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Sundered (2017)

Thunder Lotus

Linux · Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One · Xbox Series X|S

3.18 from 169 ratings

1685 members have it in their collection · 20 playing now · 1063 backlogged · 88 wish listed

How long? Main story 13h · with extras 10h · 100% 15h (from 9 logged playthroughs)

Sundered is a horrifying fight for survival and sanity, a hand­-drawn epic from the ​creators of ​Jotun. You play Eshe, a wanderer in a ruined world, trapped in ever­-changing caverns teeming with eldritch horrors. Harness the power of corrupted relics to defeat gigantic bosses, at the cost of your humanity.
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Details

Developers
Thunder Lotus
Publishers
Thunder Lotus
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Platform
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Horror
Events
PC Gaming Show 2017, PlayStation Experience 2016 Showcase
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jul 28, 2017 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4
  • Dec 21, 2018 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch

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Rating distribution

5 stars
16
4 stars
56
3 stars
50
2 stars
37
1 star
10
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Community All Reviews Statuses

Zetille03

Status Zetille03 Jan 7, 2025

Increíble artwork e historia. El diseño de niveles es ok pero los bosses están muy mal hechos, movimientos toscos que ni siquiera podrían ser bien encadenados con skill de movimientos. Todo elemento metroidvania esta mediocremente implementado y encima para amenizar la exploración deciden despojar los niveles de posiciones fijas de enemigos y poner aleatoriamente hordas de enemigos que te empiezan …

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Increíble artwork e historia. El diseño de niveles es ok pero los bosses están muy mal hechos, movimientos toscos que ni siquiera podrían ser bien encadenados con skill de movimientos. Todo elemento metroidvania esta mediocremente implementado y encima para amenizar la exploración deciden despojar los niveles de posiciones fijas de enemigos y poner aleatoriamente hordas de enemigos que te empiezan a avasallar la pantalla. Honestamente no solo esto me parece una muy mala decisión, sino que encima no está bien calculado el número de enemigos (entiendo que las zonas de hordas ilimitadas es simplemente para que salgas corriendo de ahí, por eso no me refiero a esas). No he podido pasar del boss de la catedral, bastante tedioso y diseño del nivel muy pobre.

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danyazhe

Status danyazhe Jul 1, 2023

The description of the game says that players have to fight creatures inspired by Lovecraft's books, but I doubt that he wrote about endlessly spawning giant robots that can snipe you with a huge laser across the map

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Arcade

Status Arcade Sep 3, 2021

It's rare that I return to a game and play several more hours only to end up giving it an even lower score.

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maeday

Status maeday Jul 14, 2021

Someone also gifted me this (these were birthday gifts) and, uh, as with Jotun it's very pretty but...absolutely no idea where I'm going, what I'm doing or who I even am. Though, unlike Jotun it's actually nice to play, and I don't mind getting deeper into it because it's so intriguing. We'll see how I feel once a few hours …

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Someone also gifted me this (these were birthday gifts) and, uh, as with Jotun it's very pretty but...absolutely no idea where I'm going, what I'm doing or who I even am. Though, unlike Jotun it's actually nice to play, and I don't mind getting deeper into it because it's so intriguing. We'll see how I feel once a few hours and some discoveries go by.

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maeday

Status maeday Jul 4, 2021

I feel like Thunder Lotus - who made Jotun, a game that was so bland gameplay wise I couldn't even get an hour into it, and I usually give things a fair shake, and also made Sundered, which I'm currently trying to get into - are really great at visuals and sound design and Sundered plays super smooth and all …

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I feel like Thunder Lotus - who made Jotun, a game that was so bland gameplay wise I couldn't even get an hour into it, and I usually give things a fair shake, and also made Sundered, which I'm currently trying to get into - are really great at visuals and sound design and Sundered plays super smooth and all but...there's like no story to anything they do. It feels like their entire MO is just "yeah go explore, maybe there's some plot down the road" and like, I like Metroidvanias, Hollow Knight is awesome, but that isn't a game guys. I feel like Sundered at least has something worth playing through for, but even still there's a million directions and yet no direction, you know?

I don't know man, maybe I'm just getting old.

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Sadaharu_TR

Status Sadaharu_TR Sep 23, 2020

Thunder Lotus Games, Ng'yehaer'llw'aetaght'litagehph & Taght'eh Shht'yng'yng'gl Tagr'laeph'ehts'liht'ehct'r'lling prouds of you.

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maimegidola

Status maimegidola Jan 9, 2020

Sundered is free on Epic today. Strange, but I could have sworn it was For the King when I looked last week... Grouvee, am I going crazy?

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BMO

Status BMO Dec 29, 2019

Have you ever put hours upon hours into a game and yet remain ambivalent about it?

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C_M_

Status C_M_ Sep 30, 2019

Not exactly terrible, but it certainly isn't winning me over. I have far more issues with the game than I do praise.

There's no weight to the combat—the enemies do not react to being hit and it feels like you're swinging around a cardboard tube. The enemies' "attack patterns" are completely mindless as they just swarm the entire screen.

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Not exactly terrible, but it certainly isn't winning me over. I have far more issues with the game than I do praise.

There's no weight to the combat—the enemies do not react to being hit and it feels like you're swinging around a cardboard tube. The enemies' "attack patterns" are completely mindless as they just swarm the entire screen.

The exploration is mostly uninteresting,, the platforming is boring, and the lazily implemented, partially-procedural level generation doesn't add anything to the game.

The controls manage to be both rigid (in that some animations are non-cancelable/have awkward startup conditions) and loose/floaty at the same time, which lends itself to feeling like total ass to play (as opposed to good floaty controls, like Super Meat Boy).

I simply can't recommend this game to anyone when so many better alternatives exist. The biggest thing this game has going for it is that the art and gameplay look "le epic" for promotional videos.

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