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Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Downwell is a precision platformer, action roguelike and pixel graphics game developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on October 15th 2015 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Turkish.

It has received 8,200 reviews of which 7,921 were positive and 279 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.99€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Downwell into these genres:

Precision Platformer Action Roguelike Pixel Graphics Indie Platformer Arcade 2D Platformer Action Difficult 2D Fast-Paced Retro Adventure Singleplayer Shoot 'Em Up Rogue-like Procedural Generation Rogue-lite Replay Value Great Soundtrack

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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 or later
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Controller recommended.

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025
Not my type of game--I find procedurally-generated levels boring--but this is perfect for fast-twitch 2D platformer lovers. I recommend it in spite of my own dislike of this type of game.
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Dec. 2024
Lost my save after re-downloading the game a year after uninstalling. Fortunately, you can easily edit your savefile to get back what you previously had if you go through \AppData\Local\Downwell_v1_0_5
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Dec. 2024
Downwell feels like a phone game (stay with me) from the golden age of phone games, when they were actually great games just for small screens. I beat this 100% on steam and on my playstation VITA, its 3$. Buy it and beat it till you're sick of it.
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July 2024
You can totally live your life without playing this, but the thing is: it's super cheap and well executed! Pretty challenging, but manageable. Just focus on playing it slow with the Arm Spin Style before going for those addicting combos!
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June 2024
TLDR: 9/10 A great fast-paced, short-but-sweet rougelike that's so easy to lose track of time playing. If you think you have good reaction time, then think again. This game is absolutely brutal. Actual Review (No Spoilers) You could very easily mistake this for an arcade game. It's got an old-school aesthetic and quarter-munching difficulty that would have made bank if it came out back in the day. The gameplay loop is really polished with basically zero downtime between runs, and the entire runtime of the game on average is like 7-10 minutes. Overall the entire package is just really refined and concise, but it still has a really high skill ceiling. This game is all about dodging enemies, losing as little health as possible, and hoping you get good upgrades. So when I say the skill ceiling is really high, basically 70% of your skill at this game is how fast your reaction time is. You will be falling towards enemies at breakneck speeds, all while trying to manage your ammo and keep your combo counter up. The retro 8-bit style not only looks cool, but also helps with readability, which is mega important in a game like this. You also get color palette swaps to further customize the look of the game. For what the game is, I honestly would've given it a 10/10 if the upgrade system didn't have some annoying issues. Firstly, there are very clearly best and worst ones. Every upgrade has it's uses (especially combining certain ones with the different unlockable styles), but some upgrades are still pretty niche. Secondly, getting bad upgrades make runs WAY harder. You're pretty much screwed if you get bad rng unless you're totally cracked at games like these. Since you'll get about 75% of all upgrades per run anyway, its unlikely that you'll miss all the ones you want. But it's still really annoying when you get bad upgrades early on, or get good ones too late into a run to be fully useful. Thankfully the weapons aren't as skewed, and a lot of them really just come down to personal preference. This is also one of those games with a couple "good fucking luck getting this" achievements. Every achievement comes down to putting in the time, but also just with the nature of rougelikes being random, it can take either a moderate amount of time, or will feel stupidly impossible. Worth it? Probably not unless you have too much time on your hands. But even if you don't, the game itself still is absolutely worth checking out. It's fun and rewarding and it's all wrapped up into a short but sweet package. 9/10
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Frequently Asked Questions

Downwell is currently priced at 2.99€ on Steam.

Downwell is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 2.99€ on Steam.

Downwell received 7,921 positive votes out of a total of 8,200 achieving an impressive rating of 9.35.
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Downwell was developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital.

Downwell is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Downwell is not playable on MacOS.

Downwell is not playable on Linux.

Downwell is a single-player game.

Downwell does not currently offer any DLC.

Downwell does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Downwell supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Downwell 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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Downwell
2.99€ -34% 2.99€ 1.99€
9.4
7,921
279
Game modes
Features
Online players
17
Developer
Moppin
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Release 15 Oct 2015
Platforms
Remote Play
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