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Butterfly: Twisted Thread

Butterfly: Twisted Thread is a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania where you use a mystical butterfly to draw platforms, objects, and attack tools into the world. Explore interconnected areas, solve physics-based puzzles, fight enemies, and unlock new paths through creative drawing.

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About the Game

Butterfly: Twisted Thread is a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania built around a unique drawing mechanic. With the help of a mystical butterfly companion, you can draw platforms, objects, and weapons directly into the world to explore, solve puzzles, escape danger, and fight enemies.

Your drawings are physical objects, not just visual effects. They can be used to create temporary paths, cross gaps, activate switches, block hazards, drop objects onto enemies, or launch drawn shapes as ranged attacks. Every drawing consumes ink, so you must manage your resources and decide when and how to use your creations.

Explore interconnected nightmare realms filled with hidden paths, traps, puzzles, and stitched enemies inspired by dolls, scissors, needles, and sewing tools. Combat combines sword attacks, dodging, and creative use of your drawings, allowing you to approach enemies in different ways.

As you progress, you will face cursed souls trapped inside the nightmare. After major boss battles, you must choose whether to spare or execute them. These choices affect the butterfly, the story, and the ending you receive.

Features:

- Explore a hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania world with interconnected nightmare regions

- Use a mystical butterfly to draw platforms, objects, and weapons into the environment

- Create physical drawings with collision, weight, and interaction

- Solve puzzles using temporary platforms, switches, weights, and drawn objects

- Fight enemies using sword attacks, falling objects, and launched drawings

- Manage an ink meter that limits the size of your drawings

- Encounter stitched nightmare enemies inspired by scissors, needles, dolls, and sewing tools

- Face bosses connected to cursed souls and choose whether to spare or execute them

- Unlock different endings based on your choices