Ravva and the Phantom Library
Galope Studios · 2023 · Action, Adventure, Platformer, Shooter, 2D Platformer
PC
Positive100% · 19
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About Ravva and the Phantom Library
Escape this nightmare!
Ravva and the Phantom Library is a pixel-art platformer adventure where you play as a young summoner! Armed with powerful companions who hold special powers, your goal is to escape the Phantom Library by exploring the worlds within those haunted books!
Our hero, Ravva, is a little owl who can do a special kind of magic: summoning. Four companions are available on the journey, each one with a specific power. Blue, the water drop, is capable of freezing and destroying hazards on the way. Yellow, the one who sees all, can reveal invisible secrets all across the stages. Green, the explosive head, says it all! Their power blows away every enemy in a radius. And last, Red, the horned minion, can shoot blades upwards, allowing Ravva to hit targets beyond their reach.
The Phantom Library is a building lost in time, wandering the world in search of something. On their shelves, are books that tell fantastic tales never seen before. Some of them go even further by transporting Ravva inside fantasy worlds! They are heavily haunted, so danger lurks in every corner of each of these book worlds our hero will face. They must defeat the master of every book before facing the true master of the library!
The game includes 7 fully playable stages, each one with unique mechanics and bosses who will challenge the player. At the start of a new game, it is possible to choose between 3 difficulties: Easy, Normal and Master. The first is easier by having more health available, enemies dealing less damage and the main weapon's power-up is never lost upon hit. The Normal difficulty is the regular adventure with balanced encounters and challenges. The Master difficulty is for hardcore players who want to be strongly challenged, it has no checkpoints and no health items. Falling during a boss fight will take you back to the beginning!
The stages can be accessed in any order and be repeated if the players wish to. In each stage, you have the option to complete it beyond defeating the final boss. These little tasks consist in getting all coins, finding all the secrets, revealing and destroying all fake blocks and defeating all enemies. Those are not only interesting for completionists players, but it also reveals a secret ending if all stages are 100% completed.
The game is speed-running friendly! Players can activate the "Speedrunning mode"! It will automatically skip all cutscenes and will place a timer for the player.
Ravva and the Phantom Library is a pixel-art platformer adventure where you play as a young summoner! Armed with powerful companions who hold special powers, your goal is to escape the Phantom Library by exploring the worlds within those haunted books!
Story
Our hero, Ravva, is a little owl who can do a special kind of magic: summoning. Four companions are available on the journey, each one with a specific power. Blue, the water drop, is capable of freezing and destroying hazards on the way. Yellow, the one who sees all, can reveal invisible secrets all across the stages. Green, the explosive head, says it all! Their power blows away every enemy in a radius. And last, Red, the horned minion, can shoot blades upwards, allowing Ravva to hit targets beyond their reach.
The Phantom Library is a building lost in time, wandering the world in search of something. On their shelves, are books that tell fantastic tales never seen before. Some of them go even further by transporting Ravva inside fantasy worlds! They are heavily haunted, so danger lurks in every corner of each of these book worlds our hero will face. They must defeat the master of every book before facing the true master of the library!
Features
The game includes 7 fully playable stages, each one with unique mechanics and bosses who will challenge the player. At the start of a new game, it is possible to choose between 3 difficulties: Easy, Normal and Master. The first is easier by having more health available, enemies dealing less damage and the main weapon's power-up is never lost upon hit. The Normal difficulty is the regular adventure with balanced encounters and challenges. The Master difficulty is for hardcore players who want to be strongly challenged, it has no checkpoints and no health items. Falling during a boss fight will take you back to the beginning!
The stages can be accessed in any order and be repeated if the players wish to. In each stage, you have the option to complete it beyond defeating the final boss. These little tasks consist in getting all coins, finding all the secrets, revealing and destroying all fake blocks and defeating all enemies. Those are not only interesting for completionists players, but it also reveals a secret ending if all stages are 100% completed.
The game is speed-running friendly! Players can activate the "Speedrunning mode"! It will automatically skip all cutscenes and will place a timer for the player.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game as a charming, polished retro platformer with colorful 8-bit art, solid music, and responsive controls that works particularly well on handheld devices like the Steam Deck. The main criticisms center on the game feeling too short and insubstantial compared to its potential, with minor frustrations like tedious summon cycling and some control scheme compatibility issues, though most agree it's a pleasant, well-executed experience that doesn't overstay its welcome.
[h1]A pleasant little hoot[/h1] This and Ravva 1 (Cyclops Curse) are perfectly fine little afternoon distractions that feel a little held back by...I don't want to say a lack of ambition, but I feel like they could be just a little more than they are, even given how Galope Studios is just a 2 person team. They're short in a way that leaves you wanting more - almost too much so, and you can see the potential that's there if they just leaned into it. Unfortunately, it just doesn't seem like there's enough there to set it apart from other 'retro revivals' to give it enough attention and love to afford that? The games are fun, simple, short and sweet and don't last long enough to feel repetitive or make their problems feel worse than they are. The music is solid, the NES-styled art is colorful, contrasts well and is and charming, and I like that each of the different familiars sorta have their own little personality, even if it's subtle. I think it'd be worth leaning into that more in the future - you have decently cute character designs, lean into that and maybe even give them dialogue. The main problem with Ravva as a series so far is arguably the yellow bat familiar and what it do…3 found this helpful
Sweet little game!!2 found this helpful
Very cute and fun game. It’s a nice, compact game with good art and a lot of polish. I had a lot of fun doing all the challenges and getting all the achievements (though I still can't find that programmer with the cats...) I do have a couple criticisms though: 1. Playing on the steam deck feels great, the style of game works really well (plus the art looks great on an OLED screen). But the default control scheme isn’t compatible with that config window that shows up before you start the game and I had to rejig my settings a bit to hit “play” 2. Cycling through the summons can be a little tedious. I’m not sure how you would fix this and retain the retro feel though, but I wouldn’t mind if there were button shortcuts or a radial menu or something. 3. The music is well-written (I noticed the main motif in all the songs!! I see you!!) but the instrumentation got repetitive. Though that might just be me. Other than that, it’s a great time and I appreciate the dev is turning it into a series with frequent entries. Definitely looking forward to the next one2 found this helpful
Good & colorful 8-bit style platformer. The difficulty level is not too high, making this a nice entry level retro game.1 found this helpful
Everything had an amazing improvement since the first Ravva game. This is a very solid game with nice visuals and responsive gameplay. We need more games like these.1 found this helpful
Very cute and fun 2D platformer. Has some collectible aspects and a speedrun mode, but I haven't tried that one yet. Good choice for a few hours of fun.1 found this helpful
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