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Steam Description said: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!
Official Website
Castle In The Darkness just released on Steam for $4.97 introductory price. It is a Metroidvania style game, with a hint of Aben Hawking and the 1001 Spikes at times, a hint of Cave Story at other times, and even some Monster Party. It is AWESOME.
The game is by Matt Kap, the lead artist behind The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth who does wonderful pixel art as well as some of the best chiptune I've ever heard, EVER. The game has over 50 bosses, 100+ collectible items, is non-linear, has characters that range from cute to terrifying and is a total nostalgia-fest, while not being carried by nostalgia. This game has legs, very very sexy legs.
The game is currently only available for Steam, but is planned for iOS. If you want it on other consoles, please let Matt Kap / Nicalis know!
Soundtrack
Seriously just give the soundtrack a listen.
Screenshots
Videos
Release Date Trailer
Announcement Trailer
Developer's? Let's Play P1 (Not sure why it is marked as Developer's Let's Play she doesn't say she was involved in the game?)
Developer's Let's Play P2
Over 5 hours of me streaming, raging and loving this game
Reviews / Impressions
Steam Reviews
Windows Central
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Personally, I've never felt like a game is so tailor made to me. The gameplay is on point, the chiptune is the best ever and reminds me of how catchy actual NES used to be, and the references to all my favorite games are here, and done in a non-tacky way. References to games I thought were all but forgotten that I love like Monster Party and Bubble Bobble. Cave Story fans will not be disappointed.
The difficulty slowly ramps up and feels natural. The non-linearity never feels like a hassle and kind of flows naturally. This game has more secrets than Bill Cosby, that's to say it has a metric fuck ton, from false walls, to secret bosses in secret dungeons with secret weapons / magic to find.
It has been a very, very long time since I've purchased a game, and just sat down and played non-stop for over 5 hours, especially while streaming. I just did not want to put my controller down, not for a drink of water, not to use the restroom. This game is damned near perfection (to me) and it needs to be given exposure and praise. It is one of those games begging for speed runners, and casual players alike.
Easily recommended if you like old school Castlevania, Metroid, Aben Hawking and the 1001 Spike (though it isn't nearly as extreme, difficulty wise), Zelda 2, or even Shovel Knight. Speaking of Shovel Knight, I found this game to be a lot more polished and enjoyable all around than Shovel Knight, which just kind of played it safe. That being said, I'm 5 hours in and fucking loving it.
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CONTROLLER FIX (that worked for me)
In a run box in windows type "joy.cpl"
Click advanced and set your preferred controller, as the game doesn't detect it if it is set to none.
Use keyboard and mouse to config controller. All you should have to change is jump and attack to your preferred keys.
FOR OTHER ISSUES / FIXES SEE THE STEAM DISCUSSION OF THE GAME HERE