Action platformer

Published: April 11, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The Nintendo Switch has proven to be one of the company’s greatest successes, helping the Big N to regain a […]

Published: April 3, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

For longtime fans of the genre, the pull of a good Metroidvania is hard to ignore. The best games that […]

Published: April 2, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The Metroidvania continues to experience something of an ongoing renaissance, especially in the world of indie game development, where new […]

Published: March 26, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The onslaught of indie Metroidvanias has seemingly left the more traditional old-school action-platformer behind in favor of interconnected worlds, ability […]

Published: February 11, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

For the second entry in our two-part series covering the best Metroidvanias by console generation, we’re picking up where we […]

Published: February 7, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

As with a lot of other gaming genres and subgenres, players tend to spend so much time discussing what is […]

Published: February 5, 2025 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

The NES was such a groundbreaking console — both as the Famicom in its native Japan and as the industry-reviving […]

Published: December 23, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Originally released October 25, 2013, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate HD is the PC and console re-release […]

Published: December 17, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Released in 2019 for PC and 8th-generation consoles, Blasphemous is The Game Kitchen’s second title and the first in the […]

Published: December 11, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

After years spent in relative obscurity as a niche subgenre of action platformers, the Metroidvania has been in the swing […]

Published: November 8, 2024 by Matt Karoglou | Leave a Comment

Inti Creates’ Bloodstained: Circle of the Moon is a 2018 action platformer game developed for PC and 8th-gen consoles. The […]