TOP 20 METROIDVANIA Games on Nintendo Switch !

[@tomk6613]

Thumbnail is stock pixel art, not an actual game. Saved you the question 👍

[@alariclopez4460]

And saved lives with this info

[@Tcrakman]

Goddamnit... Althought the thumbnail reminds me of the style of Slain: Back from Hell or more over their new game Valfaris. The dev is Steel Mantis on Steam.

[@Look-at-the-ghost]

Was looking for that game rhanks

[@bhebert62482]

Thanks 👊🏼

[@diegodi2049]

I will dislike the video now cause of this

[@corynidy958]

Currently playing hollow knight! Best game I’ve played so far👌🏼🔥🔥

[@macruz8503]

Prince of Persia the lost crown is so much better bro! Real talk real 🥷 stuff!

[@corynidy958]

@@macruz8503 I’m gonna go ahead and pull the trigger on it then! I’ve had money on my eshop for a minute I just haven’t been able to decide, I’m super picky lol

[@lobonegro1567]

The bug game??😂 A cheap Metroivania for the poor

[@corynidy958]

@@lobonegro1567😂 every game on this list is cheap but yet you are here with us!!!

[@gunsharck]

@@corynidy958what does poverty have to do with commenting son???

[@colh3127]

Ender lillies is such a gem of a game.

[@SuperBob_24]

Hollow Knight should have been #1

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Enjoyed "Record of Lodoss war: Deedlit and wonder labyrinth", "Metroid: Dread" & "Volfaris".

[@hughlingard]

monster boy and the cursed kingdom is a 10/10 game so much quality and love baked into this gem 😍

[@dontcallmeshirley4]

Absolutely!

[@cable_g0re]

owlboy is one of my FAVORITE games ever, i am very VERY biased about this but it lives in my head rent free :)

[@JoshuaFante]

Yup play Monster Boy then You WILL SUPER LOVE IT

[@juanqarlos94]

I'm Mexican and I confirm is a rite of passage learning how to become a chicken

[@TheGheddon]

I played through both Ori games, one after the other. Amazing games.

[@Stardust-Crusaders3]

Ori and hollow Knight was top 2 let's go

[@TK-qh4gr]

Monsterboy is a hidden gem

[@gypate74]

Great game. French touch

[@janrhein]

The characters in this version presented here look somewhat different from my Switch (and Stadia) version. Are there different variants of that game depending on the platform?

[@gypate74]

​@@janrheinI think so. I only played the Switch version

[@dontcallmeshirley4]

Excellent game!

[@LuciferHunter-kt7pm]

Deedlit wonder labyrinth is awesome. Was playing that this morning. Great music

[@B.F.Dan9k]

I Play indies Metroidvanias in PC so maybe not all are available on Switch, but there goes some of the best ive played, havent been mentioned and i can remember 😅. Nine Sols Cookie Cutter (awesome game few speak of) Convergence Teslagrad 2 Grime Gestalt Guacamelee! (1&2) Afterimage The Last Case of Benedict Fox Narita Boy Laika Age through Blood Worldless Strider (The last one) Mo Astray (its not exactly a Metroidvania)

[@aroldlecomte4018]

Very good recommandations and very original and not only for Switch. Thanks.

[@Rhoaris]

Moment I read the title, I KNEW Ender Lilies would make this list

[@z4v3k]

Got to say Ori 2 story wise wasn't that special, it was just about finding his owl friend that's it nothing emotional happened, while Ori 1 completely shocked me and got me a little bit emotional (not crying though, it just a game after all), Ori 2 only improved on the combat which is nice obviously, but Ori 1 still has that WOW factor.

[@levelwithme8535]

Nothing emotional happened? I'm questioning if you really played the game.

[@Luminous000]

death's gambit looks awesome I hope it will live up to my expectations

[@NeatGames]

Animal Well is an amazing Metroidvania too~~ I hope my metroidvania is on the Switch, or Switch 2, someday :D

[@mixelwolfi]

What is the Game of Thumbmail?

[@mauricioescalante6450]

Ori, the best f games!! Broo that ending! 😢😢😢

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

That's awesome Death's Gambit is getting an expansion, as that's probably the only thing wrong with the game, is that it's too short, or at least from what i've heard.

[@NachoLibre68]

Love these type of games!

[@Training_Wheels]

They're MAZE DUNGEON GAMES!!! 🤗

[@nightsimon1038]

Miss aeterna noctis, one of the best metroidvania I ever played

[@juanlucero9695]

Ender Lilies is a beautiful game!!!

[@boombots614]

What’s the thumbnail?

[@The80Kat]

Yeah that’s why I clicked on this

[@Bigska]

Me three. I took the bait...

[@candreeck]

Me too

[@hugosg9]

Me fifth, took it

[@michaelmiller2210]

Thank God I read the comments before watching the video lol.

[@Thenatureboy801]

I would love to find a platformer/MMO hybrid where i could dump countless hours into character development, something that had raids and dungeons with co op play. Like a WoW or ESO wrapped into a visually nice platformer. With PVP

[@juanjoviciana6152]

wonderfull Switch gamelist

[@SBaby]

What about Bloodstained Ritual of the Night, which was made by Iga, one of the main people behind freaking Castlevania?! You know, the guy that's the reason this video even exists?

[@miguelangelgonzalezlamas2240]

You forgot an awesome game, Aeterna Noctis, this is a wonderful adventure and is a metroidvania like game

[@QuillpigGaming]

Hi! I really like your videos and these are all great games, but Dead Cells isn't a Metroidvania game. If you need a 20th, I'd suggest F.I.S.T., Momodora, or La-Mulana.

[@iddeegee]

Agreed, plus The Last Faith (one of my fav. souls-like metroidvania) unfortunately it's not very smooth on Switch (overclocking is required)

[@bear_witness]

I was so irritated that F.I.S.T wasn't on here. I just started playing it and it is one of my favorite Metroidvanias so far. It's much better with original voice acting tho, the English is cheesy haha

[@QuillpigGaming]

@@bear_witness I bought it after watching Metroidvania Guru do a breakdown. He didn't like it, but all of the negatives he mentioned are things I like in a game.

[@iddeegee]

@@bear_witness yup, also try Prince of persia the lost crown, it's one of the best with different and new mechanics, although its style is doubtful, but the gameplay is engaging

[@QuillpigGaming]

@@bear_witness thinking about playing F.I.S.T. blind for my channel next month. About how long do you think it takes to beat and 100% it? Is it at least 15 hours long?

[@Rossonero-dh8rc]

Honorable mention: Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze!!!!

[@quintusslava]

Лучшее в жанре Метроидвания это безусловно Ori (обе части). Но вы забыли про один из лучших платформеров-метроидваний F.I.S.T.

[@Brian0wns]

I really liked the Steamworld Dig games but man they are short.

[@soulkillah-7642]

Well! Looks like I want to buy a switch now.

[@FromHector]

6:26 gyatt 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jjlatinopedia]

That cyclops is T H I C C

[@sion7651]

Death's gambit and ender lilies combat sadly has no "weight" in their attacks which feels realy bad to me. enemies just move through your attacks. Unsighted is so insanly good!! you can deactivate the timer if you want! it is also has an open world if you get the right abilities! you can tackle any dungeon in an order. you can break the game so hard with the crafting system!! Getting tools for late game dungeons right at the start! all optional! all movement tools also have an combat aspect! also parry system that feels fantastic!! there is an intended way to play this game and then there is the second playthrough in which you just play around with all your knowledge and find out how incredibly well designed that game is! dont miss out on this one! it is absolutely amazing!!! Hollow knight is just a masterpiece! cheap AF for the content it provides! just get it. worldless is not on the list. check it out. unique as hell!

[@iiReneku]

ori being first makes me happy\

[@rodolfouc]

I love Draconus like games ❤😅

[@benjaminireland7096]

A crime to not have the first Blasphemous or Laika Aged Through Blood on the list. I promise theyre better than half the games on this list.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Astalon is literally better than all the games in this list, saved obviously by Hollow Knight. That's why metacritic is a joke

[@apeman505]

Oh wow, I've actually played a lot of these games.... Wonder Boy & The Dragon's Trap was amazing, one of those games I really wanted to 100%. It was so good it made me try Wonder Boy & The Cursed Kingdom, which was good but not AS good. I really didn't like Owlboy. I found the gameplay boring and the story subpar, plus the way the NPC's bully Owlboy relentlessly is really depressing. Iconoclasts I played back when it was a free to download indie game made by Joakim Sandberg, and I liked it so much I got Iconoclasts when it came out. Iconoclasts is bigger, longer, and more fleshed out, but the story got DARK. I'm not a big fan of where they went with that. I didn't really like Guacamelee, I guess it just didn't fulfill my craving for Mexican masked pro wrestling as much as I hoped. UNSIGHTED is really good, but you should know that the game is intended to be played on a timer. If you let the timer go too long, NPC's will start going insane one after the other and you will have to kill them. You can disable this feature if you want, though. The game reminds me a lot of Crosscode, but isn't quite as good. Cave Story I played back when it was a free to download indie game called Dokoutsu, made by Japanese game developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his spare time. It is FREAKING AMAZING, and I've beaten it about a dozen times. Protip, there is a way to save Curly Brace and finish the game without her dying. Metroid Dread is also freaking awesome, although it doesn't bring the terror it promises in the title. More like, Metroid Creepy. I loved it though, I'd play it again. Last we got Hollow Knight. I really loved that game all the way up to the final boss. For some reason, though, the final boss left me with a sour taste, and I came away from the game with a bad feeling that I didn't really like it. It's weird, I LOVED the game and played the crap out of it (98% clear), but the final boss... kind of an underwhelming end I guess.

[@titusgray4598]

Aeterna Noctis needs to be in here somewhere

[@hakutoshiro1893]

Laika: Aged Through Blood? But for sure, not yet (

[@darrellcovello7917]

Y'all gotta play Ender Lillies... fr

[@fountainneer]

1.Blasphemous 2.Gestalt: Steam & Cinder nothing comes close

[@bthompson9695]

These games look so cool but my sense of direction is terrible lol I’d get stuck too many times

[@gunsharck]

Use the map mate. You can leave markers

[@bthompson9695]

@@gunsharck ohhh I’m gonna have to give these another try then

[@omarludke5185]

Perfect 👌

[@admith]

Animall Well is excellent.

[@Gooddaymann]

I don't think the thumbnail is a real game, y'all. just artwork it seems

[@MorbidManoeuvres]

What is game title of the still you use for this KZbin video ? Thanks

[@tomytomy2338]

What is the name of the game that appears in the mask of the video?

[@singleplayer2280]

What game is the one in the thumbnail

[@jdotglenn]

Yes, I need to know!

[@dondiego1141]

Looks like Record of Lodoss war

[@Training_Wheels]

It's Gex 2

[@azurecreed9119]

Nah sleeping on the Blaster master zero trilogy

[@RyanKry]

I am afraid this needs to be said, as it seems quite a few people are not capable of seeing what they are looking at: Clearly these games are NOT selected based on his preference but pulled out as data from Metacritic (game review website) based on the scores given out there. It doesn't mean I agree or you should on the scores given out by the critics or the other gamers, but it is what it is. Game A could not be above game B, or game X could not be in the list instead of game Y, because it is not based on his opinion, it is just data he is pulling out and sharing, not creating the list.

[@changegods1410]

I Played Hollow knight on yuzu emulator on Android 😅😅 yea my favorite Nintendo switch games

[@rzhevscky]

Bloodstained: ritual of the night?

[@Ignalecp]

What's the name of the metroidvania in the screen to show this video?

[@Training_Wheels]

Gex 2

[@blizmo2]

Hollow Knight is definitely the best The Ori games are also very good

[@benkenobi91]

You forgot gunbrella and tails of iron...

[@peterc504]

gunbrella was jus ok....

[@zagrebsuper7962]

what about Bloodstained: ritaul of night???? it is the best one

[@BNT461]

Deaths gambit is the olny new game that gave me castlevania vibes...and the last faith has the best art style of all metroidvanias but its not that good

[@MattiusWhite]

Cathedral!

[@ReaperCore15]

you forgot Infernax

[@OnatGG]

Ori is the best no doubt.

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Not dissing the video, but metacritic is such a hellhole, in what universe Ori 2 is a better game than freaking Hollow Knight? Also Death's Gambit showing up in a top 20, lol oh boy... no sign of Astalon. It's crazy to me how metacritic remains "relevant" somehow

[@orakaa]

What was the game on the thumbnail of this video?

[@Training_Wheels]

Gex two

[@lupino_bp9467]

You forgot narita boy...

[@mattscheffer9010]

I liked both Ori’s, but I would put Hollow Knight as #1.

[@PolyphonicSpr33]

... Metroid Dread is not a "metroidvania" game... it's a Metroid game........ you can just say Metroid....

[@Jamie-1428]

Switch planet is a Shill. what do you expect

[@akiltahsin7981]

"Metroid" is the franchise, "Metroidvania" is the genre.

[@Alex-Zone]

What if there was a Metroid card game? Would it still be a Metroidvania?

[@PolyphonicSpr33]

@@akiltahsin7981 It is redundant to refer to a Metroid game as a Metroidvania. From its inception, Metroid was doing non-linear progression action adventure. Castlevania was not. It is appropriate to differentiate between Castelvania games using the Metroidvania qualifier, but moronically redundant with Metroid games.

[@Dug88]

​@@PolyphonicSpr33I agree because Metroid Dread is barely a metroidvania. It's more of a linear action/stealth platformer.

[@組み紐屋の竜]

音楽に力を入れて欲しい、キャッスルヴァニアの様に。

[@Diaily]

How can one call Wonder Boy & Monster Boy a metroidvania when this came out on the sega genesis, games after SOTN should only be called metroidvania.

[@NobodyUR]

Lost me at dead cells it’s Metroidvania adjacent Ender lilies I put in top 3 I’ve played so far.

[@Shineofeden]

What’s the game on the thumbnail

[@Training_Wheels]

Gex 2

[@Defecthead]

Whats that Monster boy version? Looks not that good to the original :S

[@tr3vk4m]

As usual. Too much vania. Not enough troid.

[@WicDrums]

Thumbnail?

[@aceone2156]

Gal Guardians anyone?

[@peterc504]

What's the game in the thumb nail?

[@orakaa]

I was wondering the same

[@Training_Wheels]

​@@orakaait's Gex 2

[@orakaa]

@@Training_Wheels Gex 2 ? The platformer with a gecko as a main protagonist??? When I search for Gex 2 it's the only thing I find. On the thumbnail of this video, you see a humanoid character facing a huge monster with a kind of red glowing on its chest, so it's definitely not the same game.

[@peterc504]

@@Training_Wheels lol wtf bra

[@peterc504]

@@Training_Wheels def not gex 2..

[@twosquirrels6997]

Where is corekeepers 😢

[@jjh589]

Dead cells is not a Metroidvania I think.

[@fitzrevo]

It is. A roguelike metroidvania. You need to gain certain items in order to access certain paths that get you to different bosses. In other words it is non-linear and utility-gated which is the definition of metroidvania

[@JoshuaDickey-xl4mb]

It's not. It has levels that once beat you can't go back to explore until you die at which point it is completely different. You will have to play through the 1st levels hundreds of times before you beat the game. There are no Metroid nor Castlevania games that use that format.

[@Ventus_S]

Dead Cell is not even a Metrodvania btw.. It's a rogue-lite. Calling Dead Cell a Metrodvania is like calling Hades a Metrodvania...

[@jonathanvasquez1980]

Donde está: TAILS OF IRON :/

[@syffaratta494]

HOLLOW KNIGHT > ORI

[@johndodo2062]

The metacritic score means nothing to people with brains

[@eyedoll-universgraphiquese6492]

Ori 1st? Seriously ?

[@Guilwm]

This list doesn't have bloodstained, so I don't respect it.

[@peterc504]

BS ROTN wasnt that great...decent but not great..I enjoyed the bloodstained curse of the moon games more...

[@mickholohan4266]

B2 far too low, Hollow knight too high.

[@eventhorizon2873]

30 years later, no game comes close to a super metroid experience, it has something to do with pace of the caracter, music, and mystic. most metrovania games are just too hysterical, and the music ruins it even more. first of of i think a metroidvania game should be a caracter that is isolated, no holding hands or hints, just pure mysterious, some areas no music, insane big and screaming bosses. it is a concept that can't get old, because games like souls are actualy the same.

[@Hacheasecas]

I have mosterboy and its much better than those bullshit that you show. Where apear thats graphics? Kunai, infernax, gato roboto, blasphemous the first one, astronite, the mummy demastered, astalon teats of the kingdom, bloostained ritual of the knight, shantae and the seven sirens.... There are more metroidvania and i love it

[@ESJayo32]

No Bloodstained Ritual Of The Night? SMH 👎

[@fnzago]

Always "Hollow Nigth", "DEAD CELLS", etc such boring.... Everyone already knows this....Show news things!!!!!!

[@timothyolson1943]

Game from thumbnail still?

[@Training_Wheels]

Gex 2

[@dondiego1141]

"Record of Lodoss war" or "9 years of shadows"

[@Training_Wheels]

@@dondiego1141 nope. It's definitely Gex.

[@dondiego1141]

@@Training_Wheels there is no gex game that looks like it

[@Training_Wheels]

@@dondiego1141 you're speaking pure hogwash. I guess you're trying to be class clown or something 🤷

[@gw4976]

Awful AI Scripted Video. Would be better Video without voiceover

[@GamerD.A.D]

can you not use AI generated voices? its fucking lame

[@trevoryoungblood1226]

DEADCELLS AND CAVE STORY ARE NOT METROIDVANIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@michaelmiller2210]

Dead cells is a metroidvania, have you ever even played it? You unlock upgrades that allow you to access previously inaccessible places. That's a metroidvania. It's a metroidvania roguelike.

[@trevoryoungblood1226]

@@michaelmiller2210 yes I have, no it is not.

[@jamman7344]

I don't like it

[@killustrator]

Ender Lilies sucks and it's not a metroidvania. I have no idea why it has good reviews. I hated it

[@LastManStanding4098]

Same here

[@Dexter_Solid]

dont buy hollow knight unless you like being punished more than dark souls, maybe im getting old but i dont have time in my life for that kinda crap.

[@Spookymane.]

You’re just bad

[@killustrator]

Metroid Dread and Ori also stink. Overrated trash. Dread has these incredibly poorly made parts of the game where you get one-shotted over and over again and you just keep doing it until you get through. Also, the bosses are poorly designed and just require you to follow a pattern over and over and over. Ori's sprite is so small you can barely see what you are doing. Your main attack looks terrible and is seemingly random if it will connect or not. Also, every dungeon has the terrible trope of you having to escape and it becomes a dull tedious exercise of memorizing how to climb out as you die over and over and over again until one time when you have memorized the path. Trash

[@Awesomeflame16]

Never had those issues when playing both of these games. Guess they just aren't for you.

[@killustrator]

@@Awesomeflame16 what do you mean? Those aren’t issues that’s the gameplay of those games. It’s not a glitch it’s a poorly designed game. I don’t understand what you mean. Are you claiming only my copy of Dread had those terrible rooms where you had to hide from that stupid robot or you got insta killed and had to reload the game over and over again?

[@LastManStanding4098]

Will of the Wisps was fantastic. Chase sequences aren't for everybody. Metroid Dread wasn't my favorite but I'm also not one for shooters.

[@AJChesos]

They're too hard for you?

[@dondiego1141]

​@@AJChesosthis!

[@BillyAnselmo]

Pls stop calling it metroidvania the proper name is called maze dungeon game, is the the same in smash game look alike or style you see it is called platform fighters game or platform fighting game stop calling it like that what if everyone called every platform games as Mario style games or every monster catcher as dragon quest style games so pls stop using this kind of slang

[@FromHector]

Metroidvania is correct, if you don't know, this is a genre of games, it's not "slang". In Brazil we use these terms too, calm down bae

[@cjurri88]

Tranquilo. Le seguiremos llamando metroidvania. 😂😂😂

[@ealantifexis]

It is called a metroidvania because it is directly created from the formula of a Metroid and Castlevania games. Smash bros was and is the origin of that game type's formula. Dark souls was the origin of "soul's like" games. Etc, etc. It's a way to acknowledge the roots of the game while describing the gameplay. The reason we don't call platformers "Mario style games" is because there were many different platforming games from the beginning. They weren't exactly breaking ground, they just did it really well. I'm not going to stop calling them by the names of the games that literally paved the way for their existence and I would guess that many of the developers themselves are honored that their games are being referred to by their obvious inspirations. Unless they are incredibly arrogant and ignorant.

[@natanhaelalvarado6137]

Nobody calls these kind of games “maze dungeon game” sorry but the term metroidvaina is here to stay forever.

[@isaiahyoung5377]

How about using periods in your massive run on sentence?

[@sethschafer1036]

Blasphemous 1 the best of all on switch And not mentioned here