After Shadows
I don’t understand it. It has some “game sessions”, so is it some kind of rogue-like game?.. Doesn’t seem to be a metroidvania at all…
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
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Oirbo
Assemble yourself in a hostile spacecraft where almost everything that moves is trying to get you. The reason? Yours to discover! Explore, fight and learn your purpose in this galactic action-adventure.
Oirbo is a 2D action-platformer adventure that takes place on a huge spacecraft divided into interconnected areas. Search in every section for the pieces that make out the history of the journey and enhance your skills and components to get to new heights.
Explore every section of the spacecraft to reach your goal, but beware of the army of robots that are coming for you; avoid them; fight them or simply outsmart them on this futuristic hand-drawn adventure in space!
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Beautiful hand-drawn art
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Classic platforming and combat system
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Choose your own path to explore a monolithic spacecraft
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Not a single line of human text to read!
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Discover new skills and put them to the test on challenging platforming puzzles
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Piece together a fragmented story from the past
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Responsive controls with either keyboard or controller.
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Dozens of enemies to fight and overcome
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5 bosses to vanquish
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Dr. Atominus
Exactly what is says on the can. Small, but pretty diverse. The story is fun.
Utilises the good old enemy stomping mechanic, which is rarely seen these days.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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This is a VERY good game that will unfortunately ( probably ) be lost in the sea of platformers.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Whim
Step back in time to a world where colours were few, animation was slow, and everything had a distinctly ‘blocky’ feel. Apparently disregarding most of the last 30 years of advancement and innovation, Whim is a classic ’80s platformer like grandma used to make. Just much, much bigger.
Not the Welcome I Expected
Whim has just returned to his castle home after a much-needed break. As the sole assistant to Sir Leonard Fawkes, the renowned researcher and portal expert, he has had very little time to himself for the past 8 years. Arriving into the castle bailey, Whim discovers that things are not quite as he left them. The normally bustling courtyard is eerily quiet, the air feels heavy, and strange swirling orbs are now dotted about the place. The few people that Whim can see appear to be in some kind of trance, and he can’t shake the feeling that he is in danger. He needs to find Leonard.
What’s in the Game?
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Proper old-school 2D platforming. Walk and jump. That’s it. At the start, anyway.
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Travel from room to room as your freely explore the vast castle, avoiding the various baddies and other hazards, as Whim tries to piece together what’s going on. And collect stuff too.
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There’s no attack button so rein in that killer instinct. Whim’s no fighter - he’s a researcher’s assistant.
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Beware of falling too far. It actually hurts more than some games would have you think.
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The castle is just the beginning. Embark on an epic adventure spanning over a dozen diversely themed worlds.
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Surprises around every corner. Well, not every corner. If they were around every corner they wouldn’t be surprises any more. But surprises around many corners. Some, at least.
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Find Gizmos to expand your repertoire, such as the Afterburner, Neon Slacks, Pegagus Wing and Marblyzer™ [warning: use of gizmos may involve pressing other buttons].
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Meet friendly characters who might want you to do stuff for them in exchange for goodies. Some sort of quests to do on the side. Side quests, I suppose.
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An entire soundtrack of weird but slightly funky adaptations of classical works, such as Mozart’s Turkish March and Boccherini’s String Quintet in E Major.
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Find all the many secrets hidden amongst the sprawling worlds. If you do, something nice might happen.
Whim’s Weird and Wonderful Worlds
Whim will visit many other worlds on his journey. Here are just the first four.
Sugar and spice and all things nice - that’s what this world is made of. Saccharine Ridge is a naturally-formed confectionery wonderland, consisting of various sweet-themed features such as mint forests, chocolate hills, candy caverns, honeycomb beehive and an enormous sponge cake, to name a few. This place gives new meaning to the land of milk and honey.
Towering some 100 metres above a wide blue ocean, these two towers house a car factory always working overtime. While one tower contains the assembly line itself, the other consists of various offices handling the running of the business. Camshaft Highrise also includes a loading dock below the building and scrapyard out the back, as well as a figure-8 test track suspended in the sky, looping around the two skyscrapers.
The gold rush never ends in this frontier; mainly because the stuff is practically everywhere. Fortune Junction is a prospector’s dream, consisting of a vast tract of desert and a mine shaft where precious metals can be literally picked up off the ground. It also contains a thriving Wild West-style town and bustling casino. It doesn’t matter if you lose – just grab another fistful of gold off the street and keep gambling!
On the perpetually darkened banks of a moonlit lake nestles a quiet village. Its quiet is not one of tranquility, however, but terror. Twilight Shore is a haunted realm filled with all manner of ghoulish creatures. A gothic cathedral, dwelling of the world’s more frightening denizens, stands ominously on a hill above the village, while in the depths of the murky lake many more horrors await.
Overplasma
Overview
Overplasma is a combat, platforming and exploration game in alien worlds where you must face challenging enemies and obstacles as a space explorer who was in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Features
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Skill based combat with diverse moveset
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Non linear world
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Unlockable skills and power ups
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Over 25 types of enemies
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Adjustable difficult setting (Changes A.I and environment)
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Colorful alien world
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Secret areas
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Different endings
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Simple but hard to master combat
Witchcrafter: Empire Legends
In Witchcrafter: Empire Legends you play with elemental magic in a systemic playground.
You will be able to master a total of 8 elements: 4 main and 4 derivative.
Fire propagation, water simulation, air flow and terraforming - use 4 elements magic spells to your advantage.
Interact with both enemies and environment!
The war-torn empire contrasts with the young witchcrafter’s peaceful home.
Estel will get mature along his journey for a stone desired by everyone.
You will face both kind and deceptive folks, each with diverse beliefs, past, motives, relationships and worldview.
Shape the story with your decisions!
Emporia is a beautiful and diverse, yet dangerous and monster infested land.
There are places of old rituals and mysterious remnants of forgotten civilisations, waiting to be discovered.
It’s full of references to slavic, ugarit and nordic mythology and best fantasy books.
Immerse yourself into this world!
You experience the story full of legends, myths and epic moments, as well as earthbound, folk tales. Embark on a journey and meet variety of enemies and friends with division not always as clear as black and white.
You are Estel, a young, orphaned adept of witchcrafting, who rises far to the west in an isolation with his patron, Trismegistos, who is learning you witchcrafting.
Meanwhile, Mordon, a necromancer and an emperor of the southern Navia is invading your lands - Emporia with an army of mutated, undead monsters. He is desiring a mythical stone called Xerion, that could allow to control the matter freely with a hope to revive his loved ones, that were killed because of his decisions.
Trismegistos, your step-father is the only withcrafter able to stop him and thus Mordon kidnapps him.
You need to find your father and stop the mad necromancer from obtaining an unpredictable source of power!
Bad animals - rabbit
Started as a rabbit. Explored my way through amazing voice effects and bouncy surfaces, experienced fear of the evil dog, till I finally found a way to exploit double jump skill into 10-times jump. I became a super-rabbit, flying through the world, figuring out the tragedic backstory of the world and about its recent events. I found end of the rainbow, fell through the world for a time that felt like eternity, screwed up the game saves, lost all progress.
Being a rabbit is badass.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
This game lets me live out my fantasy of being a rabbit, my only regret is that I’ve yet to make it into space
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Yeomna : The Adventures of Demon Hunter
Will you be able to save a child from the dark schemes?
Ominous flames rise again in a once-peaceful world ruled by the Jade Emperor after the defeat of the Demon King.
As the exorcists fall against the minions of the Demon King, Dongbaek, a lesser exorcist,
is sent to the Seal Town by the order of Lord Yeomna.
Journey through the Demon-infested Underworld, defeat the Demons and collect ancient records to find the missing child and hidden truths.
Rebuild the ruined village and become a powerful exorcist.
Game Features
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Experience the dream-like village and Underworld inspired by traditional Korean paintings, reimagined as game art.
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Shapeshift between human and feline forms to avoid traps and manipulate objects to open new paths.
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Uncover hidden places to get skills and various items to collect.
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Gather the scrolls that hold the memories of Dongbaek and the secrets of Yeomna to search for the truth of the Underworld.
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Demons newly created, based on traditional images of Korean folklore, appear as friends or foes.
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Lively characters created from a combination of traditional 2D frame-by-frame and skeleton animations.
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Strategically switch between gun and blade depending on the combat situations.
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Rebuild the village and become more powerful with the help of the villagers.
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro is a 2D adventure platformer with metroidvania elements. Take control of Rose, a mysterious amnesiac, and explore a world that has fallen into darkness—where only a few precious flickers of light remain. From peaceful grasslands to a long-abandoned mine, Rose will navigate this interconnected 2D world as she gains new abilities and faces off against monstrous creatures, as well as other adventurers with their own hidden plans for the light they all covet.
Before giving the demo a go, please read and consider the following:
This version is an alpha version and showcases the general feel of the game, not the final product.
Do note this alpha demo does not completely support resolution scaling and the recommended resolution for this alpha demo is 1920x1080. I plan on updating the demo eventually once I get around to implementing accurate game scaling options.
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
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