Otto and the Ancient Worlds

Otto and the Ancient Worlds is an 8-bit action platformer about a small bearded archaeologist searching for his missing partner, Persephone. What he finds instead is the library of Hephaestus, an ancient collection where every book holds a living world of mythology and folklore. Then something goes terribly wrong, and every book is torn open, releasing the worlds inside!

Whip your way through six stages, from Medusa's lair to the Egyptian afterlife, and return each world to its book. Every stage hides three artifacts, three historical figures, and an outfit that transforms your charged attack in that world's theme. Bring the figures home and watch Hephaestus' cave come back to life around you.

You move like Mega Man, attack like Castlevania, look like Mario, and you're cousins to Shovel Knight!

- Game Features -

• Six worlds from real mythology, folklore and legend — Norse, Greek, Egyptian, Irish, Grimm, and the stage of Shakespeare himself

• Every world built from scratch — its own enemies, bosses, and tiles, with no palette swaps or recycled sprites

• Bring the world home — rescue 22 historical and mythological figures and watch Hephaestus' abandoned cave come back to life

• Real masterpieces as upgrades — 20 famous statues and paintings, from the Venus de Milo to the Winged Victory, rendered in pixel art

• Outfits that transform your whip — find each world's hidden outfit and your charged attack becomes a viking's hammer, a vampire's bats, a swarm of snakes, and more

• Quests worth doing — play matchmaker for a vampire, help a frog princess choose a husband, go fishing for the World Serpent

• Tight, precise movement — slide, wall-jump, and whip with instant response

• No lives, no game overs — hard, but never cheap

• A 27-track chiptune soundtrack, with the soundtrack available separately

• Voice-narrated storybook cutscenes