
Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world.
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This game is not for everyone.
Eternal Return strips away conventional comforts for a brutally uncompromising indie experience that challenges players with merciless mechanics, oppressive atmosphere, and fragmentary storytelling.
Begin with only 1 health and 1 stamina. Explore amid an ever-present sense of danger to build your health, stamina, and small arsenal of weapons.

Forget hack-and-slash. Here, combat is a slow, deliberate dance of stamina and strategy. Mastering Eternal Return's unconventional controls demands precision - and button mashing guarantees death.
Players wield 3 primary and 3 secondary weapons, each with distinct advantages.
Swinging a greatsword is not instant, and misjudging an attack leaves you vulnerable. No air controls creates grounded, tactical engagements, where positioning and timing determine life or death.

Looping level design means that progress is never straightforward. Players have only one central checkpoint - progress by discovering shortcuts, keys to unlock doors, and an in-world fast-travel network.
Speak to nine tormented NPCs and decipher cryptic messages scrawled on scrolls throughout the castle. Players must find clues in their environment and read between the lines to find their path forward.

Defeat foes to gain points: Spend points to use crucial ranged weapons.
Risk & Reward: When you die, return to your corpse to recover points—or abandon them.
Includes: 20 levels. 13 bosses. 50+ enemy types - not mere foes but reflections of past sins
Secrets & Madness: Hidden areas and challenges even for the most hardened players.
Phonograph Records: Discover scattered discs to unveil the game’s soundtracks.
Glitches: hard drives lost when the developer became homeless means fractures remain in this world.
64-Color Aesthetic: A grim palette of decay, evoking the fading light of a dying world.
Countless Barrels and Jars to smash.
Philosophy!
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 36 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Ignore the downvoters, this is excellent. Just don't expect to have your hand held all the way through. A sort of "Dark Souls, but 2D", with all the banging-your-head-against-a-brick-wall-over-that-one-boss that implies. Controller support would be good, mind.
Controls are so poor that it's unplayable.
beat it [spoiler]ending sucked[/spoiler] the rest of it was cool buy it if you like games that make you upset but also happy at the same time
playing this game gives me conniptions
I can forgive the graphics but not the controls, what a waste of money. Hit the attack button 3 seconds later it'll do something. I love metroidvanian games, they are my favorite.
Me está encantando, al principio el tema de la jugabílidad podría echar a muchos para atrás, pero en cuanto te acostumbras al sistema, empiezas a descubrir la historia y te dejas llevar por la belleza gráfica y musical, empezarás a engancharte como en los juegos de antaño... dícese de juegos de Nes o GameBoy tales como "Dr Franken o Castlevania" Lo recomiendo, sí, pero siempre teniendo en cuenta que es un juego para tener paciencia y sobre todo que te gusten los clásicos. Nota: 9
This is a good game! Despite of some gameplay problems, this game has a very very very good story and a nice atmosphere building, it would be interesting if another version was developed in more polishedly. The difficult gameplay is very chanllenging and I really enjoyed it. I would really like to contribute as a developer or at least in crowdfunding. My friend is making a video about this game! Will be released soon!
Stamina, and health power ups, Cool weapons, old school graphics. little trouble mapping the keys to my Xbox controller, no biggie I buckled down used keyboard. No bugs, great sound track. the game has a feel of Dark souls meets Castlevania it's great so far can't wait for the release!
Eternal Return is one of the worst games I have ever played its worse then Ian's eyes, worse than Eldritch Hunter, worse than Goodnight Butcher, hell I all most say it’s worse than Kio's Adventure. ♥♥♥♥ at least those games were playable. But this, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this. Now you see I like to beat the game first before I review it. But this game is so broken I sadly just can’t beat it. First is the Platforming it’s so broken, movement controls are very slippery. Your character is plagued with ice-level-physics at all times, Then there is the Jumping you don't have control in the air, it seems like the environment is designed to need at least a little air control due to platform spacing, but nope you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Then there is the fact that you start with nothing in the game. Now I know this is a dark souls/Metroidvania like game. But here is the thing as you go through games like them, you get stronger and get new powers. But in this game, Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. ALL THE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ NOPE. The only things you get are health you find or stamina, that’s about it. Combat is kind of dull too. But the worst thing about this game is, I can see it being fun, I really can, But in this state. No way in hell. If you want a fun dark souls/Metroidvania like game you can do so much better than this rip off.
Very retro, very hard. But most retro games are. Lots of spooky skeletons and evil knights to make life harder for you. The Dark Souls of the 2D World. https://youtu.be/wGhoKZQ7bY0
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