Games like Super Metroid
Loved Super Metroid by Nintendo? Here are 24 games that genuinely play like it — ranked by shared genres, mechanics and themes, not just labels.
Super Metroid1994
Nintendo
After having defeated Mother Brain, the leader of the Space Pirates who wanted to use alien creatures known as Metroids to dominate the world, the bounty hunter Samus Aran took the fight to the Metroids' homeland and eradicated them. Only a single Metroid larva remained. Samus took it to a galactic…
24 games similar to Super Metroid
88
5.0
Metroid Dread
49% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvaniaDifficult
92
5.0
Metroid Fusion
46% similarIsolationSide-ScrollingMetroidvania
90
5.0
Hollow Knight: Silksong
36% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvania2d
89
5.0
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
34% similarIsolationSide-ScrollingMetroidvania
90
5.0
Hollow Knight
34% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvania2d
84
5.0
Axiom Verge
32% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvania2d
83
5.0
Iconoclasts
32% similarMetroidvaniaPixel GraphicsFemale Protagonist
83
5.0
Valdis Story: Abyssal City
31% similarMetroidvaniaDifficultFemale Protagonist
78
5.0
Pepper Grinder
31% similarSide-ScrollingPirates2d
79
5.0
Ghost Song
30% similarMetroidvania2d
82
5.0
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
30% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvania2d
84
5.0
Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
30% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvaniaHunting
76
5.0
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight
29% similarMetroidvaniaDifficult2d
75
5.0
Carrion
29% similarMetroidvaniaDifficult2d
86
5.0
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
29% similarMetroidvaniaExplorationSpace
77
5.0
Blade Chimera
29% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvania2d
76
5.0
Metal Slug 3
29% similarSide-ScrollingAliensPixel Graphics
79
5.0
Afterimage
28% similarSide-ScrollingMetroidvaniaFemale Protagonist
72
5.0
Death's Gambit
28% similarMetroidvaniaDifficult2d
76
5.0
Axiom Verge 2
27% similarMetroidvaniaPixel Graphics
90
5.0
Animal Well
27% similarMetroidvania2dPixel Graphics
74
5.0
Contra Anniversary Collection
27% similarSide-ScrollingDifficult2d
80
5.0
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
27% similarSide-ScrollingPiratesFemale Protagonist
5.0
Tomba!
27% similarMetroidvaniaSpace