When I saw the trailer for MIO: Memories in Orbit for the first time, I immediately clocked influences from Hollow Knight and Ori and the Blind Forest--two games, along with their sequels (Hollow ...

MIO Memories in Orbit delivers stunning art, rewarding exploration and tough platforming in a beautifully crafted sci-fi Metroidvania adventure.

The dichotomy of the Metroidvania as a genre is an interesting one. Its world is always ruined, cruel, hostile, perhaps once beautiful, now broken, but the genre asks you to imagine that it wasn’t ...

2026 is starting with an absolute banger. MIO: Memories in Orbit is a metroidvania coming Day One to Xbox Game Pass, and it is fantastic. Following more closely to the Hollow Knight branch of the ...