Metroidvania

At first glance, you might expect Laika: Aged Through Blood to maybe have a bit more chill than it does. That is, until just minutes into it, when you find out its beautifully…

After crusading through the hallowed, freakish 2D corridors of the original Blasphemous in 2019, I wondered how its followup, Blasphemous 2, might iterate upon a solid first stab.…

Dance with the Dead During the weekend’s PC Gaming Show presentation, publisher Freedom Games raised the curtain on an intriguing new metroidvania, Mariachi Legends, which is currently in…

A brand new Prince of Persia was fully revealed at this year’s Ubisoft Forward, and it’s quite literally in a different dimension to the beloved Sands of Time games. Made by the…

Bah fun(?)-bug A Christmas Carol is a timeless classic that remains a staple of the holiday season, with producers in film and television taking advantage of its public domain status…

“A modern take on the legendary franchise” Today at the Summer Game Fest kickoff, Geoff Keighley and company revealed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, a new platformer with a…

Metroid and Castlevania might be the metroidvania crown jewels (understandably), but indie developers have kept the subgenre alive over the years, and thanks to Humble’s new…

Venture to the Vile clicked with me the first time I switched layers to solve a puzzle. I was trying to get to a lever that would open a door farther in, but there wasn’t a lever in…

Fanatical’s New Realms bundle collects some of the coolest new indies of the last few years, offering $96 worth of PC games for just $9.The seven-game bundle…

Dracma Studios has announced that its upcoming metroidvania Candle Knight will be launching in May. Candle Knight follows a miniature knight that carries a candle on their helmet, and is…