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Developer: Obvious Gravity Games
Release Date: 2027
Platforms: Steam (Windows, macOS), Xbox Series X|S, TBD
Website: obviousgravity.com
Price: $14.99
Availability: Digital Download
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French
Press Contact: obviousgravity@gmail.com
HISTORY
Obvious Gravity Games LLC is a small independent game developer that loves everything pixels. We want to develop fun and entertaining games that look and feel retro, but with modern aspects. We hope to give people similar game experiences we had as children playing NES and SNES games. Video games have brought us great joy and entertainment and we wish for our games to do the same for you!
DESCRIPTION
Otto and the Ancient Worlds is an 8-bit action platformer about a small bearded archaeologist who must return six worlds of mythology and folklore to the magical books they escaped from while collecting artifacts, historical figures, and outfits that transform his whip along the way.
You move like Mega Man, attack like Castlevania, look like Mario, and you're cousins to Shovel Knight!
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
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