Charon's Crossing
Bryce Hilyard · 2023 · Action, Arcade, Retro, Pixel Graphics, Action-Adventure
PC
9 user reviews78% · 9
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About Charon's Crossing
Journey Through The Underworld
In Charon's Crossing, you play as the mythic ferryman, Charon. Your task is to safely ferry the souls of the departed through the treacherous rivers of the Underworld. As you maneuver through each of the five rivers—Lethe, Acheron, Cocytus, Phlegethon, and Styx—you'll confront a variety of obstacles and menacing foes that aim to obstruct your path.
Power-Ups & Strategy
With each completed stage, Hermes offers you a brief respite. Visit his shop to purchase vital power-ups that can make your journey smoother. From bolstering your health to manipulating the very fabric of time, choose the enhancements that align best with your strategy to ensure the safe passage of souls.
Pixel-Art Arcade Action
Experience a blend of strategy and skill in this Game & Watch-inspired title. Charon's Crossing presents players with a nostalgic trip featuring minimalist pixel-art graphics combined with classic 8-bit soundscapes. Will you successfully navigate the rivers and deliver all the souls, or will the Underworld's perils prove too challenging?
Features
- Traverse five distinct rivers, each with its unique challenges.
- Battle and evade various foes and obstacles that aim to hinder your journey.
- Utilize strategic power-ups from Hermes' shop to aid in your travels.
- Engage in a visually captivating pixel-art world complemented by 8-bit tunes.
- Test your reflexes and decision-making skills in this arcade-style experience.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Cute & free little title in the style of early lcd handheld games3 found this helpful
"Charon's Crossing" is an unusual entry in Steam (but not a good one). It's basically a ripoff of the ancient 1980's LCD "Game and Watch" kids toys, a small liquid crystal display game that runs on watch batteries and features ultra simple score attack gameplay. This one carries an "underworld" theme where you ferry the dead people to their destinations. They died because they are really old because they remember "Game and Watch" games. What do you do in the game? You basically move a boat around a grid while looking at the really lazy retro "art". It's incredibly shallow. It's not 1983 anymore. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. The visual style may have been intended to come across as…1 found this helpful
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