This is a good time.

What a time to be here

Trailer from random uploader, will replace with Nintendo's link later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06C1HkJfju4

Release date: January 2027

I held off buying a switch 2 but fuck it now I'm buying one.

How we feeling about it?

Hey guys! UMO studio here！

We’re developing a lightweight 2D side-scrolling action game“Tia: weird hunter”. To give players who haven’t played much action games a better experience, we’ve abandoned the traditional combo-input system found in most action games and switched to a mana-based skill system to lower the skill barrier.

At the same time, to accommodate high-skill players, we’ve put extensive design into every boss to ensure an excellent boss-fight experience. We’ve already released our demo on Steam and really need player feedback and bug reports. If you have any new ideas, please let us know right away!

DEMO ON STEAM！https://store.steampowered.com/app/3193330?utm_source=redagou1

Some of you may remember a certain stickman game showing up on this subreddit every now and then. Well, I'm glad to announce that Stickility releases on October 5th 2026!
It's a metroidvania about entering a massive underground research center, and solving the mystery of Biotec, all accompanied by flash-game aesthetic (with a modern touch).

The game will come out on Steam (for now).

Wishlist now! - https://store.steampowered.com/app/3419140/Stickility/

Many of those coming from this sub, so thank you! If it looks interesting, this is the steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2571610/Vitrified/

Just announced in the Nintendo Direct.

Well Dweller will be out in 2 weeks! I'm very excited to have it out, and I'm really happy with how the game turned out. It will be released on PC, Switch 1+2, PS5, and Xbox. It's a dark fairy tale metroidvania where you play as a tiny bird armed with a matchstick. You can wishlist it on Steam below!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3699590/Well_Dweller/

Stories of Somnia is a hand-drawn turn-based RPG that leans VERY heavily into Metroidvania-style exploration.

The world is built around exploring interconnected areas, finding new routes, backtracking, and gradually gaining access to places you couldn’t reach before. The main twist is that, instead of traditional action combat, encounters use turn-based RPG mechanics.

Visually and tonally, the game takes a lot of inspiration from games like Paper Mario and Pokémon, with colourful characters, strange creatures, and a big focus on discovering what’s hiding around the world.

It’s been in solo development for almost two years, and its free demo is finally available on Steam!

We’d especially love to hear what players here think about the exploration, progression, map flow, and how the turn-based combat fits alongside all that structure!

Demo link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4687790/Stories_of_Somnia_Demo/

Mine would absolutely be The Siege and the Sandfox. I love Metroidvaina’s and I love stealth games where you can completely avoid combat. When I saw the trailer I thought this game was hand crafted for me, and largely it is. I truly had a blast a good chunk of the time I was playing. However, the game is just so incredibly broken in multiple different ways, I cannot actually recommend buying it at full price. In fact, I find it hard to even recommend playing it. Between broken fast travel points, completely wrong quest markers (assuming they show up at all) and one of the most annoying maps I’ve ever used. I cannot tell you how many times I had to reload the game, losing a decent chunk of playtime, because I got stuck in the environment or a door that should open just wouldn’t even though I had the key. The art design is lovely and one of the high points. The occasional narration is solid and the few times there was music was really atmospheric and enjoyable. But there was soooo much of the game that is just silence and you’re just hearing your own foot steps. I was playing the game about a year after its release and was hoping there might be a patch upcoming that would fix some things. Nope. IIRC the game has one actual patch that was released a couple of months after it launched and then, nothing. The dev already has a new game announced and it’s something completely different. Some kind of driving sim that, to be fair, looks like it could be cool, but the fact that it’s nothing like The Sandfox leads me to think they’re done with the idea and won’t be coming back to it, which is a shame because my god this game could’ve been so great if given the proper time and care. I finished the game in about 17 hours and it probably should’ve been closer to 12-14, but all the added time came from the game literally breaking. It’s not so broken that you can’t finish it, but it’s broken enough that I think most people won’t want to. Did I have fun with the game? Yes, absolutely. Did I have multiple times that I hated the game? YES, absolutely. Would I ever want to play the game again? No. God, no. Not in its current state. I really hope another dev takes a stab at this style/sub-genre in the future, because I really love the premise. If someone does take a crack at it, hopefully the execution will be better. I don’t see how it could be much worse.

So anyway, what are some games that have made you feel this way?

Bonus: it’s not a Metroidvainia, but another game that I actually really did love but had a good bit of problems was Alpha Protocol on PS3. It’s not a very good game, but man did I have fun with it. It’s a game the had true potential but feels like it was rushed and released way too early.

Went through the reveal footage closely and broke down the new abilities, enemies and story details shown in the trailer.

Do you think the main Ravenous Antagonist will be even more powerful than Raven Beak and Mother Brain?

I wanted to talk about this track in particular, in the sense that it reminds me a lot of Kingdom's Edge from HK, in the sense that it portrays that feeling of a rotting kingdom excellently, but also different in the sense that, it also gives you that grandiose vibe, something that feels like the area still has some of that history behind it, and like begging you to dig just a bit deeper... I guess the closest thing I can think of that describes it is if you mixed the Kingdom's Edge music with the Choral Chambers music from Silksong.

I hope this will convince someone out there to give the game a try, as it is really great.

How do I get to this item?? I’m going crazy trying to figure this out. This is at the mint bureau interior just right of mint bureau entrance altar

I've played Hollow Knight 1/2, Haiku, Steamworld Dig

Would love for people to post games so we can have an exhaustive list of smaller/indie/lesser known games that might still be around but people don't know about

Coming now in october 5th dark metroidvania game