Stardust Demon looks fantastic for retro metroidvania adventure fans

Planned to release sometime this year, Stardust Demon is a retro-style metroidvania adventure game inspired by Cave Story, Zelda, and many more. Featuring cute chibi characters wrapped in some dark and spooky undertones.

Story: Algol is a perpetually sleepy demon who lives on the planet Klonix, alongside the other demons. During a routine feeding of the omnipotent statue, The Anuracanth, a unidentified starship crash-lands into it. Chaos ensues and the universe starts to unfurl. Along the way Algol meets Scringles, who has a chipper energetic attitude, and the nefarious poachers, who travel between planets kidnapping creatures and have a plan more sinister than anyone could imagine!

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Features:

• Mixture of platforming, action, and puzzle gameplay.
• Exploring multiple planets.
• Weird and wonderful NPC's, rich and vibrant worlds.
• Shops and optional quests.
• Cutscenes with charming sprite animations.
• Puzzles with varied mechanics including teleporting, reversing time for specific platforms, and more.
• Many secrets and upgrades to be found.

Some of the player abilities:

• Blast baddies with fire breathe.
• Throw bombs that stick to anything.
• Teleport boxes to solve puzzles.
• Reflect beam that bounces against walls & neutralises static charges.
• Dash forward with a powerful thrust.
• Pogo stick bouncing.

At release it will have Native Linux support.

You can follow it on Steam.