Anima Flux

♥♥♥♥♥♥ two guys?! ♥♥♥♥ ass made it

A fun co-op adventure. My only complaint is that the melee character sometimes feels a little useless until the ranged one clears the room, especially at the beginning of the game. This improves later on. Despite this issue it's a highly recommended game. Co-op feature in metroidvanias is super rare, so we cherished every moment and had a blast with Anima Flux. The visuals are beautiful!

A very enjoyable metroidvania, but a bit short.

Even Moonscars is better.

Unfortunately I would not recommend this game even though it pains me, it's a pretty good indie game that's fun to play in co-op. I won't burry the lead: the map and bad UX kill this game and make it super hard to recommend, its buggy and very useless making a metroidvania like this with back tracking a pain instead of fun. It is not an easy game and maybe could be balanced better but overall good game with a terrible, recommendation killing UX. There is, apparently, no way to even map opening of the in game map to a button in the controller settings. The PS5 controller is recognized but there is just no option to do it. Or any of the other menu's (upgrades, quest log, etc). You can "fix" this using steam inputs and mapping the `m` key to your controller's select button, but steam doesn't remember the setting on each launch and it is an extra step every time I reboot my computer. And outside of the annoying bug, the map itself is just useless which makes a game like this with a lot of back tracking pretty impossible to play unless you go out of your way to make your own map. You can't place markers, what they choose to show on the map vs not seems pretty random, and good luck re…

Recommended. A stylish two-character metroidvania on a retro-futurist space ark, whose gorgeous art, decoder-log storytelling and banter-forward duo shine through an opening hour that actively works against it. Push through, get the dash, and the real game appears. Swap between a ranged gladiator and her melee partner, each with independent health and a revive mechanic that matters in boss fights. The animated cutscenes survive every mechanical complaint, the log hunt (ark origins, sermons, experimentation files) rewards thoroughness, and the comic NPC web (a one-man religious order, a dog named Dog) delights throughout. The first stretch lacks a dodge entirely, nearly ending the campaign against an over-aggressive early boss, and a later hotel encounter repeats the mistake with endless respawns. The map fights the player with dotted-line navigation, one-way traps and respawning enemies, and bosses are largely bigger palette swaps. Patience earns a genuine recommendation.