Penitent Ledger
Keep the grim atmosphere and punishing combat, but record every death as a ghost that later helps or hinders you on the same path.
19% of Hard Metroidvania games found an audience, yet few came out lately. 35 of 156 judged games reached 1,000 reviews, and 57 came out in the last three years.
Hard Metroidvania games that found an audience
- Hollow Knight: 506,872 reviews
- Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition: 63,421 reviews
- Blasphemous: 55,375 reviews
- ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights: 43,464 reviews
- Nine Sols: 40,939 reviews
- Salt and Sanctuary: 20,166 reviews