Evil Wizard
Evil Wizard is a humor-filled action RPG featuring metroidvania elements and carefully crafted pixel-art environments. As a defeated villain who barely survived a tough fight, you’ll have to face an army of so-called heroes to recover what’s rightfully yours. Rediscover your powers, infiltrate your own castle, unleash devastating spells, and purge your ancestral home of these miserable excuses for an enemy. Are you ready to get your hands dirty? It’s time to be the bad guy for a change!
A quest fueled by revenge
Face off against hordes of enemies, avoid deadly traps, and solve challenging puzzles as you reclaim the halls of your castle from the heroes that now live within it!
Metroidvania-inspired Design
Explore carefully-crafted locations and navigate intricate levels. Use your skills and elements to interact with the in-game world and unlock new paths.
High-Paced Skill-based Combat
Deal devastating melee blows, unlock earth-shattering spells and dash around the map to crush your foes. You’ll be in full control of every battle!
Elements and forces To Master
Control the power of fire, ice, void, lightning, and earth. Mix various elements to unleash devastating attacks and exploit your enemies’ weaknesses!
Unique Enemies and Boss Fights
Fine-tune your character to defeat increasingly more challenging enemies. Choose among dozens of upgrades as you get ready to vanquish an array of bosses, each with their own skills and combat style!
“There are songs that still tell the tale of the heroes’ most daring deeds. After a long battle against the Evil Wizard, the castle he called home was sieged and swarmed and the wretchful minions that served him for generations were slain by the dozens. While the corrupt villain himself managed to escape, the day marked an amazing victory for the forces of good…”
Or did it, really?!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592100/Evil_Wizard/
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Elly
great game so far, movement really enters a new dimension of fun once you unlock some of the upgrades. art looks sick and the structure is great
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
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This game is really cool! Props to the developer for making such an interesting world to explore. The creepy/beautiful art is honestly a treat to look at. so much of the odd little art littering the game is fun to take in. some of the characters are cute(sleepy fox 3), some are pretty normal, and others straight up give me chills! the characters even react to your progress and move spots around the map to talk to each other, giving the world an alive feeling.
the backgrounds are really well done, especially beautiful later (lookin at you Spec). But wow! can you believe this is all hand drawn?
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
Little Ghost
17+ || 2D Metroidvania
Jump and ~FLOAT~ through a world of Mixed-Media.
Little Ghost focuses on platform challenges rather than combat.
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The entire game has been built around the float-jump mechanic.
1️⃣ There’s a Solid Two Hours of gameplay in the demo, more if you want to collect all items and goodies.
2️⃣ There is also a clearly defined beginning/middle/end to the demo experience.
3️⃣ Little Ghost moves at a slower pace, so there’s no time-crunch twitchy anxiety, but that doesn’t mean it is easy.
4️⃣ The platforming will become difficult as you progress, though never unfair.
This is a fairly precise platformer, playing with a controller is recommended, though not required.
FIND POWER-UPS & COLLECTABLES
The world of Little Ghost and the game’s art style present really fun and unique opportunities for hiding easter-eggs and collectables.
There are 3 types of collectables: Items, Mp3s, and Tarot Cards.
MUSIC
One of the demo quests has you searching for scattered mp3s, which you can listen to on your in-game music player.
(The mp3 player is a little Penguin by the way; he’s great, we love him.)
His collectable playlist features music from: GULL, It’s Not Night It’s Space, miRthkon, Nehedar, Christopher North, Pattern Recognition, Andras Jones, The Donkeys, and Jesse Miller, as well as podcasts from: 42Minutes, Radio8Ball, Always Record, and Fine Just Fine.
Streamers have our permission to broadcast the Little Ghost music & podcasts on their streams and playthrus.
FOUR PLAYABLE CHARACTERS (Full Game Only)
Each member of your party handles differently - movement speed & jump heights vary
🕹️ Retro-inspired Platforming
🌸 Explore A Breathtaking Surreal Paper World
👾 Full Of Secret Hidden Spaces
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My Very Own Light
Fun world and the puzzle are nice to solve. Lots of variation in the environment through the level makes the game interesting all along the available levels.
– Real player with 30.9 hrs in game
Faerie Afterlight
Faerie Afterlight is a beautifully visualized Platformer-Metroidvania game with comforting, tuneful music and a tale, unlike any bedtime story to accompany.
The tale is about the journey of the Light Seeker, Kimo, and his fairy friend, Wispy. Tied by fate and united by the same goal, the two found each other and soon become close friends. Now, they are both on a quest to find each shattered piece of Lucentia in the lustrous land of Lumina.
Delightful ambiance and spectacular sceneries
Breathtaking view of the sceneries of the game. Your eyes are going to be pampered with color plays and a clean user interface.
Friends or foes?
Why be enemies when we can be friends and help each other? Turn your enemies into your allies and make your way through the game!
Interactive environment
A dead-end won’t pose a problem if you can move the walls and platforms. Experience Wispy’s abilities to move the environment around you as you push forward!
Explore many terrains of Lumina
There are nooks and crannies, hidden objects, secret doors, and secret passages from the high lands to the ground again; colorful adventures and shadowy forest, who knows if you will find some hidden sacred relics or meet a new friend!
Getting stronger
After defeating a boss, Kimo will gain a new ability by utilizing the dropped monster part. Eg: Spider Legs allow him to jump over vertical walls, Beetle Horn provides him the ability to dash in air and many more!
Shop
Find merchants spread all over Lumina. Buy their stuff to upgrade your stats such as health and energy.
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
Druid
Druid is an enjoyable puzzle quest. You play as a Druid who goes to a magical forest. He wants to find a mentor and become wiser. It is very difficult to find the right path in the forest: there are many ravines, reservoirs, impassable thickets. To get into inaccessible areas, the Druid needs to learn new abilities that are activated using magic runes. They can be obtained by helping animals in the forest. Runes can be combined.
Nice graphics, unobtrusive background music. The game is worth the money. I highly recommend it for playing with children. Although it’s hard to find the right path without a forest map.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
This is like a ‘metroid-vania’ game but instead of action-adventure, we have some light puzzle elements.
To put it another way, it is like if you replaced a point&click adventure game’s mechanics with the ‘HM moves’ that you use in Pokemon to open up new areas of the overworld map.
You are a druid seeking enlightenment in the forest, and you slowly gather a series of magical runes that let you interact with the environment, or take on animal form, to conveniently get past oddly specific obstacles you find in the forest.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Trash Quest
A very good metroidvania about a raccoon getting to the trash on a spaceship! The movement takes a moment to get used to, but it’s really fun after a bit! I love how the upgrades open up new shortcuts to get back to, and the side challenges for optional upgrades were a nice change of pace! The level design was laid out very well, and the map made sure you always knew where to check when you get a new powerup!
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
This game is really fun! Super short and sweet. A nice challenge for both platforming and boss fights. I’ve beaten the game 3 times now, trying to get all the achievements, and I can honestly say that due to the short nature of the game, the replayability is quite high, which is good since the final 3 achievements are extremely hard.
EDIT: The below issue has since been fixed with an update. The dev has been super responsive to feedback and that’s a huge positive in my book. With these issues fixed, I have nothing negative to say about the game. If you like metroidvanias, and you’re interested in a bite-sized streamlined take on the genre then this is definitely the game for you!
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Falta
Falta is a survival-horror game set in a brazilian public school.
Play as Davi, as you look for your missing best-friend Tiago through the dark hallways and classroms of your school. Find and collect “mementos”, clues about your friend’s whereabouts and try to survive as a misterious and invisible spirit chases after you, can you figure out what happened before the spirit catches you?
Mechanode
Mechanode - a part spat from the machine, one part of many; discover who gave life to bot AA21-B, work out his purpose, and the origins of the giant mechanoid that forms his world.
An all-action, story-driven metroidvania that confronts the darkest realities of existence and the dawning of consciousness.
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