Revita

Platform(s): Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Genre: Platformer
Publisher: Dear Villagers
Developer: BenStar
Release Date: April 21, 2022

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'Revita' Steam Early Access Update Adds New Content, Development Roadmap Revealed

by Rainier on April 19, 2021 @ 8:51 a.m. PDT

Revita is a charming twin stick roguelite which sets up agile, air-dashing firefights throughout the floors of a mysterious clocktower.

In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!

In Revita, players must climb an ominous clock tower through a series of procedural encounter rooms and clear challenging boss fights on their way to reclaiming their lost memory. Along the way players will be able to trade health for randomized upgrades as the game dares them to live on a knife-edge.

Find the right balance of attack and defense as you try, die, repeat and progress up the tower. Battle through an almost infinite variety of combat encounters in procedurally generated rooms. Twin stick shooting, dashing and wall sliding are just the beginning - find power-ups and items on each run and upgrade your arsenal.

An extensive set of options lets you tweak Revita to your playstyle - slow down time, set an outline colour for enemies to make them easier to track or choose the level of aim assist that feels right for you.

Explore an underground subway line infested with monsters and filled with colourful characters who will help you on your journey. Travelling from station to station where elevators take you towards the heights of an ever changing clocktower.


Developer BenStar and publisher Dear Villagers released the first major Steam Early Access update called ‘Beasts and Bees’ for his pixelated roguelite Revita. 

From today, players will have access to a range of extra content: 2 extra NPCs, a new Celestial weapon, more achievements and collectables, and an additional branching pathway to explore, plus tweaks, bug fixes and myriad quality of life improvements.

  • More stuff!: 2 NPCs, 18 relics, 1 new branching path, and a brand new Celestial weapon, plus hats, achievements, secrets, and frogs
  • Rebalanced relics!: Upgrades have been adjusted to make for a more balanced experience: increased chance of critical damage, stat boosts, etc.
  • Smoother gameplay!: Numerous quality of life improvements based on player feedback, including dialogue skips, a quick restart button, and a proper mouse lock system. 
  • Early Acc ess(ibility)!: Players can zoom the camera out to better view the level, mashes and holds are now skippable, and they now have the ability to dash towards the mouse. 

Additionally, BenStar released a content roadmap showing the current and next major update that be following in course of the Early Access of the game.

‘Phew! This update was a huge amount of work, but totally worth it,’ says Benjamin Kiefer, the developer behind Revita. ‘None of this would be possible without the feedback from players. I’m so grateful, and I hope I’ve done you all proud.’

Key Features

  • Trade life for power: Exchange health for power in fast-paced glass cannon gameplay.
  • Unique runs: Battle through an almost infinite variety of combat encounters in procedurally generated rooms.
  • Endless character builds: Twin stick shooting, dashing and wall sliding are just the beginning - find power-ups and items on each run.
  • Tweak your game: An extensive set of options lets you tweak Revita to your playstyle - slow down time, set an outline color for enemies to make them easier to track or choose the level of aim assist that feels right for you.
  • A mysterious world: Explore an underground subway line infested with monsters and filled with colorful characters who will help you on your journey.
  • Reclaim lost memories: A nameless child with no memories awakens in a mysterious clock tower that is connected by a metro system with only a vague sense of purpose, hoping to find answers at the top.
  • HATS: Many, many hats. All the hats, really, to cover all heads and all styles.

Currentlly available on Steam Early Access, Revita is set to release for PC (Steam) in 2021.


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