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What's Left

What's Left is a retro styled action, adventure game with exploration, combat, intense set pieces, and a rich story focused cinematic experience.

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Developer
A.E.Southwood Games, Ashes of Emerald, Djexx Markov
Publisher
A.E.Southwood Games
Release
January 6, 2020
6 years and 209 days ago
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About the Game

“What’s Left” is a pixelated journey across the world in this retro-style game that offers diverse gameplay, locations, and genres. You will explore different environments, from dead cities to underground civilizations and encounter various challenges such as classic turn-based RPGs, DOS-style text adventure, stealth missions, huge set pieces, puzzles, monsters, side quests, epic boss battles and more. You will also have access to a variety of weapons and the ability to manipulate time to your advantage via your shapeshifting companion Picaro.

"Unhappy is her to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness." - H.P.Lovecraft

GAMEPLAY

The game follows Landon Ferngrass who is trying to make amends for his past mistakes. He sets out with his shapeshifting friend Picaro to locate a magical artifact called the Fire Pearl. The Fire Pearl is believed to contain the same flame all souls are born from. Together they travel the globe, confront their demons, make new friends, reconcile with some old ones, overcome deadly threats, and are forced to face the harsh truths, secrets are meant to protect us from.
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