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Is Micro Mages worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Fans of 8-bit NES-style platformers who want fortress climbing and wall-jumping
- Groups of up to four players seeking simultaneous cooperative or score-based play
- Players who enjoy platforming challenges built around traps, monsters, and bosses
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a platformer with a large world beyond its 26 levels
- Players looking for progression systems beyond normal and hard modes, passwords, and score competition
- Players who want a single-player-only experience
Our take on Micro Mages
The NES-focused format gives up the breadth of modern platformers in favor of fixed levels, classic presentation, and direct score competition. The result centers on replaying challenges and coordinating or competing during simultaneous play rather than on extensive progression systems.
What is Micro Mages?
Enter a demon fortress in Micro Mages, a platform game styled after 8-bit NES titles.
Solo adventurers and groups of one to four can climb its towers by firing weapons and jumping from walls, while confronting traps, creatures, hidden treasure, and bosses through 26 eerie stages. Multiplayer supports either teamwork or score competition. A defeated character returns as a ghost if another player is still active, allowing that player to immobilize enemies. Fairies and Feathers hidden in crates and chests revive fallen characters. Normal and hard difficulty settings, a password-based continuation system, and the Micro Mages: Second Quest ROM are included, along with an illustrated booklet modeled on old NES game manuals.
How Micro Mages plays
- 01Four-player sessions
- Up to four players can participate simultaneously in cooperative or score-focused play.
- 02Ghost assistance
- A player who dies while another remains alive can freeze enemies as a ghost.
- 03Two difficulty modes
- The 26 levels are available in normal and hard modes.
- 04Revival items
- Fairies and Feathers found in crates or treasure chests can bring a character back to life.
- 05Second Quest ROM
- The installation includes a ROM of Micro Mages: Second Quest, a level hack of the original game.
- 06Password continuation
- A password function allows a game to be continued in classic NES fashion.
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Micro Mages: platforms & release
Is Micro Mages worth it?
It is worth it if: fans of 8-bit NES-style platformers who want fortress climbing and wall-jumping. Skip it if: players seeking a platformer with a large world beyond its 26 levels.
Where can I download Micro Mages?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Micro Mages's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Micro Mages on?
Windows only.
