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Explore a ruined world as Harlo, fighting, platforming, and solving puzzles with abilities copied from defeated creatures.
Released 05 Apr 2024
Morph Into Defeated Beasts
Solve Creature-Power Puzzles
Rebuild Blightmoor
BIOMORPH is a dark metroidvania game where you become the creatures that you kill! Solve ingenious puzzles and navigate a stunning hand-drawn world. Meet quirky characters, rebuild a city, and uncover the secrets of a sprawling, fallen civilization… and of your own mysterious origins.
Developed by Lucid Dreams Studio · Published by Lucid Dreams Studio
BIOMORPH is a 2D metroidvania in which Harlo explores a sprawling, interconnected world surrounding the city of Blightmoor. Along the way, Harlo encounters hostile creatures, unusual inhabitants, and clues about a fallen civilization and their own origins.
Defeating creatures lets Harlo unlock their forms and use their abilities for combat, platforming, and environmental puzzles. Players can equip up to three forms at a time, alongside melee and ranged weapons, skills, chips, and mementos.
The nonlinear adventure encourages revisiting areas with newly acquired abilities to reach hidden paths, upgrades, and optional challenges. Players can also develop their equipment and skills, meet Blightmoor’s inhabitants, and rebuild and customize the city.
Players who enjoyed BIOMORPH often praised the creature-transformation system for adding options to exploration, puzzles, and combat, along with the interconnected world and map features that help track discoveries. The art and the chance to rebuild Blightmoor also appealed to some reviewers. The transformation mechanic was not a hit for everyone: some found its limited equipped forms made backtracking frustrating.
In BIOMORPH, players must use their skills to explore a vast, varied world. Solve puzzles and platforming challenges, fight deadly monsters and take their shapes to use their powers. But beware – every conquered creature can come back with new and even more threatening powers. Players will level-up their character as they fight through the vast areas around the city, collecting new abilities, mementos and chips. The journey will reveal surprising and alarming truths about our hero’s own origins.
Play as the enemies by killing them and taking their shape. You will be able to use their skills to fight other enemies or use their powers to navigate in uncharted territories.
Fight your way through a challenging AI system where previously mimicked creatures unlock new powers to create a unique experience while revisiting areas of the game.
Choose your fighting style by using an arsenal of melee and range weapons, each of them having its own upgrade tree, to bash and shoot enemies. Create different builds in support of your play style by equipping and mixing different unique skills that you can upgrade.
Explore a vast non-linear, interconnected world composed of many different environments, home of optional boss fights, eccentric NPCs, tons of secrets and upgrades to reward the most daring explorer.
Rebuild the city of Blightmoor and befriend it's inhabitants, learning more about their daily life and the town’s origins. Customize the look of the city to make it your own.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 30 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
