Driven Out
Driven Out is a challenging 2D side-scroller with deliberate combat and beautiful 16-bit retro aesthetic. A farmer is forced from her home into a dangerous world in upheaval. Forced to fight dangerous fantastical creatures.
Luckily she has stumbled upon a magical contraption that creates copies of herself if she perishes. As long as this device has power she can place custom checkpoints. However it is a fragile device and if the enemies choose to attack the device it will quickly break.
Features
Deliberate combat. Read the enemy and act accordingly.
Beautiful 16 bit retro art style with fluid animations.
Seamless world without any in-game load screens.
Checkpoints can be placed anywhere.
Destructible checkpoint,
Skill based combat. No character progression and no loot.
1 player
DUALSHOCK®4
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Game Discussion
Steam User 0
It's the successor to A Bastard's Tale, and it's exactly what you can expect if you know that game already: slow-paced battles where you have to learn how an enemy initiates a certain attack, so as to parry it and counter-attack. It's very rewarding but also very punishing. Even a device obtained at the very beginning, which works as a portable checkpoint, must be placed carefully, lest it be destroyed along with any chance of resurrecting from a failure.
It's also amazing to look at. Seriously, when mentioning examples of great pixel art from games of the last decade, one would hardly think of Driven Out, and yet it deserves all the praise, even more as there is a notable variety of enemies for such a short game (it seems longer only because it kicks the player's ass all the time), like giant beetles, a goat turned into a monster, monkeys of various sizes, and a few surprises at the end.
Not many will be able to enjoy it in full but I can't deny the "craftsmanship" poured into it. So unfortunate they've gone from this to Hammer of Virtue, which looks like the developers were replaced by their evil twins.
Steam User 0
Great game, great soundtrack, amazing pixel art.