Isles of Limbo

Isles of Limbo

Argonautics · September 3, 2020 · Action, Hack and Slash, 2D, Top-Down, Cartoony

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Mostly Positive73% · 280
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About Isles of Limbo

✦ AI summary

Play as Echo, a guardian defending the Isles of Limbo from vengeful spirits in fast-paced arena combat where you wield a hammer and sword across waves of enemies. This student project stands out with its stunning hand-painted 3D hybrid art style and dynamic soundtrack that brings each stage's battle between chaos and order to vivid life.

Arena-based hack-and-slash combat Fight off waves of enemies with the weight of your hammer and the grace of your sword. Spellbinding Visuals A hybrid of 3D and hand-painted art styles, animated to create a breathing, if not quite living, world between worlds.

Isles of Limbo — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 13, 2024
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Recommended Nov 10, 2025
Not bad, not great, way too short. I really don't know what else to say. I died once as I wasn't paying attention and even with that it took me 12 minutes or so to finish. Free sh1t so can't complain I guess.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 23, 2026
lol, would love to play the game but it seems i'm one of many who gets a screen of colour, limiting the game play to unplayable
Recommended Nov 15, 2025
Игра 'Isles of Limbo' - это атмосферное приключение с красивым визуальным стилем, напоминающим теневой театр. Платформинг в игре требует точности и усидчивости, ведь одно неверное движение может привести к падению в бездну. Хотя основная механика довольно проста, игра умело создает напряжение и чувство опасности благодаря своему минималистичному, но жутковатому миру. История подается фрагментарно, через окружение и отдельные символы, что заставляет игрока самостоятельно интерпретировать происходящее. Несмотря на завораживающую атмосферу, игра может показаться довольно сложной, особенно для новичков в жанре платформеров. Некоторые области требуют идеального тайминга и многократных попыток. Однако, чувство удовлетворения после преодоления сложного участка компенсирует все трудности. Если вы любите атмосферные игры с мрачным настроением и непростыми испытаниями, то 'Isles of Limbo' определенно стоит попробовать. Это короткое, но запоминающееся путешествие в мир теней и загадок.
Not recommended Aug 17, 2025
for regular users = casual
Recommended Jun 26, 2025
I was pleasantly surprised by the structure of the session, albeit the early signs of shallow waters for combat held true. All enemy varieties except the bats are sluggish enough to be dispatched before they can try even a single attack, and consequently that exception ends up as just a moving target. Pre-rendered cutscenes are a beautiful bygone delicacy; for some reason I found the enemies' annihilation to be exceptional shots. The Friedrich's "Wanderer" composition and the emotional ambiguity conveyed at the end was cheesy and captivating; in short, a lot of the game feels like an excuse to flex some graphics on a custom engine; whether or not I broadly agree with that pursuit these days, I can't deny it to be a beloved ambition of the medium, and here it nurtures a nostalgia that not many avenues are offering except for their primary sources. The game is testing my endurance on attributing a "Land" mood to so many games; variability of locales and a small yet magical discovery of the path of rising islands; these are present but not yet fully activated through the design. I would suspect that Nerve games are so readily abundant in the catalogue due to the instructors and their…

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