Odallus: The Dark Call

Level design is smartly constructed, built around nonlinear exploration and backtracking once you earn new movement tools—double jumps, water traversal, and so on.

This game is rock solid, plays well, and is pretty fair in terms of its difficulty curve.

Runs flawlessly on Steam Deck with responsive controls, no performance hiccups, and crisp visuals that scale well to the handheld’s screen.

We have a great aesthetic, cool chiptune music, and an actually interesting enough story.

The soundtrack nails the eerie atmosphere too—chiptune with dread baked into the composition.

The controls are solid, it was entirely my controller that had me throwing sub weapons by accident (rolling D-pads are terrible), I tested the issue out on a keyboard and never had a similar problem.