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DEVIATOR
Deviator is a Metroidvania game centered around deflect, featuring exquisite 2D hand-drawn visuals. Exploring unknown wilderness and mysterious cities, delving into enigmatic realms of consciousness and encountering peculiar creatures. Try to find the truth behind this chaotic world.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“Seriously, this is a really good game. It’s short but sweet, with excellent parry mechanics. I’ve played many Metroidvanias, including Hollow Knight, and this definitely reminds me of that—though of course not quite at the same level of hype. Exploration is solid as well. One of…”
— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played“very obviously a copy of Hollow Knight but with a proper parry system, there's a few gltiches etc but they can be worked around, the attention to detail on the parry animation is very acute, but with tht comes the lack of consistency sometimes when doing a parry, such as the…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“just a HK copy has potential hopefully improves soon also hasnt been updated since last year”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
和大家聊聊《偏差者》的现在和未来
Hello everyone, I’m Janus, the producer of Deviator . It has been a year since the Early Access release of Deviator . A year ago, we promised an update plan, but so far, we have only delivered a small
v0.9.6 update
Adjusted the resolution settings. There are now more resolution options available, and the settings will read your display configuration to offer more suitable resolution choices. Fixed an issue where
New update - Happy lunar new year！
Hello friends, The new year is about to bring a small update to *Deviator*. Thank you all for your patience! Happy lunar new year！ Here’s what’s new: 1. **SteamDeck Compatibility Update**: - Native re
Indie Game Sale Week now！
Following the Steam Scream Fest, the Indie Game Sale continues until November 13, offering the lowest prices ever!ːsteamhappyː At the same time, the casual strategy games “Dice Player One” and “Deviat
Deviator has now joined the Scream Fest!
Deviator has now joined the Scream Fest! The event runs from October 29 to November 5, during which the game will be on sale with an 11% discount (new lowest price!). The Metroidvania bundle featuring
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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, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Action · Metroidvania · 2D Platformer · Souls-like · Platformer · Hand-drawn · Adventure · Dark Fantasy · Atmospheric · Combat · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 1 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10/11 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: TBA