

Halcyon
Ral · 2022 · Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure, Shooter, 2D Platformer
PC
Mostly Positive70% · 10 📈 Making a comeback 82%
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About Halcyon


Rediscover Earth
An era of birth and regrowth breathes new life into the world…but not for humanity. Fight your way through giant insects, mutated birds, and much, much worse. All against the backdrop of stunning parallax environments, colorful backdrops, and the hauntingly beautiful remnants of a long departed Anthropocene.
Fight, Fly, Survive
Shoot your way through ground and aerial combat encounters, armed only with your plasma rifle and flight bot. Respite is scarce. Supplies are scarcer. Your journey will be marked by the corpses of those who came before you.
Fulfill Humanity’s Last Hope
Sent by Mothership Terra, you will be pushed to your limits as you battle through unique biomes and hazardous hellscapes. You will face a myriad of malformed creatures thriving in the now fertile wasteland your people left behind. Can you survive this inhuman halcyon?
A Nostalgic Indie Debut
A game by Raleigh and Keirdan. A triumphant debut title from Real Action Labs, this 2D pixel art side-scrolling shooter is made possible by the hard work and passion of two independent developers.
@RealActionLabs / @PaladinGoth
@Audio_Dread
Special thanks to…
SToffler, @StofflerPxL for revamping art and creating the opening cinematic
And
Renan Costa, @drakerino for designing and animating the trailer
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game stole assets and copied the story from another game developer. This is the original game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1537080/Return/ Not cool for indie developers to do this, please avoid this game.33 found this helpful
Yoooo I saw this game and I thought it looked familiar pretty sure this game a ripoff I follow this dev on [url=https://twitter.com/DeadUnicornYYC ] Twitter [/url] Thought this was his game finally coming out but yall just copying him :/ Im waiting for the real deal to come out8 found this helpful
Halcyon is a very stylistic action platformer that is pretty short but nicely packed with a good variety of enemies and level themes. The game handles its atmosphere and world building very well, it manages to create an unnerving environment with its interesting and unique art style. Progression requires a lot of trial and error so do expect to die a lot, you will have to learn the mechanics or you will be punished dearly by the game. It can get frustrating at times but overall the frustration will be minimal and it can feel very rewarding to master the game's mechanics. All in all I recommend this game.4 found this helpful
Played and Beat it. Aside from the difficulty balance being flawed (It's brutally hard even on Easy), I still played it through. I enjoyed it, it's pretty, and certainly made by an Audiophile. The Look is sick, the effects are pretty, and the world was simple, but cool lore. I really hope he makes a sequel with faster melee, maybe a couple guns (4 would be more than enough if so) and a little more chance to escape enemies. (I got stun-locked a lot) TLDR : Super worth the price, and I want him to make more games. Even with dying a ton, I struggled to the finale. Great Indie Buy2 found this helpful
Halcyon is a short and fairly straightforward action platformer that has you running and gunning through the overgrown remains of a future Earth as you seek out the unknown. The game is at times pretty challenging as both common enemies and bosses alike will aggressively rush and attack you. While it took me roughly 2 hours to beat the game as I kept dying to the harder segments near the end, the game pushes you to try and breeze through the game at increasingly break neck speeds with its listed achievements. Overall, this is a first time game developed by a two man team and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoys testing their skills and wants to support new developers.1 found this helpful
Giving a 10th score, positive, to this short game (1 plus to 2 hour plus depending on your ability). Liked very much the graphics. No map. Your weapon range is long and kills foes out of screen -and you have a very convenient autoaim option in menus that helps with that-. Manage your jetpack power meter, to hover and kill enemies from above to evade damage. Or rise to their level if flying to better target them. An option to get a farther view (like the game uses with bosses), would make for a better enjoyment in my view. Disclosure: As and a 68 y.o. gamer I used cheat engine (helps me to play *and finish* games that otherwise I wouldn't buy !) Jetpack, Float Exact, 6.0000 at full. Grenades, 4 Bytes Exact, 3 Maximum. Health, 4 Bytes Exact, 200 full. (Address of grenades + 4 bytes).
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