Spicy Dice StudiosDigiPen Institute of TechnologyMay 8, 2021Free to playView on Steam ↗

Metamorphos

Take on the role of the temple’s guardian, awakened to cleanse the temple from an evil force corrupting it. Fight and dodge your way through a series of corrupted denizens, wildlife, and guardians to confront Nafaset, the Defiler, and restore the blessed oases.

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13.5K

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469

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80%

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Metamorphos challenges players with fast-paced melee combat in this third-person, hack-and-slash, combat game inspired by Dark Souls. Awaken the legendary Guardian and hack, slash, and dash your way through a beautiful desert environment while fighting denizens, wildlife, and warriors corrupted by darkness. Make your way into the Temple of Amathani and confront Nafaset, the Defiler to restore the blessed oases.

Made by Spicy Dice Studios, a student team at DigiPen Institute of Technology, Metamorphos represents intense interdisciplinary collaboration from students pursuing art, audio, design, and programming degrees coming together to deliver a polished experience.

CHALLENGING ENEMIES - Fight your way through ever-increasing odds as you cleanse the environment and defeat corrupted foes. Square off against two unique bosses and remove the heart of the corruption.
FAST-PACED COMBAT - Test your mettle in action-packed encounters that will challenge your reflexes and decision-making.
EXPLORE BREATHTAKING ENVIRONMENTS - Venture through beautiful hand-crafted vistas and environments that were made from scratch by students at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
IMMERSIVE AUDIO - The creatures and atmosphere of Metamorphos exhibit both lush and scathing sound effects, sending the player through the level, immersing them in their surroundings and the impending danger lurking around each corner.

This game was developed as a student project at DigiPen Institute of Technology and was created for educational purposes only. Please check out our publisher page for more information.

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Recommended0h playedOct 2025

Recommended1h playedOct 2025

I anticipated playing this one even without a review someday, just as I feel about Nightreign and Shadow of the Erdtree while having yet to play either. I'm fairly out of practice, but the early designs of levels felt like a polished and considered imitation of the Undead Burg that flows really nicely. I have somewhat mixed feelings about the usage of one-time enemies blocking checkpoints; it's a nice shorthand for a "boss" arc in the design, but it's consequence weighed against its novelty is a heavily out of balance for initiating a return to the "boss." The final boss has a serviceable Smelter Demon phase that pays out in this regard, but due to certain bugs with my death markers, as well as my own admittedly faltering controller, Nafaset seemed to have the ability to take away my ability to move, attack, or dodge, and sometimes all three at once. The game is exactly as much of the kind of game it could be, which is a more pretentious way of saying what everyone else does in the reviews. Over the years I've become somewhat oversensitive for the small Land game elements like a zone title card, which doesn't appear for the Aqueduct of Purple Goo despite being one of the more striking environmental contrasts. Unfortunately the design of level encounters also somewhat deteriorates at this point, but that could be described as almost inherent to the checkpoint mechanic. Demon's Souls is the most brutal with the "runback" mech, since the philosophy scaled more towards providing shortcuts or treating the entire trail to the boss as part and parcel with reaching the next checkpoint, i.e. healing resources did not necessarily correlate to a tangible buffer for success apart from any other particular resource that the game expected of you. For a scope that is unable to accommodate the complexity of systems in From Software games, it seems prudent to focus that scope toward more simple & direct styles like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, where combat execution doesn't have a character statistic; it's simply a consequence of whether or not the enemy is hitting you or in range of being hit. Metamorphos gets an A for Arachnid Slop.

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