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Is XEL worth it for you?

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Play it if you…

Good fit

Action-adventure players who want sword combat combined with environmental puzzles
Players who enjoy science-fiction fantasy worlds with a central mystery
Fans of top-down exploration games who want dungeons, upgrades, and time-based abilities

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Players seeking a primarily stealth-focused or dialogue-driven adventure may find the emphasis on combat and puzzles unsuitable.
Players wanting a purely linear experience may not enjoy moving between an overworld, dungeons, and time-distorted areas.
Players looking for a survival-crafting game may find its focus on exploration, combat, and story less suitable.

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Our take on XEL

Time manipulation defines the adventure: Reid can move through different points in an area to open routes, revisit inaccessible locations, and change enemy encounters.

What is XEL?

XEL is a top-down 3D action-adventure about Reid, who is stranded on a strange sci-fi fantasy world without memories of her former life.

Exploration covers a vibrant overworld and dangerous dungeons filled with robot enemies, wildlife, environmental interactions, and puzzles involving time and space. Combat uses a sword, shield, dodging, parrying, and gadgets, with upgrades for weapons, shields, and equipment. New abilities open previously inaccessible areas, alter encounters, and reveal parts of the world’s history. Reid also meets friends and foes, speaks with non-player characters, and investigates her connection to XEL while uncovering an ongoing cycle of peril.

How XEL plays

01Time-Based Puzzles: Special abilities let Reid reach earlier versions of locations, access blocked areas, and encounter enemies in weaker states.
02Sword And Shield Combat: Fights combine attacks with dodges, parries, and gadget use against robots and wildlife.
03Equipment Upgrades: Weapons, shields, and gadgets can be improved during the journey.
04Overworld And Dungeons: The adventure moves between an explorable overworld and dungeons containing threats and puzzles.
05Story-Focused Exploration: Interactions with characters and the environment reveal Reid’s identity and the causes behind XEL’s downfall.

XEL compared to similar games

XEL combines top-down 3D combat, dungeon exploration, time-based puzzles, and equipment upgrades around a science-fiction fantasy mystery. Ghost of a Tale is an action-RPG focused on a mouse minstrel, stealth, disguises, conversations, and exploration in a medieval animal world. Mr. Prepper instead centers on building an underground shelter, crafting, survival, and resistance to an authoritarian government.

XEL: platforms & release

Is XEL worth it?

It is worth it if: action-adventure players who want sword combat combined with environmental puzzles. Skip it if: players seeking a primarily stealth-focused or dialogue-driven adventure may find the emphasis on combat and puzzles unsuitable.