This game will crush you.

Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world. Eternal Return combines retro graphics and old-school mechanics with modern nonlinear level design and storytelling.

Survive to Explore

Slow pacing combined with tight yet unconvential controls builds stress, tension, and horror during gameplay, rather than taking a hack & slash approach. Players build their health, stamina, and arsenal up from nothing - and earn points by killing enemies to use special weapons to fight their way to the next shortcut.

Discover a Story

Speak to NPCs, find written messages, muse over paintings, and explore story-filled architecture to learn or infer the forgotten tales of the crumbling castle and its fading inhabitants - including yourself.

Features:

Starting with 1 health and 1 stamina to be built up by exploring for upgrades
Stamina management-combat
Unique controls for toe-to-toe combat
No Air controls! (How do they do that, anyway?)
Realistically-paced attacks for strategy rather than spamming
3 primary and 3 secondary weapons
Gathering points to use secondary weapons
Returning to your place of death to recover points
Looping level design around only one central checkpoint with unlockable in-universe fast travel for great immersion
Locked doors and optional secret areas
Hardcore areas with invisible enemies and other crazy challenges
Secret healing checkpoints to help further your exploration
9 NPCs with voice acting and subtitles
20 Levels
13 Bosses
50+ unique enemy types
Discover phonographs to find the game's soundtrack
64 colors!
Philosophy!
So many jars and barrels that need smashing.

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