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.

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Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

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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.
Captain Comic 2: Fractured Reality

DOS1990freeware3.9/5
Captain Comic, The Adventures of

DOS1988freeware3.8/5
Castlevania

DOS19903.9/5 Distinctive Software
Lyle in Cube Sector

Windows XP/98/9520063.8/5
Montezuma's Revenge

DOS19844.2/5 Parker Brothers
Monuments of Mars

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac1991freeware3.3/5 Scenerio Software
Rad Warrior

DOS19863.8/5 Palace Software
Sorcerian

DOS19904/5 Nihon Falcom
Zeliard

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.