Plus Ultra: Legado

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Plus Ultra: Legado is a single player open world platformer game with a historical theme. It was developed by Póntica and was released on October 9, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Explore the New WorldTraverse the beautiful, immense lands of Mesoamerica! This interconnected world blends real-world, historical locations. A love letter to our rich legacy. Wield your halberd!You've seen lots of laser guns and swords. Even whips! But... Halberds? Man, that's such a cool and underrated weapon for video games! Ideal for pogos! A Comicvania!Comic art style blends into gameplay…

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75%Audience ScoreBased on 20 reviews

graphics6 positive mentions

gameplay3 negative mentions

The game features a beautiful and unique comic book art style with detailed and immersive environments, enhanced by great ambient sound and a fitting soundtrack.
Exploration and platforming elements offer fun and memorable challenges, especially after acquiring advanced movement abilities, with a large interconnected map.
The setting and historical context provide an interesting and educational backdrop, presenting a rarely explored 16th-century Mesoamerican and colonial era perspective.

Combat is overly simplistic, with frustrating hit detection issues, unbalanced and tedious boss fights, and an overall limited move set making fights unrewarding.
Lack of effective map markers, late introduction of fast travel, and excessive backtracking contribute to poor pacing and player frustration.
Platforming controls are clunky with floaty movement, absence of ledge grappling, and imprecise physics, worsened by problematic dog companion levels and softlocks in certain areas.

story
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23%
54%
23%
The story is set during the early colonization of Mexico, effectively exploring the cultural clash between Mesoamerican and Spanish peoples, but its execution is uneven with long gaps between key events that make it hard to follow. While the narrative shows promise and benefits from a distinctive comic art style, it suffers from a lack of clarity, inconsistent pacing, and a somewhat generic, poorly explained plot with a weak ending.
- “Also how you feel like you are in a story.”
- “The comic art style is nice, the story looks promising.”
- “Story: the story takes place during the early colonization of Mexico, and the clash of Mesoamerican and Spanish cultures is well-explained.”
- “Most infuriating is that there seems to be no quest log, dialog log or anything that tells me what is going on or where to go.”
- “The story beats are unevenly spread across the game, only really picking up at the end.”
- “The story is somewhat generic (no problem with that), but its execution is lacking and sometimes the plot doesn't explain anything, plus the ending is kind of lazy.”
graphics
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60%
10%
30%
The game's graphics feature a striking hand-drawn, comic-style art that is visually captivating and suits its narrative tone well. While praised for its jaw-dropping and aesthetically pleasing visuals, some find certain graphical elements basic or occasionally distracting. Overall, the unique European comic aesthetic is a standout aspect that enhances the game's appeal.
- “This game is incredibly, jawdroppingly gorgeous and I'm not just talking about the art style and assets alone.”
- “The hand-drawn comic style really attracts you with the visuals as well as the controls were super solid and the animations were great.”
- “It's pretty, but it gets annoying after a while as some graphical aspects of the game like birds flying directly to the screen.”
- “So far I've mostly listed negatives but there's one major positive that made me give this a thumbs up after the latest patch, the visuals.”
- “Its aesthetic and dialogue have a comic book style that suits it really well.”
gameplay
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17%
33%
50%
Gameplay in this title is a mixed experience, with stylish design often prioritized over usability, leading to notable issues such as delayed introduction of fast travel that makes mid-game exploration tedious. Combat, especially boss fights, is inconsistent, but exploration remains engaging in the early and late stages. Overall, gameplay has some frustrating elements that detract from the experience despite its strong artistic design.
- “- how the design itself becomes part of the gameplay”
- “But there are a few glaring gameplay issues that just ruin the experience.”
- “Generally speaking, the art is excellent, the combat is hit or miss (especially with the bosses, which are mostly negative), exploration is fun in the early and late game, but the fast travel mechanic is introduced pretty late, making the mid-game exploration very monotonous.”
- “First, the fast travel mechanic is not introduced until about halfway through the game, forcing you to spend a lot of time going through areas you've already seen.”
music
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
67%
33%
The music in the game is highly praised for enhancing immersion and fitting the overall atmosphere, with standout tracks particularly in the headquarters. The soundtrack evokes nostalgia and adds to the enjoyment, though some users suggest adjusting sound mixing to better highlight the music over other audio elements. Overall, it significantly contributes to the game's engaging experience.
- “This little thing makes the game feel much more immersive, further bolstered by the great ambient sound effects which transport you to the jungles and mountains of Mesoamerica. The music fits in with the vibe as well, featuring some good tracks across the board.”
- “Special praise goes to the music that plays while in headquarters, but it's all pretty good.”
- “The OST is a nostalgia that adds to the fun hours put into this; it will definitely keep you entertained for hours.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game’s stability is compromised by buggy hit detection, which affects combat reliability and overall gameplay experience.
- “Your weapon's buggy hit detection.”

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Plus Ultra: Legado is a open world platformer game with historical theme.

Plus Ultra: Legado is available on PC, Mac OS, Steam Deck and Windows.

On average players spend around 16 hours playing Plus Ultra: Legado.

Plus Ultra: Legado was released on October 9, 2025.

Plus Ultra: Legado was developed by Póntica.

Plus Ultra: Legado has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Plus Ultra: Legado for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

Plus Ultra: Legado is a single player game.

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