10 Best Metroidvania Games on Xbox Game Pass (April 2024)

Metroidvania games feature interconnected, open-ended maps that you can unlock as you explore and collect items. This versatile gameplay design makes the gaming experience fun, engaging, and challenging. Unsurprisingly, this versatile and creative gameplay design is increasingly popular, with new Metroidvania titles coming out over time.

Xbox Game Pass is a great platform for playing Metroidvania games. The platform supports dozens of games in this genre as of April 2024, including the following ten outstanding titles.

10. Tunic

Tunic is an isometric action game that follows the grand adventures of a small fox. The game is set in a fantasy world filled with secrets, ancient powers, lost legends, and fierce monsters.

Naturally, the fox sets out to explore the beautiful world to discover its secrets, obtain its ancient powers, and reveal its lost legends, armed with nothing but curiosity. However, he must also solve complex puzzles and fight ferocious monsters along the way. The ultimate goal is to unlock more areas on the map by restoring a sacred book, which essentially is the game’s instruction manual.  

9. F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch

F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania game that focuses more on action than exploration. It is about a warrior rabbit on a mission to rescue a friend forcibly arrested by the Machine Legion, invaders who colonized his once peaceful planet. The rabbit is equipped with a large mechanical fist that can do just about anything, including punching and whipping enemies. He must use his mechanical fist to defeat his enemies and save his old friend.

8. The Last Case of Benedict Fox

The Last Case of Benedict Fox delivers an exciting blend of mystery and action. The mystery is about a young couple’s perplexing murder and the disappearance of their child. Benedict Fox, a self-proclaimed detective, must solve the mystery by exploring the dead couple’s minds with the help of his demonic companion. He uncovers a dark world of secret organizations, satanic rituals, and other atrocious crimes in the process. He also comes across many scary demons along the way, and he must use his weapons and special abilities to come out alive.

7. Ori Saga

The Ori Saga comprises two titles: Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps. The original title, Ori and the Blind Forest, tells the story of a young orphan destined to become a hero. Ori must fight an evil nemesis and save the forest. Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a sequel to the former, and it follows Ori on another adventure as he seeks to save a lost friend and reunite a broken family. Both games feature stunning visuals, engaging gameplay designs, and smooth controls on Xbox Game Pass.

6. Hollow Knight

Hollow Knight is an epic action-adventure game featuring a stunning hand-drawn 2D style and a creative story. The 2D art depicts a vast world of both heroic and evil insects, including majestic ancient cities, twisting caverns, and deadly wastelands. The Hollow Knight must explore the vast world while battling menacing insects and forging alliances with other insects.

Your character has some impressive powers to take on numerous enemies throughout the game, including 30 bosses. Moreover, you can make him more formidable by collecting spells and equipping charms.

5. Ghost Song

Ghost Song is an engaging action-adventure game featuring simple yet appealing 2D graphics. Featuring a deadsuit just awakened from a long slumber, the game is set on a not-so-desolate moon. However, the creatures inhabiting the moon live below the surface and are very hostile towards outsiders, as the deadsuit soon discovers. The gameplay is all about shooting and blasting your way through enemies as you collect more items and unlock more strata.

4. Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Could you imagine a world without color? That is the main concept behind Chicory: A Colorful Tale. A beautiful world set in a coloring book suddenly loses all of its spectacular colors, draining the life out of it. It is now up to man’s best friend to color everything and bring life and joy back to the world. Most of the gameplay involves painting and solving puzzles for a relaxing experience. However, you can also enable combat to fight enemies using your brush.

3. Moonscars

Moonscars is an action Metroidvania based on one age-old question: the purpose of existence. Grey Irma, a formidable warrior, is a Clayborne being on a quest to find the sculptor and unravel the mystery behind his life. The story is deep and intricate, and every challenge unlocks new life-changing secrets and memories of suffering, betrayal, and vengeance. Set in a non-linear 2D world, the game also features lots of action and versatile combat moves.

2. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

The stakes are high in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and it is up to you to save an orphan called Miriam and the entire world. Miriam is the victim of a curse that slowly crystallizes her body and threatens to take over her mind. She must fight many demons of all shapes, sizes, and colors to find the cure and save the world.

This game combines 3D models with 2.5D graphics to generate impressive visuals. It also features many weapons and spells for explosive combat scenes.

1. The Last Faith

The Last Faith takes the top spot because of its interesting story, advanced graphics, and versatile combat system. Moreover, the exploration is non-linear, giving you more freedom to roam around the gothic world.

The game is about Eryk, a formidable warrior without any recollections of his immediately past and a deteriorating mind. He must explore the scary world to learn about his past and get a cure for his mind before he goes mad. He encounters many enemies on his journeys, offering plenty of action featuring diverse weapons and versatile combat moves.

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