Dark Throne (2024)

This shows the extraordinary hard work that Elroy Saltzherr put into the game with his 6+ years of unity game design experience. The lore of this game is more intense than elden ring and game play is better than haides. how this wasn't nominated for game of the year is a crime of humanity. If i was looking to hire a game designer then Elroy Saltzherr would be my first pick for an amazing game.

"Dark Throne" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. I'm not sure if this is a student project (if so, they all failed) or if it's just from a bunch of would-be developers wondering why nobody in the gaming industry would hire them (this game explains why), but either way, this is awful. A run of the mill pixelcrap platformer trying and failing to capture that Castlevania feeling. You take on the role of a knight with amnesia, and I could really relate to that character because after playing this I desperately wanted amnesia to take the memory of this garbage away. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur dev…

Amazing game but we need more bosses

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad game... but I really can't recommend it and the positive reviews here are feeling so fake and exaggerated, so that I don't want to join them. It's a very simple Metroidvania game an no, it got no big story. You are in afterlife (hell?) and fight your way through skeletons and some flying eyes for reaching the end boss golem. Took me 37 minutes to complete this game. Even if you got 2 different attack options with your sword, I would only recommend the stronger one, because that one pushes the skeleton enemies back, so that you don't get damaged by yourself. The other option would guarantee you most likely to lose on health point. You are able to collect potions in this game, but I really don't know what they are for. And funny enough the npcs are looking way better than the main hero: your black knight here even is missing their neck and sometimes therefore their head floats over it's torso like Rayman's head does. And the only two skill upgrades are double-jump and air-dash. The boss fight itself wasn't very exciting and even if one other reviewer here honored it's "great story", this game's completely missing of an ending. So yes, it's play…

It's ok but I didn't see a blaze in the northern sky

Nice game! Sure its got some bugs here and there, but game is peak with its intense movement and tough battles. Can't wait for the sequel!