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Metroid Games in OrderIn release order the Metroid series runs from Metroid (1986) to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025), with Metroid Ravenous next on Jan 28, 2027 for Nintendo Switch 2. In story order Zero Mission comes first and Dread last among the games out, with Prime 4 placed by Nintendo between Super Metroid and Fusion.
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Metroid Games on Switch and Switch 2Eight Metroid games can be played on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 as of Nov 8, 2026: Metroid Dread, Metroid Prime Remastered and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond to buy, and Metroid, Metroid II, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion and Metroid: Zero Mission through Nintendo Switch Online. Metroid Ravenous joins them on Jan 28, 2027, on Switch 2 only.
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Metroid Sales: Best-Selling Metroid GamesMetroid Dread is the best-selling Metroid game, with 2.90 million copies by Mar 31, 2022 by Nintendo's count, ahead of Metroid Prime's 2.84 million. Metroid Prime Remastered passed 1 million in under two months and Metroid Prime 4 passed 1 million by Dec 31, 2025; Nintendo has never published a total for the whole series.
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Metroid Timeline ExplainedThe Metroid story runs from Samus Aran's childhood with the Chozo through her missions against the Space Pirates, Mother Brain, Phazon, the Metroids and the X parasite, to Metroid Dread on planet ZDR, which closed that arc. Nintendo places Metroid Prime 4 between Super Metroid and Fusion, and Metroid Ravenous appears to begin after Dread.
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Metroidvania: How Metroid Shaped a GenreA Metroidvania is a 2D platform adventure in which you explore one large, connected world and open blocked paths with abilities you find, named after Metroid and Castlevania. The word began as a joke about Castlevania games that copied Super Metroid, around 2001, and grew into the name of a genre that includes Hollow Knight and Ori.