Arco
Franek · 2024 · RPG, Turn-Based Strategy, Pixel Graphics, Action-Adventure, Story Rich
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive96% · 2,11986Metacritic
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About Arco
✦ AI summary
Navigate handcrafted bullet-hell battles across a Mesoamerican fantasy world as one of four indigenous heroes, where your tactical choices and moral decisions shape whether combat flows turn-based or real-time. Experience intertwined stories full of heartbreak and humor as you battle colonial forces, rival nations, and supernatural threats—all culminating in revenge served on llama-back.
Arco is a Mesoamerican fantasy RPG where each fight is a handcrafted bullet-hellish maelstrom that you must solve through clever use of your skills, items, and environment. While exploring the world, your narrative choices affect whether the combat skews more turn-based or real-time.
Guide four indigenous heroes through intertwining stories as you battle monstrous creatures, rival nations, and greedy colonizers. Choose peace or choose violence but not all threats can be reasoned with…and all roads in Arco lead to revenge. On a llama.
Features:
- Simultaneous turn-based system that requires tactical planning while staying quick on your toes.
- Intertwined stories with 4 different characters, each with their own unique skill tree and playstyle.
- Choices that impact the narrative as well as the gameplay.
- Handcrafted fantastical world with 200+ locations, 50+ enemies, 100+ items, 100+ skills.
- 2 hours of captivating soundtrack. It will break your heart and then heal it.
- Get cursed, run from your demons, slap monsters, and break your neck trying to discover secrets.
- Llamas.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Great game with really good storytelling. I thought the combat system won't be for me but I am surprised - it was really fun. Soundtrack is a masterpiece. Definitely can give this game 9/10.1 found this helpful
Awesome game, the pixel style is amazing and the story touching. So cool so see games telling you great postcolonial tales.
This game got a glowing review from LocalThunk of Balatro fame, but unfortunately Is a big letdown in my book. The non-combat sections are reminiscent of old style point and click games to an extent, which is cool. The dialogue in conversation seems to be fairly minimal, much like an old Western movie. The aesthetics are great, and I love the pixel art. The real sticking point though is the combat. The combat plays out like a turn-based strategy game of sorts, where you and the enemy move at the same time. However you deal almost no damage, and the only strategy is running away and taking pot shots to whittle away the health of the enemies. Making matters worse is the guilt mechanic, which causes ghosts to materialize which attack you in real time (in other words, they are not frozen like conventional enemies and will keep coming). This is just another layer of tedium that is completely at odds with the strategy gameplay, albeit narratively fitting but mechanically infuriating. What's worse is that the enemies scale quickly, with you going from fighting animals and bugs to bandits with guns and explosives that can finish you in a hit or two. Worth noting that there's two tweaks y…
It felt like every time I picked this up, it was better than the previous session. It was a bit of a slow start, but by chapter 3 it really starts to pick up. The pixel art environment is great, and the soundtrack is one of the better ones that I've heard recently. Total time to beat was 11 hours, but didn't really have the desire for the achievement grind. If you stick around until the end credits, it'll give you instructions on how to get a physical item from the developers.
A unique game with a creative combat system, charming pixel graphics, an impactful story and a gorgeous soundtrack. The pacing of the game and the way it's broken up means that no aspect overstays its welcome. If you don't want to see this story through by the time the tutorial ends, check your pulse.
Such a beautiful game! Gorgeous art, incredible music, and the gameplay and story are both very engaging and rewarding - much recommended!
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