Every Shadow Has a Price

Metroidvania games — named for the genre-defining DNA of Metroid and Castlevania — are exploration-driven platformers where progress gates behind abilities you find along the way: a double jump, a dash, a new weapon that also opens a previously blocked path. The map is interconnected, the backtracking is intentional, and the reward for curiosity is a shortcut, a hidden upgrade, or a boss that was unreachable ten minutes ago. The Switch’s portability suits the genre’s one-more-room loop perfectly, and the catalogue runs deep — from Hollow Knight and Dead Cells to Ori, Blasphemous, and Touhou Luna Nights.

This page tracks metroidvania deals across 48 Nintendo eShop regions and on Steam, ranked by discount and filterable by region. Because metroidvanias are predominantly indie titles, their pricing is more volatile than first-party Nintendo games — a studio might run a 70% cut in one region and nothing in another, or discount on Steam while the eShop price holds. The table puts every current sale side by side so the cheapest legitimate copy — Switch or Steam, your country or another — is one sort away.

Regional pricing matters more for indies than for any other category. An indie developer setting eShop prices country by country has 48 independent decisions to make, and the result is that the same game can cost three times more in one region than another. Switch games are region-free and a Nintendo Account’s country can be changed, so those gaps are actionable — you can buy from whichever eShop is cheapest today. The all-time low page shows which metroidvanias are currently at the lowest price recorded for them, and the exclusive page covers the Nintendo-published titles in the genre.

Prices update daily, so the deals here reflect what each eShop and Steam is charging right now.