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Metroid games

Order these Metroid games by release year. You place all 17 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the Metroid games timeline game works

Each card is a Metroid release: side-scrolling adventures, the first-person Prime games, handheld entries, spin-offs, remakes and remasters. You order them by release year. Under each title is a short description of where Samus goes or what makes the game different. One game starts on the timeline with its year visible. Drop each new card in a gap; a right guess gives you the year, a wrong one still puts it in its true spot but costs one of three lives.

Samus goes quiet for long stretches between outings, so the deck has empty patches and sudden clusters. Remakes and retellings are the big trap, since they revisit older adventures. Platform names in the descriptions are your most reliable guide. Story order is no help at all, because the games were not released in the order they happen.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 17 of the 17 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Metroid NES side-scrolling adventure on Zebes
  • Metroid II: Return of Samus Game Boy hunt on SR388
  • Super Metroid SNES exploration masterpiece
  • Metroid Fusion Game Boy Advance and the SA-X
  • Metroid Prime GameCube first-person adventure
  • Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Light and dark Aether worlds
  • Metroid Prime Pinball Nintendo DS pinball spin-off
  • Metroid Prime Hunters DS first-person shooter
  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Wii motion-controlled entry
  • Metroid Prime Trilogy Wii remastered collection
  • Metroid: Other M Team Ninja action collaboration
  • Metroid: Samus Returns 3DS remake of Return of Samus
  • Metroid: Zero Mission GBA retelling of Samus’s Zebes mission
  • Metroid Prime: Federation Force Co-op 3DS spin-off
  • Metroid Dread Switch 2D action with the E.M.M.I.
  • Metroid Prime Remastered Switch remaster of Prime
  • Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Switch first-person adventure

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