The ultimate ruins exploration game. Filled to the brim with clever riddles, devious traps, and head-scratching puzzles, this game will frustrate you more than any other, but in all the right ways. Like all the best Metroid/Castlevania style games, progress is almost completely based on gaining new abilities and equipment to solve old puzzles and reach new areas. Along with all this comes solid music and really great bosses. Plenty of cool nods to all kinds of obscure mythology and ruins from the real world, too.

Spend some time in La-Mulana, solve the mystery of the ruins, and find the Secret Treasure of Life.