Sorcerland (PC)

 This is a game that stood out to me as soon as I saw it, since the graphics are amazing. So, like a year later, I bought it (it's less than one American dollar!), and then a year after that, I actually got around to playing it! What it is is an action-heavy platform game with three playable characters, each of whom has their own distinct look and playstyle. Also, it has no bearing on actually playing it, but the description on the game's DLSite page happens to mention that all three of the playable characters are crossdressers.

 

So, there's a catboy, a bunnyboy, and a transforming mechanical pegasusboy. I played as all three, but the pegasus is by far the most fun, with a versatile and effective moveset. Also, the bunnyboy's moveset that seems to focus on using special attacks as if they were normal attacks, leaving you defenceless for seconds at a time while they recharge. The catboy is fine, I guess, but not as good as the pegasus, and definitely not good enough to trump the novelty of playing as a quadraped in a 2D platform game.

 

You go through the stages, fighting enemies, like you'd expect. The emphasis is very much in the direction of enemy placement, rather than stage design, with some early stages not being much more than flat plains with enemies waiting to be fought. Later stages do get a bit more complex, but the focus is always on combat. That approach extends to the controls, too: you only have one button for your regular attacks, but as well as pressing it repeatedly for a short beat em up-style combo, you can also press it with different directions for more specialised attacks, as well as more attacks when you're running or jumping.

 

It's hard to say more, really: it's just a really fun, well designed action platformer. It also looks amazing, with really cure sprites, pretty nice backgrounds, and some incredible pixel art in the cutscenes. There's a good couple of hours' worth of game in there, too, and while it claims to be "early access", it's probably best to consider what exists now to be the final game, as it was last updated in 2014, and the developer seems to have vanished off of the face of the Earth around the same time.

 

So yeah, Sorcerland is a great game that excels in pretty much every respect, and it's worth way more than the tiny asking price it carries. I definitely recommend picking it up.