Abandonware DOS title

Metroidvania: half Metroid, half Castlevania

Metroidvania is a made up word born from the merge of two game series titles: Metroid and Castlevania. Both games share gameplay and design elements that defines the genre. Metroidvania games are platform games featuring a game world that is freely explorable. Certain areas can be accessed only with player upgrades or equipment. Action is somewhat less intense than the usual platform game.

Most popular metroidvania games

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Metroidvania games

  • belowroot-1
    DOS19843.7/5 Dale Disharoon, Inc.

    Below the root is an atipycal early 2 dimensional adventure game based on the Zilpha Keatley Snyder novels: the Green Sky Trilogy. The player can choose one of many characters, each with different skills and embark in a quest to eliminate the distrust between two races: the Erdling and the Kindar.

  • captain-comic-2-07
    DOS1990freeware3.9/5
  • captain-comic-02
    DOS1988freeware3.8/5
  • castlevania-1
    DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software
  • lyle-cube-sector-01
    Windows XP/98/9520063.8/5
  • montezuma-revenge-04
    DOS19844.2/5 Parker Brothers
  • monuments-of-mars-02
    DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1991freeware3.3/5 Scenerio Software
  • rad-warrior-04
    DOS19863.8/5 Palace Software
  • sorcerian-2
    DOS19904/5 Nihon Falcom
  • zeliard-3
    DOS19904.1/5 Game Arts

    Zeliard is a fantasy platformer - JRPG hybrid with metroidvania gameplay elements developed by Game Arts and released for DOS in 1990. Zeliard is a single-player game.

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