DESCRIPTION:

Underhero is a 2D side-scroller RPG adventure game with timing-based combat. It tells an intriguing and mysterious story, full of silly characters brimming with personality, quirky dialogue, and lots of weird humor.

STORY:

Inspired by Paper Mario games and RPGs in general, it tells the story of a world where the chosen hero has failed and an underling of the main villain takes his place as the new “hero”.
Join Elizabeth IV and a little Masked kid in a journey across the Chestnut Kingdom to once again, defeat the evil Mr. Stitches! Meet friends, foes and other weird characters in the mysterious world of Underhero.
...Wait, once again!?

FEATURES:

A sidescrolling RPG adventure full of beautiful pixel art and cartoony aesthetics.
Turn-based combat with a twist: there are no turns! Use your reflexes to evade, and your timing to attack or parry! We call it timing-based combat.
Level ups let you choose between three options! HP, attack and stamina! Choose wisely...
Enemies consider you their ally, so talk to them in-battles!
Critical hits occur when you hit an enemy with the beat of the music, not randomly! Groovy~
You want to escape a tough battle? Bribe your enemies!
A wonderful original soundtrack composed by Stijn van Wakeren.
Explorable worlds sprinkled with many hidden secrets.
Mini games!
Puzzle elements.
Some good old platforming.
Fun and intense boss battles!
A satire of RPG tropes.
A story shrouded in mystery, with many twists and turns…

Mac and Linux now available! Underhero 4.1.0

Underhero 1.4.0 is here!

What's new:

Mac support
Linux support
Windows 32-bit support
Cloud saves!

Bug fixes:

Itormon enemy disappearing after being defeated. This meant the player couldn't talk to it and learn important passwords.
Hilarious bug where Yanijo had [strike]a coconut bikini[/strike] the wrong sprite between being rescued from the volcano, and giving the reward to the player.
Some W5 Masked Kids had inconsistent names through dialogues.
Blowie enemy wouldn't turn off sleeping particle system if they were bribed while sleeping
Opening and closing the items menu with the B button or the D key wouldn't let the player open the menu again until it was pressed twice.
Attention prompts would still appear on the main menu after quitting the game.
What's Cloning On wouldn't spawn.
And other smaller issues.

What's up with the new controller options:

We are currently still working out the kinks of key binding and controller remapping for the game, but we are close! We've had to rework quite a few things in order to let any type of gamepad and keyboard be compatible with the game. New updates for the Unity engine have thrown a few curve balls our way, we still need to figure out a few things. Hang in there!

Here's a sneak peek of the reworked controllers menu (keep in mind that is a work in progress and some things might change!):
Game Description Image

That's it for today, tell your Mac and Linux friends that Underhero is now ready for them!

We would also like to remind you that Underhero will release for Switch, PS4, and Xbox One next week! Read all about it here.
If you find any bugs or problems be sure to let us know through our discord server or here in the Steam forums.

[ 2020-02-07 11:37:13 CET ] [Original Post]