{"id":127,"date":"2023-01-17T16:09:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/best-metroidvania-games\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T16:09:16","slug":"best-metroidvania-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/best-metroidvania-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Metroidvania games to keep you roaming for days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best Metroidvania games are the ones that combine the elements from the brutally hard both Castlevania and exploration elements of Metroid. If you&#8217;re old enough to remember the days where these two games were completely separate and well loved in their own regard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-audio-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"__GHOST_URL__\/content\/media\/2023\/02\/best-metroidvania-games_thumb.webp?v&#x3D;1676895731048\" alt=\"audio-thumbnail\" class=\"kg-audio-thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-audio-thumbnail placeholder kg-audio-hide\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Best-MetroidVania-games-Dead-Cells.webp 1286w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 720px) 720px\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"dead-cells\"><strong>Dead Cells<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The fast paced action and randomized loot in Dead Cells offers a plethora of fun that can be enjoyed for hours upon end. The only real challenge is the facing of permadeath in the event you don&#8217;t make it through to the end of the game in one sitting.<\/p>\n<p>Dead Cells does a phenomenal job and allowing you to go through the game and every time you make it further, you feel the sense of progression. Motion Twin executed the controls and gameplay to perfection, blending a mix of Metroidvania and <a href=\"__GHOST_URL__\/best-roguelike-games\/\">rogue-like<\/a> elements to the gameplay. The result is a massive game that delivers on all scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Metroidvania games are the ones that combine the elements from the brutally hard both Castlevania and exploration elements of Metroid. If you&#8217;re old enough to remember the days where these two games were completely separate and well loved in their own regard. Dead Cells The fast paced action and randomized loot in Dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retrokingpin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}