The Menace Below

The Menace Below

Patryk Piekarz · 2025 · Metroidvania, Side Scroller, Hack and Slash, 2D Platformer, Puzzle Platformer

PC
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About The Menace Below

A prisoner of war finds a way to escape his captors, only to fall into the far more dangerous clutches of horrible monstrosities.The Menace Below is a short, difficult, hand-drawn cinematic platformer with a dark, brooding soundtrack. You will control the prisoner as he escapes to freedom. This challange will be full of lethal traps and malevolent monsters - you will need cunning, adaptability and quick reflexes to survive.

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Dec 21, 2025
Best and only skaven evasion platformer in existence. 10/10, would get burned to a crisp by warp lightning a hundred times in a row while struggling with derpy controls again. Music is excellent. Good job dude, keep making games.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 23, 2025
oddworld oddysee, but warhammer took me ~3hrs to beat
4 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 9, 2026
It's not for me, but I respect the effort that went into this. Feels brutally difficult but not in an unfair way.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 8, 2026
controls are tough to get used to cause you're animation locked to every action including walking, but once you do get used to it its fun
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 5, 2026
How is this free?
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 7, 2026
I gave this game a recommended vote, while i shouldn't, becouse i lked it. It's a demanding old school cinematic platformer, with very nice atmosphere, nice graphics at the monsters, a few good puzzles and some quite challenging moments. The drawbacks are the lack of precision handling and being kinda clunky. Fixing those and with better animation would make the challenging moments more satisfying. BUT the main problem is it's almost broken at some battle moments. Some enemies are dissapearing while attacking (and my character too some times) so i had to hit with trial and error by guessing or by the sound. And while you can manage those moments this is happening also at the final(?) boss so i could never completed the game. Overall, i enjoyed most of my playtime, i appreciate the effort of the developer and i would encourage him to implement these ideas to a more polished and not free of charge sequel!

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