
The classic 2D action platformer BioMenace returns with enhanced graphics and refined gameplay. Fight your way through a city ravaged by dangerous mutants, rescue hostages, find secrets and rack up points. Locate the secret lab behind this attack and prevent Dr. Mangle from taking over the world!
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BioMenace is back! Experience the classic 2D run & gun action platformer by solo developer James Norwood - originally released for MS-DOS in 1993 via Apogee Software - now with enhanced graphics, refined gameplay, and many quality of life improvements.
Explore the original 3 episodes (36+ levels) plus a brand new 4th episode (15+ levels), spanning a range of diverse environments including cities, forests, underground caves, and secret high-tech labs. Rescue hostages and encounter a variety of dangerous enemies and hazards, putting your fighting and platforming skills to the test. Find grenades and special weapons to gain an advantage. Battle it out with 9 unique bosses, find and collect all the score items and discover well-hidden secrets - including various secret levels! Unlock all the achievements, compete for the highest score or best time on the game's leaderboards, discover a growing collection of user-made levels and create your own levels using the built-in editor!

Snake Logan is a top-secret operative for the CIA ordered to complete missions that others would regard as suicidal. One day, Snake is called into headquarters and briefed on a situation that has arisen in Metro City.
It seems that thousands of monster-like creatures are on a rampage of destruction through the city. Many thousands have already died, and Metro has declared martial law just before losing all communications. Right before the city was overrun, authorities received a message from a man calling himself Dr. Mangle. He stated that Metro is to be an example of what will happen to the rest of the world unless all factions of government comply with his wishes.
Snake is ordered to take a plane, fly recon over the city and then return. While circling over the area, he is suddenly attacked by some kind of laser weapon, and the plane loses engine power! He's forced to make an emergency landing and explore the ravaged city on foot. It's now up to Snake - and you! - to save any survivors, find the source of this destruction, and stop Dr. Mangle.

Enhanced graphics including widescreen support, smooth scrolling & movement (60 FPS or higher), and parallax scrolling backgrounds
Modernized HUD & UI
Switch between original and remastered graphics at any time
Controller support
Full Steam Deck support
Rebalanced difficulty
Improved collision detection (now per-pixel accurate)
Gameplay tweaks and new mechanics, including weapon/grenade type switching and infinite lives, a kill streak system, and more
Mid-level saves and quick saving
Completion and stats tracking
Steam Achievements & Leaderboards
Online user level browser (based on mod.io)
Built-in level editor including mod.io upload feature
Includes original Bobby Prince soundtrack - plus brand new AdLib music

More action - more danger - more Snake Logan! We created a brand new episode for this remastered version, packed with exciting new environments, new music, fresh challenges, deadly enemies, and explosive twists. Get ready to dive ever deeper into the world of BioMenace — the fight is far from over!
Episode 4 is called "Menace from Above" and features:
15 regular levels plus multiple secret levels, including new environments not seen in the original
A ton of brand new artwork
13 brand new music tracks
2 completely new boss fights
Several new game mechanics, including two that were cut from the original game before release
New NPCs to talk to
A new storyline set a few years after the original
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Languages: English
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Another remake of a classic DOS game from Appogee. BIO-Menace. I remember when I was kid when I found the shareware episode and thought “Hey, this has the same menu as Commander Keen 4”. Yeah, that was my core memory of this game from my childhood, my first experience to games using the same engine. But why would anyone buy this remaster if the game is freeware. 1: A new episode with some bonus levels. 2: A level editor to make your own levels. 3: Customisable UI and the option for the old graphics is always welcome . And 4: some major quality of life improvements. Speaking of those QOL improvements, they are pretty basic but they make the game more enjoyable. Unlimited lives. More health in normal mode. Some dead ends no longer being dead ends. But the most notable is being able to change your ammo and grenades. This alone improves the game since in the original, you can only use the strongest bullets and grenades til they run out. Now how was that a problem? The strongest grenades are landmines and they are more situational than the other grenades. Of course not everything was improved with the snake still having annoying projectiles or those electric ball shooters still shoot at random directions. And that’s about it. Not much to say about gameplay. Just explore levels looking for keys til you reach the end, kind of like Commander Keen only more shooting and some switch puzzles that the new episode is aware stopped appearing after episode 2. Speaking of episode 4, not much was added besides the well made levels. Just some new key types, two new bosses and used the bees from an Episode 2 trap into a normal enemy. Oh and a low gravity level I do want to talk about the odd tone this game has. At the start of Episode 1 had an opening level with several dead bodies lying in the streets. And the enemies are cute little purple slug things and green Barneys with mohawks. Then the next level has this oddly upbeat tune while you fight fire demons and the level after is a park and the OST for that is f-ing menacing. And while that’s just as an adult overthinking some minor detail that doesn’t matter and that was all over games of that time. Can I at least say how out of place Skullman was. Like all the enemies and bosses are these mutated animals and robots and then in the middle of episode 1, this giant blue demon who appears to collect bones shows up and dies with no explanation besides some graffiti. Still I’m just nitpicking at this point. This is a well made remaster and if you never played Biomenace before, play this version. 8/10
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