![Animal Well is a pixel art Metroidvania that's trying to do something a bit different.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/animal-well-ghost.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Developer Billy Basso didn’t expect players to crack open the game’s secrets quite so quickly
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Spooky Metroidvania Animal Well gets May 9th release date
It will have full Steam Deck support, too
Animal Well Feed
![Animal Well is a pixel art Metroidvania that's trying to do something a bit different.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/animal-well-ghost.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Developer Billy Basso didn’t expect players to crack open the game’s secrets quite so quickly
![A screenshot from Animal Well that shows a heart-shaped underground level with an RPS Bestest Best badge flanked by capybaras.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/animal-well-header-bestest.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![An underground shrine surrounded by capybaras in Animal Well](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/animal-well-3.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Spooky Metroidvania Animal Well gets May 9th release date
It will have full Steam Deck support, too
![Artwork from Avowed, Leximan, Hades II, Phoenix Springs and Frostpunk 2](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/RPS-Most-Anticipated-Games-2024.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
![A grid of images representing topics discussed on the latest episode of Indiescovery. The image on the far left shows a station wagon onlooking a beam of light coming from a gloomy forest. The image on the top shows two dinosaurs playing instruments. The image on the bottom shows two capybaras in a desolate temple.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/indiescovery-ep-7-header.png.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Indiescovery Episode 7: the best indies we played at PAX East 2023
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![RPS@PAX 2023: Animal Well's subterranean world is both beautiful and unsettling](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/animal-well-pax-east.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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RPS@PAX 2023: Animal Well's subterranean world is both beautiful and unsettling
Friend or foe?
![Rachel chats with Animal Well dev Billy Basso at Pax East](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Animal-Well-Interview---RPS%40PAX-East-thumbnail-1.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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RPS@PAX 2023: We chat with the dev behind upcoming moody metroidvania Animal Well
Cute but deadly
![A screenshot from Shared Memories' pixel Metroidvania Animal Well, showing a peacock stood on a platform](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Animal-Well-Peacock.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
News
Intriguing pixel Metroidvania Animal Well has found a publisher
It's the first game picked up by new indie label Bigmode
![Schim is a puzzle game about a creature who lives in shadows and hops between them to get home.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Schim-bus-stop.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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![Schim is a puzzle game about a creature who lives in shadows and hops between them to get home.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Schim-bus-stop.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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