Explore the ruins of the once glorious city as Haak, the brave traveler. With retro-futuristic pixel world and hand-drawn graphics, this Metroidvania-style game will keep you hooked, using your hook, dash, and charged slash to uncover hidden rooms and secrets. Enjoy extremely good and fluid platforming, fun mechanics, solid level design and challenges that adapt to your skills. Make meaningful choices to change the game's fate with multiple endings. Join in and become the light that repels the darkness!
What we like:
Fun platforming
Great combat mechanics
Well-designed levels
Good controls
Engaging story and atmosphere
What could be improved:
Linear with stingy ability gating
Tedious and punishing platforming with dubious checkpoints
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Join Dadish, a radish who's also a dad, on an exciting journey to find his missing kids. This challenging platformer, created by the makers of Super Fowlst, features well-designed levels, funny dialogues and adorable characters. Get ready for a retro adventure that blends fatherhood with exciting gameplay!
What we like:
Well-designed and enjoyable platforming
Good sense of humor throughout the game
Simple controls and easy to pick up and play
Great variety of levels that keeps the game fresh
Adorable art style and characters
What could be improved:
Certain levels may be frustrating for some players
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This definitive edition of the multiple-award-winning hit by master storytellers The Chinese Room is remastered for the big screen and includes all bonus content of the original. A HERO WILL EMERGE!
A fast-paced parkour platformer where you jump, climb, and navigate surreal landscapes to find your way home. Face gravity-defying challenges, mysterious portals, and ever-changing worlds as you fight to escape the unknown. Keep moving forward—your only way back is down.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
ActRaiser Renaissance is a video game where you play as God rebuilding human civilization destroyed by evil. With two main parts, simulation and sidescrolling action, guiding and defending your village against monsters is incredibly fun. The challenge ramps up gradually with time, making it addicting. The combat system is competent, with various enemy types, hidden power-ups, and expanded controls. The game is meticulously crafted, genuinely improves on the original game, and maintains the spirit of what made it special. ActRaiser Renaissance is a dark horse to become game of the year and is suitable for players who love simulation and sidescrolling games.
What we like:
Fun tower-defense style missions
Meticulously crafted simulation and sidescrolling parts
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Shadow of the Orient is a 2d pixel art action platformer where you play as a young warrior named Xiaolang who must venture across the orient fighting hordes of Samurai warriors and mythical creatures in an attempt to rescue the kidnapped children of the orient and face off against the dark lord.
GrimValor is a dark fantasy action-adventure game with smooth controls, fast movements and challenging enemies. You will need to master basic movements, earn new abilities and access items while taking on powerful bosses. Enjoy an immense amount of content with no IAPs or ads.
What we like:
Smooth controls
Fast movements
Challenging enemies
No IAPs or ads
Robust RPG mechanics
What could be improved:
Collision detection can be gummy near walls and platform edges
Occasional attempts at story-telling not up to standards of the rest of the game
Set off on an adventure as a mild-mannered witch who transforms into a flying eyeball of vengeance after a smarmy knight and wizard steal her spell ingredients.
Comes with all suits including Unicorn, Dino and Dragon Golden Suit as playable characters. Simple, straightforward controls, optimized for younger and less-experienced players. For multiplayer, all a player needs is a Joy-Con™, so two people can team up right out of the box.
