A 2D stealth game

Nightcrawler is a 2D stealth game inspired by Gunpoint, Deadbolt, and Mark of the Ninja. It has simple rules:

• Kill everyone without getting spotted.
• You can only kill enemies from behind. 
• If an enemy sees you and reaches you, you are dead!

I always wanted to make games and specifically I wanted to make this game for years. Mostly for myself, because I'm a fan of this genre and this is the kind of game that I would love playing. Hope you like it!

(Most of the art is to be considered temporary and will eventually be updated.)

Gameplay

Kill everyone in the level without getting spotted.

If the enemy sees you, run away and hide.

Sneak around the level and find alternative routes.

You can't survive the enemy attack.

Gamepad Controls

Keyboard Controls

Future plans 

This is just an early prototype, there is so much more I want to add and experiment with. Specifically: 

•  Add civilian hostages to be freed.
•  Add levels with important targets to be killed (in these levels you can try to avoid killing the guards, if you can).
• Add pacify mechanics, enabling also pacifist/kill-everyone playthroughs.
•  Test adding sound distractions and light/dark mechanics.
•  Improving enemy AI with a search behavior once they spot the player.
• Custom graphics (if you are a pixel artist interested in collaborating pls message me!).
• Music, sound effects.
• A plot and a setting and worldbuilding.
• Much more, might write a devlog about it soon!

If everything goes right, this game will have a lot of replayability, with each level being approachable with different strategies (kill-everyone/pacifist/no-deaths/never-spotted/etc)

Art

All art comes from creators on Itch and online, some of it is tweaked and adjusted by me. No AI is used.

• DeadRevolver > Pixel Art & fonts
• catshaped > Progress Bar
• datagoblin > Fonts
• Omniclause > Save Icon
• sudowhoami > Godot Pixel Logo
• bored-cube > Tiny social icons
• PixyFantasyStudios > Warning icon
• Oneanya > Logo design
  
• synasius > Tileset

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Thanks for playing, I hope you enjoyed it!