Metroidvania: half Metroid, half Castlevania sorted by year, newest first
Both the Metroid and Castlevania series served as influential templates for the Metroidvania subgenre, with "Metroid" games focusing more on sci-fi and alien worlds, and "Castlevania" games having a gothic, vampire-hunting theme.
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Lyle in Cube Sector
Windows20064/5
Monuments of Mars
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1991freeware3.3/5 Scenerio Software
Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality
DOS1990freeware4/5
Castlevania
DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software
Sorcerian
DOS19904/5 Nihon Falcom
Zeliard
DOS19904/5 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.
Captain Comic, The Adventures of
DOS1988freeware3.8/5
Rad Warrior
DOS19864/5 Palace Software
Below The Root
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.
Montezuma's Revenge
DOS19844.2/5 Parker Brothers
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