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Join Pampas and Selene as they overcome monsters, demons, and the Dark Priest with the help of the gods themselves! Explore this co-opvania 8-bit platformer alone or with a friend. This retro game is a loving tribute to an MSX2 masterpiece from the creator of UnEpic, Ghost 1.0, and UnMetal.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is a metroidvania, pixel graphics and retro game developed by @unepic_fran and published by Unepic Games.
Released on May 21st 2024 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Russian.

It has received 357 reviews of which 326 were positive and 31 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons into these genres:

Metroidvania Pixel Graphics Retro Local Co-Op Singleplayer Online Co-Op Split Screen 2D Platformer 1980s Controller Action Magic Female Protagonist Medieval Fantasy Adventure Co-op Campaign Exploration Demons Old School

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP or later
  • Processor: 2Ghz or faster processer
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce)
  • DirectX: Version 8.0
  • Storage: 250 MB available space

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March 2025
More than just a cute metroidvania, this game innovates a new improvement on the entire genre. Specifically, when you beat a boss, you pick one of the two main characters to take the boss heart which increases their potential max health, but to actually get that max health increased you have to then level that character, which means going around whacking monsters. The game's map is not too big, and also the monsters don't instantly respawn when you leave and reenter a room, which means you have to just go out wandering from room to room in whichever direction you choose. By doing this, you'll end up finding stuff you had no idea you'd ever find. It finally fixes one of the problems that almost all metroidvanias had since Metroid, which was pointless wandering with no real goal except hoping that you'll wander into a new area. This system adds a gigantic incentive for that wandering, with the game map being at just the right size to work great with this type of leveling/health system. That's just one detail of the game too, but it's a total deal maker for me, because I love the genre but I've played a lot of metroidvanias where you're just supposed to blindly backtrack and spend hours rubbing against walls and dead ends hoping that one of them suddenly becomes the next path forward. This game creates one of the best solutions I've ever seen. Also it's really cute and fun and has great controls, environments, and even the simple fun little combat ramps up with the tons of new items and upgrades you get as you keep playing.
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Jan. 2025
Solid game overall! For fans of Maze of Gallious or La-Mulana, this is a strong recommendation - this is lighter on riddles / lore / puzzles than La-Mulana, but what's here is still nice. For casual metroidvania fans it's a little less clear of a recommendation - if you like other action-exploration games where your dude/gal is the size of a wall tile (Legacy of the Wizard comes to mind) this might hit that itch. There were stretches of the game I found a little dull/rote and some of the bosses were really annoying, but there were enough stretches or flashes of brilliance that I left feeling really satisfied. A LOT of love clearly went into making this.
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Dec. 2024
Recommend, but with a caveat: if you plan on playing co-op it is great EXCEPT for the final boss. Played the entire game co-op, pretty much everything went great. Some boss fights were a little more oriented towards one character, but that was fine and gave each player some good moments of feeling important. Loved the music, loved the art style, loved exploring. However, the final boss was definitely designed with single-player in mind so there are attacks that just can't be dodged by certain characters which makes it maybe impossible (or at the very least, extremely difficult). We had to just switch to single player and one person just played it while the other watched. Not an ideal way to end an otherwise great co-op experience. Still highly recommend it for the other 95% of the game, some great couch co-op gameplay in this one for sure.
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Dec. 2024
very good game I would recommend but the fact that its a multiplayer game but achievements are disabled on multiplayer is beyond stupid,
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Oct. 2024
I am at 30% with two of the ten bosses defeated. If you've played La-Mulana, this is not it. The difficulty is low, there are no puzzles, no stone tablets, barely any lore, and the platforming is actually fine. All you do is run around searching for upgrades and bosses. There is barely anything to uncover or get invested in (aside from achievements). Just simple, bare-bones exploration. There are NPCs that offer you a bunch of upgrades. Pretty much all of them require you to complete a quest. Most of these are just the regular kill-and-collect kind, with only a few of them requiring a little bit of brain power. In general, there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of this. I just want you to know what this is/isn't before you buy it. If you're looking for a light-weight exploration platformer, this one's a solid pick. You can even play it with your kid (it has co-op), should they have trouble beating it. A word of warning for completionists: This game has a bunch of things that are locked behind additional purchases. Additional skins and game modes require the supporter dlc, the ferret pet requires the ferret dlc, and the penitent skin requires that you own the game blasphemous on steam. That kind of stuff. I don't think it's a big deal, but if you're the kind of person that obsesses over these things, consider yourself informed.
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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons received 326 positive votes out of a total of 357 achieving a rating of 8.43.
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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons was developed by @unepic_fran and published by Unepic Games.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is not playable on MacOS.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is not playable on Linux.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 3 DLCs available for Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons. Explore additional content available for Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons on Steam.

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons 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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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons
9.75€
8.4
326
31
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
8
Developer
@unepic_fran
Publisher
Unepic Games
Release 21 May 2024
Platforms
Remote Play
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