Into the Underdusk

Into the Underdusk is a MetroidVania-esque platformer where you move around the world attempting to collect 18 orbs and find out what happened to your lost memories. Gameplay involves jumping through platforming puzzles, finding secrets, and navigating through both the world of the living and the world of the dead. There is no combat of any description, although there are enemies who can kill you.

My opinion: I have mixed feelings about this game. On the one hand it's quite well crafted and when it's good it's fun. On the other hand it's hard, but not necessarily in a good way. Enemies have random attacks, so expect to die a few times because of RNG deciding to screw you over. That in and of itself isn't a bad thing, but when combined with the game's other problems it can take a fun experience and make it very frustrating. The biggest issue I had with this game was with the timing of events. The problem is that the timing is global, and different events are not necessarily in sync. If you die the clock still ticks, so when you come to one of the many Heatman style jumping puzzles you've got to wait for it to cycle through because there is no way of knowing for how much longer the blocks will remain in existence right after you enter a room. That's just a minor annoyance though, the big issue is that in some puzzles (one in particular) there are different events that are happening together that have different timers. The biggest offender is a section where you have to jump past a skull that is floating up and down while 2 fireballs orbit it, both of which are slightly out of sync with one another. This means that there are some times where this puzzle is doable, and sometimes it is nearly completely impossible, and when it gets impossible it takes a long while for the puzzle to become doable again. Other than those issues the game is basically fantastic, minus the slightly unreliable collision detection, and it's definitely worth a bit of your time.

Into the Underdusk is by Almightyzentaco. You can find it here.