All Guides
Every page here is built from figures anyone can open and check — Steam store pages and YouTube result counts — and each names its source with the date it was read. Where a figure is not published by the store (length, boss counts, completion times), this site says so rather than quote a number it cannot attribute.
- Hollow Knight: The Benchmark Everyone Compares To
Hollow Knight is the title most other metroidvanias on this list get compared to, and the numbers ex…
- Binding of Isaac: 450,000 Reviews, English Only
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth holds 449,464 Steam reviews at 96.9% positive — one of the largest sam…
- Sekiro: The Most Expensive, Not the Best Reviewed
Sekiro is the most expensive title tracked on this site at $59.99, and it sits at 95.3% positive — n…
- Hades: Near the Top on Score and on Sample
Hades is one of the few titles on this list that is near the top on both axes at once: 98% positive …
- Vampire Survivors: Top Score, Near-Lowest Price
Vampire Survivors carries the highest review percentage of any title tracked on this site — 98.3% ac…
- Dead Cells: The Widest Localisation Under $25
Dead Cells sits at 97% positive across 182,928 reviews, and its distinguishing numbers are not the s…
- ANIMAL WELL: Deep Video Bench, Small Review Base
ANIMAL WELL carries 24,521 Steam reviews at 95.7% positive — a modest sample by this list's standard…
- Pseudoregalia: Cheap, English Only, Few Guides
Pseudoregalia is the clearest example on this list of a good game with almost no support structure a…
- Downwell: The Cheapest Game on This List
Downwell is the cheapest title tracked on this site at $2.99, and it sits at 96.6% positive — higher…
- Minishoot' Adventures: High Score, Few Guides
Minishoot' Adventures is the sharpest illustration on this site of a question no store page answers:…
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps: Broad Reach
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is the metroidvania-shaped outlier in this roguelike-heavy batch: its …
- Cult of the Lamb: Combat Plus Community Management
Cult of the Lamb makes its hybrid structure explicit: venture into mysterious regions, then build an…
- Hades II: The Newest High-Volume Sequel
Hades II is the newest title in this batch and the clearest sequel proposition: dark sorcery, the Un…
- Brotato: Six Weapons, Lowest Batch Price
Brotato states its loop with unusual economy: a top-down arena roguelite about a potato carrying up …
- Enter the Gungeon: Dodge-Roll Bullet Hell
Enter the Gungeon advertises verbs rather than abstractions: shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip …
- Noita: Every Pixel Is Part of the System
Noita's official description makes one unusually strong technical promise: every pixel in its world …
- Streets of Rogue: The Broadest Multiplayer Menu
Streets of Rogue frames its generated cities around three approaches—fight, sneak and hack—then supp…
- Nuclear Throne: Lower-Cost Co-op Bullet Hell
Nuclear Throne presents the stripped-down shooter case: humanity is gone, mutants remain, and the go…
- Touhou Luna Nights: Score Versus Guides
Touhou Luna Nights is the compact metroidvania comparison point: its official description emphasizes…
- Tiny Rogues: Cheapest Bullet Hell, English Only
Tiny Rogues offers the second-lowest price in this batch and a direct bullet-hell dungeon-crawler pi…
- Price vs Rating: 20x the Price, 3 Points Apart
Across the twenty roguelikes, metroidvanias and souls-likes tracked on this site, the price range ru…
- If You Get Stuck, Is Anyone Teaching It?
Every game on this list is hard on purpose. That makes one question worth asking before you buy, and…
- Which of These Ship Official Chinese
Of the twenty titles tracked here, 16 list official Chinese interface support on Steam and 4 do not.…
- Where to Start With Roguelikes and Metroidvanias
Most lists of this genre rank by score and leave you there. That does not help much when all twenty …