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Games like Metroid Prime

Want more first-person exploration with isolation and atmosphere? Below are the games most like Metroid Prime — the titles that inspired it, the games sharing its DNA, and the ones it went on to influence. The interactive graph above lets you keep exploring from any of them.

Games similar to Metroid Prime

  • Portal cover
    Portal
    2007

    Waking up in a seemingly empty laboratory, the player is made to complete various physics-based puzzle challenges through numerous test chambers in order to test out the new Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, without an explanation as to how, why or by whom.

  • Dishonored cover
    Dishonored
    2012

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. Pu

  • Singularity cover
    Singularity
    2010

    In this FPS, you travel across a remote island off the coast of Russia ripping through space and time, and are given your own Time Manipulation Device of which you use to vaporize enemies. You can upgrade your TMD, yourself, and weapons throughout the campaign which is reminiscen

  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess cover
    The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
    2006

    The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is the last Zelda game for GameCube, it was highly anticipated by many members of the gaming community and was regarded as finally fulfilling the dreams of those who wanted a much more realistic and mature game than the ones before. The art

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption cover
    Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
    2007

    The trilogy closes as corruption creeps over the universe… and into Samus Aran. Using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, players control Samus as she partners with other bounty hunters, shoots down enemies, and explores alien worlds in a harrowing mission to stop the mutagenic Phazon fr

  • Castlevania: Symphony of the Night cover
    Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
    1997

    Having been awoken from his eternal slumber by the reappearance of Castlevania, Alucard must once again face the evil minions of darkness. Use your vampiric powers, along with weapons, potions, and other magical relics to change the tide of battle. A mixture of platform and role

  • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided cover
    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
    2016

    Deus Ex: Mankind Divided directly follows the aftermath of the Aug Incident, a day when mechanically augmented citizens all over the world were stripped of control over their minds and bodies, resulting in the deaths of millions of innocents. The year is now 2029, and the golden

  • Prey cover
    Prey
    2017

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunte

The Metroid Prime series & family

  • Metroid Prime Remastered cover
    Metroid Prime Remastered
    2023

    Get behind the visor of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her critically-acclaimed first-person adventure. Step into the boots of Samus Aran as you navigate the winding paths and interconnected environments of an alluring-yet-dangerous alien planet. Use powers like the i

  • Super Smash Bros. Melee cover
    Super Smash Bros. Melee
    2001

    Super Smash Bros. Melee is the second installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to the Nintendo 64 title. It includes all playable characters from the first game, and also adds characters from franchises such as Fire Emblem, of which no games had been released

  • Super Metroid cover
    Super Metroid
    1994

    The Space Pirates, merciless agents of the evil Mother Brain, have stolen the last Metroid from a research station, and once again Mother Brain threatens the safety of the galaxy! Samus Aran must don her awesome array of high-tech weaponry to retrieve the deadly Metroid hidden de

  • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cover
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
    2018

    Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongs

  • Super Smash Bros. Brawl cover
    Super Smash Bros. Brawl
    2008

    Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros. series and the follow-up to Super Smash Bros. Melee. This edition introduces super attacks referred to as final smashes, as well as a brand-new adventure mode in The Subspace Emissary which is a side-scroll

  • Super Smash Bros. cover
    Super Smash Bros.
    1999

    Super Smash Bros. is a crossover fighting video game between several different Nintendo franchises, and the first installment in the Super Smash Bros. series. Players must defeat their opponents multiple times in a fighting frenzy of items and power-ups. Super Smash Bros. is a de

  • Super Smash Bros. for Wii U cover
    Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
    2014

    Super Smash Bros. for Wii U is the fourth console-based entry in the popular Super Smash Bros. series of fighting games. With an even larger roster of fighters than its predecessors and the introduction eight player battles, Smash for Wii U continues to add to the formula that ga

  • Metroid Fusion cover
    Metroid Fusion
    2002

    Metroid Fusion is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that combines exploration, combat, and progression within a structured environment. Players navigate distinct sectors, acquire new abilities, and unlock access to previously restricted areas as they advance. The game emphas

  • Metroid: Zero Mission cover
    Metroid: Zero Mission
    2004

    The full story of Samus Aran's first mission finally unfolds... The first Metroid game just scratched the surface of the cataclysmic events on planet Zebes, and at long last the rest of the tale has come to light. Experience the first of Samus's legendary adventures through all-

  • Metroid cover
    Metroid
    1987

    It's you against the evil Mother Brain in the thrilling battle of Metroid! You're inside the fortress planet Zebes. The planet of endless secret passageways where the Metroid are multiplying. Left alone the Metroid are harmless. But in the wrong hands they could destroy the galax

  • Metroid Dread cover
    Metroid Dread
    2021

    Join intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her first new 2D Metroid story in 19 years. Samus’ story continues after the events of the Metroid Fusion game when she descends upon planet ZDR to investigate a mysterious transmission sent to the Galactic Federation. The remote pla

  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS cover
    Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
    2014

    Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS is the first portable entry in the renowned series, in which game worlds collide. Up to four players battle each other locally or online using some of Nintendo’s most well-known and iconic characters across beautifully designed stages inspired b

About Metroid Prime

A 3D exploration-focused metroidvania with first-person shooting mechanics and the first 3D entry in the Metroid series, Metroid Prime follows Samus Aran after the events of Metroid (1986) as she boards a Space Pirate frigate, then chases her escaping archrival Ridley into the intricately structured Tallon IV, a planet full of deadly wildlife and former home to the advanced and ancient Chozo race.

FAQ

What games are similar to Metroid Prime?
Some of the closest matches are Portal, Dishonored, Singularity, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Scroll back up to keep exploring in the interactive graph.
What inspired Metroid Prime?
Metroid Prime sits inside the Shooter / Platform tradition. Shared themes, mechanics, and studio history all show up in the graph — see how we score the matches.

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