Wyv and Keep is a great puzzle platformer with a few twists. It's important to note that this might look a bit like games such as Spelunky. While the theme is similar, the gameplay isn't. Basically you control the two treasure hunters - either alone or in coop with a friend. You'll have to avoid enemies and traps rather than fighting or destroying them. The...
Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol2014
Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol
2014 A Jolly Corpse74Good
Playtime
ShortIt typically takes about 8 hours to finish the game, but players put about 4 hours into it on average.
Playable on
- Steam DeckPlayable
- Steam MachinePlayable
Available on
- $14.99
Game modes
- 2 players
- 2 players
Details
- Launch
- July 5, 2014
- Developer
- A Jolly Corpse
- Publisher
- A Jolly Corpse
- Themes
Overview
Take control of two rookie treasure hunters as they adventure into an ancient Amazonian temple! Use teamwork to advance through 6 fiendishly difficult puzzle worlds - from a cannibalistic pygmy village to an active volcano. Dodge poisonous darts, venomous snakes, and deadly spike traps and use dynamite to blast through crumbling walls and floors. Discover hordes of hidden treasure, challenging secret levels, and even a mythical pygmy hat salesman. Wyv and Keep is a game of action and puzzle-solving, where up to two players guide the treasure hunters through a gauntlet of confounding puzzles in search of the legendary lost idol. The game is presented in a style that would feel right at home on the 16-bit consoles of old, with beautiful pixel art, a catchy soundtrack, and finely tuned platforming gameplay.
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Reception
Players81
Great- Steam81from 58 reviews
There is a certain satisfaction in dropping a weighted crate into perfect position to solve a puzzle. It is a basic notion, pioneered long before Wyv and Keep's existence and an idea that will persist long after. It's only fitting that, in a puzzle game as efficiently simple as Wyv and Keep presents it's challenge often in obfuscation usually reserved...
A potentially fun game is marred by bad implementation. If you retry a level more than a few times, you're rewarded with a steaming pile of poo as your rating. Expect to die many times due to bad jumping mechanics, especially when standing in mud/quicksand. You can't jump in this muck, which unfortunately seems to transfer to the patch of ground next...
Online Multiplayer is Broken Sadly, the one thing that had me sold on this game is currently broken. The game will not get passed the initial "Connecting..." screen. Were the multiplayer servers removed? What's going on here? No idea since there seems to be no news or posts about this game since 2014. That said, if you're looking for couch co-op, it...
At this point in your life, you've probably seen more crates in video games than you have in real life. You've also pushed and arranged more virtual crates than anyone in the history of the world, all for the privilege of arranging yet more crates. It's easy to bag on the ubiquitous boxes of the game industry, but there's still some joy to be found...