Games like Metroid Dread
Loved Metroid Dread by MercurySteam? Here are 24 games that genuinely play like it — ranked by shared genres, mechanics and themes, not just labels.
Metroid Dread2021MC 88
MercurySteam · ~10h to beat
Join intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her first new 2D Metroid story in 19 years. Samus’ story continues after the events of the Metroid Fusion game when she descends upon planet ZDR to investigate a mysterious transmission sent to the Galactic Federation. The remote planet has become…
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