Metroid Prime Remastered
Get behind the visor of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran in her critically-acclaimed first-person adventure. Step into the boots of Samus Aran as you navigate the winding paths and interconnected…
Metroid Prime Remastered is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 6, released 8 February 2023 on Nintendo Switch.
What Metroid Prime Remastered is
Metroid Prime Remastered is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 6 and released in 2023. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on RUDE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Not long after her victory over the Space Pirates on the planet Zebes, bounty hunter Samus Aran intercepts a distress signal from the derelict Space Pirate frigate Orpheon, whose crew has been slaughtered by their own genetically engineered experiments. After battling through the ship and narrowly escaping its destruction, she pursues a cybernetic incarnation of her old foe Ridley down to the nearby planet Tallon IV. There, Samus discovers the ruins of the Chozo, an ancient race wiped out decades earlier when a meteor struck the world and spread a corrupting, mutagenic substance called Phazon. As the Space Pirates work to harvest this dangerous resource for themselves, Samus explores Tallon…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Metroid series
Metroid Prime Remastered is the 45th of 50 entries we hold in the Metroid series. It arrived a year after Metroid Dread: Special Edition. The next entry was Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition in 2024. Its critic score of 94 is 12 points above the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Super Metroid at 100.
How it was received
Metroid Prime Remastered holds a critic score of 94 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 91, across 91 votes.
What it launched against
Metroid Prime Remastered launched on 8 February 2023, within three weeks of Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Space and Hi-Fi Rush. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hogwarts Legacy, Atomic Heart, Dead Space, Hi-Fi Rush.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Metroid Prime Remastered yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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