Metroidvania

A buff man holding a gun while his back is pressed against a wall looks slightly afraid of shadows of dinosaur people on the wall in key art for Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3.

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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 is a survival horror, match-3 metroidvania sequel to a game that doesn't exist

A lot of good words right there

April 22, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

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A red-robed figure with energy pouring out of their hand, advancing away from you into the woods in Mandragora: Whispers Of The Witch Tree

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Witch-hunting fantasy action-RPG Mandragora is out now and feels like a gem

With words from the writer of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

April 17, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A cool frog is sympathetic to your situation in Crypt Custodian.

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Supporters only | Crypt Custodian is a classic tale of shoving a ghost frog's hypocritical face in

Clean that up in ghost

April 3, 2025Sin Vega

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Key art from Ender Magnolia showing a woman with grey hair stood next to a humanoid figure wearing a mask and wielding a scythe.

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Ender Magnolia's latest update invites you to fight its toughest baddies again with a new boss rush mode

Bloomin' heck, that looks like quite the challenge

March 11, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

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A pitch-dark top-down 2D world in which your character, a flaming cube surrounded by flying rods, fights a robot called the Dawn. From the PC game Nothing Beyond This Point.

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There is Nothing Beyond This Point except a promisingly odd metroidvania about exploring the void

Metvoidvania, I guess

March 10, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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An alien warrior shooting at gross green insects in an underground area in Moadra, a 2D metroidvania.

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Moadra is Metroid but you're the Predator

No invisi-cloak, admittedly, but you do get wings

March 4, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Fig arrives at an overgrown shrine in Forgotlings.

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Forgotton Anne follow-up Forgotlings is a gorgeous jaunt into a mountain full of adorable weirdos - and it has a demo

Less Forgot, more just finding out about it

Feb. 4, 2025Nic Reuben

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A knight with a shield facing off against a vampire-looking enemy equipped with a bloodwhip, in a Gothic castle interior. From the video game Mandragora

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Vampire: The Masquerade writer's new dark fantasy vania also features vampires, plus screaming spiders

Mandragora is out in April

Jan. 30, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A Palworld player approaching an egg with a pickaxe

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Palworld's creators are paying the Kenzera devs to make a horror game about the entertainment industry

Pocketpair's new publishing arm revealed

Jan. 24, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A cyberpunk demon hunter dive kicking earthbound monsters in 2D metroidvania Blade Chimera

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Blade Chimera’s demo suggests another rad 2D metroidvania from the Touhou Luna Nights devs

Lux be a lady

Jan. 16, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Screenshots of Factorio: Space Age, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, and Mouthwashing.

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Our 24 favourite games of 2024

In non-calendar form

Jan. 13, 2025Graham Smith

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Screenshots of Withering Rooms, To The Stars, and Isles Of Sea And Sky.

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The RPS Selection Box: Edwin's bonus games of the year 2024

100% uncompleted

Dec. 25, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

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The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 14th

The coming of the beast

Dec. 14, 2024RPS

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A wizard in a purple gown and hat avoid slimes in a forest in Oolo.

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The demo for Oolo offers up a magical metroidvania with hints of classic Zelda

Oolovely

Dec. 9, 2024Nic Reuben

17 comments

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The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 8th

Poor sales? Team disbanded? No no no, that's not the way it happened

Dec. 8, 2024RPS

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Two characters performing a Crucible check to decide who gets control of a body in Project Uso, a working-titled RPG from Surgent Studios

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The Tales Of Kenzera devs are making a Gothic horror RPG beat 'em up where two characters fight over one body

But they need funds

Oct. 25, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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Algol fires a burst of energy at an enemy, as another encroaches from behind.

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Stardust Demon is an intergalactic metroidvania that looks very snazzy indeed, and it's out now

How two people developed this is beyond me

Oct. 24, 2024Ed Thorn

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A close up of Sargon in Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

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Most Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown devs have moved to other projects, Ubisoft confirm, following report about rejected sequel pitch

No layoffs involved

Oct. 23, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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A large bug looms over the Nightcat in Rain World

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Rain World's new slugcat will explore icy wastes and desert sands as The Watcher DLC gets a release date

But what's it watching?

Sept. 20, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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Radjen from Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown vogues for key art of the Mask Of Darkness DLC.

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Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown's story DLC Mask Of Darkness is out now

Resolving the fate of sexy Voldo

Sept. 18, 2024Graham Smith

11 comments

The hero battles a hammer-wielding foe in Marko: Beyond Brave.

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Metroidvania Marko: Beyond Brave describes itself as "Slavic Silksong", and is out now

Maaaaarko

Sept. 18, 2024Nic Reuben

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The cybernetic hero of Vainger wears a suit of bug-like armour.

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UFO 50 review: a pixellated portrait of the 1980s that offers a strange sort of time travel

A retroactive reimagining

Sept. 17, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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A single screen underground maze of red rock and spiky fittings in Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists

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In handsome metroidvania Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists you are a dryad fighting the corpse of capitalism

I have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes

Sept. 16, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

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The creature of Urus runs alongside a mech across a wasteland.

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Metroidvania Uruc is like Rain World but the slugcat gets a shotgun and pilots a mech

Sluggier than thou

Aug. 27, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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The hero of Dead Cells shrugs as he holds his head in a guillotine, with shouting enemies standing nearby, ready to decapitate him.

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Dead Cells gets its final update after 8 years of development, bringing it to a cursed close

Curse words

Aug. 19, 2024Brendan Caldwell

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