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LarsGadiel

82% positive of 39 Steam reviews

Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Diabolical Mind.

About the game

LarsGadiel is the prequel to Xenon Valkyrie, a game originally created for Nintendo's 8-bit console that was never released (at least for now), but is now coming to Steam. It's a classic Metroidvania, featuring the original maps and design from that era.

Tagged by players

Metroidvania
Souls-like
Precision Platformer
Hack and Slash
Action RPG
1980s
Platformer
RPG
Action-Adventure
2D Platformer
1990's
Anime

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What players say

Recommended
As a retro gamer, coming across LarsGadiel which gave some NES vibes with the visuals got me curious about giving it a try. The story is simple and easy to understand, the focus of the game focusing on the exploration and platforming while you have some NPCs which don't increase the story levels much but give the whole setting and world a nice vibe. And that's fine like that. Graphics and tunes are very related to…
6.8 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Played from start to end on a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 (Snapdragon 865) via GameNative. I want to start saying that this game is one of the lightest, easiest to run I have tried to run with an Android Windows emulator. It's so light, that I was able to play it full speed through GameNative installed on an Anbernic RG DS (a device so weak that it can hardly emulate the handheld console it's supposed to imitate), and the…
30 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Its very retro. Insta-death pits everywhere and 1-2 save points per zone so youll be doing a lot of running back to places you mess up. Controls are pretty solid. You can only see the map of the zone you are in which is kinda annoying. You can only see the whole map when you go to teleport. Bosses were good and enemy variety was solid. I thought it was really good up to the final area and then it just got…
2.9 h played when written. 17 found it helpful.
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