About This Game

A physics-shifting puzzle platformer where you'll delve into dangerous power plants and massive creatures! Run into Light and Dark Energy-infused hazards to shift your movement physics to conquer each challenge. Use Dark Energy to run faster - and use Light Energy to jump higher. Puzzles have multiple solutions!

From the creators of Anodyne!

A Grand Story

Aliph, a lowly technician, finds her world turned upside-down after a workplace accident. Now, working directly with the government to fight an unknown menace, Aliph is tasked with traveling the countryside to repair hazardous power plants and restore balance to the world.

• Balance your energy bar with Light and Dark energies to overcome diverse obstacles and stabilize the city, through large puzzle-filled platforming levels. Use your 4-directional shield to ward off - or utilize - all sorts of hazards!
  
• Meet and talk with new friends, powerful allies, and enigmatic travellers, in a story-heavy experience about what it is to be human in a world troubled by environmental despair.
  
• Explore the beautiful and strange geography in the overworld, towns, and environments surrounding Whiteforge City
  
• Super customizable difficulties and play styles: choose between Complete, Story-only, or Gameplay-only options to make your experience your own!

Press Quotes

"Even The Ocean is the sort of game I'm pretty primed to like: It's a well-designed, challenging 2D platformer with a unique energy-balancing mechanic. It features an inclusive, politically aware story, with narrative beats about community, identity and activism. It has pretty pixel art and moody music. And it was made by Analgesic studios, the two-person team behind one of my favorite titles of 2013, Anodyne, a beautiful, pointed take on 2D Zelda-style games.

That was always going to speak to me. But what I found in Even the Ocean surprised me even further: It's not just a good game, but a milestone for a sensitive, thoughtful studio working in an uncertain and often downright scary world."
-Danielle Riendeau for Waypoint

"Perhaps even more intriguing, though, is how this energy system affects the logic and culture of Even the Ocean‘s world. It makes sense that the tallest city, Whitforge City, and its celestial spire runs on Light energy. Given that it relies on the power plants that Aliph restores to keep running, the city and its Light energy also come to represent industrialism and science."
-Chris Priestman for Killscreen

"Even the Ocean is a shining example of how we should be treating diversity and accessibility in games paired with interesting plaforming challenges."
-Affinity Archives Steam Curator

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Content Warnings (No Spoilers)

Environmental Doom/Catastrophe, Workplace Deaths, Bigotry towards LGBTQ+ people and POC, mild body horror

Content Warnings (Spoilers)

Bigotry towards LGBTQ+ people and POC - some of the NPCs in Whiteforge say bigoted things to the player/other characters
Workplace Deaths (Early on, a character is electrocuted and dies (no gore or graphic violence though). Later, another character is dead due to electrocution.
Mild body horror: Some late-game areas have level art that resembles muscles, muscle cells, and other organic things.
Environmental Doom/Catastrophe: The world's energy is unbalanced and it's caused giant creatures to appear. You are trying to stop the world from going out of balance.
(BIGGER SPOILER): In the end, you fail and the world is flooded, killing everyone (non-graphically).