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Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons

PC (Microsoft Windows), MSX2, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

Join Pampas and Selene as they overcome monsters, demons, and the Dark Priest with the help of the gods themselves! Explore this co-opvania 8-bit platformer alone or with a friend. This retro game is a loving tribute to an MSX2 masterpiece from the creator of UnEpic, Ghost 1.0, and UnMetal.

What works

  • Faithful retro metroidvania experience
  • Unique co-op mode with separate screens
  • Large map with secrets and quests
  • Challenging and fun boss fights
  • Affordable price with good content

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bosses favor one character in co-op
  • Final boss difficulty spike
  • Some grind for enemy powers
  • Minor bugs reported in co-op
  • Achievements disabled in co-op mode

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • UnEpic

  • Shotgun Legend

  • Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

  • Cathedral

  • Streets of Rogue

  • Infernax

  • Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos

  • Mini Ghost

  • Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • 9th Dawn III

  • Guardians of the Sanctree

  • Antonball Deluxe

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Competition.

Last update: 26/07/2026