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Ral / Dec 8, 2022 / Action, Adventure, Indie
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The year is 2506. A vestige of humankind, you’ve been sent to Earth on the faint hopes that you will find more than the corpse of a once hospitable planet. Instead, you find a landscape blooming with lush, mutated new life.
| Part | Your PC | MinimumNot sure | RecommendedNot sure |
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| CPU | Not set | 1.6hz Can't tell | Not listed Can't tell |
| GPU | Not set | NVIDIA GeForce 5+ ATI Radeon R300+ Can't tell | Not listed Can't tell |
| RAM | Not set | 1 GB RAM Can't tell | Not listed Can't tell |
Minor bug fixes and performance improvements. Removed obsolete link. Fixed crouch animation at end of game. Several art improvements, most notably a recoloring of the field level to improve contrast with particle effect.
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82% positive, 11 reviews
As a lover of pixel art games, I had a lot of fun playing Halcyon. I felt immediately drawn in by its bare, haunting sci-fi story and the game’s visual design. The silhouettes felt fresh and surprising – I loved the giant bees and praying mantises and the tone they set re: a much-changed Earrth filled with futuristic megafauna. The random spawns and layered music that queues when enemies are near kept me on my toes...
5 found this helpful, 2022-12-17
Halcyon is a very stylistic action platformer that is pretty short but nicely packed with a good variety of enemies and level themes. The game handles its atmosphere and world building very well, it manages to create an unnerving environment with its interesting and unique art style. Progression requires a lot of trial and error so do expect to die a lot, you will have to learn the mechanics or you will be punished...
4 found this helpful, 2023-02-06
Giving a 10th score, positive, to this short game (1 plus to 2 hour plus depending on your ability). Liked very much the graphics. No map. Your weapon range is long and kills foes out of screen -and you have a very convenient autoaim option in menus that helps with that-. Manage your jetpack power meter, to hover and kill enemies from above to evade damage. Or rise to their level if flying to better target them. An...
0 found this helpful, 2023-10-22
I'm always inclined to support efforts of developing new games that run on older hardware. There is a vast crowd out there that is still using hardware that only has Intel integrated graphics and there's another crowd that will receive hand-me-down computers soon or will bargain their way through used computer sales. However, the game as it is right now is unplayable, and I'm not inclined to believe the issue lies...
1 found this helpful, 2023-01-01
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