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EarthNight

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74%Game Brain Score
graphics, gameplay
story, grinding
75% User Score Based on 73 reviews
Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

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EarthNight is a single player and multiplayer arcade platformer game with fantasy and science fiction themes. It was developed by Cleaversoft and was released on December 2, 2019. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

EarthNight is an illustrated epic 2D platformer about the dragon apocalypse, and a love letter to classic arcade games. EarthNight is a procedurally generated platformer that takes place in a dystopian future just after the dragon apocalypse. Humans have been exiled to space, forced to live in orbit above the planet. Our heroes, Sydney and Stanley have had enough! They’ve decided to skydive back …

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graphics18 positive mentions
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  • Beautiful hand-drawn and painterly art style with vibrant and quirky character and enemy designs.
  • Excellent, dynamic chiptune soundtrack that reacts to gameplay and enhances the experience.
  • Unique and engaging runner mechanics combined with roguelite progression, collectible upgrades, and multiple characters with distinct playstyles.
  • Repetitive gameplay with limited level variety and some difficulty spikes making progression feel grindy.
  • Visual clutter and busy screen sometimes hinder readability, making it hard to track enemies and important cues during gameplay.
  • The story is minimal and vague, leaving little narrative impact or motivation beyond the gameplay itself.
  • graphics
    36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features a beautiful, hand-drawn art style that many find charming and visually stunning, with colorful, quirky animations and a surreal, fantastic world that enhances the gameplay experience. However, some users find the visuals overwhelming or discordant, and the abundance of colors and style may not appeal to everyone. Overall, the graphics are praised for their uniqueness and quality, even if they evoke mixed reactions from some players.

    • “Cool arcade game with beautiful hand-drawn graphics.”
    • “Beautiful graphic, lovely music, fancy sprite animations, exciting stage road.”
    • “The hand-painted graphic art style is stunning.”
    • “Certain pick-ups and enemy types are easy to miss in the sensory hail, and the sequences where you have to stab the dragons to death can be really difficult because the visual and aural cues are hard to make sense of.”
    • “Might just be me, but I find the game's graphics kind of ugly, partly because of the abundance of colors and the lack of harmony between elements, and partly because I dislike its visual style.”
    • “[h1]graphics & sound: 3/10[/h1]”
  • gameplay
    34 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay combines a fresh spin on endless runner mechanics with tight, smooth controls and rewarding progression systems, appealing especially to fans of precise timing and momentum-based action. While praised for its charming art style, satisfying mechanics, and variety between characters, some users find the gameplay occasionally repetitive, challenging to read, or lacking intuitive explanations, which can hinder the flow and engagement for certain players. Overall, it offers a unique and enjoyable experience that may require some patience to fully appreciate.

    • “Gameplay is tight and smooth as butter making every jump, stomp and attack feel moorish.”
    • “Mechanics: you level up items you collect through the levels (and boy is it satisfying collecting that loot as you go) and spend your loot on items ranging from double jump moon boots to swords, all of which you can upgrade over time.”
    • “The gameplay centres on maintaining momentum and executing precisely timed jumps and dives in order to avoid enemies and collect valuable items.”
    • “Delightful visual style building upon a fresh take for the 'runner' style of gameplay lands just short of where excellence would be due to unclear readability of levels needed to reach a flow state.”
    • “The style is very neat, but the gameplay is just a runner with new abilities behind progression unlocks and I didn't find it that engaging.”
    • “Repetitive, doesn't explain its mechanics very well, and with a steep difficulty jump between levels.”
  • music
    28 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's music is widely praised for its timeless, dynamic chiptune soundtrack that beautifully complements the vibrant art style and gameplay. Many players find the music catchy, upbeat, and immersive, enhancing the overall experience with its varying styles and reactive elements. The soundtrack is considered a standout feature, often described as both relaxing and exciting, and is appreciated even independently from the game itself.

    • “Replaying it again on PC with the epic soundtrack reminded me why I love this game.”
    • “Seriously, this soundtrack is so good; it reacts to what you're doing, has different variations on the same song depending on the type of dragon, and even switches between chiptune and a full band version!”
    • “The music and art style carry you through every run like an electrical current.”
    • “During this whole dragon-slaying ordeal, weird upbeat chiptune music plays.”
    • “Earthnight also features some decent chiptune-style music.”
  • story
    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's story is generally considered vague and minimal, offering little depth or clear motivation for the player. While some appreciate the surreal and whimsical setting, most reviews note that the narrative is not a highlight and often feels secondary to the gameplay experience.

    • “Humans are fighting a losing battle against Chinese-style dragons; the few survivors go on missions to slay dragons and reclaim resources.”
    • “An amusing story and futuristic setting gives the game a degree of whimsical substance as well.”
    • “Starting the game up, the story is basic but workable.”
    • “But, honestly, the story isn't even that noteworthy once you unlock it, nor will it be the reason you'll be playing this game.”
    • “My biggest critique was that the game is very light on the story; frankly, we don't fully understand how or why we are where we are.”
    • “This is an endless running simulator, no levels, no good story, you just run.”
  • atmosphere
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's atmosphere is richly immersive, featuring five distinct layers of Earth's atmosphere beautifully depicted with hand-drawn art. Players experience a unique blend of skydiving and dragon-riding through increasingly strange and captivating environments, enhancing the sense of adventure and exploration. Overall, the atmosphere is a standout element that invites players to sink into its detailed and dynamic world.

    • “Earthnight is an absolutely fantastic runner game, where you skydive through each successive atmosphere, while landing on, running across, and slaying massive dragons.”
    • “Each new atmosphere layer shocks with hand-drawn brilliance.”
    • “In Earthnight you descend toward Earth from space, landing on the backs of the mighty Japanese and Chinese inspired dragons that float through the different layers of our atmosphere.”
  • grinding
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Reviews on grinding are mixed: while some find the gameplay fluid and enjoyable without feeling tedious, others criticize progression as overly grind-heavy, with many power-ups locked behind repetitive tasks that can hinder advancing in later stages.

    • “In terms of progression, it feels too grindy.”
    • “This game has every powerup locked behind a massive wall of grinding, and if you don't get lucky killing some of the later dragons, you face even more grinding to get the necessary powerups for the final level.”
  • optimization
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's optimization is criticized for poor performance, particularly on the Nintendo Switch, resulting in low frame rates and an overall subpar experience compared to modern standards.

    • “Well, this is not a huge achievement, but developers these days suck and don't care about optimization at all.”
    • “I purchased this a while back on the Nintendo Switch, but sadly it just didn't have the performance and the frames just weren't high enough.”
  • replayability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers a high level of replayability, providing players with ample reasons to return and enjoy it multiple times.

    • “Lots of replay value.”
  • character development
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The character development is enhanced by a cohesive art style and detailed character design, which together with the backgrounds effectively bring the characters to life.

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EarthNight is a arcade platformer game with fantasy and science fiction themes.

EarthNight is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 5, Mac OS and others.

EarthNight was released on December 2, 2019.

EarthNight was developed by Cleaversoft.

EarthNight has received mostly positive reviews from both players and critics. Most players liked EarthNight for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

EarthNight is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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