Oniken: Unstoppable Edition

When a global war nearly decimated humankind, an evil military organization called Oniken takes advantage of the situation to dominate and oppress the few remaining survivors. Even though any resistance to this organization seemed hopeless, a small rebel movement organizes strikes against Oniken.

Oniken: Unstoppable Edition is a retro, platformer and action game developed and published by JoyMasher.
Released on February 05th 2014 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Czech and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 927 reviews of which 744 were positive and 183 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Oniken: Unstoppable Edition into these genres:

Retro Platformer Action Indie Pixel Graphics 1980s Difficult 2D Old School Side Scroller Ninja Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Sci-fi

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 1.0 GHz Processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 32MB VRAM Integrated Graphics Card
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 100 MB available space

Reviews

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

Dec. 2024

I really suck at this game and I fail a lot but the game is just so good that I keep failing some more. Oniken brings back so many memories of playing similar games on the original NES back in the early 90s.

Nov. 2024

Oniken pays homage to Nintendo games of the past like Ninja Gaiden and Shadow of the Ninja. If you like tough "Nintendo hard" games you'll enjoy this. The gameplay is pretty simple, jumping and attacking with your sword hacking and slashing through levels. Although you will die a lot at first, the game is actually fair, and it shouldn't take too long to figure out the patterns for each boss. You get a decent amount of health pickups in each stage and you'll always get a little bit further. When you have the memory muscle to beat the game it's a lot of fun. The graphics are nice, and there's a pretty fun story, and the soundtrack is good. You really can't do worse for this type of retro scroller than to get it for 5 euro.

Oct. 2024

The Pixel Art is very nicely done, the Gameplay is also pretty fun, the whole game is reminiscent of old school NES Era Platformers such as Ninja Gaiden. However, I believe there is a good reason why games from that time period tend to be considered "outdated". Making the core mechanic of a game purposefully hard to extend playability, to me at least, is not a very viable option as it can cause the gameplay feel frustrating and tedious. Many specific enemy types feel purposefully placed in specific platforms just to get a hit out of you or to halt your progression. The checkpoint system is also not very well implemented, as each Mission has 3 separate stages that you have to go through with a maximum of 3 lives or 4 if you find the secret in the level. As soon as you lose all your lives, the game will allows you to continue but from the beginning of the Mission instead of the stage you were in, which can lead to many frustrating moments as in each mission you have to fight a boss in each stage and can die at any point since almost everything that touches you will deal tons of damage. I would say though the levels are not very long, but having to go through a ton of enemies just to fight the boss again and through certain stages where it feels like they were designed to hit you at any possible moment gets annoying. If you're into this sort of old school style where its very challenging and requires a lot of memorization of enemy placement and hard platforming in the mix, then get the game. Otherwise look for something else if you don't want to have a frustrating experience. I did Enjoy it for what it was, but this style of game is not for me.

Oct. 2024

I played one level and I don't think I'll play anymore. I'm still giving it a thumbs up, because I would feel guilty otherwise; this is a case of "it's not you, it's me". This is a NES game. Not an original NES game, rather a recreation. Two buttons, lives, game overs, enemies can't be hit off-screen, very punishing by design rather than oversight and not in a particularly enjoyable manner. You're required to die and repeat stages until you've mastered them or you got lucky. The first level alone has you escape the mission area after the boss fight, with a scrolling screen, falling rocks and charging enemies. Leave something for the finale, maybe? But yeah, it seems to be pretty good on the fundamentals of this type of game. It's not for me, but if it's the type of game you like, go ahead.

June 2024

Its retro enough that I can say this is a good game. The difficulty feels right and it feels like a modern version of contra

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Developer

JoyMasher

Publisher

JoyMasher

Release 05 Feb 2014

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