Capsized
Alientrap · 2011 · Action, Indie, Platformer, Sci-fi, Local Co-Op
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About Capsized
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Blast through a hand-drawn alien world with jetpack-powered platforming and physics-based combat as you fight to rescue your crew and escape a crash-landed ship. Capsized fuses first-person shooter controls with clever puzzle-solving and intense real-time action, challenging you to dodge, manipulate gravity, and outgun bizarre creatures across massive non-linear environments.
Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
Artist Jesse McGibney and programmer Lee Vermeulen create an immersive alien world teeming with bizarre life-forms and strange landscapes presented in a unique hand-drawn art style. Combining control elements of first person shooters and innovative physics based combat, Capsized emphasizes action without giving up the smart problem solving of classic platform games.
Use your jetpack to fly through the alien jungle, and tools such as the Gravity Hook to manipulate your environment to skilfully dodge and defeat attacking enemies. You will be challenged - with platforming, puzzle solving, and deadly skirmishing, often all at the same time!
Artist Jesse McGibney and programmer Lee Vermeulen create an immersive alien world teeming with bizarre life-forms and strange landscapes presented in a unique hand-drawn art style. Combining control elements of first person shooters and innovative physics based combat, Capsized emphasizes action without giving up the smart problem solving of classic platform games.
Use your jetpack to fly through the alien jungle, and tools such as the Gravity Hook to manipulate your environment to skilfully dodge and defeat attacking enemies. You will be challenged - with platforming, puzzle solving, and deadly skirmishing, often all at the same time!
Key Features:
- Highly detailed alien environments and creatures, lovingly rendered with high resolution hand-drawn artwork.
- 12 mission Campaign featuring: massive non-linear environments, diverse objectives and enemies, and exciting comic-style cutscenes.
- 4 extra Arcade Modes to unlock, including: local Deathmatch and Coop, Survival mode, Time Trials, and Armless fighting.
- Lethal arsenal of futuristic weapons and gadgets such as: the Gravity Ram, Jetpack, Energy Shield, and Quasar Array
- Classic First Person Shooter inspired controls, with a focus on skilled movement, creative tactics, and insane action.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Capsized, developed and published by Alientrap, is a 2D action-platformer that blends physics-driven movement, shooting mechanics, and environmental problem-solving into a tightly interwoven experience. Set on a hostile alien world after a crash landing, the game wastes little time on exposition and instead throws players directly into a survival scenario where exploration and adaptability are key. It is a game that prioritizes mechanical engagement over narrative, offering a challenging and often intense journey that revolves around mastering its systems rather than following a story. The most striking element of Capsized is how it handles movement. Instead of relying on traditional platforming controls, the game introduces a jetpack and a gravity-based grappling tool that fundamentally change how players navigate the environment. Movement becomes a constant balancing act—managing thrust, momentum, and positioning while avoiding hazards and enemies. This creates a dynamic flow where traversal feels fluid but never effortless. At first, the controls can feel awkward or overly sensitive, but with time, they reveal a deeper level of precision that rewards practice. Once mastered, mo…1 found this helpful
Capsized hooked me immediately with its gorgeous hand-drawn alien environments and spine-tingling electronic soundtrack — it genuinely feels like being stranded on a dangerous, living world. The grappling hook and gravity ram give the movement a satisfying physicality, and the weapon variety kept early levels feeling fresh and inventive. That said, I won't pretend the controls don't take some getting used to; the floaty physics engine that makes the world feel alive is the same one that occasionally sends you careening into a wall of enemies you couldn't see coming. The back half of the game drags a bit as the level design leans harder on repetition, and a couple of late missions tested my patience more than my skill. Still, for the price — especially in a bundle — the atmosphere alone is worth the trip, and I walked away genuinely impressed by what this small team pulled off.1 found this helpful
I don't even remember buying this game!
Honestly nope. Would love to love it but design-wise they made a bunch of really awful choices that simply make the experience quite frustrating.
Its a Sci-Fi Metroid-esque, nice side scroller with a survival twist. The Soundtrack is just well, its what got me into this game. Beat it once on a windows low end pc (win 8/10) and going for it again on a steamdeck. Keeping it at native 1280x720 is fine with minimal clipping. Sound works fine. Its playable and thats what counts. Its a comfy game to me. Once you've completed stages with enough stars your able to play survival and arcade modes. Cool lil gem of a game. Its best played with Keyboard and Mouse yet still somewhat playable with a controller. Hope this helps, Game on!
I like the atmosphere and the graphics but the controlls with the hook and flight feels weird so I'm not enjoying the gameplay
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