Downwell
Downwell is a curious game about a young man with guns for boots venturing down a well in search of untold treasures. Make your way further and further down into a darkness filled with nasty creatures and…
Downwell is an adventure developed by Moppin, released 14 October 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Android. It currently starts at $0.75 at GOG.
What Downwell is
Downwell is an adventure game developed by Moppin and released in 2015. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker: Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Downwell is a 2015 roguelike vertically scrolling shooter video game developed by Moppin and published by Devolver Digital. The first game to be developed solely by Ojiro Fumoto, it was released for iOS and Microsoft Windows in October 2015, for Android in January 2016, and for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in May 2016. A Nintendo Switch version was released in January 2019. British studio Red Phantom Games developed the Switch and PlayStation ports.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Downwell holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 76, across 129 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1 GB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.75 at GOG, 75% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Downwell launched on 14 October 2015, within three weeks of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Downwell yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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