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A metroidvania with RPG elements filled with ennemies and epic fights.
Become the hero of an epic quest in Elderand, a metroidvania that will test your will and skill. Heads will literally roll in this gruesome, retro-inspired action platformer, where only the strong will survive in brutal, skill-based combat against terrifying creatures. Through the darkness and madness, promised glory awaits. Wield a variety of killing instruments and abilities to test your metal against towering, bone-chilling bosses. Explore a twisted Lovecraftian world shrouded in darkness and madness. RPG elements allow you to customize your battle experience to your liking, from your character’s appearance to skills, stats, and weapons. Slay or be slain as you collect glory and treasure in this nightmarish 2D world. Glory and riches await those who can spill the required blood and guts to collect it. KEY FEATURES: •Wield an arsenal of killing devices, including whips, swords, daggers, axes, bows, and more. From a magical staff that shoots bursts of energy to a giant sword, different weapons have different stats and capabilities, so find the ones that you enjoy battling beasts with the most! •Satisfying Metroidvania-style exploration meets terrifying Lovecraftian creatures in this detailed hand-drawn pixel world with glorious gothic aesthetics and handcrafted level design. •RPG elements let you customize your experience to best suit your play style, from your character’s appearance to their skills, stats, and weapons. Collect loot from exploration and fallen enemies and then use it to upgrade your weapons via crafting. •Travel to the many corners of this perilous land, such as an inviting village with merchants, a forest, a temple prison, floating islands, a cursed Cathedral, and the hellscape that is Elderand itself. •More than 60 different enemy types and around a dozen bosses for your slaying pleasure. •Collect lost letters and other correspondence from the poor souls who came before you to learn more about the darkness taking hold of this grim land.
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Cool Game!
- Levi Korop · v1.3.22
nice with the controller
- Michael Richardson · v1.3.22
The narrative is compelling and appropriately concise. Its difficulty level is well-balanced, being neither overly simplistic nor excessively challenging.
- Robin Arana · v1.3.22
pretty good metroidvania game but this needs more content. A DLC should fixed it up.
- Sven Harkkon · v1.3.22
wonderful, works perfectly fine with a controller
- Antony Tjan · v1.3.22
I like this game a lot so far but my main problem is there is a little bit of lag between the character sprite's movements and when the buttons are tapped in certain areas on mobile. don't know if it's like this on other platforms or not but yeah, it's so much more frustratingly hard to dodge/platform. I'd give 5 stars if this was fixed. also, randomly the pause button won't work and it says UI isn't working. I have to minimize the game and then bring it back in order to pause once every time
- Dude Man · v1.3.22
decent enough, but has too many issues to waste time on. the buttons are too small - even after resizing - and it often fails to register inputs. I also found some prompts just didn't work, and I was unable to spend upgrade points. shame, as it has potential, it's just far too rough at the moment and much smoother experiences are already available on mobile.
- Prophet Ascending
there is a major bug I can't believe has not been addressed yet. you cannot jump, jump, dash in any android platform phone Ive tried to use playing this game and I get stuck every time where it is impossible to progress with out this ability to do so. the place to reach requires jump jump dash to get to it and I know you all know where I mean. fix it dam and I'll changey review..
- R M · v1.3.22
great game. Wishing it had a sequel.
- Roy Harrel · v1.3.22
Amazing app until they updated it and now I can't reinstall it says it won't work on my phone. I have played before and worked like a charm dunno what changed because my phone can handle it without problems.
- Roberto Enrique Prosperi Fantinel
controls are unbearable
- Liam Duffy · v1.3.22
Elderand is a good metroidvania game, and one of the best ones on Android. The pixel-art graphics look vibrant and beautiful, along with a great soundtrack to elevate the battle sequences. Touch controls however, are not very good, and using a gamepad is a serious requirement in this case. With a length of about 12-13 hours, Elderand offers great exploration, good combat and an overall fun and engaging experience. Definitely recommended if you're a fan of the genre.
- Aneek Sanyal · v1.3.22
New weapons do not show up in my inventory.
- Christopher Lore · v1.3.22
Great game. played through twice. navigating and finding things can be frustrating.. but great experience overall.
- Wes · v1.3.22
controls not working properly. too many controls and too cramped to play properly. If the game is being released to mobile, it should be mobile friendly. But otherwise the game looks nice and feels pretty good. If only it was properly playable.
- Souhardya Das · v1.3.22
unable to access weapon inventory or increase stats
- N S · v1.3.22
Seems like an awesome game...But the dpad/joystick and buttons are just way too small. This is a game breaker for me because I can't really play the game without having to repeatedly try the same action over and over. The graphics and music are great and it appears that there is a solid storyline. But I will have to unfortunately uninstall until there is an option to enlarge the dpad/joystick and other buttons.
- Crystal Palyok · v1.3.22
I hate this game. Played less than 5 minutes. Will never play again. Un-installed. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY! I WANT A REFUND!
- Sheryl Rude · v1.3.22
can we get an option to zoom out or in the size of the character on my phone is just huge
- malesela maepa · v1.3.22
This was a hidden gem waiting around the corner it was worth it, bought it last Friday on a whim and it was a good choice, challenging and fun can't this was released 2 years ago, I hope that the devs would continue to support the game, also it would be fun if we could adjust our sensitivity and add a Special attack button on our controls and adjust it according to our preferences cause sometimes the controls are a sometimes a bit unresponsive. overall it was excellent
- Harold Lopez · v1.3.22
unable to find new weapons in inventory/equipment screen after found/bought and unable to equip them.
- Nicholas Giovanetti · v1.3.22
the game is okay as of October 2025. The combat, dashing and overall gameplay needs polishing in my opinion. It feels too basic for such a wonderful art style.
- Viraj Singh
It's an okay game, could be really good, but the movement is too stiff (you can't walk when you attack) and there's no cloud save. Also, you can resize and edit button placement, but I wish there was an option to just narrow the UI, instead of having to edit every single button individually.
- Lukasz Wrzeszczynski-Siuda · v1.3.22
top metroidvania game
- Steve Breslin
I'm stuck in game because a elevator doesn't work and can't progress through, because in hard mode doesn't have fast travel and I've lost my progress because doesn't have cloud saving
- Diego Borges · v1.3.20
controls suck, touch control are even worse, all movements are unresponsive. nothing like dead cells. it's just as bad as blasphemous.
- Firdaus Muttalib Global · v1.3.20
game is horrible and unplayable. way too buggy
- Incubus · v1.3.20
It's a good game, fun. Controller from my switch works pretty well on it. But the graphics are good, music is nice, gameplay is solid. I mean it is what it looks like. I was just expecting a lil better graphics and darker themes.
- Austin (SoGrimm) · v1.3.20
Really fun and a pretty great story! Just keep exploring 😁
- Jeremy MacDonald · v1.3.20
Well done to the devs,keep up the good work.Hope we will get some DLC soon.Cheers!
- Ivan Bilić · v1.3.20
Game is unplayable with the horrible controls. And I can't make the joystick bigger either. Wish I never bought this game.
- Mike R · v1.3.19
Seems like a pretty great game, but... The default controller layout sucks! For the love of God, please let us custom map the buttons on our controller. Everything to me feels so backwards I don't want to play... Please add this bc I really do want to play this game. Thanks in advance. 🙂 (Playing on an AYN Odin 2)
- R S · v1.3.19
Nice game but need some improvement
- Rizky Chandra_1049 · v1.3.19
Fun game but I wish the game was longer. But for the price it's very good. Thanks for making this mobile.
- Matthew Claire · v1.3.19
Games giving trouble will like Mt money back please
- K77 Savage · v1.3.19
It's a good game but it's poorly optimized, in some areas it runs at 60fps in others 24 or even 10fps makes some boss fights a chore or a RNG roulette, which is a shame because it really has potential (I have 6 gb of ram heavier games run perfectly at 60)
- Alex Morales
I'm surprised why I did not come across this gem earlier. This is a solid Metroidvania game with great pixel art graphics. I'm addicted to it! The controls do take getting used to but once you get the hold of them they work pretty well. I wish the devs add a 30fps cap option though. This game does eat more battery than other games i play. So that's the only minor complaint i have. Rest everything is well done!
- Sagar Asthana · v1.3.19
Good but needs optimization. It laggy on my phone which can make it unplayable.
- Tobias Jr
Excellent game, Very well done! It was a little shorter than I had hoped, but overall it's very enjoyable.
- Mark del Pilar
How do you equip armor devs? It doesnt show at all in the setting menu screen options? Also, i realize rings give you a stat boost but it show it as equipped visually. The "weapons" menu option should be replaced with "equipment". Otherwise good castlevanvia like game with the ability to customize stats.
- Aaron Atwood · v1.3.19
1. Paid for this game. Stiff playable character !! 2. The character movements are stiff. Make them fluid. Make dashes cancellable and Attacks cancellable. Take hollow knight as reference. 3. Also issue a warning for people who are uncomfortable with satanic references!! 4. Bugs: Small Health potion are fully stocked when buying but out of stock when using.
- Jetesh Sharma · v1.3.19
Trash
- Richard Brown
Needs more updates please.
- Just Exquisite
Amazing developers! Quick responses. Cool game! Deep story! Add coop, can't wait for 2nd part
- Kryddan · v1.3.19
Love the game. But now on saving the game locks on the emblem spinning and now eletes my save data randomly. I'm done playing until it's fixed
- Tony Hagele · v1.3.18
Locks (black screen) @ character select when hit back button...I just wanted to make sure of difficulty selection..
- Jason Williams · v1.3.16
Initially I gave 2 stars due to issue with one skill. After quick and efficient contact from the developer issue was solved (it was on my side all the time). Game is amazing and it looks that this port is perfect to its PC version. Game recognised PS4 controller with correct butting mapping straight away - first time I see this on mobile! One of those games that set the bar for other developers. Can totally recommend for every metroidvania fan!
- Simon_ _ · v1.3.16
First of all, this game is very enjoyable, and I really like games of this metroidvania kind, However, there were some issues, such as characters appearing outside the map and others. Thanks to the PID team for fixing these minor issues, and also thanks to Rémi Jallageas for quickly responding to my complaints.
- Rizky Muharam · v1.3.16
Twice my save has been lost out of nowhere lvl 40+ and my back up save is unplayable glitched thru the floor which is very upsetting as I was enjoying the game but really shouldn't have to start over for a third time- update: they fixed the issues and I even got my main save file back that I thought was gone for good I certainly wasn't expecting such a prompt fix thx guys 🙏
- Adam Anton · v1.3.16
Fun game so far. My last save file has an issue. When I load the save I'm invisible and can't move from the coliseum. Weapons make the sound and ammo drops when I use arrows or bombs but nothing on the screen. Can you fix this I have 96% percent of the map revealed. Don't want to start over.
- Robertyu8 Taylor · v1.3.15
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