Lone Fungus
BASTI GAMES · 2023 · Pixel Graphics, Adventure, 2D Platformer, Colorful, Action
PC
Very Positive86% · 736
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About Lone Fungus
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Play as the last mushroom alive in this Metroidvania, exploring a fungal world across ten interconnected areas while battling 33 bosses and collecting upgrades that let you customize your playstyle through Relics and Emblems. Fast, responsive combat with a directional spell system, optional precision platforming challenges, and extensive accessibility options let you experience the game exactly how you want.
Lone Fungus is a true Metroidvania set in a world built by mushrooms where you play as the last mushroom alive. Explore an ancient world, acquire new abilities and discover secrets!
There exist ten distinct areas for you to explore, each with its own unique set of enemies and obstacles. If you are willing to scour every nook and cranny in each area, you'll uncover plenty of secrets and receive well-deserved rewards. Through your exploration, you will earn significant upgrades in the form of Relics, Emblems, and upgrades to your Health or Mindpoints. These upgrades will undoubtedly be valuable to any player. To learn more about these upgrades, check out the combat section!
- Explore a huge interconnected world gated with true Metroidvania progression.
- Fast and responsive combat, play as an acrobatic mushroom!
- A spell system based on how you strike spells with your sword, giving spells multiple uses and a creative approach to combat.
- Unique and challenging platforming gameplay reminiscent of modern platformers such as Celeste but set in a fully open world. *optional*
- Play the game how you want! Pick between four difficulty modes or use the accessible Assist Mode!
The Combat in Lone Fungus is simplistic but has depth in terms of customization. You can for instance parry anything that would normally would damage you, but parrying incoming projectiles in particular will shoot them back at foes. You are however never forced to parry and you can even change how the parry system works by equipping Emblems!
Emblems are items you will find all over the world. Equipping an Emblem might change how the parried projectile behaves, for instance, you can make it home into enemies but deal less damage. Or instead of bouncing a projectile off your cap you will do damage to anything near you. There is even a Vortex Emblem which destroys multiple projectiles around the player.
In addition to Emblems, there are Relics that work very similarly to the Charm system in Hollow Knight. Some change how your healing works and others increase your sword damage or give you additional protection. There are 60 Relics in the game and you choose what your strengths will be through the Relics. You can make some really specialized builds focusing on defense, healing, speed, melee attacking, or spell-casting!
And then there are permanent upgrades that you gain from fighting bosses, these are all from spells to new moves and types of attacks!
In Lone Fungus, you can challenge and defeat 33 bosses to acquire new abilities. My goal is to design engaging and equitable boss battles that can be won without sustaining any damage from the boss. To achieve this, I craft distinct attack patterns for each boss and provide clear cues before their strikes. Additionally, I limit the randomness of their attacks. My aim is to provide an enjoyable and stimulating experience where players can triumph over bosses by mastering their techniques.
Lone Fungus is essentially a precision platformer, but it doesn't compel you to undertake overly difficult platforming tasks in order to advance in the game. Instead, all the platforming challenges are confined to optional side rooms, allowing you to relish the game as a Metroidvania-style adventure game focused on combat and exploration, while still benefiting from the precise controls of a precision platformer. However, if you're inclined to master the game's hardcore mechanics, there are practice rooms available for you to refine your skills and take on the most daunting platforming challenges that the game has to offer.
The game features 4 difficulty modes, several ways to customize controls (like a dedicated down-attack button), and a full-featured Assist-Mode!
The Assist-Mode allows you to turn on 6 different features which will drastically make the game more accessible.
Platforming Pause - Increases the pauses between platforming mechanics like Mushmovers, giving you a larger room to react and breathe in between platforming sections.
Magic Platforms - Adds special platforms to some sections in the game to make them much easier.
Worldmap Hints - Will show items you have missed in rooms you have already visited.
Stronger Sword - Increases your sword's base damage, allowing you to beat bosses easier.
Infinite MP - Play without having to manage your Mindpoints, heal and cast spells as much as you want!
Invincibility - You cannot die!
Keep in mind that the Assist-Mode is not only for players that might think the game is too tough but it can also be used to just mess around and have fun with the game in your own way!
Exploration
There exist ten distinct areas for you to explore, each with its own unique set of enemies and obstacles. If you are willing to scour every nook and cranny in each area, you'll uncover plenty of secrets and receive well-deserved rewards. Through your exploration, you will earn significant upgrades in the form of Relics, Emblems, and upgrades to your Health or Mindpoints. These upgrades will undoubtedly be valuable to any player. To learn more about these upgrades, check out the combat section!
Features
- Explore a huge interconnected world gated with true Metroidvania progression.
- Fast and responsive combat, play as an acrobatic mushroom!
- A spell system based on how you strike spells with your sword, giving spells multiple uses and a creative approach to combat.
- Unique and challenging platforming gameplay reminiscent of modern platformers such as Celeste but set in a fully open world. *optional*
- Play the game how you want! Pick between four difficulty modes or use the accessible Assist Mode!
Combat
The Combat in Lone Fungus is simplistic but has depth in terms of customization. You can for instance parry anything that would normally would damage you, but parrying incoming projectiles in particular will shoot them back at foes. You are however never forced to parry and you can even change how the parry system works by equipping Emblems!
Emblems are items you will find all over the world. Equipping an Emblem might change how the parried projectile behaves, for instance, you can make it home into enemies but deal less damage. Or instead of bouncing a projectile off your cap you will do damage to anything near you. There is even a Vortex Emblem which destroys multiple projectiles around the player.
Upgrades and Build customizations
In addition to Emblems, there are Relics that work very similarly to the Charm system in Hollow Knight. Some change how your healing works and others increase your sword damage or give you additional protection. There are 60 Relics in the game and you choose what your strengths will be through the Relics. You can make some really specialized builds focusing on defense, healing, speed, melee attacking, or spell-casting!
And then there are permanent upgrades that you gain from fighting bosses, these are all from spells to new moves and types of attacks!
Bosses
In Lone Fungus, you can challenge and defeat 33 bosses to acquire new abilities. My goal is to design engaging and equitable boss battles that can be won without sustaining any damage from the boss. To achieve this, I craft distinct attack patterns for each boss and provide clear cues before their strikes. Additionally, I limit the randomness of their attacks. My aim is to provide an enjoyable and stimulating experience where players can triumph over bosses by mastering their techniques.
Platforming
Lone Fungus is essentially a precision platformer, but it doesn't compel you to undertake overly difficult platforming tasks in order to advance in the game. Instead, all the platforming challenges are confined to optional side rooms, allowing you to relish the game as a Metroidvania-style adventure game focused on combat and exploration, while still benefiting from the precise controls of a precision platformer. However, if you're inclined to master the game's hardcore mechanics, there are practice rooms available for you to refine your skills and take on the most daunting platforming challenges that the game has to offer.
Play the game how you want!
The game features 4 difficulty modes, several ways to customize controls (like a dedicated down-attack button), and a full-featured Assist-Mode!
The Assist-Mode allows you to turn on 6 different features which will drastically make the game more accessible.
Platforming Pause - Increases the pauses between platforming mechanics like Mushmovers, giving you a larger room to react and breathe in between platforming sections.
Magic Platforms - Adds special platforms to some sections in the game to make them much easier.
Worldmap Hints - Will show items you have missed in rooms you have already visited.
Stronger Sword - Increases your sword's base damage, allowing you to beat bosses easier.
Infinite MP - Play without having to manage your Mindpoints, heal and cast spells as much as you want!
Invincibility - You cannot die!
Keep in mind that the Assist-Mode is not only for players that might think the game is too tough but it can also be used to just mess around and have fun with the game in your own way!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This is a revier from an achievement hunter. I enjoy completing games and I enjoy seeing the blue and yellow ribbon that signifies on Steam that I have gotten every achievement in a game. So that said, I do not recommend Lone Fungus for people like me. I often see this game compared to Hollow Knight (as every metroidvania release since Hollow Knight) and Celeste. But what Lone Fungus does wrong compared to these two games is very simple: Lone Fungus is not that great of a platformer. There are a lot of platforming challenges in this game and a bunch of them are fun. But those that aren't are REALLY not fun. This game has way too many abilities and yet maps some of them to the same buttons in a way that makes you have to mash your whole controller on the more challenging platforming segments. I think this game has a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes a platforming fun; it's not challenge, it's not how many movement abilities you have, it's not how fast you can go with said abilities. Rather, it's simply "is it rewarding?". And in the case of Lone Fungus, that answer is no. Also the combat in this game sucks ass the bosses are incredibly boring and take way too long to be def…3 found this helpful
Skill-gate is real. I cannot finish this game. It was a fun 98% or so ride.1 found this helpful
i really like this game but eventually i got bored of it. I think it just overstays its welcome. My favorite parts are the platforming sections. Very tight and rewarding to master, and there are so many. The boss fights are decent. Where the game falls short is the metroidvania aspect of it. The map is just so big and i found myself lost often. That might not be so bad for some people but i think the game would have benefited by being just a little tighter in its content and length. I will keep playing for the platforming challanges1 found this helpful
Honestly my biggest pain points are 'there is too much to do and the map is too big,' which I think is salvation by faint complaints. It also has unforgivable gameplay challenges with no way to 'technically' achieve them without pure skill, which is something a non-hardcore gamer like me is just forced to learn to live with. But I appreciate this dedication to the vision; it gives me a reason to come back and try again every few years.
Hollowmush.
This game is TERRIBLE! I redeemed this from a steam key, TWENTY TIMES! I open the game, and it's straight ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! It's a copy of hollownight, and it's also STRAIGHT ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! Terrible game, play at your own risk. Installed furry porn on my computer.
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