OUTBUDDIES DX
Julian Laufer · 2019 · Indie, Metroidvania, Action, Adventure, Platformer
PC
Mostly Positive70% · 19766Metacritic
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About OUTBUDDIES DX
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Enter Bahlam, a sunken city of the Old Gods, located deep in the South Atlantic Ocean. Following a shipwreck, adventurer and maritime archaeologist Nikolay Bernstein regains consciousness 36.000 feet under the sea. He's severely wounded and unwillingly connected to a supernatural Buddy-unit. Searching for answers about his displacement our main protagonist digs deep into the lost undercity, gradually realizing an ominous presence hollowing in its shadowed caverns.
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On your journey home you will share your fate with a friendly tribe of mining creatures, the Wozan, who fear the Old Gods and strive to get back to the surface since their ancestors had been enslaved 5000 years ago. Some of them were able to flee and founded secret colonies deep inside the sunken ruins, others are still exploited by the hostile creatures that have overtaken the city since the Old Gods suddenly disappeared.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/steam_tortune_enemy.gif
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Experience real non-linear Metroidvania gameplay and uncover five distinct areas, all with remarkable puzzles, environmental hazards, epic boss encounters and captured Wozan to uncage. Your Buddy unit will procedurally map the area and function as a handy quality of life tool that can be controlled at will to manipulate your surroundings using various abilities like hacking, scanning, and telekinesis.
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Explore Bahlam with high freedom of movement like climbing, crawling and diving right from the start. As you progress your set of options will expand by discovering ancient weapon systems, suit upgrades and hacking protocols for your droid. All gear will be carefully balanced in terms of combat abilities and has to be used selectively to overcome specific hazards and puzzles.
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The local Co-Op option invites a second player to explore and experience this adventure together by taking control over the invincible Buddy unit. Support each other on your journey home, solve puzzles and overcome Bahlam's hostile maze. This will also provide an opportunity for team-speedrunning as a very unique take on the scene.
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Outbuddies DX is a humble budget project but that does not mean it will run poorly or lack the quality of life features. All pixel art will scale crisp and free of distortion artifacts to your native screen resolution. The game runs at 60 FPS. A hybrid physics engine ensures realistic accelerations and object movements while maintaining the pixel perfect control of the old classics. Enemy and boss AIs are carefully crafted and will kick your ass in a Souls-like manner! Outbuddies DX also supports various mappable devices like keyboard, mouse and multiple gamepads to ensure you´re able to play with your preferred setup. We listen to feedback, so shoot us a mail anytime!
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/steam_wozan_prison.gif
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_key_features.png
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_description.png
Enter Bahlam, a sunken city of the Old Gods, located deep in the South Atlantic Ocean. Following a shipwreck, adventurer and maritime archaeologist Nikolay Bernstein regains consciousness 36.000 feet under the sea. He's severely wounded and unwillingly connected to a supernatural Buddy-unit. Searching for answers about his displacement our main protagonist digs deep into the lost undercity, gradually realizing an ominous presence hollowing in its shadowed caverns.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_meet_the_wozan.png
On your journey home you will share your fate with a friendly tribe of mining creatures, the Wozan, who fear the Old Gods and strive to get back to the surface since their ancestors had been enslaved 5000 years ago. Some of them were able to flee and founded secret colonies deep inside the sunken ruins, others are still exploited by the hostile creatures that have overtaken the city since the Old Gods suddenly disappeared.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/steam_tortune_enemy.gif
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_open_world.png
Experience real non-linear Metroidvania gameplay and uncover five distinct areas, all with remarkable puzzles, environmental hazards, epic boss encounters and captured Wozan to uncage. Your Buddy unit will procedurally map the area and function as a handy quality of life tool that can be controlled at will to manipulate your surroundings using various abilities like hacking, scanning, and telekinesis.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_mech_skill.png
Explore Bahlam with high freedom of movement like climbing, crawling and diving right from the start. As you progress your set of options will expand by discovering ancient weapon systems, suit upgrades and hacking protocols for your droid. All gear will be carefully balanced in terms of combat abilities and has to be used selectively to overcome specific hazards and puzzles.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/steam_boss_moxan.gif
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_local_coop.png
The local Co-Op option invites a second player to explore and experience this adventure together by taking control over the invincible Buddy unit. Support each other on your journey home, solve puzzles and overcome Bahlam's hostile maze. This will also provide an opportunity for team-speedrunning as a very unique take on the scene.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_qa_standards.png
Outbuddies DX is a humble budget project but that does not mean it will run poorly or lack the quality of life features. All pixel art will scale crisp and free of distortion artifacts to your native screen resolution. The game runs at 60 FPS. A hybrid physics engine ensures realistic accelerations and object movements while maintaining the pixel perfect control of the old classics. Enemy and boss AIs are carefully crafted and will kick your ass in a Souls-like manner! Outbuddies DX also supports various mappable devices like keyboard, mouse and multiple gamepads to ensure you´re able to play with your preferred setup. We listen to feedback, so shoot us a mail anytime!
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/steam_wozan_prison.gif
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1083310/extras/outbuddies_steam_key_features.png
- Explore an open vibrant fantasy world
- Real Metroidvania gameplay with lots of gear, puzzles and Easter eggs
- Unique dual-hero scheme with local Co-Op support
- Epic boss battles & believable enemy AIs
- Intriguing narrative and memorable characters
- High freedom of movement @ 60 FPS
- Handcrafted pixel art with distortion-free scaling to your native display resolution
- Support for various input devices & key rebinding
- Original soundtrack by OGRE music
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Controls are bizarre and not fun. Too many weird input combos for basic moves like a long jump. A number of keys are hard coded and can't be mapped to inputs, so the result is a very clunky and unergonomic control scheme.4 found this helpful
Although a bit slow to start, this became a very fun metrodvania. There is great enemy variety, clever bosses, and good progression. The envorinments are beautiful and interesting to traverse, especially later in the game once you unlock some excellent movement abilities. The weapons are fun to use as well - the missile launcher is kinda cracked, especially once you upgrade its capacity. Overall, I really enjoyed my time with Outbuddies and would highly recommend it.
This is a strange, clever and beautiful game. I am gravitating towards my problems with this game because of all the things it nails so well. Playing this game made me feel like an explorer in a curious, difficult world. A beautiful world that truly did inspire a sort of curiosity in me that I look for and often don't find in media. The world here feels massive and true in scale as if it really is an ecosystem of its own. The visual definitions of creatures, terrain, energy and such are beautiful and sensible. It all makes me want to sink my teeth into the place, makes me want to get lost in it all. The steam effects in the propulsion and jumps is also very nice. Its a special thing. I do wish the rooms were better connected. The worlds size is great, it feels incomprehensible in a nice and immersive way as much as it does in an incogerent interconnectivity sort of way too. If I could make sense of the layout easier and honestly if there were fewer boxy and narrow pathways I'd have liked it lots more. I also would have liked more weapon variety but its more of a personal thing.
idk y but i really like this little metroidvania
just beated its tough but its good specially for a 1$
if you want to sink your teeth into a metroid-like game thats oozing with atmosphere and cool mechanics then this great!
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