Primal CrowdDec 19, 2025Free to playView on Steam ↗

Unbound

Help Mox break out from his unjust inprisonment. Navigate through a hazardous, futuristic city and outrun your pursuer to reach an off-world colony in this 2D precision-platformer!

Free To Play Adventure Indie Sci-fi Platformer Futuristic Singleplayer Linear

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Est. players

people who own it

Reviews

Review score

88%

8.8/10

Concurrent players

read Sep 17, 2026, 15:00 UTC

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About

About the game

As a wrongfully imprisoned monkey, you break out. Navigate through a hazardous, futuristic city to escape your pursuer and reach an off-world colony.

Unbound is a 2D precision-platformer game originally made in 13 weeks by Primal Crowd, 13 students at The Game Assembly in Malmö.

Features

Precise Movement: Jump, Climb and Dash your way through 3 tricky levels filled with handcrafted precision-platforming challenges.
You're Being Chased: The prison guard you escaped from just can't let you go! Outrun your pursuer and escape the planet.
Retro Sci-Fi Aesthetic: Take in the views or just vibe. From an underground prison, to a dystopian city and a high-tech spaceport there's a little bit of everything to look at.
Go Bananas: Want more challenge? Every level is filled with optional even trickier trials to overcome. Be rewarded with bananas for your skill. Can you collect them all...?
See The Result Of Your Effort: The game keeps track of your time, bananas collected and death count. After each run of the game you'll see these displayed and the time be compared to your personal best. Enable the build-in speedrun timer to help you set a new best time.

Credits

Primal Crowd
- Programming
  - Abraham Alberto
  - Philip Eriksson
  - Christian Le
  - Elias Ronefors
  - Ylver Blum Buer
- Graphics
  - Dante Norling Eklöf
  - Oliver Andersson
  - Morgan Wildmark
  - Emil Nilsson
- Animation
  - Rebecca Kornemalm
  - Theo Hübner Sallis
- Level Design
  - Erik Gatewood
  - Alvin Berthet
Special Thanks
- Alice Myhrman

Sounds

Sound effects provided by Soundsnap, Abraham Alberto and Oliver Andersson.

Original Music by Abraham Alberto and Oliver Andersson.

Voice acting by Philip Eriksson and Theo Hübner Sallis.

Technologies

Made in TGE The Game Engine by The Game Assembly
Made using FMOD Studio by Firelight Technologies Pty Ltd.

Player reviews (42)

Not recommended0h playedDec 2025

[b]Score: 5/10[/b] [list] [*][b]Art:[/b] Very simple and somewhat unattractive. Environments are extremely basic and repetitive, lacking visual personality or variety. [*][b]Music:[/b] Okay, but nothing exciting—especially underwhelming for an action-focused game. [*][b]Story:[/b] Excessively basic. The main character is trying to escape captivity, but there is no clear reason or context for the situation, which makes it hard to care about the narrative. [*][b]Gameplay:[/b] A basic 2D platformer built around boosting, wall sticking, and boost recharging. The core idea is fine, but since this is the main focus of the game, it needed far more polish. Control response after sticking to walls is inconsistent, and the character sometimes jumps in unintended directions. The wall-sticking mechanic itself works, but pressing jump forces the character to leap too far and too fast in the opposite direction. While wall climbing exists, it adds little to the experience and is only meaningfully used in two or three sections. The character cannot ledge-grab at any point, which limits movement options further. The final level is particularly disappointing—empty, unexciting, and only lightly padded with a few secrets. [*][b]Accessibility:[/b] Limited. You can increase the difficulty and the game supports controllers, but there are no other meaningful accessibility options.[/list] [b]Overall Experience:[/b] A serviceable but underwhelming platformer. Its mechanics have potential, yet the lack of polish, weak level design, and minimal narrative depth keep it from standing out in an already crowded genre.