Castle In The Darkness

Castle In The Darkness is a fun and challenging shout out to the early days of video games! It's an action exploration platformer with some RPG elements, much like games from the Castlevania or Metroid series. It's super fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets!

Castle In The Darkness is a metroidvania, indie and platformer game developed by Matt Kap, Nicalis and Inc. and published by Nicalis and Inc..
Released on February 05th 2015 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,237 reviews of which 953 were positive and 284 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Castle In The Darkness into these genres:

Metroidvania Indie Platformer Action Difficult Adventure Pixel Graphics RPG Retro 2D Great Soundtrack Singleplayer

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP or later
Processor: Pentium 4 or higher
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB or higher
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 120 MB available space
Sound Card: Any

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Oct. 2024

Un fin de semana bien aprovechado por un bajo precio. Si te toco la epoca de jugar en un nes este es tu tipo de juego. Muy sencillo y con una dificultad adecuada, veo muchos comentarios diciendo que el plataformeo ocupa mucha precision pero siendo alguien que juega desde principios de los 90s no me parece, no es para nada injusto como muchos juegos de esa epoca y el control se siente pulido no como los falsos juegos "dificiles" (volgar the viking cough cough) que centran su dificultad en controles mal diseñados.

Sept. 2024

The lack of map and the high precision in the platform can turn people off, but the game is REALLY good and severely underrated. Solid metroidvania.

Sept. 2024

This game is hard.

March 2024

This game rocks, its a rogue like NES Dark souls Great package Astalon Tears of the Earth got me interested and that also rocks harder

Feb. 2024

If you're Looking for a Short Game with REALLY Good Bitmusic, and somewhat enjoyable Platforming, this Game is definitely for you! But for Around 9.99 this game goes for, even when 100%ing the game, you only get around 12h max out of it, so better get this off of a Sale if you can. ( i got it for 1.99 which is a Superb Price for it! ) Be advised however, this Game gets really Difficult, which i consider a Bad thing, it gets “ I Wanna Be The Guy “ Difficult with some areas, and it can get really Frustrating because savespots can be quite far away sometimes. Besides, from 100%ing this Game, i somehow feel that the thought of BackTracking ( which this Game has a lot ) was just added as an Afterthought, since many spots have instant Death Traps right after switching Screens, which makes Deaths aplenty, and Restarts at a Far away Savespot aplenty too… Other than that, Exploration is also a very big “Hit and Miss” in this Game, since there are things to find (Like Zelda 1’s Grumble Grumble Monster or even a Specific Boss from Cave Story, ofc they just resemble them… haha…) There are VERY MANY Troll Spots that make you Question if you should Explore and Find neat things, or just get Trolled by the Developer and get Hardstuck in specific Locations. Some hidden Items due to this made me think that i'm not Supposed to collect them (since many of them have the “Secret Item!” Tag on them) and almost all besides 3 are actually Trolls that you cannot obtain and if you do, you are Softlocked, which takes out the Fun of Exploring and finding hidden Items. If you do look for something to do, and like the Music / The Atmosphere / The Artwork (Especially the Intro) or the Castlevania esque Playstyle, i Recommend it, but if you want to 100% this, or arent as versatile with very Difficult Platformers in this Style, i would advise to look for something else and just enjoy the Soundtrack on Youtube!

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Developer

Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.

Publisher

Nicalis, Inc.

Release 05 Feb 2015

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