DOOMBLADE
Lured out of her solitude, she discovers a chamber containing a sentient blade, trapped and bound for eons. Freeing DOOMBLADE, “Doom and Gloom” join forces and begin a quest to regain the blade’s powers and enact vengeance on its captors.
Wielding DOOMBLADE, Gloom Girl can ride through the air to attack enemies. Target monsters to attack them directly, and slay them with DOOMBLADE’s wrath!
The blade is hungry to wreak its revenge on The Dread Lords, who bound and trapped it in the Underworld. But first it must regain its lost strength. Search for statues of the old gods, where DOOMBLADE’s powers were hidden and stored by the long-dead Gloomfolk, awaiting its return.
From the abandoned halls of Gloomhaunt, into the New Wilderwood forest full of untrusting tribesmen, through the Molded Mines with their hedonistic shroom people, and into a technological hellscape known as the Power Sector. Wielding DOOMBLADE, Gloom Girl must destroy the monsters within and hunt down the Dread Lords who imprisoned DOOMBLADE.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/922050/DOOMBLADE/
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ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights
Bought the game because of Mili, but it turns out that this is a well-polished Metroidvania. Great soundtrack and immersive atmosphere, good range of abilities to use making the game far from monotone, okay-ish lore and plot. The combat felt kinda clunky at first, but feels good once you get used to it. Another good point is that it is very easy to get 100% in this game.
My only complaint was that the final boss was a total pushover compared to some previous bosses
That said, the audio aspects are the charm, so I nominate this game for Best Soundtrack award.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
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Beautiful art style and music, with an environment fitting of the souls-like tag, and fun combat, ENDER LILIES is a wonderful experience I recommend to anyone who loves metroidvania or souls games. Moreover, It’s subtle and hidden story is both haunting and majestic.
Worth every penny.
– Real player with 27.4 hrs in game
GRIME
Spiritual sequel to the DIRT games, Dust games, and all MUDs
Grime is… SUBLIME.
Just in case you need more (but why would you?), here we go…
Am I wild about 2D soulslike games? No. Blasphemous is the odd exception based on its presentation alone. Am I wild about labelling every other action role-playing game and metroidvania a soulslike? Yes.
Grime is distinctly ungrimy. As it admits itself, it’s more surreal, otherworldly, and unearthly. Stone and sand spring forth with anatomical features of faces, eyes, mouths, and hands. They make up the background, your platforms, and your enemies. In contrast, the protagonist has a black hole where their head should be. I can sympathise. That feels like my head most days.
– Real player with 36.9 hrs in game
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Well, I guess everyone has to make their first “thumbs down” review after all. Never thought I’d see the day.
I’ll start with the positive first. Graphics are spectacular, even with the limitation of designing everything with a rock motif, levels are incredibly varied and beautiful. The game is filled with rocks, sand, debris, gemstones, then later architecture that mix in all sorts of ways that give flavor to every area in the game.
Background/skyboxes are also no slouch with all the equally gorgeous landscapes, often in open areas that add a sense of vastness and scale to this world.
– Real player with 34.4 hrs in game
Salt and Sanctuary
I like Dark Souls, I like souls-like games, I like dying, I like looting, I like smashing and slashing enemies, I like exploring, I like lore-ing, and I like rage smashing my keyboard.
– Real player with 162.4 hrs in game
what time is it again?
thats what happens when you play this game because of house addicting this game is
– Real player with 104.1 hrs in game
Enelia
Athirits is a mythical race that once created the realm full of wonder and beauty.
For millions of years the Source has nurtured them and given them energy and knowledge in order to live and evolve and perfect the world surrounding them.
However, during the last millennium the Source has faded away. And so has the great city of Athirium.
Many brave spirits lost their lives trying to find a new Source, yet no one succeeded.
Is there anything that can save Athirium?..
#### Game Features:
- Two forms with different play styles
- Talent tree for those who prefer variety in gameplay
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4 difficulty levels
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Exciting challenges and boss fights
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Lore secrets and bonus challenges
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Beautiful and unique hand drawn levels and locations
Mysterious journey is waiting for you.
Explore the ancient realms hidden behing the Gates.
Discover the ultimate truth about the origin of this world.
Lunacid
Lunacid is a first person dungeon crawler inspired by old FROMSOFT games like Shadow Tower and King’s Field.
Long ago a great beast arose from the sea and covered the earth in a poison fog. Now those deemed undesirable are thrown into a great well, which has become a pit of chaos and disease. You awaken in a moonlit subterranean world, having been thrown into the Great Well for crimes unknown. The only way out is to go further down and confront the sleeping old one below. On the way there will be many creatures and secrets to discover.
Artifacts
Fun game. It’s super challenging, but it feels like you as a player aren’t good enough as opposed to the game just being hard. It’s a decent 2D platformer with fun combat.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Its hard to exactly point out why youd want to recommend this game. The camera is extremely choppy in its movement and its clear as day that this game lacks some polish.
But on the flipside once you figure out what is going on and more or less what you are trying to do it becomes very interesting after all and overall seems to be a very genuine product.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Blasphemous
Wandering what would it be if Dante’s Inferno (2010) became a metroidvania game? Now you have the answer, it’s Blasphemous! I’ll try to be as brief and honest as possible telling what I saw and experienced during my playthrough.
Before anything else my entire playthrough was during “V. 1.0.6” so, if there’s something missing the devs might have patched it. At this moment the game is on “V. 1.0.8” and according to the devs:
@Blasphemous:
“You’ll also notice that this is Patch 1, which means more patches and content updates will be on their way - launching Blasphemous doesn’t mean we’re finished! - Wed, 25/09/2019”
Knowing that let’s get to move on to the review…
– Real player with 86.2 hrs in game
If someone reads this - Sorry for my English.
I really wanted to like this game. But it seems to me that the logic of exploring the map is fundamentally broken.
How does metroidvanias work? At the location, you find obstacles that you can not overcome. –- You explore the location, find the ability. — Overcome obstacles and feel progress. The game designer organizes the game levels in such a way that you can collect the necessary abilities for game progression and explore old locations to find secrets. And in portions, you get more and more freedom to move.
– Real player with 39.2 hrs in game
Heart in the Dark
The story accompanies the alchemist and magician Leonidon on a journey through time.
During a magical ritual a dimensional gate accidentally opens and Leonidon is dragged into the portal and lands in a distant future where machines dominate.
There is a millennia-old conflict in which the machines try to change the planet to optimal conditions, but nature has its ways to defend itself, unfortunately the machines are slowly gaining the upper hand. But when Leonidon appeared in this dimension, he had to realize that he was the last man of flesh and blood. Then he decided to use the last reagents that had been drawn into this dimension to create a sword in a magical ritual that was powerful enough to free the souls trapped in the machines.
Navin: In Search Of The Light
About
After an unknown event, Navin has been lost in a magical world… and to return home he must solve many puzzles in this mysterious place. A voice from outside is calling him…
Explore this wonderful world with the metroidvania-like gameplay style. Know new places, new bosses by using new abilities you acquire throughout the game.
Features
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Metroidvania-like gameplay
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A great story to fall in love with
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Unique Cartoonish graphics
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An immersive Dark theme
