
Hyper Team Recon is an adorable 3D platformer about three aliens and their adventure across Earth! Join Ember, Penny and Lite, three shapeshifting slimes, as they morph into friends and foes alike to copy their forms and gain new abilities! Explore, discover new life forms, and fill your scrapbook!
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Hyper Team Recon is an adorable 3D platformer about three aliens and their adventure across Earth! Three energetic alien slimes, Ember, Penny and Lite, are tasked to travel to Earth in order to learn more about the lifeforms inhabiting the planet, using their species' unique morphing abilities to disguise themselves as girls in order to keep a low profile!
But after their ship crashes after a non-specific captain falls asleep at the wheel - *cough* Ember *cough* - The trio get split up and stranded on Earth, leading them to each traverse through a variety of locations full of platforming, puzzles and combat, meeting a lively cast of friends and foes along the way!
On their journey, each of the girls will make friends with the people and creatures they find on Earth that they can trust! Friends who will be happy to tag along and help the girls re-unite, fix their ship, and complete their mission, as well as let them copy their forms to gain new abilities along the way! These abilities include a glide to cross large gaps, a pointy shell to keep hazards at bay, magic spells from a jellyfish, and more!
However, there will also be some people who won't be as hospitable for their alien guests, ranging from angry snails, evil turtle queens, and even undersea pop-stars! These enemies will stop at nothing to make life harder for the squishy slimes, but that won't stop them from simply morphing into their enemies and using their own moves against them in combat!
Tracking the slime's progress every step of the way is H.E.R.B, a helpful slime A.I who keeps up-to-date with what's happening on Earth, while using the foil collected to fill out his scrapbook, a special book to fill with foil to unlock goodies, like new outfits, bite-size challenge zones, extra cutscenes, and more!
The adventure doesn't stop there! Complete all 3 challenging sub-goals in a level to collect medals and unlock even more costumes, and unlock a secret ending that may or may not be there once you collect every single medal! (Or you might just get a slightly different jpeg at the end of the credits, we'll see)
Features:
Transform into anyone you meet - As shapeshifting alien slimes, morph into friends and foes alike to copy their forms and gain unique abilities!
Mechanics - From platforming, to puzzles, to combat, use the morphing mechanic to gain new abilities to help you in each of these fields!
Travel the world - As the slimes travel across the planet, jump, solve, and fight through various platforming challenges, puzzles and combat encounters in a variety of locations!
Collectables - Pick up foil scattered throughout the levels in order to fill out the scrapbook, as well as break open objects for even more foil! Be on the lookout for rarer collectables too, such as the 5 souvenirs hidden throughout each level!
Charming visuals - Cutesy paper inspired visuals during gameplay are paired up with expressive, animated anime models of the characters during visual novel-style cutscenes to add a further level of charm to the game's world and storytelling!
Lively cast - Meet all sorts of cute and colourful characters on your journey across Earth, from a soda-addicted teen to a jellyfish mage, all with their own forms and abilities to copy!
Unlockable extras - Complete optional goals or spend foil to fill out the scrapbook to unlock different outfits for the slimes, as well as special scenes to watch!
Replayability - Replay old levels and push your abilities to their limits to find hidden routes and collectables to clear optional objectives!
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Languages: English
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Funny and relaxing! The story is very silly and the characters are adorable. It is fun to run around and use the copy abilities! Had a great time getting 100% of the achievements!
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The game is fantastic! I had so much fun playing it,and each chapter left me with unique memories!That said,I'd love to see full-body artwork of more characters I also absolutely love Nicola's chase scene;the music is fantastic
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This really deserves more attention. I didn't even find this on a list of "renown indie games" or something, but rather as part of my effort to literally skim every game listing on Steam in desperation to find something that isn't a bad COD clone, a bad Hollow Knight clone, a bad Vampire Survivor clone, etc. Hyper Team Recon is probably the best game I've found by this method so far. I've seen people calling this an anime-themed Super Paper Mario, but I would add that it leans more into the cute/casual side compared to Super Paper Mario leaning more into epic/intense vibes despite its appearance, even though they're both easy games. Or perhaps you could call it Super Paper Mario but with an ability capture mechanic like Super Mario Odyssey. I almost didn't believe this came out in 2025, as it genuinely, and I mean genuinely, not in a corny nostalgic way, feels like something out of the 2010ish era of gaming. Games that literally feel like they're from a different time are hard to come by, so I would even recommend it based on that fact alone.
If you are an enjoyer of Paper mario, platformers, or a game that has awesome characters, this game is for you! I am writing this review just as I finished the game, and I gotta say, this game was beautiful! This game had an enjoyable story that was well written with awesome characters and jokes. I also liked that game had references to other forms of media. Gameplay wise, this game has simple graphics, easy to learn and is also easy in terms of difficulty. It took me 9 hours to beat the game. One thing tho, I want to warn that if you're in a chapter and decide to close the game or go to the main menu, you will lose all your progress in said chapter and have to start over again, well, thats what happend to me at least. It'd be cool to see some form of save points across the chapters or an auto save system. Another thing about the saves, if you decide to play the game on one device, say your pc, but then want to play it on your steam deck, the game will not transfer your save, so you are stuck on the device you started playing on. I started playing it on my Rog Alloy and wanted to play it on my PC but then realized that on my PC, it said New game and the continue button was darkened. Other than that, this game is enjoyable and do recommend it to anyone reading this review!
Hyper Team Recon is an absolute delight from beginning to end! The characters are charming and cute, the writing is silly and fun throughout, and the levels are varied and enjoyable. While not having lots of optional objectives or collectables, there's enough that you might end up doing some or all of the levels more than once to get everything, since a few of the collectables are quite hidden, and it only takes one mis-step to ruin the 'zero deaths' medal on a level by falling into a death pit. It can be a little annoying to have to mash through the mid-level text boxes on a repeat run (especially when you can one-button skip the main story dialogues) but it's not really enough to sour the experience for me, just a minor annoyance really. Would love to see more of these characters, and I'm eagerly hoping that best boy Scrungo can get his own solo title, as he absolutely deserves it!
WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP READING THIS REVIEW AND GO PLAY IT. It's simple, fun, and so full of love and passion that it'll make even the most frigid hearts warm like a nice hug.
I wasn't satisfied with my previous review so I'm writing a new one. Hyper Team Recon is a fun little game that cleary borrows from Paper Mario but still creates some quite interesting and fun gameplay elements. The story is silly dumb fun and the characters are super cute and funny. Game is not that long too, and I consider that a plus. The one thing that made me rant the last time is the lack of skippable dialog during the game. Thing is, you have some extra challenges on each stage that might require you to replay the stage. And the game being so dialog heavy as it is makes it replaying stages a very dragged out experience. One of the challenges is beating the stage without dying, and it hurts in my soul when I die at the last moment and have to repeat the stage, and rewatch all the scenes. Suire you can hold Start to make it faster but doesn't help much. Devs, please, I loved your game very much, and I'm excited to see a sequel, but you MUST add skippable dialog, not only during cutscenes, but ingame dialog too. Having to watch everything everytime makes the game way less fun than it could have been. Still, it gets a thumbs up from me, cause everything else is great.
Fun platformer with cute girls, what more can you ask for?
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