This Enhanced Edition update adds:
- A redesigned experience, from the ground up
- A new extended moveset and talents tree with the ability to burn down everything (including 6 new active talents!)
- Extended levels with brand new challenges
- New enemies: The Swarm and Shielded
- New accessibility feature to reduce the game’s difficulty
- An additional 7 lore letters, and a new reading animation for lore items
- New music and improved SFX
- Visual and lighting enhancements, including new rooms and vistas, and Improved melee combat FX
- Destructibles and new types of platforms
- New level selection menu and U improvements
- Global game rebalance to make the game more intense
- Redesigned storyline and dialogue
- New tutorials and tips in loading screens
- Strong optimization improvements and a new performance mode accessible through the options menu
And a lot of smaller adjustments and tweaks to polish the experience
“Thanks to the community feedback, we’re now happy to come back with a significantly better version of Nocturnal” said Sunnyside Games co-founder Gabriel Sonderegger. “This update offers numerous improvements that we hope you’ll enjoy!”
Nocturnal encourages challengers to brave its beautiful ruins with a host of optional trials. Those seeking the glory of a true challenge can enable a host of speedrunning features, like faster transitions, skippable cutscenes, and a pausable timer. Only the fiercest warriors will try their hand Permadeath Mode, where you only have one life to undertake the entire journey.
What critics are saying:
“If you like the genre and want something that has enough spark of inspiration to carry it through a few hours, it’s definitely worth investigating.” - Gaming Age
“Keeps things refreshingly tight, presenting a solid action game with a cool core mechanic and a handful of new ideas” - God is a Geek
“Nocturnal is a must-play title for fans of 2D action-platformers” - GameGrin
What critics are saying:
“If you like the genre and want something that has enough spark of inspiration to carry it through a few hours, it’s definitely worth investigating.” - Gaming Age
“Keeps things refreshingly tight, presenting a solid action game with a cool core mechanic and a handful of new ideas” - God is a Geek
“Nocturnal is a must-play title for fans of 2D action-platformers” - GameGrin
For more information on Nocturnal:
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About Sunnyside Games
Sunnyside Games is a Swiss-based company founded in 2013 and composed of sorcerers, artists, and engineers that are working hand-in-hand to create challenging, immersive and well hand-crafted 2D games for PCs and consoles. Previous games from Sunnyside Games include Towaga: Among Shadows and The Firm.
About Dear Villagers
Based in the South of France, in sunny Montpellier, we are a boutique publishing label composed of a team of twenty people. Open-minded and versatile, Dear Villagers offers handcrafted marketing and production guidance. Our mission: We tell memorable stories through memorable games. We love pixels, but we believe in people.