Metroid Dread cover art

Metroid Dread

2021 · Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development · ~12h to finish

The EMMI zones are one-hit deaths with a counter window measured in frames, and the bosses expect dodges on reaction rather than pattern.

metroidvaniaactionplatformerNintendo Switch
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty5.5STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Reaction
7.0
Execution
5.8
Learning Curve
5.5
Punishment
5.0
Obscurity
4.5
Strategy
2.5
Puzzle
2.5
Grind
1.9
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 0.8 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.5 points off, if you use them.
  • Not available on any platform you own.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

Join intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her first new 2D Metroid story in 19 years.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

Nearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.

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