
Explore a mysterious castle in this pixel perfect metroidvania and take on the Shadow King! Upgrades, secrets, combat, and more!
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The Shadow King has invaded the castle belonging to the Knights of Valor and they need your help to get it back! Explore the massive castle in this metroidvania and help the fallen knights back to their former glory! Upgrade your moves and weapons along the way as you fight minions, defeat bosses, find secrets, and unravel what has happened.

Interconnected map with graphically unique areas!
A quirky cast of different enemies!
Fun platforming all around!
Boss fights and secret rooms!
Beautiful and engaging soundtrack!

Code, pixel art, and design: Johan Peitz
Music and SFX: José Ramón "Bibiki" García
Capsule Art: Jon Nielsen

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Languages: English
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Tiny little metroidvania-ish puzzle platformer that you can beat in under an hour. Pixel graphics that are nice to look at, but nothing extraordinary you haven't seen in various fantasy games. The control scheme can't be changed, and sometimes feels off. Solid gameplay. Whether that's worth the asking price is up to you.
Pack a lot of game for 2.38 mbs.
Didnt take long to beat but for the price it was well worth it!
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Hours played at review time, across 38 reviews with recorded playtime.
Excellent bite sized metroidvania.
Juego bonito y corto, pero tiene un pequeño problema. Los controles. Demasiadas teclas para hacer la misma cosa. En cuanto empieces, cambiate la tecla de flecha arriba a otro lugar o vas a morirte de forma tontísima por haber dado mal los saltos
Small but fun little platformer game. Wish I could switch the jump and attack button, if there is a way I couldn't figure it out.
Shadow King is not perfect... It's short, has low frame rate, some jump inputs don't work eventually and I think it's too reliant on the dash move. But I wish the developer can learn from it and make a sequel.
It's a small yet charming little game that has ~30 minutes playtime. While I am giving it a positive review I would value this game at ~2 euro so unless it's on a 50% (or higher) sale it's likely not worth it.
Am i conceptually annoyed that the 'mini-vania' is a genre that people keep making games for? Yes. But did i have an alright half an hour or whatever getting through it? Yeah i did actually. And i'm charmed by it being a pico8 game. So like, i dunno. For the price? It was fun enough to make me happy. 31 reviews is brutal
Neat little game. Also the controller works just fine regardless of steam saying the game doesnt support it
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