The metroidvania style is as energetic as ever in 2025, and an upcoming e book will discover how this idea was formed over the many years.
$55 | Releases March 3, 2026
The Historical past of Metroidvania: Decade One by writer Jeremy Parish might be revealed by Darkish Horse Books, and it goals to be a complete account of how gaming traits of the early Eighties got here collectively to create the muse for this style. Priced at $55, the 232-page e book might be out there beginning March 3, 2026.
“Metroidvania: The First Decade is the fruits of a mission I started greater than 20 years in the past, again when this model of recreation had largely vanished and most of the people had kind of forgotten about them,” Parrish stated in a press launch.
“As a recreation reviewer, I eagerly signed up for the handful of metroidvania video games that got here down the pipeline–which, fittingly, had been principally simply handheld Metroid and Castlevania sequels and remakes. As soon as I would consumed these releases, I started trying again into the previous to hint the origins of these video games and the way exploratory platform motion video games had advanced over time.”
Parrish added that the e book does extra than simply checklist the video games created within the model of Metroid and Castlevania, as he broke down the “themes and goals of the metroidvania format” to discover what these titles really are.
One of many different huge online game books popping out quickly is the official Metroid Prime Trilogy retrospective. Revealed by Piggyback Books, that is priced at $46.49 (was $50) and it explores how the groundbreaking Metroid Prime trilogy–quickly to be a quadrilogy–was developed.
The 212-page clothbound hardcover e book options high-quality paper, a foreword written by Metroid Prime collection producer Kensuke Tanabe, and introductions to its 4 sections by builders from Retro Studios.
