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Downwell
81 Score
Action · Adventure · Arcade · Casual · Indie · Platformer

Downwell

Devolver Digital  /  October 14, 2015  /  Rated Unrated

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Released

2015

Time to beat

~2 hrs

Community

2,609

This is a procedurally generated rogue-lite, that lets players to explore the depths of a well. Taking a role of Welltaro, local curious man, players will drop down the well to kill monsters and collect the treasure. Simple three button controls are consisting of left and right movement and an action button. The action button will make a character jump, and while airborne, pressing and holding the button will give players the ability to shoot below them from the gunboots. But ammo is limited and replenished only when players are landing on the platforms.
Explorable well is built out of multiple stages where each has three levels with different environments. After beating a level, players will be offered to pick one of three perks. A total amount of existing different perks are 20. Downwell has a combo system, which gives players a buff that makes attacks stronger if the combo score is high enough. To make their character stronger, players can buy gunboot charge and health upgrades.

Downwell is a 2015 roguelike vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital. The first game to be developed solely by Ojiro Fumoto, it was released for iOS and Microsoft Windows in October 2015, for Android in January 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in May 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released in January 2019. British studio Red Phantom Games developed the Switch and PlayStation ports.

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recommended
56.4%
exceptional
19.31%
meh
19.09%
skip
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