Nerd³ Loves... Downwell
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- A game about the importance of proper footwear.
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The game is supposed to be fast, if you stomp on enemies you'll reload, so you have to make a combo, a combo of 8 gives you 100 gems, a combo of 15 gives you 100 gems and a charge, and a combo of 25 gives you 100 gems, a charge and 1 heal, if you heal yourself when you are at full HP a little bar under the HP Bar starts charging, it charges every time you heal when at full HP, if you fill that bar you get +1 HP... in case you read this, please test Nuclear Throne
yea, he has to play nuclear throne it's great
+Alexis th3 great The health bar reminds me so much of Nuclear Throne.
nuclear throne is just a ripoff of Atomic Throne
+aceman0000099 I'm guessing that was a joke?
Ohmygod. Finally someone else who wants him to play nuclear throne
"i play this game much faster than I think you're supposed to"
little does he know he's actually playing slower than normal
That went down... well, I suppose.
+Artur Araújo WE BOTH THOUGHT OF THE SAME ONE. :D
Downhill or what?
olá
Boo
+Simão Figueiredo hola
"Red is the colour of evil".
Hmm... *glances at logo*
I see, I see.
I'm sure these won't go *downwell* with some, but this game is *well* good! I hope these puns make people feel better, stop them from feeling down... :D
+Lurking Harris I think I'm feeling down after reading those rather than better...
+Limon I don't understand what you just said, but I accept your apology :D
+Azzy13579 My personality has that effect on people too :D
Bro I fucking love you,
+Lurking Harris The puns make me feel worse...
I personally recommend going fast and maintains gem high because enemies get really nasty later on and some future levels require you to go fast so get used to it
I just bought this game two days ago.
I can't stop playing it.....
Oh, and as someone who _thinks_ I know what I'm doing, watching this was a bit painful. I stomp on nearly everything in order to build up massive combos.
"I play it a bit faster than I think you are supposed to be" precedes to play it really slowly
XD
The black and white symbolises Dan.
The white symbolises Matt being a total douche against him (not really), editing stuff and making vines against Dans will. Dan gets white and sick because of that.
The black symbolises the colours of all the consoles and his computer. Together they mix up and make Dan. That is why Dan loves this game!
(Overwork I know but, I don't care)
+vooran Well, looks like there are 50 shades of grey in Dan and Matt's relationship... :D
Lurking Harris Yup, I'll be danned! :D
vooran These puns Matt-er a lot to me :D
+vooran What the fuck are you on about Vooran?
+DinoDoesStuff I don't know and that's why he's great :D
You know how at the start of just cause 3 Mario says "you could take a boat to an air field if you wanted" without using rebel drop do exactly that.
"Red is the color of evil..." **Looks at Dan's logo** Hmm...
I just realised we haven't seen a "Loves" video for a week...
The more love, the merrier!
I love how nine out of ten times, "Hello procrastinators" has just been replaced with "So, ..."
“You control this little dude”
*breaks finger bone
This game was originally on the App Store, it's such a amazing port that nobody noticed.
The car battery HAD to have been a reference to Isaac.
+Jayden Klein (Sir Jayden II) Nah. Its a bigger battery.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Thats your motivation for going down the well
A description from steam
Arm spin style is the best style. You dont need shops when gun modules heal you and expand your charge.
Plus shop rarity means youll actually have a decent amount of gems when you find one.
"I like eating corpses, it's my favourite thing." Nerdcubed 2016
I can't wait to see that show up on his wiki page.
When dan shouted "do it!" at the end I said, yes sir and yet and bought it
went
"Bats are always vicious in video games." Wait until Yooka-Laylee comes out.
As you play this game you'll realise the best way to play. You try and kill all enemy's by jumping on them because of the combo counter which give you a ton of more gems. You also always want to take the gun modules, however bad they are because they also give you stat upgrades. When your comboing you will be going at a much much faster pace then this because you never land.
I've been okaying this game for about 2 weeks and I just found up you can wall jump!!! you have to jump on the wall then use the direction away from the wall while you hit jump!
Hey Dan, heres something crazy, I watched a video of this guy playing this game trying to get the biggest combo. He completed the game without touching the ground until he got to the last level where your chased by something.
Hey Dan I know you probably won't see this but I'll say it anyway. Watching your new videos and looking back at your old stuff helped keep me sane whilst going through chemotherapy. Your also one of the reasons I started my own channel. So thank you and keep making awesome and hilarious videos.
I got this on my iPhone and apart from cramping my hands to all hell,because of how you have to hold the bottom half of the phone like you would a gameboy advanced to actually control the little guy properly,the game is pretty damn fun.
So it's like a downward plat former with mercury from rwby as the main character
He kicks shit
+ADRIAN ROBLES his boots shoot bullets though
Mercury would keep taunting every single enemy he shot.
+Jasper Daugaard he's picking up gems from there dead bodies does that count?
+christian fields their
It looks insane if you watch it twice as fast
Is it just me that goes back to previous videos to get my daily dose of 'HEELLLLLLOOOO PROCRASTINATORS!!!!!!' ?
"I play it faster than normal..."
Me: "yeah... if anything you are slower than normal..."
i've got a challenge for this game: you're only allowed to take the items that don't say what they do in their description.
annotations aren't coming up for me in the outro, anyone else?
+bunnasaurus You may have them turned off bro
checked another vid, apparently i do. thanks youtube for decided i didn't need them anymore
+bunnasaurus they aren't added to this video, i checked with other videos. (they worked OK there)
just checked a different vids, yeah, it is just this one. oh well
+bunnasaurus how are you the only other person to notice THIS UNACCEPTABLENESS IT AINT GOING DOWN WELL WITH ME
I'm getting a Nuclear Throne kinda vibe from this game
+IsReallyIt Definitely.
great now i wanna play Nuclear Throne again.
i'll make my apologies to the sunlight later.
Am I the only one who can't get more than level 4 in nuclear throne?
+IsReallyIt Look at the health bar to see why.
Me 2
He shouldn't make the best games of the year videos until the new year, because good games come out after he makes the list but before the year ends sometimes, like this one.
I think the aqua pallet should be the default pallet, because it feels like a dark cave
there is an entire competition for speedrunning the binding of isaac
The best description of this game that I've heard is "Nuclear Throne meets Doodle Jump"
And if you don't know what Nuclear Throne is.... GO. PLAY IT.
3 things: get the mobile version it's amazing,
If you jump forward and your character spins, you can wall jump if you time it right which is VERY useful,
And as for going slow or fast it depends. You can go slow but it's difficult to kill enemies quickly because you don't have gem high, or go quickly and maintain gem high for greater speed and damage.
The "Puncher" upgrade looks like a fist when you combine it with "Triple".
says he plays it quickly, i watched sips play this. he just went like strait down and died every 2 seconds.
One thing I don't like from this game are the controls ... shift... WHY SHIFT!
+Limon you can play with A,D and spacebar if you want.
If u play with WASD then you should use r-shift trust me
+Limon Shift is a much more precise button than space, and much larger than z or x, so it is a pretty natural choice for a jump button. A lot of platformers that require a ton of precision use shift for the same reason.
***** Good point.
I love how he's like, "I think I play this game much faster than you're supposed to," and then he plays it way slower than you're supposed to.
The problem is that every time he shoots, he shoots way more than he needs to, so he wastes the ability to use the recoil as a way to control his descent.
Okay, he finally starts to get it at about 21 minutes in.
Great year for 16-bit games...Downwell, Undertale, etc.
Tips:
Bounce more shoot less.
Use your gun more for falling slower then killing things
Dan seems to have noticed, but the white areas on enemies are touchable. In other words if an enemy is only your palette colour, you can't touch it.
"I may be playing it too fast."
*plays it too slow
NOTE: you can get gems by stomping on multiple enemys without stopping AND u can get hp back from the upgrades in the shape of Hearts! AND YOU CAN WALL JUMP
Dan: "I play it a bit faster than I think you're supposed to be"
Watches Dan hit an enemy then immediately go to land
Me: Oh... oh no...
downwell is a great name for a game where you go down a well
This style of 8bit actually looks like they put a lot of heart and effort into it, unlike most new cookie-cutter 8bit sidescroller.
Finally this game gets some love
+Jake Pelletier This game has been getting a ton of good press, though.
+Silvarret I hadn't been seeing it much on TH-cam
If this isn't made by the same guy who made nuclear throne, then someone's definitely taking a lot of liberties with his graphics style, what with the health bar, bullet physics, and even the upgrade menu.
well that escalated quickly... well, it went down quickly, but that joke was done...
Well well well, i may drop some of my money downwell
Wow, I can't believe this was $2 on sale. I was like "well, i don't really want to spend over 7 dollars on this right now".
Downwell is a great game. Happy to see it on Loves.
I think it’s funny how he thinks he playing super fast yet he’s playing super slow
This is more like a vertical nuclear throne than a vertical spelunky IMOP
This feels like a cross between BoI, Nuclear Throne and Spelunky.the upgrades at the end and the Health bar looks and feels like NT, the shop fells isaacy and spelunky-esque.
It'll be a pain to get a bucket into that well for sure...
Of course you can speedrun procedural games. Anything that has a concrete completion goal can be speedrun, I've even run an endless roguelike. It becomes more about reacting and adapting than about memorized precision, but every game has a balance of the two.
You really should play this game called Pixel Dungeon. It's an early 2000s style dungeon-crawlery thing with absolutely charming graphics. Plus, it's only a few pounds on Steam, maybe even cheaper with the holiday sale.
Hey, Eirik Surkhe made the soundtrack for this. He made the soundtrack for Spelunky HD.
I love this game I am soo glad Dan made a video on how good it is
I find it strange that I was literally just playing this, then I went to TH-cam, and saw this.
That's a quite large convincidence.
+Davis Moniz
i'll tell ur parents you said dirty words >:c
Also, last thing... You see small white bars under you health, so if you get 4 health over max you gain +1 max health
the protagonist looks like the guy from rhythm tengoku's night walk
"Red is the color of evil, EVIL" -Daniel Hardcastle 2015
Yes, Dan. It is also the color of the Red Cross.
+Joshua Bueng Coincidence? I think not!
I was going to write the exact same thing that you did, but I thought, "No, someone else will"
Coinci. .. Fuck.
+Joshua Bueng Who are vampires, don't you know.
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+Joshua Bueng Also the colour of AXIS.
Love the fact that this game was on sale!
now i've got it and LOVE IT
how have you not seen spelunky speedruns. the're amazing!
Subtitles say,"Houston dead bodies to be really useful."
[pun]
[Acknowledgment of pun]
[insult about your unoriginality]
I'm sure you can speed run randomly generated games. After a while of playing, you'll probably notice some pattern in the generation which might help in speed running. Also you can always get really lucky with the generation.
The developer of this was an opera singer apperantly.
Nerd^3 challenges: Just Cause 3, collect all mod parts
(So go to all the really difficult ones you couldn't 5 part and do it)
The upgrade system is like Nuclear Throne
I was waiting for this! Ive been playing it for hours over the last few weeks!
Who ever says aggresive marketing doesn't work is wrong. Got the damn game at 3 minutes in!
nerdcubed challenge: 50 combo in downwell
This game reminds me of when you get awesome goomba stomping combos in mario.
Nerd3 Loves: upside down Doodle Jump
is anyone keeping a counter of how many videos he's started with "So" since the reboot?
won't lie. when he said "god module" it made me smile :') that's the name of one of my favourite bands xD also this game looks too fun to not own D:
You don't know what a tardis is but you know what an adipose is!?!?!?! *head explodes*
play you have to win the game yes it is a game
Dan, I'm aware that you're not the best at these kinds of games, but you should really give Flywrench a try. It is a great example of a game having a simple idea and doing it amazingly. It's really hard, but I'd love to see what you have to say about it. Maybe in Nerdcubed Tests?
Yes you can speedrun procedurally generated games, there is an achievment for spelunky for speedrunning it within 8 mins.
I'm in love....:) and man, I think this after everyone of Dans videos, he deserves so much more positive attention.
you can also wall jump its hard but possible, helpful for going up
it's a faster paced downwards version of doodle jump
You can speed-run procedurally-generated games. Immediately, I can think of Minecraft, Terraria, and the Binding of Isaac. All have procedurally generated worlds, but all are completely valid for speedrunning. I'd say the only kind of game that aren't "speed-runable" are games that force you to go at a certain pace
Of course. All three require both luck and skill (though Minecraft's luck category heavily outweighs required skill, IMO.) All I'm saying is procedurally-generated games can be speed-ran. :)
I am so dyslexic I keep seeing downFALL
Gems. Gems are truly outrageous. They are truly, truly, truly.... outrageous.
downwell= spelunky + nuclear throne
"Red is the color of evil" he said forgetting that his fucking logo is red
The art style reminds me a lot of Luftrauser.
yes. you can speed run games of this nature.
Spelunky speedruns are nice.
that moon is just... ow my eyes XD
Dan, you can speedrun randomly generated games. Look at Spelunky and it's speedrunning community. A guy called Bananasaurus Rex has 1000 hrs on it!
There should be a the floor is lava challenge on this