Ancient Future

Ancient Future

Binary Fusion · 2018 · Action, Indie, Pixel Graphics, Cyberpunk

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5 user reviews80% · 5
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About Ancient Future

Try the 2D shooter as you’ve never seen it before, and battle your friends in a pixelated cyberpunk universe. Players duel using skill and strategy, choosing customizable loadouts to battle in a variety of arenas, ranging from abandoned apartments to towers among the clouds. Challenge your friends, play online, or sharpen your skills with singleplayer tutorials and challenges. The game is accessible and easy to learn, but takes skill and practice to master. So grab a friend, and get ready to enter Ancient Future.

Playing Ancient Future, you will:
  • Engage in fast-paced local and online multiplayer action
  • Mix and match characters and items to find your perfect playstyle from 290+ combinations
  • Be the last one standing in Survivor Mode, outlast your opponents in Lives Mode, or avoid capture while playing Steal The Data
  • Adapt your strategy for each new arena: different environments favor different playstyles!
  • Hone your skill with singleplayer tutorials and challenge mode

OUR STORY



Ancient Future was built by Steve, a high school teacher, with the help of his students over the course of a school year. The project was motivated by a desire to unlock young gamers' creativity, and to inspire them to work and learn together to create something great. This game is the result.

It is a new game, so the online community is still small - for now, the game is best enjoyed by grabbing a copy, inviting over a couple of friends (and their controllers) and battling it out on the same screen. It has entertained us like this for hundreds of hours (we probably play at least thirty rounds a week!), and we know you will enjoy it too. We are proud of this game and what it represents: that with determination, teamwork, and the right guidance, young game designers’ visions can really become reality.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jan 27, 2018
This game is a...wait for it...BLAST! The character and level designs, the cyberpunk noir vibes, the ethereal score, the sound effects...it all adds up to an overall satisfying experience. I was reminded of the squirrely controls of early NES platformers (the Ancient part of Ancient Future), but for me that nostalgia made it even more fun to play. When I was younger, I loved playing the multiplayer battle mode on Mario Bros. 3. The design was simple but with just enough variation to keep me and my friends competing for hours. I can see the same thing with Ancient Future: compact levels, simple enough layouts, a straightforward goal. This is a clutch addition to the online multiplayer brawler community.
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Not recommended May 23, 2021
Local multiplayer was kinda cool. I only had one friend to play it with but it was quite fun, and I can imagine that if you manage to get a few people together it would be a fun blast. HOWEVER, I tried to play online early on, and there was nobody around, the online game never started. If the online server had some bots to let you spawn into, that would be kinda cool, but sadly it doesn't seem to, so there's only a blank screen to stare at. The graphics are excellent, massive kudos to whoever drew the levels. Excellent bullet animations and first-rate lighting and sound design. If this were a single-player game, it would feel really cool and old school. HOWEVER, it's primarily multi-player skirmish, and as such it does get very repetitive. We found a couple of loadouts that seemed to be much better than others, and once we settled on them, we found that the game became a bit samey. As it is, I'd give it a neutral, perhaps negative review, PURELY because it's very limited in how much entertainment you can get from it, which is a shame because it's clearly a very good engine with a lot of excellent thought gone into it. If they could take out the multiplayer stuff, and con…
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 31, 2018
goood game
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 27, 2018
This early-access game is one of the best indies I have ever played. The mechanics in this game, similar to the duck game's, are great and near-perfect. The wide-variety of choices for your character, weapons, and utilities gives you a great sense of freedom within the game. This is the perfect game to play with close family and friends. I see a lot of potential in this game for the near future :).
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 27, 2018
When I first came upon this game Ancient Future I honestly didn't know what to think of it. I figured it would be like all the other multiplayer brawler type steam games. I decided to play the game for whatever reason but unfortunatley for me this is the very first day the game came out ! So I didn't get to experience any of the multiplayer aspects of the game or rather I was to impatient to wait for a game to queue up. BUT I spent my money on it already so I had to get something out of it, right? So I played what I could. The only thing available to me was the tutorials, so that's what I did, I played the tutorials... I HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING THE TUTORIAL THAT I RECORDED IT FOR MY CHANNEL ! I hope this review is enough to endure the $5 chance on Ancient Future because I am looking forward to being able to play this game with my friends and against online players. Here is the video that inspired this user reviewers review - https://youtu.be/CN51QDONu4M
4 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 7, 2018
I once tested this game, I had a really fun time and its now so amazing now that I own the game and to see it finally be released on steam! I reccomend this game because the people who put this game together put so much effort into this project, and besides, it's a fun game! PS: There is a train in the backround on certain maps :P
3 found this helpful

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