Ancient Guardian

Ancient Guardian

It's fun untill the minotaur finds you, from there on you just keep running untill you quit the game, let's say i give it a minute or 2

This game has the hardness of early games which made you learn by dying.

Considering less then 10 percent of the players completed a level on EASY MODE. I bid you good luck and find a way to beat it.

Get it on sale.

1/15 STORY
🔲 No story
🔲 Not main aspect
🔲 Bad story
✅ Average
🔲 Good
🔲 It'll replace your life

2/15 GAMEPLAY
🔲 Lifeless / static
🔲 Poor UI
🔲 Average
✅ Good
🔲 Excellent

3/15 DIFFICULTY
🔲 Playing asleep
✅ Some brain usage
🔲 Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔲 Difficult
🔲 Dark Souls

4/15 GRIND
✅ Nothing to grind
🔲 Isn't necessary to progress
🔲 Average grind level
🔲 Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
🔲 Too much grind

5/15 GAME TIME / REPLAYABILITY
🔲 Long enough for a cup of coffee
✅ Short
🔲 Average
🔲 Long
🔲 To infinity and beyond

6/15 MULTIPLAYER
✅ No multiplayer
🔲 Trashy servers
🔲 Some hiccups
🔲 Smooth and pleasant experience
🔲 Co-op
🔲 PvP
🔲 PvE

7/15 GRAPHICS
🔲 Stuck in the last century
🔲 Low Effort
🔲 Average
✅Good
🔲 Reality 2.0

8/15 AUDIO
🔲 Earrape
🔲 Bad
🔲 Not too bad
✅ Good
🔲 Eargasm

9/15 AUDIENCE
🔲 Kids
🔲 Teens
🔲 Adults
✅ Everyone

10/15 PC REQUIREMENTS
🔲 Potato
✅ Decent
🔲 Fast
🔲 Rich boi
🔲 > NASA

11/15 PRICE
🔲 It's free!
🔲 Not recommended
✅ Wait for sale
🔲 Worth the price
🔲 Best investment ever done

12/15 FREQENT UPDATES
✅ Abandoned
🔲 Last year
🔲 Once every year
🔲 A couple per year
🔲 Every week

13/15 BUGS / CRASHES
🔲 None / Not discovered
✅ Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 Frequent crashes
🔲 Complete mess

14/15 MISC
🔲 Steam Workshop
✅ Steam Trading Cards
✅ Steam Achievements
🔲 Content for Steam Points Shop

15/15 VERDICT
✅ Recommended
🔲 Not recommended

Actually quite good for the price. The story is simple but quite okay. There are multiple game modes which are moderately fun. The minotaur is creepy and the graphics is not bad for its price.

Only issue is with the framerate. Suddenly drops below 20 even on an RTX 3080

5/10

A good game with a decent difficulty level with a feeling of inevitable moment that the Minotaur will get you.
On next level you get the feeling that every animal wants to kill you, including ghost hoplites.
Medusa fight is intense (especially if you are getting the "Kill her with full HP" achievement).

Other achievements are difficult to get and require combination of prerequisites.

UPD: Changing my review as the Developer fixed remaining achievements after i contacted him so i can give the game 10/10 minotaur axes.

P.S. Number 1 in infinite mode leaderboard :lunar2019coolpig:

P.P.S Am I the first player to finish the game for 100% without using SAM like others? :O

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.

Find your way through a traped filled Labrinth, armed with chalk - avoiding a minotaur and other monsters. Weapons can be found, but offer little help. It's randomly generated too, so no learning.
https://youtu.be/7Nl382sBW-8

Hard game, and F the minotaur. Fun to play tho, if you like challenges and mazes.

https://youtu.be/cuJttkXDWkY

Needs some work, but there's a good idea in there.

Dungeon/horror/puzzle, find a way out - game, with nice graphics and atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncEibK5x2Bg

Me and my BFF are sooo waiting for the multiplayer version of this game to be released!!! I have a hillarious video on youtube of me playing this as well xD

A good game but a bit hard...

Fun and challenging. Devs keep it updated frequently. Lots of jump scares. Puzzles.

Meh. Game is aesthetically pleasing, even on the lowest graphical setting. Very creepy game, which has kept me entertained for a couple hours, but doesn't offer much else. I'm not one to usually complain about the difficulty of games but it just feels impossible to complete a level in this game. The gun barely stops the minotuar, making it almost impossible to escape once you come into contact with it. "Ariadne's Thread", which is supposed to lead you to the exit, only seems to lead me to the minotaur. It's just not that fun to play a game for a couple hours and feel as if you've made absolutely no progress in the "storyline" (which is non existent other than a few comic book looking cartoons at the beginning). I picked it up for a dollar, so at that price it isn't a bad deal. But I could never reccommend this game at the $6 price tag

Monstrum is a similar game, but much more fun, intense, and levels that have a little more room to breathe. The name of the game is Monstrum. So skip this one, and pick up Monstrum instead.

Game achieves what it sets out to accomplish, but what it wants to accomplish isnt that impressive.
Running is sluggish, closing a door kills the centaur, the game runs at 60fps but it feels like a jaggy 20 somehow.

It's a nice game, but not worth its price tag. Get it at a discount; you shouldn't pay more than 1 dollar for this.

Good game! thumbs up! I hope you will continue

Very fun game. A man gets dropped into a labyrinth and has to find his way to the end while avoiding traps, a minotaur, and finding helpful items along the way. It even includes some minor story and a very pleasing art style. I wouldn't say it's worth $7 but if you can get it on sale I would recommend it.

*Edit* Since I've reviewed it the game's gotten a massive update that adds quite a bit to the game. More story, more puzzles, different environments. Price is justified now. Good buy!

Randomly Generated Dungeon,has minotaur in some where. The agression range is very high,makes of frustrating encounters.Has 1 level + endless mode. 4 items, medpack,gold thread to show the way, cuirass armor,one more item i never found and 1 weapon , a gun. You can not kill the minotaur. Game last for 1h if you dont plan for more random labs with same stuff in it.

This game is an Early Access Indie that scared the shit out of me, the music does not help when your turning into Usain Bolt and hear the heavy breathing of the slick bastard chasing your ass down.