Roxanne The Forgotten Path
Steven Meza · 2025 · Adventure, Action, Metroidvania, Platformer, Action-Adventure
PC
2 user reviews50% · 2
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About Roxanne The Forgotten Path
Roxanne: The Forgotten Path is a 2D adventure and platformer game with a metroidvania essence, immersing players in a vibrant, mysterious, and challenging underground world. You play as Max, an ethereal soul who awakens in dark caves with no memories, holding onto only one name in mind: Roxanne.As you explore various biomes, you'll face enemies, unlock special abilities, and solve challenges while uncovering fragments of your past. Max can transform into water to slip through cracks, harness the Essence of Aether to attack and activate portals, along with other abilities that enhance mobility and combat.Visually, the game blends dark environments with magical lighting, particle effects, and a semi-realistic aesthetic that amplifies the sense of mystery and magic. The narrative unfolds progressively through echoes of the past, encounters with NPCs, and exploration of a world filled with secrets.Meet Roxanne: The Forgotten Path — a 2D metroidvania indie adventure wrapped in vibrant tones and professional, multi-palette art that shifts with each level.
- ⚙️ Upgraded physics: traps fire energy objects that remain dangerous even on the ground, plus simulated knockback/ricochets when you’re hit for extra weight and realism.
- 🧠 Adaptive enemies that react to and learn from your movement.
- 🌀 Unique abilities that evolve with weekly patches.
- 🌍 Biomes & unique runs: same stages, but every playthrough feels different—anything can happen.
- 🎯 Player-driven difficulty: your decisions shape the challenge; collectibles and chests amplify your build/progression.
- 💻 Available on PC now, with plans for more platforms.
- ✅ Please check compatibility on our Steam page; the game will keep evolving.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players appreciate the game's intriguing premise and platforming challenge, but are held back by significant technical issues and incomplete localization that make it difficult to enjoy. The game suffers from poor English translation with mixed languages, unclear dialogue, and various bugs that render it nearly unplayable in its current state, leading players to request refunds despite interest in the core concept.
Platforming adventure that thrives on punishing difficulty, throwing nearly unfair enemies at you while denying the tools needed to fight back. You begin the adventure as a blue humanoid creature born from a single drop of water. You have no idea what is happening, and the only thing you can remember is a name. Fortunately, someone nearby explains that your purpose is to close cracks and grants you the power to do so. The English translation is mostly present, but not complete. Small parts of text remain in the original language, which does not stop you from playing but does create an inconsistent experience. It is distracting to see sentences without proofreading and different languages mixed together. Dialogue is also very hard to follow, which makes the story nearly impossible to understand, so I eventually ignored it altogether. The gameplay follows the familiar style of an action platformer. At the start you only have a basic jump and a water droplet attack, but as you explore, you gain new abilities. The first upgrades you discover are a wall jump, which lets you climb any surface without restriction, and a map. The map reveals only areas you have physically visited, so y…2 found this helpful
Game is promising but for now it in very bad technical state. Impossible to play as for me, so I needed to request a refund :( The developers should do some kind of demo or early access and gather feedback before making a full release...1 found this helpful
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