Summary:
- Developer: River Stone Games Indaial - SC, Brazil.
- Release Date: June 1st 2021.
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Platforms:
Windows (Steam)
- Availability: Digital Download
- Price: US$ 4,99
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Minimum specs:
- OS: Windows 7 or newer
- Processor: Intel i3 or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better
- Storage: 100 MB of available space
- Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1267170/Carestia
- Site: http://www.riverstonegames.com/carestia.html
- Languages: English and Portuguese (Brazil)
- Disk size: 32 MB
- Social Profiles:
Description:
Carestia is a game that mixes logical thinking to solve puzzles and precise action battles in a 2D side scrolling platformer. The game uses pixel art, bringing back to memory classic games, has metroidvania elements and modern platformers, making a good mix of old and new.
You play as a soldier that has to recover an energy source to keep your artificial planet running. Planet Earth has became an hostile place for humans since AI took over.
Features:
- Hand made and interconnected levels with a good variety of environments.
- Puzzles uses an energy system, you will need to find components that connect to each other in order to make the energy reach doors to access new areas of the map.
- Original art and sound design.
- Excellent soundtrack composed by Tim Harbour (Jump Ship)
- New skills that aid the player during combat and exploration, making the gameplay more dynamic as the player progresses through the map
- A map that tracks where the player has been
- A good balance between action and puzzles, so the gameplay is dynamic
- Customizable playable characters, you can change Eyes, Hair, Skin and Clothes
- Boss battles that will challenge the player to use their new skills and make it be on the edge of the chair
- A lot of effort has been put to make the world beliavable and detailed, the player will see different environments with their own elements and enemy types.
- Accessibility from the start of the development, it has an option to enable an in-game text font that aids people with dyslexia so they may have an easier time reading the text in game. We also made sure that nothing in the game relies on colors alone, letting people with color blindness to experience the entire game
- Full controller support
Development history:
In 2017, two friends that went to college together decided to work together in a new game project. Both already had some experience developing games, but they always worked in a lone wolf style.
After some discussion about the game theme, they opted to mix two genres that both enjoyed: action platformers and puzzle games that used interactable objects.
Quite a few prototypes were made until the final gameplay of Carestia was set. At the early versions, maps weren't interconnected and it was a lot more focused on puzzles.
Three years, a pandemic, a demo, and a closed-beta later, the game has finally been released on Steam and is now available for download.
Videos
Download HD trailer (Google Drive)
Screenshots
Logos
Sprites
Soundtrack
Jumpship Bandcamp: https://jumpshipmusic.bandcamp.com/album/carestia-ost
FAQ
- Which software was used for the pixel art?
- Aseprite
- Which engine the game uses?
- Game Maker Studio 2
- May content creators monetize their videos with Carestia gameplay footage?
- Yes, both videos and live streams, that includes Let's Play, Speed Runs, Reviews, Tutorials and Walkthroughs. You are also allowed to use Sprites and Logos of the game on your content and thumbnails. We reserve the right to remove any content related to Carestia that we see as racist, sexist, or offensive.