Astalon: Tears of the Earth on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Uphold your pact with the Titan of Death, Epimetheus! Fight, climb and solve your way through a twisted tower as three unique adventurers, on a mission to save their village from impending doom!

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is a fantasy, metroidvania and exploration game developed by LABS Works and published by DANGEN Entertainment.
Released on June 03rd 2021 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Russian, Ukrainian and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 1,211 reviews of which 1,096 were positive and 115 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Astalon: Tears of the Earth into these genres:

Fantasy Metroidvania Exploration Action-Adventure Pixel Graphics Action Platformer Adventure Retro 2D 2D Platformer Anime Old School Dark Fantasy Singleplayer Side Scroller Demons Hand-drawn Magic 1980s

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x64
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB) or higher
Storage: 600 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 600 MB available space

Linux

Processor: 1.8 GHz Dual-Core or higher
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Storage: 600 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Dec. 2025

Negatives first. There is a lot of required backtracking to progress. It gets a little better about 1/3 through the game though. Not much healing in the game and I died a lot to spikes. Tons of ground spikes everywhere. Dying means even more backtracking. The bosses are too easy and with character upgrades they are a joke. Now the good stuff. The pixel art is fantastic. It reminds me of the NES Mega Man games, but without 'sprite flickering' or 'frame drops'. The chiptune OST is great too. The exploration is fun, although it's hindered a little by the backtracking. Platforming and combat with minion mobs is well done. The characters are well designed, each one unique and fun to play. It's worth playing if you love both Metroidvania's and retro style games.

Oct. 2025

One of the best modern metroidvanias in this retro style! Is it very well-made, has an interesting story that isn't immediately obvious, original character-switching mechanic, well-thought puzzles, and overall balanced gameplay. Highly recommended!

Oct. 2025

I really didn't expect to like this that much but kept seeing good reviews. Tried it and beat it in 2 days. One of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've had in recent years. Thank you for the game.

Oct. 2025

One of the very few actually competent indie metroidvanias available, the long and the short of it is if you like the genre and, like me, are sick of the endless Game Maker asset flip metroidvanias with block walls that only mete out one or two hours of gameplay, get this game. It does everything right and everything well. My feelings about it however are a bit more nuanced and mostly just amount to issues with the aesthetic and OST, which you spend a lot of time with in a game like this. The game is really going for an authentic NES vibe, but in a full length metroidvania it's a little too cute with not much of a purpose (thanks Shovel Knight). The OST often becomes shrill and grating and many of the areas are visually "samey". Aside from different colored bricks, I never really felt like areas were distinct until the last couple of late game stages. The fact that this game may or may not play on a real NES or is marketed as a found footage NES game or whatever doesn't do much for me, when one could instead have a fully orchestrated soundtrack and more visual diversity. Not being much of a fan of the character switching mechanic from Castlevania 3, which I assume was the inspiration for a similar mechanic here, this feature was another gripe as in order to justify the mechanic there are several recurring arbitrary obstacles specific to various characters and this made getting around a real chore, with some areas requiring character switches midscreen and back just in the course of basic travel, even in areas you have long since cleared. You will never find a character you like and be able to generally stick with them if you want, because you are constantly switching in order to deal with character specific obstacles and enemy types. I'm sure for some people this might be enjoyable, but I found it made the game more of a slog than it needed to be. Anyway, those are quibbles. Overall the game is very well made and if more indie devs in the genre put half as much effort into their games as was put into Astalon, we would all be the better for it.

Sept. 2025

Just play it. Seriously.. it's one of the best Steam games I've ran into. Just Fantastic gameplay and puzzle solving.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth received 1,096 positive votes out of a total of 1,211 achieving a rating of 8.57.

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Astalon: Tears of the Earth was developed by LABS Works and published by DANGEN Entertainment.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is a single-player game.

There are 4 DLCs available for Astalon: Tears of the Earth. Explore additional content available for Astalon: Tears of the Earth on Steam.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth does not support Steam Remote Play.

Astalon: Tears of the Earth is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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