Iron Meat is a 2D run-and-shoot type of retro indie game with a high tribute to Contra, developed by Ivan Valeryevich Suvorov from Russia, using Unity. It comes with an onslaught of mechanics ripped from arcade and console classics - mainly the classic video game Contra, but contains graphic pixelated violence and gore throughout.

Primal Light is a cross-platform, pixel-style 2D action adventure game, developed and published by two-person indie game studio Fat Gem, using the Godot Engine, over a three-year period. It is worth mentioning that both game developers are amateurs with no experience in game development, and they completed this passion project in their free time in three years.

Silver Night's Crusaders is a fan-made, Castlevania-based free game for PC and Android platforms, developed by True Role Dreams (Crimsondeath) from Spain using OpenBOR game engine. It isn't a metroidvania, instead it's more of a side-scrolling arcade action game, which splits into several stages rather than a massive sprawling map.

Castlevania Advance Collection is a compilation package of 4 classic Castlevania games, released for Nintendo Switch, PC (via Steam), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms by KONAMI in 2021 (on its 50th Anniversary Celebration). As its name suggest, this is just a pure collection of games + some supportive features, nothing else to look forward to. For example: the graphics of games are not as good as many emulators do. In other words, it is more suitable for fans of Castlevania to collect, and won't surprise you much.

Toziuha Night is a metroidvania-like, pixel-style independent 2D action adventure game series, developed by an amateur game developer Danny Garay from Nicaragua, using Godot game engine. Danny Garay is a big fan of the Castlevania series, which shows how much his games have been influenced by Castlevania works.