Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Flow gracefully through a colorful, hand-drawn 2.5D action platformer inspired by Japanese folklore. Engage in acrobatic aerial combat, unlock powerful mystical abilities, and explore an interconnected world of myth as you seek to unravel the mysteries of your origin.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is a metroidvania, side scroller and precision platformer game
developed by Squid Shock Studios, Christopher Stair and Trevor Youngquist
and published by Humble Games.
Released on July 17th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian.
It has received 1,245 reviews of which 1,032 were positive and 213 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- OS: 10
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 or AMD Phenom II X4 940
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 2 GB or Intel UHD Graphics
- Additional Notes: Low 1080p @ 30 FPS
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Path of the Teal Lotus is a small hollow-knightish experience. The devs nailed the fundamentals with smooth and responsive controls and charming backgrounds and characters. Gameplay relies heavily on pogoing on enemies and props, both for platforming and fighting. It's very satisfying to manage a long sequence without touching the ground, or to keep pogoing on a boss while dodging its attacks. Level design is typical medtroidvania (obtain new skills to access new areas) with very little backtracking. Design is good, in that every zone is intentional and has a challenge to it (as opposed to other games where it's just an arbitrary sequence of platforms and enemies). DIfficulty is on the easy side but it doens't get boring at any point, and bosses are quite interesting. In summary, great game. It's a bit short (12h for me) and has very little replayability, but I'd recommend it for sure over any other game in the endless metroidvania clone market.
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---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus is a great game on it's own, but it lacks something special that causes it to "blend in" and not stand out too much among it's other metroidvania competitors (especially Nine Sols, which released a little earlier). There are still places where it can easily improve with a little update, but given that the game no longer seem to recieve any updates; I think it's safe to say that development has likely been stopped indefinitely. Humble games being shut down right before this game got released was definitely the killing blow for this young little metroidvania filled with potentiall. A real shame, since it's clear that the team was very passionate about this game.
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This is a good, albeit short, action platformer. Though similar to Hollow Knight and Nine Sols, it is much, much easier than those games, with a slight twist in that it has extremely heavy emphasis on aerial combat. The gameplay is good, though it definitely feels a bit more loose than its competitors. It didn't make me struggle at all, but there's something a little unsatisfying about the way that the hits connect that is exacerbated by my hours in Hollow Knight. The art is definitely the best part of the whole thing and the soundtrack is good but not amazing. However, objectively the story is very, very predictable and ham-fisted in some parts. For the small team that developed this, I think its very impressive and worth getting for that alone. If I were trying to introduce someone to this style of game, I would start here rather than Hollow Knight or Nine Sols because its more accessible, shorter, but is still quality. I could see myself as a teenager being absolutely enamored with it, but since I'm more seasoned I have higher expectations. Still, I'm happy with my purchase and liked the experience overall, which is really what matters in the end.
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I adored this game, now, this really has it's own personality and voice but the Hollow knight inspiration is unmistakeable, main character is a tiny dude with a big head and a cloak, there is the pogo, there is a fragile flower-esque side mission (screw you dev btw) BUT it is as good as Hollow knight so there is nothing to say in that aspect, more HK is not a negative. The art is amazing, the combat puts way more enfasis on air combat, and the movement is smooth as butter when I got all the movement techniques I was just sipping away. And a particularly great system that this game has even if it goes a bit under the radar is the economy of this game, there are other games that you get so much currency that it actually becomes a non-issue but in this game the money is tight but there is little need for grind, and if you're not going for a 100% you actually need to think through your purchases. Now what I don't like, it feels short, I would have liked at least one more zone (I could have swore that this game was gonna have a Ryugu-jo biome) but I mean it could be a possitive to have a shorter game... What doesn't have any excuse is the final boss, story wise it feels like there is too little build-up for it and gameplay wise is a slog, 6 phases, all of them with quite a bit of HP and 3 of them need you to use movement gimmiks. There are achievements for ending a run without dying once and for never using your healing kettle, and with this hurdle in the literal finish line is a horrendous cherry on top.
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Great style and soundtrack even if game play doesn't live up to it's potential. Still a very fun 10-15 hours. Not quite Hollow Knight or Nine sols but what is? Definitely worth it.
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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus received 1,032 positive votes out of a total of 1,245 achieving a rating of 7.90.
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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus was developed by Squid Shock Studios, Christopher Stair and Trevor Youngquist and published by Humble Games.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is not playable on MacOS.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is not playable on Linux.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus. Explore additional content available for Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus on Steam.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus does not support Steam Remote Play.
Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus 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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Online players
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Developer
Squid Shock Studios,
Christopher Stair,
Trevor Youngquist
Publisher
Humble Games
Release
17 Jul 2024
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