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Castle In The Darkness

Castle In The Darkness

Feb. 5, 2015 $4.99
Windows

Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

About

One dark and gloomy night, the kingdom of Alexandria is attacked by an evil sorcerer and his army of darkness! Despite their best efforts to protect their king and their princess, the royal guard falls, one-by-one, to the forces of evil. One knight, unconscious but still alive, awakens on the throne room floor to find that the princess is nowhere to be seen! What's more, the entire city had been overrun by monsters! With sword in hand, he embarks on a death-defying mission to find his princess and to restore peace to the kingdom! A game by Matt Kap , the lead artist behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth A large world heavily inspired by the golden era of video games Level up your knight with wildly different abilities An arsenal of over 100 weapons, armor, items and magic to collect and use! Over 50 bosses to find and slay More than 100 different enemies Fast-paced chiptune soundtrack Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

76 Metacritic
959 Positive
292 Negative
1162 Recommendations
2 Peak CCU
11 Achievements

Developers

Nicalis, Inc., Matt Kap

Publisher

Nicalis, Inc.

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Action, RPG

Categories

Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Family Sharing, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support

Tags

Metroidvania (58) Indie (45) Platformer (43) Action (39) Difficult (37) Adventure (34) Pixel Graphics (34) RPG (29) Retro (26) 2D (23) Great Soundtrack (14) Singleplayer (10)

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About

One dark and gloomy night, the kingdom of Alexandria is attacked by an evil sorcerer and his army of darkness! Despite their best efforts to protect their king and their princess, the royal guard falls, one-by-one, to the forces of evil. One knight, unconscious but still alive, awakens on the throne room floor to find that the princess is nowhere to be seen! What's more, the entire city had been overrun by monsters! With sword in hand, he embarks on a death-defying mission to find his princess and to restore peace to the kingdom! A game by Matt Kap , the lead artist behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth A large world heavily inspired by the golden era of video games Level up your knight with wildly different abilities An arsenal of over 100 weapons, armor, items and magic to collect and use! Over 50 bosses to find and slay More than 100 different enemies Fast-paced chiptune soundtrack Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

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