Dormant World
XENOpz · 2017 · Action, Adventure, Indie
PC
3 user reviews0% · 3
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About Dormant World
The Oneiroi (the gods of sleep) have descended onto the world. Everyone is asleep. It's up to you to try and save everyone from eternal slumber!
Inspired by NES/Famicom classics, Dormant World is a retro platformer designed to look and feel like a game that could have existed 20 years ago. Dormant World is for you if you're a bit nostalgic about the good old days and want a "game like old times, but new."
Not being overly long, the game is completable within two or three hours on a first playthrough and an hour on later replays.
Dormant World Features:
- Controller support (NES/Famicom USB controller recommended)
- Toggleable retro filter to make the game look as if it's playing on an old TV
- Hardcore mode (no saves, no continues) for added challenge
- Level design featuring the four directions of the world and a compass to help you out
- Three levels guiding you through mountains, forests, and a desert
- A few puzzles to keep you on your toes
- Bosses at the end of each level
Inspired by NES/Famicom classics, Dormant World is a retro platformer designed to look and feel like a game that could have existed 20 years ago. Dormant World is for you if you're a bit nostalgic about the good old days and want a "game like old times, but new."
Not being overly long, the game is completable within two or three hours on a first playthrough and an hour on later replays.
Dormant World Features:
- Controller support (NES/Famicom USB controller recommended)
- Toggleable retro filter to make the game look as if it's playing on an old TV
- Hardcore mode (no saves, no continues) for added challenge
- Level design featuring the four directions of the world and a compass to help you out
- Three levels guiding you through mountains, forests, and a desert
- A few puzzles to keep you on your toes
- Bosses at the end of each level
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Slow paced, sluggish control, boring combat, ear piercing music, hideous graphics that look like they were drawn by a 1st grader, uses a password feature instead of a save because that makes sense in 2018. This game has no redeeming qualities at all, avoid it even if it is on sale.3 found this helpful
[h1]SUMMARY[/h1] A Zelda 2 clone, and a bad one. I wanted to like this game. It had a quirky little pixelated art style that's semi-realistic in its dimensions of characters, it has a good deal of adventuring and upgrades to health and regen, and it progresses nicely. There are brick-walls of design though, that HAVE to be addressed. FIRST; it uses maze-like design to make up for its short length. Around 10 to 15 minutes of each level will be figuring out the proper order in which to take paths off screen and walk through certain doors, and it will re-orient you and take you in loops, disorienting you and making things much harder than they should be. I don't care what this was skimmed from, it's trash design. It's fine to have 1 section like this, maybe 2 in a game, but that's it, and for a game as short as this one seems to be, it has zero excuse for having it as much as it does. SECONDLY; abusing pixel-perfect jumps over insta-kill death pits, and just in general. The only time a pixel-perfect jump should be required is towards the end of the game, when the player has spent plenty of time familiarizing themselves with the controls and mastering the mechanics of the game. Here…
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