Indie

MIO: Memories in Orbit

83% positive of 4,571 Steam reviews

Main story: 10 h
Everything: 50 h
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Douze Dixièmes. Published by Focus Entertainment.

About the game

Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.

What sets it apart

Metroidvania
Souls-like
Robots
Precision Platformer
Exploration
Platformer
Hand-drawn
Action-Adventure
Futuristic
Difficult
2D Platformer
Combat

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Indie

MIO: Memories in Orbit

83% positive of 4,571 Steam reviews

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Main story: 10 h
Everything: 50 h
Released: 2026
Steam Deck: Verified
Known on: Steam, PlayStation

Made by Douze Dixièmes. Published by Focus Entertainment.

About the game

What sets it apart

Metroidvania
Souls-like
Robots
Precision Platformer
Exploration
Platformer
Hand-drawn
Action-Adventure
Futuristic
Difficult
2D Platformer
Combat

What players say

Recommended
One of the best Metroidvanias I've ever played, with some bad decisions connected wtih difficulty in my opinion. Beautiful, complex, and really interesting to investigate. The music is awesome. The world-building is complex, and it's nice to return and check old places. The game gives me the same feeling as when I went through Silksong, Hollow Knight, and Nine Sols (and stayed up late at night just to investigate…
25 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Probably my favorite game in the genre: beautiful, heartfelt, and very open progression-wise. This is a game very much designed for people who enjoy self-directed exploration: it's very willing to let you get yourself completely lost, and has a lot of freedom of routing even before you start playing around with just how expressive the movement system is. A big thing I love are the ways this game keeps you from…
92 h played when written. 15 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Beautiful game, the platforming is fun, the combat is mostly fun. The story is just okay. Performances could be much improved, why does this 2D platformer lag so much on minimum graphics quality. Also discovering a new area and being "rewarded" by permanently losing a HP feels quite frustrating.
16 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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