Cursed Gem
AikonCWD · 2020 · Platformer, Action, Adventure, Indie, Difficult
PC
Positive100% · 24 📉 Recent reviews down 90%
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About Cursed Gem
You are Oliver, and you want to give a diamond ring to marry your beloved, Silvia. But you have no money, so you decide to explore a mysterious cave, an old diamond mine.
You are trapped inside, and a strange curse prevents deadly traps from taking your life ... You are immortal! but by not being able to leave the cave you will be condemned to die eternally.
Your mission will be to discover the secret behind this curse, deciphering the runic language thanks to the help of Jerry, your skull friend. Get the big diamond, break the curse and escape from the cave to return with Silvia.
The controls are simple and accessible: Jump, hold on to the walls, slide. Push boxes and stones, press buttons to solve puzzles, use physics to your advantage. Every death teaches a lesson.
You are trapped inside, and a strange curse prevents deadly traps from taking your life ... You are immortal! but by not being able to leave the cave you will be condemned to die eternally.
Your mission will be to discover the secret behind this curse, deciphering the runic language thanks to the help of Jerry, your skull friend. Get the big diamond, break the curse and escape from the cave to return with Silvia.
Game Features
- Single player adventure marked by powerful challenge, deadly traps and precision platforms.
- Explore and overcome a huge cave with more than 10 levels.
- More than 80 rooms with different designs: traps, puzzles, impossible jumps ...
- Different difficulty modes that change the behavior of checkpoints.
- A "nightmare" difficulty mode: Play the entire adventure in the dark, with only a light helmet.
- Exchange messages on the walls with other players. In true Dark Souls style.
- Decipher a cryptic runic language that you will find on the walls of the cave.
- 12 skins to customize your player. One of them being a well-known gentleman...
- 55 achievements that will make you feel good about yourself.
- Soundtrack composed by Horror Pen & Shote.
The controls are simple and accessible: Jump, hold on to the walls, slide. Push boxes and stones, press buttons to solve puzzles, use physics to your advantage. Every death teaches a lesson.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Good game. Beating level 8/9 without dying took years off my life.2 found this helpful
A free precision platformer with collectables to search for, secrets to be confused by and a runic language to decipher. Levels have multiple rooms with occasional checkpoints and some challenge modes, hardcore and limited light. As a free game it is easy to recommend, was satisfied with completing the game normally and have continued to poke at its secrets, but there are Steam achievements for deathless runs of each stage and a full hardcore playthrough which might be too much if you want to 100% it legitimately.1 found this helpful
garbage. switches will suddenly be unpressed even though a crate is on them, and you already got a checkpoint, so you have to start the whole level over. also, just not very fun whatsoever. it also commits the two cardinal sins of precision platformers, which are 1) hazards are out of time with each other and you have to wait for things to line up properly, over and over, just sitting there, waiting for the opening, and 2) when you die, it doesn't reset the level state, it just continues, so the hazards are always out of time with each other. trash. trash. trash. why anyone thinks that's how you design a game is beyond me. literally the most annoying crap about this type of game.1 found this helpful
This is an awesome retro platformer/collect-a-thon! Highly recommended! However, the achievements are not for the faint of heart. It has the dreaded "complete the game without dying" achievement. Ugh.
Very good platformer that seems mediocre at first. I only wish checkpoints were also save poiints. The game only saves if you complete a level. That's a big flaw in my opinion, especially since levels can take a while if you're struggling. 15+ minutes, possibly much more!
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