MV Temperature

Textula

Developer: saksu

Visual

side scroll

Structure

ability gated
exploration
interconnected map
non linear

Combat

action

Features

accessibility
speedrun mode

Themes

Sci-Fi

Sub-Genre

Micro / Mini
puzzle heavy

Summary

Explore and master a forgotten ecosystem of sentient programs, built inside of a futuristic next-gen computer from the 1980s.

Textula is a snappy 2D challenge platformer metroidvania featuring light environmental puzzles, exploration, lore, and unique movement abilities and commands to find, all presented in a purely text-based art style with lots and lots of handcrafted ascii animations.

Made for the Metroidvania Month 30 game jam.

Last updated August 08, 2026

Where to play

- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- itch.io

Resources

Links

IGDB

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Textula

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