Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge

Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge is an old-school action platformer built around a gloriously silly premise: a social-media insult spirals into an interstellar revenge mission. You play as Serena S, a celebrated galactic adventurer who has zero patience for online trolls. When the Space Prince crosses her, she sets out across hostile planets and space installations to settle the score. The tone is loud, crude, and cheerfully juvenile, treating every minor grievance like a universe-ending crisis.

The game wears its retro influences proudly. It aims for the brisk, colorful energy of early-’90s computer action games rather than modern cinematic spectacle. In my experience, that commitment to the era is its biggest strength — dense pixel-art backgrounds, exaggerated character portraits, chunky explosions, and a driving chiptune score from Jake “Virt” Kaufman give every encounter personality.

You run, jump, fire, and blast your way through seven compact stages packed with enemies, hazards, elevated routes, and screen-filling bosses. The controls emphasize responsive platforming and constant shooting. Weapon pickups and movement challenges keep the action from becoming a simple march to the right. Levels reward alert players who learn enemy patterns, time their jumps around traps, and make the most of limited space when projectiles start filling the screen.

Difficulty comes from the classic arcade-style demand for precision and persistence. Deaths feel like part of the process of learning a stage’s tricks rather than an interruption to a sprawling RPG progression system. If you enjoy short, replayable platform shooters with a crude sense of humor, you’ll find plenty to like here — especially if you value mechanical clarity over elaborate systems.

The game channels the spirit of titles such as Halloween Harry, Duke Nukem 2, and Phantis/Game Over II without pretending to be anything more serious than a focused retro romp. Newcomers can enjoy its straightforward design, while veterans of DOS-era action games are most likely to appreciate how faithfully it captures that specific home-computer arcade feel.