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Nakawak: Expanded Color Edition

Nakawak is a handheld style Metroidvania. Explore! Power Up! Escape! This is a retro game displaced in time. Now features expanded content!

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Developer
Anxious Neck Games
Publisher
Anxious Neck Games
Release
October 11, 2017
8 years and 297 days ago
Steam Reviews
Mostly Positive29 reviews75.9%

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About the Game






Mindless monsters roam the depths of the Undercity - a hostile, sprawling, interconnected, semi-open-world environment.

Nakawak (a skeleton comprised of an odd assortment of bones) is unique. He has had an awakening. He has found a sense of self.

Alone in a hostile world filled with monstrous beings, Nakawak knows his purpose: Defeat the Three Beasts and the Seal will fail, opening the way to the surface and freedom . . .

Explore! Power Up! Escape!

NAKAWAK is a retro game displaced in time.





Features:

  • Fully exploreable, semi-open-world environment!
  • A simple in-game map that is great for course correcting without spoiling the adventure and surprises!
  • A dark, minimalist storyline told through few words and memorable set pieces!
  • Expanded content to extend playtime!
  • Simple, GameBoy style chiptune soundtrack!
  • Nearly 20 upgrades and powerups to procure!
  • A broad and wild bestiary of creatures to exterminate!
  • Three huge bosses to battle, each more challenging than the last!
  • Crawl through tight, winding tunnels with NAKAWAK's quadruped form!


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