The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of the popular genre. Within the vast and overcrowded Steam store, there are over 3,100 titles with the “metroidvania” tag . The 2009 release of Shadow Complex served as a nice throwback to a then-abandoned genre, and a 2010s resurgence of metroidvanias occurred in indie scenes through games like Axiom Verge, Hollow Knight, Ori, Dead Cells, and many others.
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