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Little Beast in the Big Maze

A fantastical, atmospheric Metroidvania platformer where you jump, fight, and expand your abilities to escape your exile and confront the beastly Queen who banished you. But will this fairy-tale end with you becoming a hero, or a beast?

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About the Game

A fantastical, atmospheric Metroidvania platformer where you jump, fight, and expand your abilities to escape your exile and confront the beastly Queen who banished you. But will this fairy-tale end with you becoming a hero, or a beast?

Take the role of Louise, a castle servant exiled by the corrupted Queen--and find out!

Exiled to the Beneath

Explore and traverse the Beneath, including:

  • treacherous caves and dark caverns

  • forests of fungi and flowers

  • an ancient city long thought lost

  • a sunken lake deep below the surface

    

Desperate to survive

With your grub-enhanced body, gain new fey abilities like:

  • Beast-Claw-Sword-Arms

  • Hair that lets you grab on to hanging mushrooms!

  • Underwater Breathing

  • And more!

  

Meet charming characters and fearsome foes!

Face off against:

  • Vicious insect-dogs

  • Creepy creatures

  • A tiny but noble people!

Befriend, among others:

  • Fishermen with a strange idea of a fishing spot

  • A cohort of tiny but valiant fairies!

  • A tiny but noble people!

  

When Your Hunger Comes...

Will you find a way to avoid being predator or prey, or give in to the emerging beast within?

Is the Island Doomed?

When you confront the Queen, will you seek justice, or revenge? Will you be the hero of the Island, or its new Beast?

It's up to you to write the ending to your fairy-tale.