

Industry commentators expressed interest in a new 2D Metroid game, and listed Dread in their “most wanted” lists. Metroid producer Yoshio Sakamoto conceived Dread for the Nintendo DS in the mid-2000s, but development ended due to technical limitations. It was the first original 2D Metroid game in 19 years.

It retains the side-scrolling gameplay of previous 2D Metroid games and incorporates stealth elements.

Set after the events of Metroid Fusion (2002), players control bounty hunter Samus Aran as she investigates the source of a mysterious transmission on the planet ZDR. Metroid Dread is an action-adventure video game developed by Nintendo and MercurySteam and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
