a runtime several say doesn't fully justify its price.
5.5 / 10
Grimm
American McGee's episodic dark-comedy platformer about corrupting fairy tales back to their gruesome roots has a genuinely distinctive premise and pedigree, but a consistent reviewer case that the one-trick gameplay and unreliable controls wear thin fast — and it has since been confirmed delisted from Steam entirely.
5.5 / 10
Guns of Fury
Metal Slug meets Metroidvania, on paper Guns of Fury sets out to fuse two well-loved but rarely combined genre traditions: the chaotic, explosive run-and-gun energy of Metal Slug,
5.5 / 10
GwenBlade Witcheresque Review
A Third Swing at the Same Blade GwenBlade Witcheresque is the third entry in solo developer ArcWillow's small GwenBlade series, following the original GwenBlade and GwenBlade H
5.5 / 10
INAYAH - Life after Gods
A beautiful idea that doesn't quite hold together INAYAH - Life after Gods sets out to do something genuinely uncommon in the metroidvania genre: rather than gating upgrades be
5.5 / 10
Nexfall
A 3-6 player multiplayer parkour game that pairs precision platforming with a build-your-loadout ability deck and a level-based unlock ladder, launched with a single Russian-language user review and zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.
5.5 / 10
One Hand Clapping
A puzzle-platformer solved entirely by singing or humming pitch into a microphone, Very Positive across its Steam reviews for its genuinely unique concept and charming art style — undercut by an extremely consistent, severe complaint that its core pitch-detection mechanic is unreliable or outright broken for a wide range of players, independently verified against tuning equipment by multiple reviewers.
5.5 / 10
Pinball Spire
A charming "pinballvania" that fuses forgiving, no-fail-state pinball tables with light exploration and ability-gated progression, whose art style and generous design earn real affection undercut by a widespread, specific dispute over whether it earns its metroidvania framing and a near-universal complaint that its two-to-three-hour runtime doesn't match its price.
5.5 / 10
Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition Review
A genuinely thoughtful multi-version Rayman 1 anthology with excellent accessibility features, undermined almost entirely by a controversial soundtrack swap and an unnecessary forced launcher.
5.5 / 10
Risk of Rain (2013)
The 2D roguelike platformer that launched a franchise, still Very Positive across more than 20,000 reviews for its escalating item-stacking chaos — now facing a wave of very recent, heavily corroborated backlash after new owner Take-Two/2K/Gearbox updated the game's terms of service in 2025 with data-collection language and an anti-modding clause.
5.5 / 10
Runner3
Runner3 sends CommanderVideo auto-running through music-synced obstacle courses in a bold visual overhaul of the BIT.TRIP Runner formula. Longtime fans of the series are unusually unified in describing the redesign as a step backward, with a specific, well-corroborated complaint that busier visuals actively obscure the hazards the genre depends on players seeing clearly.
5.5 / 10
Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment
Shovel Knight - Specter of Torment is a standalone prequel campaign starring the scythe-wielding Specter Knight, sold separately on Steam even though it comes bundled free with Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. That purchasing trap is the single most-flagged issue in its review sample, ahead of real, specific complaints about automated, imprecise platforming controls.
5.5 / 10
Vapor World: Over The Mind
A narrative-driven souls-like platformer about a memoryless boy descending through a shattered dream, whose promising deflection-based combat and painterly art direction were overshadowed at launch by a same-day AI-generated cutscene controversy that split its early review base right down the middle.
5.5 / 10
Ariana and the Elder Codex
A storybook-styled 2D action game from Idea Factory and Compile Heart that pairs charming spell-combo combat with a Metroidvania label reviewers say doesn't really fit, wrapped in a premium price many found hard to justify.
5.4 / 10
Darwin's Paradox!
A charming, Pixar-flavoured cinematic platformer starring a memory-wiped octopus, held back from greatness by rough difficulty spikes and surprisingly poor performance for a game this visually modest.
5.4 / 10
Fall Queen Review
A Compact Jump King, Free of Charge Fall Queen is a bite-sized rage platformer built around a single goal: climb from the bottom of a vertical course to the summit without falling
5.3 / 10
Feudal Alloy
A hand-drawn steampunk-medieval metroidvania starring a fish-controlled robot knight, praised for its distinctive art and inventive health/stamina system but criticized as a short, repetitive, undercooked experience let down by a genuinely poor interface.
5 / 10
GEX Trilogy Review
A wisecracking mascot platformer trilogy makes its long-overdue legal return to PC, but Limited Run Games' bare-bones emulation wrapper, missing platform content, and lack of basic controller remapping leave longtime fans feeling shortchanged.
5 / 10