# Metroidvania Templates

Create metroidvania games with Summer Engine. Get inspired by templates below, or start from scratch with AI.

A metroidvania is an interconnected world that opens up as you grow. A wall you cannot pass becomes a shortcut once you find the dash, and a familiar room reveals a new path once you can double jump. The genre is about ability gates, backtracking that feels rewarding, and a map you slowly fill in.

A template gives you that structure: a capable platforming character, an ability system that unlocks traversal, connected rooms with gates, a map, and save points. With Summer Engine, the AI game engine compatible with Godot 4, you grow the world by describing it: ask for a new area behind a wall-climb ability, a hidden room with an upgrade, or a shortcut that loops back, and the AI builds the scenes and connections with you while you explore your own build to check the flow.

[All Categories](https://www.summerengine.com/templates)

[Shooter](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/shooter)

[Action & Fighting](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/action-fighting)

[Adventure & Exploration](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/adventure)

[RPG](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/rpg)

[Strategy](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/strategy)

[Simulation](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/simulation)

[Survival & Crafting](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/survival)

[Horror](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/horror)

[Platformer](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/platformer)

[Puzzle](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/puzzle)

[Narrative](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/narrative)

[Racing & Sports](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/racing-sports)

[Arcade & Casual](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/arcade)

[Metroidvania Build a 2D exploration platformer where players gain abilities that unlock new paths through areas they have already visited. A world designed to be revisited. Describe your vision and Summer Engine builds the foundation with you. Adventure & Exploration](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/adventure/metroidvania/metroidvania)

[Hollow Knight Style Build a 2D action-exploration game inspired by Hollow Knight. Hand-drawn art, interconnected underground zones, nail combat with directional attacks, a Soul meter for healing or casting spells, charm loadout customization, bench save points, and a corpse-run system for recovering lost currency. Describe your world and Summer Engine helps you build it. Adventure & Exploration](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/adventure/metroidvania/hollow-knight-style)

[Celeste Style Build a precision platformer inspired by Celeste. Tight dash and wall-climb mechanics, screen-by-screen challenge rooms, strawberry collectibles, assist mode accessibility options, and a narrative about overcoming personal struggle woven into the gameplay. No combat, just movement mastery. Categorized under metroidvania for discoverability, but this is pure precision platforming. Adventure & Exploration](https://www.summerengine.com/templates/adventure/metroidvania/celeste-style)

Source: https://www.summerengine.com/templates/adventure/metroidvania

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