#ultros

Ultros is the strangest Metroidvania i’ve ever played. If you can tolerate how weird it is compared to other metroidvanias, you will likely agree with me on how beautiful it is.

The core mechanic of Ultros is a time loop, which deletes all your abilities, upgrades, and inventory. However, there are seeds you can plant which grow into different types of plants, which then mature and grow even bigger between cycles. This is one of the things that lets you access new areas. Most of your upgrades then have to do with tending to these plants in one way or another.

The art is gorgeous, alien, and psychedelic. The music is ambient, strange, and somehow comforting and disquieting all at once.

It seems like the time loop would feel like you’re being reset, but it doesn’t. Ultros is about working with and cultivating the map itself, and it builds itself around that so much that it’s coherent.

It’s a beautiful and strange game, and I love it dearly. Games like this are the reason I’m doing this quest to begin with.