Eternal Return
Pathless Games · 2017 · Indie, Action, Adventure, Metroidvania, 2D
PC
Mixed52% · 27
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About Eternal Return
Eternal Return: a trial by fire
This game is not for everyone. Eternal Return strips away conventional comforts for a brutally uncompromising indie experience that challenges players with merciless mechanics, oppressive atmosphere, and fragmentary storytelling. Begin with only 1 health and 1 stamina. Explore amid an ever-present sense of danger to build your health, stamina, and small arsenal of weapons.A Combat System Unlike Any Other
Forget hack-and-slash. Here, combat is a slow, deliberate dance of stamina and strategy. Mastering Eternal Return's unconventional controls demands precision - and button mashing guarantees death. Players wield 3 primary and 3 secondary weapons, each with distinct advantages.Swinging a greatsword is not instant, and misjudging an attack leaves you vulnerable. No air controls creates grounded, tactical engagements, where positioning and timing determine life or death.A World of Suffering and Mystery
Looping level design means that progress is never straightforward. Players have only one central checkpoint - progress by discovering shortcuts, keys to unlock doors, and an in-world fast-travel network.Speak to nine tormented NPCs and decipher cryptic messages scrawled on scrolls throughout the castle. Players must find clues in their environment and read between the lines to find their path forward.More Features:
- Defeat foes to gain points: Spend points to use crucial ranged weapons.
- Risk & Reward: When you die, return to your corpse to recover points—or abandon them.
- Includes: 20 levels. 13 bosses. 50+ enemy types - not mere foes but reflections of past sins
- Secrets & Madness: Hidden areas and challenges even for the most hardened players.
- Phonograph Records: Discover scattered discs to unveil the game’s soundtracks.
- Glitches: hard drives lost when the developer became homeless means fractures remain in this world.
- 64-Color Aesthetic: A grim palette of decay, evoking the fading light of a dying world.
- Countless Barrels and Jars to smash.
- Philosophy!
Every Step forward is a Victory over Overwhelming Odds.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I'll not prolong myself. Sometimes we gamers and developers are not open to new experiences, we often avoid anything that isn't "player-friendly", but doing this we close ourselves to experience other kinds of emotions. Eternal return is one of those games that try to achieve something different, something that defies the norm. The lack of polishing works in its favor, creating a world that is hard even to move around. If it was the intention of the creator to create this feeling or he just accidentally did this, we may never know for sure. In my opinion, Eternal Return ask a question to us " Do we really love video games as a media for any kind of experience, or we just love to be spoon fed and gain instant gratification?" If your answer is the first one, then you should play this game.10 found this helpful
This is a good game! Despite of some gameplay problems, this game has a very very very good story and a nice atmosphere building, it would be interesting if another version was developed in more polishedly. The difficult gameplay is very chanllenging and I really enjoyed it. I would really like to contribute as a developer or at least in crowdfunding. My friend is making a video about this game! Will be released soon!1 found this helpful
Very retro, very hard. But most retro games are. Lots of spooky skeletons and evil knights to make life harder for you. The Dark Souls of the 2D World. https://youtu.be/wGhoKZQ7bY01 found this helpful
While this game does have 2 cool things, this is the game you think of when you go ''i definitely shouldn't send this to my friend'' E makes you jump backwards, J and K are for attks, but you will forget this as soon as you see how silly the game plays & you encounter the Bucket that never shuts up. like c'mon man, im dying over ere! (let me die in peace, we had a good thing, but you had to rock the boat)
Wow, bad game. Not even decent jump mechanics to start with, also what's with the huge sprites with annoyingly out of place hitboxes? Yes, it's difficult because it's bad. Sorry.. NO. [2/10]
Brutal Game. Love it.
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