Evoland

[GamerSam]

Well I have just joined this site, and I'd like to ask if anyone has played Evoland yet, It's a Indie game, available on Steam and The Apple Store. If you aren't aware, check it out.

Offical Website.

Also, I would love for someone to help me list all the references it has to other games.

[Mass Distraction]

The only evos I know are Evolution Championship Series and PixEvo.

In any case, looks like a LoZ game.

[GamerSam]

I suggest you at leats try the flash game to see if you enjoy the concept.

[Mass Distraction]

I'm not into adventure games like this. I'm more into strict RPGs. I'll consider it if it's on a Steam sale some day.

[Mass Distraction]

A review for it is up. I'll stand by my plan to get it if it gets on sale.

[Combat Lobster]

A review for it is up. I'll stand by my plan to get it if it gets on sale.

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Based on Jared's review and the footage I saw, this game seems like one of those 'artsy fartsy' kind of games. While I can see this kind of concept being used for some great puzzle-solving I get the feeling it's meant as, "Hey, remember when rpgs looked like this? Yeah, but what if it was presented like this." or "Hey, remember that really big game franchise? Well here is an item/area/mechanic/etc. from that game! Please love my game..."

[Reeves Reus]

I played the game! It was very nice and refreshing but it's length was too sort and there were too many annoying-pointless turn based battles, plus it's price was a bit high.
In overall it was ok!

[Arjahn]

I agree with Lightmatt here, it seems like it's trying to pull itself on Nostalgia and nostalgia alone, without bringing anything new to the table. It's sort of like Retro City Rampage, just not as much fun. When the game referenced Final Fantasy for the seventeenth time, It didn't make me laugh, if anything it made me want to shut off the game and go play some Final Fantasy.
Sorry for the bitterness, but I'm just getting tired of this huge fascination with Nostalgia nowadays, yeah It's great to have and a lot of older games are genuinely timeless and remain a ton of fun, but nowadays technology has advanced and I'd like to see it used to either enhance the experiences of older-style games beyond their previous limits, a lot like how Super Meat Boy was both a throwback yet still an incredible, challenging game, or for the industry to use that technology to make newer-styled games that are fun and engaging, like Deus Ex or Team Fortress 2. Nostalgia is fine, but when it become the sole selling point of an otherwise sub par game, it irritates me.

[2D Brain]

It's been looking like a great homage and tribute to my favorite genre and looks very cool, but from what I've heard, it's very short for the price and focuses so much on just introducing new "technology" that it never really becomes it's own game.

I have so many things collecting digital dust on Steam and I don't generally enjoy playing on my laptop, unless it's a really PC-centric genre, and I have to. I put it on my wishlist and will absolutely pick this game up when it's on sale, maybe during Steam's summer sale.

It was probably %20 off when it came out and I would have bought it then if I'd known what it was.

I'd pay $10 for it on Vita, though, no questions asked :P

[Reeves Reus]

Well, in overall it's the first of it's kind! This innovational idea was something new and pretty intersting!

[2D Brain]

There's a platformer called Life of Pixel on Playstation Moble for Android and the PSM section on Vita that tried to do the same thing, and it's fun, but I don't doubt Evoland does it better from what I've seen.