Underplayed Gems

Nakawak: Expanded Color Edition (2017)

Nakawak: Expanded Color Edition cover
Developer
Anxious Neck Games
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.8 of 5, 29 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 1.6 hours
Where to get it
Steam

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How it feels

a lonely skeleton explores a hostile interconnected underground world with deliberate, punishing retro platforming and a pervasive sense of dread.

retrodifficultatmosphericmetroidvaniaexplorationdarkminimalistlonelyaction-platforming

What players say

Players describe a very short Metroidvania that takes 1-2 hours and is a bargain at its low price. The controls are responsive, but the game plays like the original NES Metroid with large rooms and heavy backtracking. Some call the difficulty an illusion of patience rather than skill. Opinions are mixed on whether the forced back-and-forth traversal is enjoyable.

Screenshots

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