Blaster Master Zero

The game plays similarly to the NES original. Players control the SOPHIA vehicle in the side-scrolling levels, exploring environments and defeating enemies using the tank's various weapons. The player character Jason can also hop out of the tank to enter various passages and doors, where the view switches to an overhead perspective. Players can find various upgrades to the tank that may allow access to previously inaccessible areas.

Throughout the game the player also encounters various boss characters that must be defeated to progress to later levels. A multiplayer mode allows a second player to take control of an aiming reticle to shoot at enemies.

The game serves as a sequel to Chō Wakusei Senki: Metafight, the original Japanese version of Blaster Master, as well as a reboot of the American plot, combining plot elements and character names from Metafight with Blaster Master and its Worlds of Power novelization.

In a distant future, Earth falls into an ice age, after countless wars and environmental disasters. Due to the ice age, the human race was forced to live underground. When the ice age came to an end, humanity began making methods they learned while living underground to restore the planet and the environment. During that time, a large, mysterious comet fell to the Earth, but that did not hinder their effort to restore the lost ecosystems, and humans were able to live on the Earth's surface once again.

Two months after the game's release, Inti Creates released a patch for the game that added a new "Destroyer Mode", a harder difficulty setting available after players beat the game. They also announced the release of two DLC characters, Gunvolt from the company's Azure Striker Gunvolt and Ekoro from Gal*Gun, another Inti Creates title. Guest characters Shantae and Shovel Knight were subsequently announced in July. An update released in October 2017 added a boss rush game mode.

Blaster Master Zero was released as a digital-only title for the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch on March 3, 2017, in Japan, and on March 9, 2017, in North America and Europe. The game was later ported to Windows in June 2019 and PlayStation 4 in June 2020. Versions for the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S were released on July 1, 2021.

The game has received largely positive reviews. It received praise for its retro art style and being largely faithful to the original game, with Destructoid calling it "a loving recreation that serves as both a companion and in some ways a replacement for the original". However, the game was also criticized for not improving enough over the original as well as being too easy. IGN's Tristan Ogilvie commented that the game "never offers an old-school level of adversity to match its charmingly chunky 8-bit aesthetic", while Game Informer called it "a blast from the past that feels like a bit of a relic". By October 2017, Inti Creates reported over 110,000 sales for the game.

A sequel, Blaster Master Zero 2, was released for Nintendo Switch in March 2019; for Windows in November 2019; for PlayStation 4 in June 2020; and for the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S in July 2021.