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Eternal Return
Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world.
All Reviews:
Mixed (26) - 53% of the 26 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Feb 24, 2017
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Publisher:
Pathless Games

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About This Game

This game will crush you.

Face merciless gameplay to explore a cursed castle, discover the dark tales of its inhabitants, and kill the gods of a decaying world. Eternal Return combines retro graphics and old-school mechanics with modern nonlinear level design and storytelling.



Survive to Explore

Slow pacing combined with tight yet unconvential controls builds stress, tension, and horror during gameplay, rather than taking a hack & slash approach. Players build their health, stamina, and arsenal up from nothing - and earn points by killing enemies to use special weapons to fight their way to the next shortcut.



Discover a Story

Speak to NPCs, find written messages, muse over paintings, and explore story-filled architecture to learn or infer the forgotten tales of the crumbling castle and its fading inhabitants - including yourself.



Features:
  • Starting with 1 health and 1 stamina to be built up by exploring for upgrades
  • Stamina management-combat
  • Unique controls for toe-to-toe combat
  • No Air controls! (How do they do that, anyway?)
  • Realistically-paced attacks for strategy rather than spamming
  • 3 primary and 3 secondary weapons
  • Gathering points to use secondary weapons
  • Returning to your place of death to recover points
  • Looping level design around only one central checkpoint with unlockable in-universe fast travel for great immersion
  • Locked doors and optional secret areas
  • Hardcore areas with invisible enemies and other crazy challenges
  • Secret healing checkpoints to help further your exploration
  • 9 NPCs with voice acting and subtitles
  • 20 Levels
  • 13 Bosses
  • 50+ unique enemy types
  • Discover phonographs to find the game's soundtrack
  • 64 colors!
  • Philosophy!
  • So many jars and barrels that need smashing.

System Requirements

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SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS *: WINDOWS XP / WINDOWS VISTA / WINDOWS 7 / WINDOWS 8 / WINDOWS 10
    • Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core 7
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD 530
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OS X 10.6 or greater
    • Processor: 2 GHz Intel Core i7
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
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