From solo developer Maddison Baek, Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer, with gameplay inspired by spectacle fighters, and a world designed to look and feel like a living prog-rock album cover. Test your skill with it's vast, stylistic, expressive combat options!
Combat Freedom: Begin with a fully unlocked melee system. Learn at your own pace as you master expressive, stylistic combos and unique playstyles.
Perfect Positioning: Juggle and pogo enemies, while utilizing environmental hazards for efficient crowd control and maximum lethality.
Risky Maneuvers: This game encourages an aggressive approach. Keep moving, weaving in ranged skills and healing bombs to mitigate damage taken.
Spectacle Fighter: Earn style points and aim for the prestigious Triple S rank by slaying enemies swiftly and creatively.
Difficulty Options: Choose from 5 escalating difficulties transforming stage layouts and enemy compositions to push yourself to the limit.
Personalized Playstyle: Experiment with the flexible Necklace system to further cater to differing combat preferences.
Dangerous Denizens: A volatile and diverse roster of horrific enemies and bosses ensures fresh and challenging gameplay throughout.
Exploration: Features large, intricate, surrealist arenas with fluid movement tools for traversing challenging terrain.
Soundtrack: A highly varied OST blending prog-rock/metal with jazz, disco, and orchestral influences to compliment the intense action and surrealist environments.
You play as Gretel, a reaper in this twisted purgatory, exiled for 200 years. After being freed from her sarcophagus by a wandering soul named Archibald - Gretel seeks purpose in her afterlife - guiding Archibald back to the sanctuary she was long ago exiled from. This journey will be along a perilous path, fraught with all manner of grotesque demons starving for souls.
You do not know what true fear looks like until you've reached Act 3, that chapter still haunts me to this day 10/10
Best 2D action game I've played
ITS SO GOOD. ITS SO FUCKING GOOD. THEY PUT HOLLOW KNIGHT AND DEVIL MAY CRY AND MADE THEM THE SAME GAME AND THEY HAVE THE COOL VIBRANT VISUALS AND THE WEIRD FUCKED UP DEMON CREATURES AAAUGH PLAY THIS GAME IM GONNA FUCKING LOSE IT PLAY THE GAME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
cool bird game ---edit 09/02/2025-- (preliminary review. have yet to complete act 3 on any difficulty, though keep in mind that my listed playtime is inaccurate as a large portion of my playtime is offline on Deck. will update review as I go) Firstly, I'd like to express gratitude to the developer for including significant visual QoL features on request. I cannot understate how much these features have improved playability for me, huge thanks to the dev for going the extra mile to implement those features this long after the game has completed development! I don't know how I would describe my experience with Magenta Horizon (MH hereafter) to another person, but the first word that would come to mind is "confounding." perhaps a damning adjective for a game advertised as a 'stylish' action game whose contemporaries are renowned for their straightforward appeal. Devil May Cry only needs you to understand how a melee weapon and hitscan projectiles work to start fulfilling its promised ...
Insanely good Action™ game
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest costs $10.99.
Minimum: Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Window 10 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 3 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Window 10 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest is available on Windows PC.
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest has 83% positive reviews from 6 players.
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest was released on Dec 6, 2024.
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