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As luchador Juan, explore a folklore-inspired world, fight with wrestling moves, swap dimensions, and open new paths.
Released 08 Aug 2013
Wrestling Moves Open Paths
Swap Between Two Worlds
Become a Chicken
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Developed by Drinkbox Studios · Published by Drinkbox Studios, Kepler Ghost
You play as Juan, a luchador drawn into a supernatural conflict in a colorful world inspired by Mexican folklore. Explore the worlds of the living and the dead as you battle enemies and search for hidden routes and secrets.
Combat and platforming share the same wrestling moves: techniques used to attack foes also help Juan cross obstacles and reach new areas. Switching between overlapping dimensions changes the layout around you, making it part of both exploration and combat.
Unlock new abilities to expand your moveset and access more of the map. The Gold Edition also includes the El Infierno challenge level, where completing challenges unlocks costumes with different attributes. The story supports drop-in, drop-out local co-op for two players.
Players often praise the responsive, satisfying wrestling combat and how its moves also power platforming and exploration. Colorful art, music, humor, and the folklore-inspired setting are recurring highlights. Reactions to the challenge vary: some enjoy mastering demanding sequences, while others find late-game fights and platforming frustrating or overly difficult.
Guacamelee! Gold Edition is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
Guacamelee! builds on the classic open-world Metroidvania style of games by adding deep melee combat, a new dimension switching mechanic, and cooperative local multiplayer. The game also blurs the boundaries between combat and platforming by making many moves useful and necessary for both.
Travel through a mystical and mysterious Mexican world as a luchador using the power of your two fists to battle evil. Uncover hidden wrestling techniques like the Rooster Uppercut, and Dimension Swap to open new areas and secrets.
Use combat moves for both fighting enemies and platforming challenges
Swap between multiple overlapping dimensions (World of the Living and the World of the Dead)
This Gold Edition of Guacamelee! includes the "El Infierno" level expansion. Brave the fires of El Infierno and prove yourself in a series of challenges to unlock powerful new costumes for Juan and Tostada
Player costumes! Swap costumes to change the attributes of your Hero, and obtain new achievements
Steam Achievements, Leaderboards, Cloud Save, and Trading Cards
Create new custom costumes and share these with others via Steam Workshop
Drop in/out 2-Player local co-operative play for the entire story
Chickens. Lots and lots of Chickens
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition is now free for owners of Guacamelee! Gold Edition on Steam. This expanded version adds new powers, levels, enemies, and improved gameplay and graphics.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 60 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | Guacamelee! Gold Edition supports single-player and local cooperative multiplayer. The provided store text explicitly states drop-in/drop-out 2-player local co-op for the entire story. Store features also list shared/split screen and Remote Play Together, but no native online multiplayer is stated. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop support is described for creating and sharing custom costumes. The provided text does not state that mods add or change multiplayer functionality. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 88/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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