Chimera

Chimera

Croc Pot Games · 2024 · Action Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Action, Roguelite, PvE

PC
Positive80% · 20
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About Chimera


MAKE YOUR ESCAPE


Play as an ancient Chimera locked within a subterranean tower in this rogue-lite dungeon crawler. Battle through floors of powerful creatures on your ascent from the ancient prison.

GRAFT YOUR WAY TO POWER


Take the powers from your enemies by grafting their limbs to use unique abilities. Use trinkets to create a variety of builds and become an unstoppable force. Unlock relics from the shop to alter your play style from run to run.

FIND THE TRUTH


Uncover secrets from the tower to find the true reason for your imprisonment. Discover a mysterious ally to assist you in your journey through this perilous world.

FIGHT YOUR WAY OUT


Clear your way through three different floors of the tower, filled with dangers and hazards around every corner. Each floor tells a different piece of the story of the tower for you to uncover.

Will you be able to escape?

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Mar 10, 2026
Chimera is an indie action roguelite developed and published by Croc Pot Games that places players in the unusual role of a legendary monster rather than the typical hero. The game revolves around the mythological Chimera, a powerful creature imprisoned inside a mysterious tower filled with hostile enemies and ancient defenses. Instead of following a traditional fantasy narrative where the player ascends as a noble adventurer, Chimera reverses the perspective by casting the player as a creature fighting its way out of captivity. The result is a fast-paced dungeon-crawling experience built around experimentation, procedural combat encounters, and a roguelite structure that encourages repeated attempts to escape. The story itself is deliberately understated but intriguing. Players awaken within a towering prison where the Chimera has been sealed away for reasons that are not immediately clear. As the creature struggles to escape, it encounters strange enemies and remnants of forgotten civilizations that hint at the tower’s long history. The narrative is delivered gradually through environmental details, scattered lore, and occasional discoveries during exploration. Rather than prese…
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Recommended Jun 1, 2026
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Recommended Feb 16, 2025
this game is GREAT its fun and unique, its kinda like furry tboi i hope for more floors and more major enemies in the future i love it uwu ps: i didn't beat it yet XP
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Recommended Jan 5, 2025
Good. recommend
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Not recommended Jul 31, 2025
Combat is not very good, with poor feedback and enemies not really telegraphing their attacks. It just doesn't feel very good. The core idea of the game where you use enemy body parts is really cool in concept, but not quite fleshed out enough to hold up. The game has poor support for ultrawide monitors (3440x1440) with many text fields going out the bottom of the screen. There are no options to adjust the resolution to force something more normal. Toggling fullscreen merely puts the game in a window with the fullscreen resolution.
Not recommended Mar 27, 2025
In almost one hour I got stuck in a wall, in a root, in a space but most frustrating - in the exit door at the second boss (jumped near the door and got elevated and bosses were running near the door). Chimera took many bugs from bugs to play further. But idea is fun

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