THE GOOD OLD DAYS
ヨコゴシステムズ · 2025 · Metroidvania, Action-Adventure, Pixel Graphics, Nostalgia, Adventure
PC
Very Positive86% · 59
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About THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Story
Set in the rural town of Arostia in the year 19XX,young Sean and his friends Foodie, Bruce, and Doc form a hopeful gang called The Noogies, dreaming of going on a real adventure.One day, Sean returns home to find a loan shark demanding repayment of his missing father's debt—by the end of the day.
Worse yet, his friends are trapped deep underground.Instead of despairing, Sean sees it as a chance to prove himself.
But can this country boy truly rise to the challenge—rescuing his friends and repaying an impossible debt?
The days we can't get back shine the brightest
An exploration-based Metroidvania infused with a blend of the newest in game development technological innovation both mechanically and graphically, pushing the boundaries of what makes a pixel art game.A marriage of retro nostalgia and inventiveness, envisioned with warm and expressive lovingly crafted pixellated visuals.
Traverse The Good Old Days through the shoes of a unique roster of 16-bit style characters, hand crafted by skilled and passionate veterans of the industry.
Metroidvania with a blend of 80's young adult fiction and classic retroism.
In a nutshell, The Good Old Days pays homage to the general nostalgia of teenage youth, the times that were and what could have been.
Throughout your adventure across the play space, you may encounter easter eggs and references that strike a chord scattered and hidden across the game world.
Reminisce about the dreams of adventure from those days gone by throughout your playthrough with this gripping, multi-faceted story!
Gameplay
The ultimate focus is on exploration; get that money and clear your debts!This game is not necessarily about standing up and fighting against an overbearing evil per se.
Paramount above all else, the real aim is to clear the debt left by Sean's father within the time limit through exploration, navigating through at your own pace with the decision to enter conflict entirely up to the player.
Many ways to play and beat the game
Nab the money dispersed in secretive locations from place to place.
Run the gauntlet and complete difficult a\Complete side quests which hold a bearing on the final outcome of the game.
Win the lottery!
Become a gambling afficionado!
Indulge in a riveting selection of minigames!
Defeat the malign gang of nefarious individuals vying for your downfall.
And more!
Experiment with different routes and methods for obtaining capital, and at all costs make sure that money has been returned before that time runs out!
Characters with distinct personality and individuality along with diverse and dynamic quests.
Take charge of a unique roster of 4 playable charactes, and face the trials and tribulations ahead within the different areas and quests.
Each party member has their own distinct ability, which affect both movement and interaction as well as quest lines themselves!
Through deftly utilising and switching between the skillsets each character brings to the table, explore Arosteria to its fullest extent without restraint!
What is more, expect an intriguing and rich array of charismatic residents within the world throughout your journey.
These denizens possess their own personal quests and agendas, which dynamically branch off.
New and exciting developments await with each individual playthrough!
Endings which are dynamically affected via multiple playthroughs
The ending story gradually unravels with each seccessful completion of the main game.
Clearing the game time and time again will gradually reveal the continuation of the ending.
Through multiple full playthroughs your choices as the player will have an impact on which ending ultimately befalls our heroes.
What future is in store for this brave band of adventures is up to you and your decisions spanning the game.
Unlock all of the various endings with outcomes ranging between multiple separate and distinct thematic conclusions.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's atmospheric pixel art, clever debt-repayment premise that adds urgency to exploration, and the rewarding loop of discovering hidden passages and multiple money-earning methods that encourage replayability. However, common complaints center on stiff, clunky controls that make precision platforming frustrating, cumbersome character-switching mechanics, and repetitive door-opening sequences, with some finding the core experience too short given its price point.
[後半に日本語レビューあり] [h1] A money-making metroidvania with a debt-repayment deadline [/h1] The boys' adventure looks like a classic exploration game, drawn in atmospheric retro-style pixel art... but at its core, there is a factor of "repaying a specified amount of money by the deadline." Alongside the fun of gaining access to new areas through new characters/actions, the priority of money-making and risk management under the time limit (a system where time passes when you make mistakes) are always present, and the meaning of exploration/detours becomes directly tied not only to "collecting" but also to "earning." There are surprisingly many ways to earn money: things hidden throughout the dungeon, trials, event rewards, plus gambling and mini-games. Rather than simply defeating enemies and moving forward, judgments like "this route is time-efficient" or "this detour has a high expected value for money-making" become part of the fun. Overcoming exploration gimmicks is tied to the unique actions of each of the four boys, and the feel of switching characters to "solve" the terrain is properly there. Furthermore, this game has a structure built around repeated runs: the more you clear it,…14 found this helpful
Game is very clunky. -Jumping up into the side of a platform cancels all your horizonal movement making you incapable of landing on top, most of the time. -There is a lot of character switching to access various abilities, which doesn't feel as fluid as I would hope. -Feels like much of a play-thru is spent waiting for a dropped bomb to blow up the hundreds of doors. -Bosses are often menacing due to their speed and contact damage being much more dangerous than your clunky movement and options to hit them being either timed or short range or only vertical (though sometimes they can be defeated easily due to glitching out and hitting themselves multiple times running into your rolling bombs). -I've not all that rarely had problems where I can suddenly do no damage to enemies and had to restart the game. -The way the game is played with multiple run throughs to get the full experience also compounds these issues. -Any NPC interaction that takes multiple tries requires a bunch of dialog, thankfully there is a speedup button. -The "metroidvania" aspect is fairly soft. Various ways to unlock access to other areas come in the form of either collecting your friends or getting gear th…4 found this helpful
A fun game, with the only minus being the unfortunately stiff controls that make any precision movement a chore.2 found this helpful
It's a Metroidvania that encourages replayability and gets deeper the more you do, and it also plays like a dream.2 found this helpful
You run around collecting money to pay a debt. Finding secret passages is a big thing in this game - a secret passage leads into another secret passage, and before you know it, you are 5 secret passages deep. This game reminds me of "The Adams Family" for the NES - money was hidden in every corner of the stage. The sprite work is really good. Controls are clunky. I completed the game once in about 2 hours. Then the game invites you to do it again, but better. Except that you have to collect all the initial money and open the initial doors again. The first loop was fun, and worth the price of admission, but I guess I'll pass on 100% on this one.
Nice little retro platformer but way too short for the price.
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