![The runners, organisers, and audience of Summer Games Done Quick cheer and celebrate the cash raised for chairty during their event in 2024.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/summer-games-done-quick-2024-1.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Metroidvania
![The runners, organisers, and audience of Summer Games Done Quick cheer and celebrate the cash raised for chairty during their event in 2024.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/summer-games-done-quick-2024-1.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A shaman fights a huge dragon in Tales Of Kenzera: Zau](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tales-of-kenzera-zau-screenshot5.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Tales of Kenzera: Zau studio, founded by Assassin’s Creed Origins actor, lay off staff less than three months after debut game
Platformer melding African Bantu cultures with personal experiences of grief hit PC in late April
![A scene from metroidvania platformer LXD Red Honey which looks like a layered spread of coloured diamonds and squares and triangles](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_DfQSPDW.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
LXD Red Honey is an astonishingly good free metroidvania that owes something to psychedelic bees
My pick of Metroidvania Month 24
![The group of Immortals warriors peer over a dead body in Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Prince-of-Persia%E2%84%A2-The-Lost-Crown2024-1-3-18-59-26.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A close up of Sargon in Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Prince-of-Persia%E2%84%A2-The-Lost-Crown2024-1-4-21-48-23.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown's Sargon dressed like the prince from the 2008 reboot in a new costume](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/prince-of-persia-lost-crown-costume-2008.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown adds boss rush mode, extra fast-travel and an outfit from the 2008 reboot (if you can unlock it)
The second of three free updates is out now
![The player charging at a horde of robotic-looking enemies in Echo Weaver against a background of stained glass windows](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/5_znTawLw.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Feature
Echo Weaver is an Outer Wilds-inspired metroidvania in which the only resource is time
Clone survivor
![Zau, in Tales Of Kenzera: Zau, receiving the power of the Sun and Moon masks](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tales-of-kenzera-zau-review-header.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Review
Tales Of Kenzera: Zau review: a beautifully designed yet imprecise platforming adventure
It's not time to make a change
![Gestalt's red-haired protag leaps between platforms, each with a robot enemy, in a 2D 16-bit art style.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/gestalt-steam-and-cinder.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Gestalt: Steam & Cinder will launch in May and the demo is out now
2D platforming with snappy combat
![Two witches fighting in Withering Rooms](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_lad2Iki.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Withering Rooms is a haunted house action-RPG with notes of Bloodborne and American McGee's Alice
Out of early access now - beware the piano-playing ghost
![A spooky ASCII art woman in Yelizaveta: The Labours of Misfortune.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/yelizaveta-the-labours-of-misfortune.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Feature
Screenshot Saturday Tuesday: What's a three-day lag when there are all these games to admire?
I go on Twitter so you don't have to
![A character levitating and firing cross-shaped energy beams from their head in Saviorless](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/1_GmpsaV5.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Cuban dark fantasy metroidvania Saviorless gets an April release date
Explore and survive the Smiling Islands
![Exploring an anime-styled giant forest in a Vivarium screenshot.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/vivarium.jpeg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Getting about with rope arrows, public transport, and a Mary Poppins umbrella
I go on Twitter so you don't have to
![A view of village huts against a misty moonlit sky](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/wandererArt11.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The Night Wanderer is a sci-fantasy Soulslike that blends sword-fighting with cybernetics
Midgaard as nails
![Dramatic scenes in an Abyss X Zero screenshot.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/abyss-x-zero-c.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
This upcoming metroidvania reminds me of Kill La Kill and Mega Man Legends
Abyss X Zero is made by the studio behind Unsighted
![A young girl and a group of warriors rest at a camp in Ender Magnolia: Bloom In The Mist](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/enderr-magnolia.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
The sequel to acclaimed Metroidvania Ender Lilies gets PC early access release
Previously announced for the Switch, Ender Magnolia: Bloom In The Mist also hits Steam in March
![Turbo Kid explores and chats in a gory pixel art environment in the metroidvania, Turbo Kid.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/turbo-kid-header.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A close up of Sargon in Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Prince-of-Persia%E2%84%A2-The-Lost-Crown2024-1-4-21-48-23.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown is getting "free content and modes" in updates soon
Acclaimed metroidvania not done yet
![A small blonde witch fights a large reptile monster in Never Grave: The Witch And The Curse](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/never-grave.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Palworld devs' next game is a base-building Dead Cells and Hollow Knight mash-up
Never Grave: The Witch And The Curse's demo is actually pretty all right
![A young shaman stands next to his sun and moon masks in Tales Of Kenzera: Zau](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/tales-of-kenzera-zau-screenshot1.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Feature
Watch out Prince Of Persia, there's another platforming-packed Metroidvania coming to steal your crown
Tales Of Kenzera: ZAU impresses with its 30-minute Next Fest demo
![Artwork from Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Hollow Knight, Ori And The Blind Forest and SteamWorld Dig 2](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/best-metroidvania-games-header.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A small masked creature runs across a clockwork landscape in Deviator](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/deviator.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Ease the wait for Silksong with the upcoming demo of this very Hollow Knight-looking Metroidvania
Deviator's Steam demo is coming in February
![A close-up on eyes glowing with computer data in Memory Detective: Akira.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/memory-detective-akira.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
Feature
Screenshot Saturday Mondays: Daft and dramatic movement methods
I go on Twitter so you don't have to
![A big woman in Momodora: Moonlit Farewell.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/momodora-moonlit-farewell_1KDVySu.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![Sargon from Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown reaches for a white feather, and the RPS Bestest Best logo](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-bestest-best.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)