~~hollow knight silksong~~

• Hollow Knight
• Islets
• Ender lilies
• Ori and the will of the wisps (don't love blind forest personally)
• Blasphemous 1 and 2
• Pretty much all the 2d metroids, especially Dread
• Guacamelee 1 and 2
• The messenger kinda
• Steamworld dig 2
• Animal Well

Oh and what I like about them. Exploration is 90% of a good metroidvania for me. Unlocking abilities and finding secrets in old locations is just my favorite gameplay loop. I don't tend to love super linear metroidvanias a-la Metroid fusion, though it's still a good game. But exploration usually can't be all of it. Combat if it's there should be decent at best, puzzles are always good. But really if exploration isn't there just right I probably won't love it. Also most of these I play on steam deck / PC. Except metroid