Biota is a 2D metroidvania inspired shooter set on a wild and dangerous sci-fi, pixel-art planet. Get ready to face hostile alien life forms and investigate a mysterious mining colony as a group of ragtag heroes from the future, all in glorious 4-color palettes and detailed 8-bit visuals.
ShooterPlatformAdventureIndieActionScience fictionmetroidvaniaPC (Microsoft Windows)
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Character
Plot-driven, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
- Developer
- small bros
- Publisher
- Retrovibe
- Released
- April 12, 2022
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Time to beat
- 4 h main story · 6 h completionist
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