Underplayed Gems

The Waste Land (2014)

The Waste Land cover
Developer
Fledermaus
Publisher
Digital Tribe
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Rating
2.6 of 5, 103 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 3.7 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

A somber and hostile 8-bit world where a fallen king fights to survive and atone for his mistakes.

despairinglost innocencehostileretrochallengingatmospheric8-bitexploration

What players say

Players agree the world is huge but empty, with boring enemies and a soundtrack of 30-second loops. Controls cannot be remapped and there is no way to exit the game properly. The game was abandoned by its developers, leaving boss fights broken.

Screenshots

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