
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Aug 29 → 0.86/day in the week after.
About
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging 2D hand-drawn action platformer, a Metroidvania with thrilling combat that will keep you on the edge of your seat and heart-stopping platform sections that will put your skills to the test. Play as the King of Darkness and explore 16 connected areas in an epic journey to regain your powers.
The Supreme God Chaos created the Universe and the world of Aeterna, and populate it with different races and creatures. Soon his creations turned against him, seeking to take the world for themselves. Chaos was angered, and in his terrible wrath, he cast a terrible curse upon the rebellious leaders. He named them King of Darkness and Queen of Light, and condemned them to keep fighting each other forever, until the end of time...

A huge non-linear story full of sidequests.
The world and animations have been brought to life with hand-drawn traditional frame-by-frame animation.
An emotion-inducing soundtrack.
Gameplay and mechanics that force the best out of the player.
Voice-acted cutscenes in 8 different languages.
Hours upon hours of challenges, with an emotional story full of twists and turns.
A new free DLC that adds more enemies, new final bosses and more game areas.

Fluid gameplay mechanics
In a game with such a difficulty curve that scales with progression, Aeterna Noctis features extremely responsive controls, allowing for precise movement and combat.

High mobility
Intuitive world design allowing the players to exploit the precise movement controls of the character, allowing you to overcome each challenge in a multitude of ways. As you become more skilled in the game, it allows you to get even faster completion times.

Deep, beautiful plot
Featuring an immersive and emotional story with incredible moments, filled with unexpected twists that will immerse the players into the rich world of Aeterna Noctis.

Traditional 2D Art
Worldbuilding in Aeterna Noctis is completed by handcrafting each asset, animation and environmental detail in the game using traditional illustration methods by the art team, giving rise to a vibrant and beautifully assembled world.

Freedom of choice
Aeterna Noctis features a defined path for the storyline, but allows the player to take whatever path and pacing to navigate the expansive non-linear map featuring 16 different zones, interconnected in a classic Metroidvania style.

More than 40 music tracks
Aeterna Noctis features over 40 unique tracks each with its own theme. Once the game is made available, the OST will be released with special covers of the main songs as a piano collection

Difficulty level
Aeterna Noctis features two game modes. If you are a lover of Metroidvania games, in Aeterna Noctis there is a perfect game mode for you, the Aeterna Mode. However, if extreme challenges and platforming are what you want, you are a Noctis Mode player. But do you know what the differences are between these game modes? We explain it to you.

- Aeterna Mode (A pure Metroidvania experience)
In essence, the game has been completely redesigned to offer you as a player a 100% Metroidvania experience where action and exploration are the protagonists.

- Noctis Mode (Platforms and extreme challenges)
By playing on this mode, you will not only have to explore and recover your powers, but you will also face constant puzzles, platform sections and challenges only recommended for the most demanding players.
What if I started in Noctis mode and the difficulty is too much for me? Or... What if I started in Aeterna mode but want a more challenging experience?
The player can switch between one mode or the other at any time without losing progress and reloading the game at the last save point, allowing the Aeterna Noctis experience to be shaped at your will. However, there are achievements that can only be unlocked on Noctis Mode.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $29.99 | 2.2Kreviews | 75% | — | $1.1M |
| $29.99 | 569ratings | 77% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 117 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Best game I've played since hollow Knight! The reviews I've read about this game are hilarious! And accurate 😜 😂 If you LOVE white palace, then the game will be perfect for you! I'm only 30% in and I have fallen in love! It's soooo addictive! And frustrating! But it's so worth the suffering! Play it on the real mode, hard mode, not the weak easy mode... The game mechanics are super fun, and the map is insanely huge so far!!! The couple of bosses I've caught, or tried to fight, are great! Nice challenge for sure. And it has an awesome Metroid feel as far as being able to"pogo" and get into areas that would normally.require upgrades to get you there. Soooooo fun!!! If you love Metroid, HollowKnight, even Celeste, etc, and love a good challenge, this game is for you!!! It's worth it, even if you pay full price.
Way better than I expected
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 90.2/day in the week to Jul 16 → 2/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil
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Hours played at review time, across 117 reviews with recorded playtime.
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不喜歡,血好少,補包只能帶一個還只能補一格,我在一個洞窟死了不知道多少次 我一跳怪物較把我把下來,我打死下一隻又來,我根本跳不上去QQ,真心崩潰,我第一次類銀河遊戲沒有玩完的。
I can't play this game because I can't roll my "R"s.
Aeterna Noctis comes off as a Hollow Knight-esque Metroidvania, at least initially. As someone who beat Hollow Knight, Silksong, and Celeste, this game's platforming gets crazier. By the 2nd set of bosses, it's a struggle to win. I'm starting to see why they added an easy mode but my pride won't let me change to it. Having a blast, but also dying a LOT. I'd say this is brutal platformer first and fighting metroidvania game second.
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Esta chido, pero tengan en cuenta que no hay muchas guías.
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I really loved this game. The game has a notable focus on platforming, and brings in some unique mechanics that really help spice things up. The crystal arrows felt awkward at first, but I did eventually get fully used to them to the point of intuitively using them for movement during boss fights. There's also a lategame area with an especially interesting mechanical twist. In general, the diversity of the regioins is quite high, with a large amount of unexpected and interesting mechanics and/or themes being fully explored. Especially towards the lategame (excepting the stairs), the conceptual uniqueness of the regions really helped keep exploration fun. The game is also consistently quite good looking, especially all the environments. I played on noctis mode, which seems to be the original design difficulty, and I found both the platforming and combat to be pleasantly challenging without ever getting to unreasonable at any point.
難易度は高いほう(Noctis)を選択。 探索を進めると行ける場所が増える、 詳細にマップを埋めていくほうが最大ライフが上がる等して有利になる、 というメトロイドヴァニアとしての基本は押さえてあるし 敵を倒して溜めたポイントを使ってスキルツリーで強くなる基本的な要素も有る。 ・・・しかし、このゲームは悪い部分があまりにも多すぎて 加点式ならそこそこの点数が取れてるんだけど 減点式で点数付けられるとあっという間に0点みたいなゲームなんよね。 そういう意味では人には全くオススメ出来ないゲーム。 絵は微妙だし動きもスムーズかと言われるとちょっと気になる所だがまぁ許容範囲。 自キャラが止まった時に毎回してくる謎の意味不明な動きがクソダサすぎて (手を広げて横に揺れながらマイク持って歌ってる?みたいな妙で奇っ怪な動きをする) ゲームの面白さとは関係ないが頻発する動きなので目にする機会が多くめっちゃ気になる。 何なのあのおかしな動き。ダサ過ぎるんだが・・・ 体力少ない時に一回わざと死んで体力を満タンしたほうがマシ、みたいな状況になる事が あまりに多すぎるのでそんなんだったら「チェックポイント=全回復」でいいと思う。 ここだけでも早く直して・・・・ ここまでアスレチックだらけのステージ構成にするのなら針はノーダメで良かったと思う。 アスレチックが難しい事も、針に当たって戻される事も別にかまわんのだが針でダメージ食らっていくのがあまりにもわずらわしい・・・ 障害物の判定が見た目通り過ぎるのも悪い。 そのせいで「今ので当たった事にされるの?」 ってのが頻発する。 難しいのは大歓迎なのだが失敗した時の納得感がもうちょっと欲しい。 「今の当たってないだろ」と思うぐらいのギリギリでも当たった事にされたりするのはとても良くない。 敵との接触ダメージも有るんだけどこれも「今ので当たったの?」ってなる事が多いので 自キャラの食らい判定が無駄にデカすぎるんだろうな。 食らい判定って見た目通りに設定しちゃダメなのよ。 マップが広いからファストトラベルは 制約無しでいつでも自由にさせたほうが良かったと思うなぁ。 メインの探索ぐらいはストレス無く自由にさせてあげて。 ボス戦がすぐに再戦可能なのは良いと思うけど 使ったポーションが消費したままになってるのは最悪だろう。 さっきポーション使って勝てなかったのに、再戦はポーション無しで戦えって? この設定したやつは一体どういうセンスしてんだよ・・・ 「足場」「触るとダメージ食らう場所」が見づらい、わかりにくい、という意見が多いけどこれは本当にその通りで これだけみんなから見づらい見づらいと言われてるんだからさっさと直せば良いものを・・・ 日本語のナレーションは無いほうが良かったレベルで不自然。 イントネーションはもちろん、漢字の読み方すら間違ってて 読んでるのはAIなのか?日本語の出来ない人なのか? このように悪い部分書いてたら止まらないので書くのを止めるが 悪い部分はこんなもんじゃなくてもっともっと大量に有る。 いや、まあ文句はいっぱいあるけど基本的な部分はそこまで悪くないので 微調整すればめちゃくちゃ良くなるゲームだとは思うのに ユーザーを意見を聞いて直せない(これらの問題点に気が付かない?) ようなのが非常に惜しい。作り手はセンスが無い&人の意見は聞かない。 とは言えメトロイドヴァニアとしての魅力は有るので(私は)プレイは続けられそうだが 悪い部分も大量に有るので合わない人、ダメな人は絶対ダメだと思う。 何よりアスレチック部分がかなりムズいのでアクションの下手な人にはとても無理。 特に中盤以降のアスレチックのムズさは限度を超えていて悪意の塊。
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