Sundered®: Eldritch Edition

Sundered is a chaotic hand-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Sundered®: Eldritch Edition is a roguevania, metroidvania and lovecraftian game developed and published by Thunder Lotus Games.
Released on July 28th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 4,810 reviews of which 3,963 were positive and 847 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 2.92€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

The Steam community has classified Sundered®: Eldritch Edition into these genres:

Roguevania Metroidvania Lovecraftian Action Roguelike Indie Platformer Hand-drawn 2D Female Protagonist Action Difficult Adventure Side Scroller Atmospheric Singleplayer Exploration Rogue-like Controller Horror Great Soundtrack

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Microsoft® Windows® 7 (64-bit)
Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10-compatible graphics card with at least 256MB of video memory
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Yosemite
Processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel Iris 1536
Storage: 3 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Processor: 1.8 GHz Dual-Core
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10-compatible graphics card with at least 256MB of video memory
Storage: 3 GB available space

Reviews

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

Dec. 2024

Developed by Thunder Lotus Games and released in 2017, Sundered is a side scrolling, hand drawn Eldrich inspired metroidvania. Will you choose to embrace the darkness or use technology to banish it? In a desolate desert, the main character Eshe explores until shadowy arms rise from the sands and tentacles engulf her while dragging her to unknown depths. After a short tutorial, Eshe meets the Shining Trapezohedron, that speaking in a forgotten language, grants her the power to defend herself. While exploring the ever-changing corridors, you’ll face strange creatures, robots, and even giant bosses, whereby defeating them you’ll gain new powers that will allow to visit places once out of reach. With a stupendous art style complemented by a foreboding soundtrack and ambient noises, exploration becomes a reward on itself, since like most games on this genre, exploration and backtracking are essential. Depending on choices made during the game, the story may lead you to different results, presenting the game’s main replay value. This game can be controlled by either keyboard or controller, having the option of local multiplayer up to 4 players. As a choice for an incredibly well written Eldrich story, fluid movement, and impressive graphics, Sundered is a game I highly recommend. If you enjoyed this review, I would like to invite you to visit [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44722081/] Backlog log my curator page for more recommendations and reviews.

Nov. 2024

Very good game! Its has very fun game play and the story is also really good. It seems like there could be multiple endings but I only did one play through.

Oct. 2024

Gave up on game first time around.. and just picked it back up.. almost gave up again, but finally getting somewhere with it. Takes some patience

Aug. 2024

TL:DR 11hr playtime on Normal Difficulty. Gorgeous game. 9/10. Big recommend to any fans of Metroidvanias who also enjoy Rougelikes. The game is a mix of Metroidvania and Rougelike. The overall map layout is the same, but many of the rooms are more like zones with the insides of the zones being randomized so while you will always follow the same path through the zones to get back to where you were, the exact path will be different every time. I thought this was a really good way to blend the genres and also addresses some of my complaints about a lot of rougelikes being never ending mazes where a good run is completely RNG based and you can often feel like you are wasting your time. Here in Sundered, every enemy you kill and pot you break drops shards that you can spend between runs on small upgrades to things like your health and damage. Eventually, enough of those small upgrades makes a big difference when you go back through old rooms you've visted before. The artwork for the game is GORGEOUS everything is hand drawn and really gives off that creepy Lovecraftian vibe. The movement abilities are fun and impactful on exploring the world. The map is well laid out for a Metroidvania with lots of ability check shortcuts and other shortcuts that reward you for exploring everywhere. The combat is fun and has some customization with your upgrades. For instance, I skipped as many of the Ranged Attack nodes on the skill tree as I could, favoring Melee combat. Sometimes, though, the best thing to do is to just run until the monsters stop spawning. My biggest complaint with the game is the minimalistic approach they took with the story. I felt kind of lost in the beginning not really knowing why I was doing what I was doing. But I suppose that was kind of the point? The game has 3 different endings, something I didn't know when I first started. One where you embrace the darkness and become corrupted, one where you resist the darkness and become a beacon of hope, and the third neutral ending if you didn't go 100% one way or the other. I felt like the game didn't really make it clear in the beginning there were options for this. I ended up going full corruption as I didn't even know that Resisting awarded you with different skill upgrades compared to the corrupted upgrades which they are very up front about. Overall, I put in just over 11hrs and acheived a 98% completion rating. I thought about going back in to finish that to 100% but then I remembered the things I would need to collect to achieve that were RNG drop dependent and it just killed my desire as I didn't feel like grinding. Overall, I would give the game a 9/10. Big recommend to any fans of Metroidvanias who also enjoy Rougelikes.

Jan. 2024

The best Metroidvania I've played since SOTN and until I played Bloodstained, surpassing (4 me) Rabi Ribi and Hollow Knight Why? Half of the time the game is very quiet. Then a single enemy appear, then the GONG (that signals enemies know about the player) starts playing, and another enemy, and two more, and then.... HORDES OF ENEMIES actively hunting the player! There are few games that are able to throw HORDES of monsters at the player in a convincing/nice way, with a need to quickly adapt to tactical situations that can mean life-or-death early, on non-stop action... WHEN the hordes are hunting you. Do you kill every one of them or just outrun the horde of enemies? These are the two seemingly feasible way to "dissolve" the hordes. The theme is simply waaaayyyy too good. Humans invading a lovecraftian-abomination populated dimension. And the way the game shows the story makes it sort of clear that there are all only sides of grey, as the humans, according to the notes, are sorta brutal and almost evil to the "natives" that were just happily living in their lovercraftian-abomination life in their dimension, going on with their daily chores, doing the dishes, etc. With 3 endings, and 2 EXCLUSIVE endings chosing opposite faction skill sets, there is replayability for at least 2 full runs taking about ~21 hours each! This game is frequently compared to Dead Cells for some reason... Well, they're very different monsters. This one's beauty lies in the vs-horde fighting, more akin Musou games but on a 2D Metroidvania context that worked sweetly well! Overall, MUST PLAY!

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-85% 19.50€ 2.92€

8.0

3,963

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Developer

Thunder Lotus Games

Publisher

Thunder Lotus Games

Release 28 Jul 2017

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