Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress

Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress

Bluish-Green Productions · 2016 · Metroidvania, 2D Platformer, Platformer, Robots, 2D

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5 user reviews60% · 5 📈 Making a comeback 83%
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About Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress

Robo’s World: The Zarnok Fortress is a Free Roaming Tactical Action Platformer. Take on the vast, interconnected Fortress, and battle an ever learning foe who seeks to repair each zone you sabotage. Can you master your abilities to put an end to the dark reign of the Zarnok once and for all?

Key Features

  • Explore a colorful 2D interconnected world with 8 distinct zones, each with a unique set of obstacles, composed of 50+ levels
  • Hack the ship's systems to cause havoc and take hazards offline
  • Race against time: When you are faced with a planet ravaging force of evil, managing time is important: use your map, plot your course, sabotage!
  • Master the alternate paths present in every level to stop the Fortress faster than anyone else!
  • Navigate the Digital Environment, a game-within-a-game where the clock is stopped, but you’re in an extra vulnerable state as you Fast-Travel around the Fortress
  • Consistent challenge presented by an adaptive AI. Use the Digital Environment to scramble their data bytes Pac-Man style
  • Face off against six distinct classes of enemy robots each presenting a unique combat challenge from swarming Sentries to the brutal Elites
  • Sneak past enemies to get the drop on them or be prepared to blast your way through hordes of reinforcements
  • Uncover the mysterious origin of the Zarnok by accessing Lore Terminals hidden throughout the Fortress!
  • Rock out to fast paced retro melodies that you’ll want to listen to long after the game is over
  • Play the way you want to with fully customizable controls and 5 different difficulty settings to choose from
  • Challenge yourself to get all 25 Steam Achievements and experience all new ways to play

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Jun 11, 2019
I just cannot recommend this game. 1) You can only shoot horizontally while your enemies can shoot at any angle they want. 2) The support robots are just annoying and not fun to fight. Depending on the environment you can get in a battle of attrition that you will lose, especially if there are two that revive each other with the drones blocking your shots. Yes I know one of the sabotages disable drones but that doesn't excuse it. 3) Enemies can have shields like you do that are on top of their normal health and only take one shield damage at a time. You can dash punch to destroy it all but you take contact damage so punching was practically suicide. Oh, and those shield/health drops? Enemies can take them. 4) Some of the level design just appears to force you to take damage. In fact one of the keys for the digital environment appears to force you to take a death since it is behind tiles that turn deadly after you move off of them so unless they turn back to normal after time you have to take a death. 5) Speaking of the digital environment it appeared to be pointless. Yes you can lower the AI level but you would have to grind to fight the increase even on normal difficulty. I tried …
6 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 27, 2016
I enjoy these types of retro platformer games. As you progress more into the ship, that is when the game gets even more better!
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 24, 2018
The game has good ideas but as far as gameplay I lost interest very fast. The different zones are all the same just with different colors. Everything sort of blends together so sometimes it's hard to tell what is platform and what is just background. The game is difficult which is nice but I didn't feel any kind of accomplishment or statisfaction when I finally completed a difficult area. maybe it's just not the game for me
2 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 21, 2026
Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress is a genuinely fun action platformer that nails the fundamentals — tight controls, satisfying combat, and a clever sabotage system that lets you strategically disable parts of the fortress to open up new paths. The AI accumulation mechanic keeps things tense as enemies become more threatening over time, and the interconnected map does a great job making the ship feel like a real living world. It can get frustrating dying and restarting a room from scratch, and the keyboard controls need some tweaking to feel comfortable, but with a controller it plays smoothly. If you're a fan of Mega Man-style platformers with a metroidvania twist, this one is absolutely worth picking up.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 28, 2018
Robo's World: The Zarnok Fortress is yet another low quality retro pixel platformer infesting Steam. In this one, you play a robot or something, but it's hard to tell because the controls don't work properly. I couldn't even use the menu to see if I could get fullscreen going. Could it be because I had a HOTAS plugged in and it assumed it was a gamepad? Irrelevant, because that kind of laziness from the developers isn't acceptable. If you can't get the basics right, you don't get a thumbs up in your reviews.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 2, 2017
I was confused and appalled 70% of the time whilst playing this game. 15% of the time I was excited when I learned that I could bombie on top of everything, and the other 15% of the time I was angry because I had to cop the tip(s). Definitely not worth 10 bucks, would rather play Bob was Hungry (Chief was Hungry). Interesting story, 5/10, P's get degrees

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