Echo: The Oracle's Scroll
A downloadable game
Echo: The Oracle's Scroll is a non-violent metroidvania, focused on jumping puzzles and exploration for the Playdate.
Explore a fading world and best its many challenges. As an adventurous child, you'll embark on a quest to deliver a scroll from Bottomrock up to The Archives. Journey through magma lakes and overgrown caverns as you venture through The Kingdoms Three!
(also available on Catalog)
Features
- Explore a vast, interconnected world with 250+ levels
- Grow by finding new items and abilities
- Overcome quests to gain favour with each Kingdom
- Uncover a map with tons of collectibles & secrets
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $7.04 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- V1.01c changelog5 days ago
- v1.01b changelog20 days ago
Comments
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A proper, multi-hour metroidvania, one of the best games on the Playdate!
Thanks Orkn!! That means a lot coming from you, still lots to optimise but I wouldn’t have gotten a bunch of the bugs fixed as fast without your help, I appreciate it a lot!
Just excellent! In my top 3 Playdate games for sure! Atmosphere is amazing, the controls and gameplay are spot on and satisfying. This is a metroidvania I WANTED to explore every bit of.
Very minor nit picks:
I only took the time to type out this feedback because of how really impressed I am with Echo: The Oracle's Scroll. If you own a Playdate this is a must play if you even kinda like platformers and metroidvanias.
Ahh wow, thank you so much!! This is such a nice thing to read, I will absolutely try to address a few of these issues in updates!
Performance of the game, especially in the second trial, along with how hard it is to find the last heart piece should hopefully be taken care of in the next update and that should be up this weekend!
For the riddle, Apathy is supposed to relate to it causing no concern but overall, riddle design is somewhat new to me, I might take another stab at rewording it.
Completely agree on the ending, I would like to add a very tiny cutscene to at least give it a bit of a climax. It was a victim of having to wrap up the game for release. Defo something I’d like to rework if I can justify a big update.
The player character being so understated is something I can understand not liking, it’s a design choice that has pros and cons, they’re kind of a proto-link (zelda) and as silent a protagonist as possible.
This is my first game in this series and I imagine that I’ll follow a similar trajectory, developing flourishes on the design with each new story.
I appreciate all this feedback so so much, I’m still stunned people are finishing the game, let alone caring enough to tell what they would want to like it more! Thank you!!
amazing! Hopefully when you update the ending you make it possible for folks who have already completed the last quest to talk again to the final quest turn-in character so we can see the new ending :)
No longer on catalog?
It released on both Catalog and Itch at the same time! :D
Oh, the Catalog link seems to be broken?
Oh wow, I’m so dumb! I linked to the dev page instead of the game page, can you tell this is my first time releasing a game…
Thank you, I’ve fixed it now :D
Thank YOU for developing such a great game :)
It is very great. But the riddles are too hard.
Thank you!! I defo understand that and I appreciate the feedback, I playtested them on a few people and tried to refine them as best as possible, there is one I might update to be a little clearer but I was aiming for them to be side objectives so none are needed to complete the game.
Thanks for updating your game. Great!