Abalyte

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Abalyte is a single player role playing game. It was developed by Purple Studios and was released on October 15, 2018. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Abalyte is a 2D-roguelike metroidvania that focuses on the player's skill and inventiveness. While other games have crutches or progression systems that help the player beat the game, Abalyte does the opposite and throws you in a spike-pit.

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68%

Audience ScoreBased on 108 reviews

humor2 positive mentions

gameplay4 negative mentions

The game features challenging and engaging combat with a variety of weapons that require tactical adaptation.
Pixel art style is charming and atmospheric, complemented by a catchy soundtrack and immersive sound design.
Controls are generally responsive with a solid foundation for a roguelike/metroidvania hybrid, showing potential for growth.

The game is largely abandoned with no updates or developer communication for years, leaving many bugs, missing features, and balance issues unresolved.
Gameplay is repetitive and limited, with poor level design, lack of progression, and inconsistent mechanics detracting from the experience.
Controls and UI have significant flaws including lack of customizable key bindings, awkward menus, gamepad issues, and technical glitches.

gameplay
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay receives mixed feedback, with some praising its unique weapon effects and potential for creativity, while many criticize it for being dull, clunky, and buggy. Controls are often described as twitchy or forced, contributing to frustration rather than challenge, and the lack of content and level design further detracts from the overall experience. However, a few reviews remain hopeful about its future improvements.
- “It had some interesting gameplay in the form of weapons that all have different effects, not just on the enemy but also on you.”
- “Gameplay is a lot more fun than it looks like and controls are well put together.”
- “Very charming pixel graphics and simple gameplay mechanics that you can get creative with.”
- “Even with the correct tags and non-misleading screenshots, I cannot recommend this game due to the amount of bugs and dull gameplay.”
- “No level design, procedural maps can generate inaccessible platforms, mechanics are awful, feels terrible to play, no content, and hilariously easy for a roguelike that "throws you in a spike-pit."”
- “The mechanics are twitchy, so I imagine that part would be really frustrating rather than challenging.”
graphics
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics are characterized by basic, retro 2D pixel art that some find charming and nostalgic, fitting the game's style, while others feel they could be more polished or modernized. Overall, the pixel art aesthetics appeal to fans of old-school visuals, though there is hope for further refinement as the game develops.
- “One of the best free to play pixel graphic rogue-like metroidvania adventure RPGs I've ever played.”
- “Quite a cute little side-scroller, beautiful and colourful visuals, nice platforming, enemy design is nice, good amount of challenge, can't wait to see it finished!”
- “Very charming pixel graphics and simple gameplay mechanics that you can get creative with.”
- “Like most GameMaker Studio construction kit games, this features lazy 2D retro pixel art instead of professionally done, contemporary PC graphics.”
- “As far as graphics are concerned, I hope the art is still a work in progress as well.”
- “The controls are floaty, the combat feels sluggish, and the graphics could really use some work.”
music
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is limited to a single catchy song that some users enjoy, while others feel it is insufficient to constitute a full soundtrack. Several users note the game's lack of diverse music or absence of music altogether in earlier versions, which contributes to a lonely atmosphere. Overall, the music is appreciated but sparse and could benefit from expansion.
- “This game has an amazing song in it.”
- “Good game, great music, but the 3rd boss could do with fewer enemies being spawned because at this point with all his meat shields, quick speed, and long range, he seems impossible.”
- “The beginning of the song in the slime bro domain reminds me of Undertale; aside from that this game is awesome and definitely has a lot of potential.”
- “I say song because I don't think one song gives you the right to go about saying your game has a 'soundtrack.' Yeah, it's one song, but it's a catchy one song.”
- “Art is still full of placeholders and prior to the last patch it didn't have a single piece of music in it.”
- “There is no music so it feels lonely.”
stability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game exhibits several stability issues, including bugs, unimplemented features, and glitches like enemy clipping and unintended interactions. Despite these problems, it remains enjoyable and shows considerable potential.
- “And the game is both buggy (achievements that are normally unachievable), game features not implemented, etc. The thing is, this game is somewhat competent and had, yes had, a bunch of potential.”
- “The platforms are just a little buggy, and sometimes enemies clip through them, and I have no idea how to recover HP, but it's fun!”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is described as tedious rather than challenging, with repetitive enemy behavior leading to a monotonous cycle of attacks until the area is cleared.
- “The floor tiles of the screenshots are used, yes, but all mobs will eventually jump down to the lowest level and build one mess while you are above safe, then jump down, strike and jump up again over and over tediously again until eventually the room is cleared.”
- “I've played Meatboy so it wasn't so much challenging as tedious.”
story
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story is generally seen as weak and repetitive, relying on procedural generation rather than a well-developed plot or level design. However, some users find it charming despite its simplicity.
- “The developer was unable to come up with decent level design or game/story flow/plot, so they opted to try to use samey repetitive procedural generation algorithms as a substitute for adding content to the game.”
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is largely unintentional, stemming from frustrating bugs and poorly designed mechanics that some players find amusing despite negatively impacting gameplay.
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization of games made with Gamemaker Studio is often criticized for encouraging shovelware and lazy cash grabs, leading to a perception of low-quality, profit-driven releases.