Death's Door 2021

Is it still worth playing?

A small crow who collects souls for an office-like bureaucracy of death has one stolen from him and sets out after three Giant Souls in this 2021 action adventure seen from above at an angle. You start with a sword and a bow, and sword hits refill the arrows; four more weapons and three spells come later. You have four health points, every hit takes one, and you heal by planting seeds in pots around the world, which grow into flowers that heal you fully once. Doors back to headquarters act as checkpoints, and pulling a lever or shooting a lantern opens a shortcut back to the last one. New items and abilities open parts of earlier areas, and dungeons need puzzles solved with them. Fights where a few hits end you, and levels whose shortcuts keep leading back to the door you came in by, are why it plays so well today.