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Alwa's Awakening
Use your magic staff and progress through a large interconnected world where you'll solve puzzles, fight enemies and defeat bosses in order to help free the land of Alwa. Explore and uncover the secrets by using your platforming skills in this challenging and charming 8-bit adventure game.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I love this game I will definitely play a third Alwa game if the developer decides to make it”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Challenging Puzzle Platformer, I died a lot but enjoyed every bit of slowly unweaving what to do to collect items and defeat bosses. The game doesn't just reward you, it needs you to devise the perfect execution of spells to traverse through to rewards. You won't be able to get…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“This should be a neutral vote, mostly because it was the first work of a very small team who spent 2 years on it, but doing a retro-styled game does not completely excuse it for being tedious and a slog in places. Passing off some outdated and trollish game design, a dull world…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:23 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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New game from Elden Pixels coming Feb 29!
Hello you lovely people! Thank you all for being fans of the games we've created! Without your support we wouldn't be here and be able to continue making games. It really means a lot! We wanted to tak
Alwa's Awakening is getting a physical release!
Hello! Did you know we're releasing Alwa's Collection? It's Alwa's Awakening and the follow-up Alwa's Legacy on one disc/cartridge on PS4/Switch! More info can be found here: https://eldenpixels.com/a
Alwa’s Legacy is now out on Steam!
Hello! Our second game called Alwa's Legacy is now released on Steam! It's a standalone sequel and our design goal with it was to take everything that was good from the first game and make it better.
Alwa's Legacy - Our new game is live on Kickstarter
Alwa's Legacy - Our new game is live on Kickstarter! We’re happy to finally be able to announce our entirely new game Alwa’s Legacy. It’s a passion project that we’ve been working on for more than a y
Patch v1.06 - Switch Pro Controller-Support
Hey Everyone! This is the first patch since the release of Alwa's Awakening on Nintendo Switch. Thank you to everyone who's been playing the game and shown support since the release of the game here o
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · Indie · Adventure · Pixel Graphics · Platformer · Retro · 2D · Female Protagonist · Great Soundtrack · Side Scroller · Singleplayer · Difficult (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Swedish, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, French, Italian, Russian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 15 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://eldenpixels.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, 7, 8, or 10 Processor: 2.1 GHz Dual Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 280 MB available space Sound Card: Yes Additional Notes: Gamepad Recommended