
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer. Uncover secrets, acquire powerful artifacts, and face challenging bosses in the Haunted Lands.
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Step into the blood-soaked Haunted Lands, a retro-inspired action platformer filled with hidden secrets and hardcore challenges. Choose from six unique characters, each fitting a different playstyle. Delve into perilous burial grounds crawling with evil spirits and nightmarish abominations. Acquire powerful artifacts to confront these horrors and find new ways to approach battles.
Haunted Lands is a solo-developed project by Alevgor, where every system, encounter, and detail is built by one developer.
Unique Heroes: Choose one of six playable characters. Some prefer to demolish monsters from a safe distance, while others excel in close combat. Each has their own abilities and playstyle.
Dangerous Locations: Explore the ruins of the old crypts and tombs filled with evil spirits and otherworldly monsters. Blast your way through hordes of enemies, their elite versions, and challenging bosses.
Powerful Artifacts: Acquire artifacts to enhance your abilities, offering new ways to confront the horrors of the burial grounds. The most powerful items can change your character's skills entirely.
Hardcore Challenges: Find every secret hidden in the Haunted Lands, complete every objective, and leave behind nothing but corpses. Dare you descend into the very abyss of hell and come back unscathed?

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English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil +3 more
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This is a fantastic retro action-platformer with several concessions to modern game design that make it feel even better (checkpoints, multiple characters with different playstyles, shortcuts, equipment, etc.). That being said, the game is still pretty difficult, and there's no easy or "Story" mode for less skilled players. If you aren't the type who is comfortable with memorizing all of a boss' attack patterns over multiple deaths just to beat them once, this game isn't going to be enjoyable for you.
Extrem schwer, aber mit der sehr präzisen Steuerung (in meinem Fall nur Tastatur, aber Controller werden unterstützt) gut machbar. Die Frustrationstoleranz welche einem abgenötigt wird, bis man die Mechaniken mal gemeistert hat, zahlt sich definitiv aus. Der Entwickler hat sich auch selbst übertroffen mit der Menge an Bombast, welche er aus der minimalistischen Farbpallette geholt hat. [h2] aber: [/h2] Man kann ein Level nicht an jedem Quicksave neu starten. Heißt: Man sollte genug Zeit mitbringen für eine Sitzung. Dass man zwischen zwei schwereren Abschnitten nicht das Spiel mal eben runterfahren kann stört gewaltig. Aus diesem Grund sollte man meine Spielzeit auch etwas kritisch sehen, da ich das Spiel während einer Spielpause auch einfach mal Hintergrund laufen ließ, um ein Level nicht vom letzten Checkpoint neu machen zu müssen. Trotz dieses großen Makels, kann ich das Spiel empfehlen, vorausgesetzt man hat hin und wieder genug Zeit am Stück. Für meine freien Tage, hat es mich aber super unterhalten.
Incredibly difficult, unforgiving. This isn't much of a problem in itself but the frustration, controls and upgrade system ruins it for me which is a shame because it is very true to its 8-bit inspiration. It just takes a little too much with its commitment to stiff controls, sudden deaths and love for arena fights. I had a brutal and nasty time with it but it clearly want to be this kind of frustratingly difficult so thumbs up for achieving that.
this game is evil (laudatory)
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