
Challenging retro pixel graphics action-platformer. Become a legendary rogue Janosik and explore the big mountain castle level full of secrets. Available for FREE!
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About
Janosik is a retro action-platformer metroidvania. It's fast-paced, challenging, and full of secrets to discover while exploring its big and interconnected world.
The game is completely FREE and with no microtransactions!
Janosik's companions were captured by the evil Count Von Zur and it’s up to you to find and rescue them from the prison. Explore hand-drawn pixel art world, find secrets, jump over deadly obstacles, roll and attack enemies, collect gold coins and find upgrades.
Janosik gives you about 2 hours of single-player retro platforming fun.
Janosik was a legendary Slovak highlander rogue. According to the legend, he robbed nobles and gave the loot to the poor, just like Robin Hood. The game is based on popular legends in which Janosik had special magical items given to him (usually) by witches. Those items gave him superhuman strength, protected him from bullets, or gave him the ability to jump over the trees. In some legends, Janosik fights with supernatural beings.
We took inspiration from the legends both for this game and the upcoming Janosik 2, and highly recommend that you read more about this hero if you enjoyed playing our retro platformer.
Please note that the Slovakian language version is available in the game’s main menu.
For gamepad configuration support, please visit this forum thread.
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Languages: English, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Slovak
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | Free | 0reviews | 94% | — | $0 |
| Free | 162ratings | 88% | — | not modelled |
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Reviews
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Reviews
Fun platformer with a lot of content for a free game! My main complaint is that I feel like I'm missing secrets, but not enough people are talking about it to know for sure.
Super platformówka 😁
awesome games, especially for a broke gamer like me. playing fun free games like this makes me really happy.
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给小孩玩得很开心,哈哈哈哈小学启蒙
kocham te gierke juz sie nmg doczekac az zagram w druga czesc
nice, short game
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Janosik is pure fun. It's not perfect, slightly jank movement, regular enemies take 1-4 hits which breaks your rhythm, tanky bosses and occasional slowdown. But the level design is great and the pixel art is charming. Amazing value for the price of free
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It has that special aura of a game that you discover by accident on your 90's school computer and then remember forever. Unfortunately, I was playing with a gamepad on SteamOS and the experience was quite glitchy. Navigating the menu with an analog stick was painful, swimming didn't work, the button glyphs were odd, oh and there are now cloud saves to let me continue on another computer. =(
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| $362.8K | 2.1K | 94% | $9.99 | |
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