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The 9 best metroidvanias on Steam in 2026

Among metroidvanias on Steam, Dead Cells leads right now, then Hollow Knight and ANIMAL WELL.

Ordered by fit with the genre, Steam review score, number of reviews and how each game plays. Steam figures checked 17 Sept 2026. How the order works

The 9 best metroidvanias, ranked

  1. 01
    Steam artwork — Dead Cells
    97% positive · 183,370 reviews · USD 12.49

    Dead Cells

    Dead Cells is a roguevania: a procedural castle, permadeath runs, and a meta that slowly opens the map.

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  2. 02
    Steam artwork — Hollow Knight
    96.9% positive · 561,052 reviews · USD 14.99

    Hollow Knight

    Hollow Knight is the reference 2D map for a generation of Steam metroidvanias: sparse dialogue, dense rooms, brutal bosses.

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  3. 03
    Steam artwork — ANIMAL WELL
    95.8% positive · 24,435 reviews · EUR 17.15

    ANIMAL WELL

    ANIMAL WELL is a mute pixel metroidvania where the map is a riddle you keep, and combat is almost a rumor you stop expecting. A pixel that moved is the loot.

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  4. 04
    Steam artwork — ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
    93.8% positive · 45,511 reviews · EUR 9.99

    ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights

    ENDER LILIES is a grim 2D metroidvania: you send a chorus of bound knights through a ruin, then you walk the map you already paid for.

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  5. 05
    Steam artwork — Blasphemous
    89.8% positive · 67,186 reviews · USD 6.24

    Blasphemous

    Blasphemous is a grim, religious-horror metroidvania with deliberate combat.

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  6. 06
    Steam artwork — Blasphemous 2
    90.7% positive · 20,955 reviews · EUR 7.49

    Blasphemous 2

    Blasphemous 2 is a grim metroidvania: you parry through a religious ruin on a map that stays where you left it. A tell becomes a spark when the parry lands, and the ruin is still there the next time you walk it.

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  7. 07
    Steam artwork — Minit
    89.3% positive · 2,901 reviews · EUR 9.75

    Minit

    Minit kills you every sixty seconds. The items you picked up stay, so the whole game is a routing problem: what can you reach, use and bank before the timer runs out again.

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  8. 08
    Steam artwork — Rain World
    94% positive · 56,276 reviews · EUR 23.79

    Rain World

    Rain World is an ecosystem you do not top: hibernate before the rain, or the world eats you. Creatures have errands. You are food that learned to jump.

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  9. 09
    Steam artwork — Summit
    83% positive · 12 reviews · USD 4.99

    Summit

    Summit is a small single-player metroidvania. You explore an authored map room by room, then follow the campaign through it.

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How this ranking works

The map is what you keep. Dead Cells appears because its biomes behave like regions, and again on the roguelite list because the run resets — both placements are intentional.

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