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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 1,246 reviews of which 956 were positive and 290 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.


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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

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March 2025
Very fun challenging indie metroidvania! You control a soldier/knight that can attack pretty fast and you fight enemies and bosses that are fairly easy to figure out. There's also some pretty tight platforming involved as you make your way to the end of the game, collecting weapons and armor along the way. 9/10 Game.
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Feb. 2025
Feb. 2025
Exceptionnal gameplay and level design
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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.
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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.
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Castle In The Darkness
7.4
956
290
Online players
1
Developer
Matt Kap, Nicalis, Inc.
Publisher
Nicalis, Inc.
Release 05 Feb 2015
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