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Alwa's Legacy
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“Alwa's Legacy is the sort-of sequel/remake of Alwa's Awakening, didn't like the previous one that much, but this time the developers managed to improve on it in every possible way. For starters, exploration feels much more satisfying thanks to better pacing, faster walking…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“The SNES-inspired visuals are absolutely beautiful, and the actual platforming and gameplay feel really solid. It’s clearly a well-made tribute to the era. However, it’s almost too faithful to the old-school formula for its own good. The constant backtracking and rigid design…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played“Satisfying progression and tough but fair puzzles. Music is good too.”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-19.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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
A huge language patch just went live!
Hello everyone! We just updated Alwa's Legacy and added a bunch of new languages. Here's the full changelog. General Updated the Elden Pixels intro splash screen Added translations for Chinese (Tradit
The latest patch is here!
Hello! In this smaller update we've added Spanish (Europe) as well as Spanish (Latin America) thanks to a lovely fan-translation! We also took the opportunity to fix some smaller issues we've found. E
Language patch and more is here! (1.3.1.7233)
Hello! It's been awhile but we just launched our newest patch! This will bring the game up to date with the Switch version and will add two new languages (French and German), a few tweaks and a lot mo
Patch #2 is now live!
Hello! Patch #2 is here and bringing you lots of small improvements. We've reworked our controller scripts so hopefully they should work better now. Here's the changelog: 2020/07/08 - changeset 6973 G
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Metroidvania · 2D Platformer · Puzzle-Platformer · Exploration · Platformer · Pixel Graphics · Action-Adventure · Female Protagonist · Indie · Retro · 2D · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Swedish, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | https://eldenpixels.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 8, or 10 Processor: 2.1 GHz Dual Core Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics DirectX: Version 9.0 Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: Yes Additional Notes: Gamepad Recommended