Alwa's Awakening

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Summary

Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.

Alwa’s Awakening is a game that tries to stay as close as possible to the authentic 8-bit look with sweet pixel art, a soundtrack filled with catchy chiptunes and so much charm it’ll bring you right back to the NES era. With easy to understand controls the game is easy to learn but tough to master, just like how games were in the old days!

- A new challenging NES-inspired adventure game
- Use the magic staff to solve puzzles and defeat enemies
- Find and unlock upgrades to your items and abilities
- Explore a large interconnected map in true 'Metroidvania' style
- Listen to a completely new 8-bit soundtrack with over 25 new original tracks

Storyline

An evil power plagues the people and it’s up to you to set them free. You must travel to the land of Alwa and help the people living there to awaken from their nightmare… You are Zoe, a normal everyday girl who just happens to like to play video games. One late night when she’s just enjoying her favourite game she suddenly finds herself dozing off and when she awakens she has been brought into the game and into the land of Alwa.


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Alwa's Awakening Reviews & Ratings

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Review by ArataLatam [user]
March 25, 2022

Alwa’s Awakening es un juego completamente atemporal, que pudo haber salido en la época de la NES y funcionaría igual de bien. Un título queAlwa’s Awakening es un juego completamente atemporal, que pudo haber salido en la época de la NES y funcionaría igual de bien. Un título que otorga, a grandes rasgos, un desafío interesante a la par de, valga la redundancia, desafiante a su modo.Te lo recomendamos sí: Extrañas los juegos de antaño. Pero, dejando de lado eso, vale completamente la pena. No te lo recomiendo sí: Ya te dije que vale la pena, de verdad… a menos que no te gusten los juegos retro o Metroidvania.Review:https://arata.lat/arata-review-alwas-awakening-pc-steam/

80
Review by SebboBastian [user]
December 24, 2018

Alwa´s Awakening is one of the best tributes for the 8bit era I played.Besides lovely art and music the game/level design is impressive.Alwa´s Awakening is one of the best tributes for the 8bit era I played.Besides lovely art and music the game/level design is impressive. Usually the gameplay design is missing in smaler indie games but not here. Interesting powers that are used in often tricky puzzles.

70
Review by shado474 [user]
August 22, 2017

Alwa's Awakening is a fun game with some interesting elements. The challenge is there and uses typical retro-gaming ways of doing it withAlwa's Awakening is a fun game with some interesting elements. The challenge is there and uses typical retro-gaming ways of doing it with precise jumps and very predictable enemies. I found the soundtrack not very creative and somewhat irritating after some time and had to turn the music volume down quite a bit. Overall a fairly decent game for the price.

70
Review by Games Master UK
April 2, 2017

If you fancy a challenge and the price suits, you won't regret your purchase. Just don't expect your mind to be blown.

90
Review by The Overpowered Noobs
February 15, 2017

So that’s the importance of a retro game, and Alwa’s Awakening demonstrates it beautifully. With a few tweaks to make it a little more palatable to the modern gamer, Alwa’s Awakening captures the joy that can come from conquering a difficult experience. It doesn’t do anything new, but in bringing back the old, it shows how fun finding your own way can be.

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Game Information
Release Date February 2, 2017
Publisher Mega Cat Studios, Elden Pixels
Content Rated E (Everyone)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Side view
Genres Platform, Adventure, Indie
Themes Action, Fantasy
Platforms Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch