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78%49578% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 495 reviews·Metroidvania · Side Scroller
—Fight difficult enemies, explore dangerous locations, and gain strength in this hand crafted world to defeat the evil that lays waste to these Scarred Lands.
Brighter Days
SteamExplore the Scarred Lands, a hand crafted world full of things to find and uncover. Traverse the landscape by unlocking areas and platforming between locations with a new item around every corner.

Fight, dodge, and parry enemies breaking down their health, parry enemies to break their stance and go in for heavy damaging blows. Not all attacks can be parried due to being too powerful so you must dodge out of the way to avoid it. Each sword has a unique weapon art that does high damage or provides a buff in differing ways to give more unique build opportunities.

Upgrade using voltage taken from the death of enemies or finding voltage items through out the Scarred Lands. Use this currency to upgrade your attributes to become stronger and do more damage. You can also use it to upgrade weapons when you find the right materials.

The Scarred Lands contains futuristic sci fi technology stuck in a medieval like age due to fast development and evolution of their technology. A place lost to war plunged into ruin. Lord Abaddon of the Saurian Empire seeks to enact revenge on the people of the world for doing nothing as the Saurians starved in their icy prison. He took control of all the lands beneath the Ivory Towers but is now locked in stalemate. The war drags on, the fighting all but ceased, starvation and disease has wiped out most of what was left after the initial fighting. Lord Abaddon still hopes to lead his people to a new paradise and his people fight on, slaughtering those in the way. Despite the mistakes of the past you must fight the evil that threatens to turn the world to ash.

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