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Capsized

Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives! Use your jetpack to fly through the alien jungle, and tools such as the Gravity Hook to manipulate your environment to skilfully dodge and defeat attacking enemies. You will be challenged - with platforming, puzzle solving, and deadly skirmishing, often all at the same time! Artist Jesse Mc

Release date
December 19, 2012
Platforms
Windows, Linux
Developer
Alientrap Games
Publisher
Alientrap Games
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Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives! Use your jetpack to fly through the alien jungle, and tools such as the Gravity Hook to manipulate your environment to skilfully dodge and defeat attacking enemies. You will be challenged - with platforming, puzzle solving, and deadly skirmishing, often all at the same time!

Artist Jesse McGibney and programmer Lee Vermeulen create an immersive alien world teeming with bizarre life-forms and strange landscapes presented in a unique hand-drawn art style. Combining control elements of first person shooters and innovative physics based combat, Capsized emphasizes action without giving up the smart problem solving of classic platform games. Highly detailed alien environments and creatures, lovingly rendered with high resolution hand-drawn artwork.12 mission campaigns featuring massive non-linear environments, diverse objectives and enemies, and exciting comic book style cutscenes.4 extra arcade modes to unlock, including local deathmatch and co-op, Survival mode, Time Trials, and even Armless fighting.

Highly detailed alien environments and creatures, lovingly rendered with high resolution hand-drawn artwork.12 mission campaigns featuring massive non-linear environments, diverse objectives and enemies, and exciting comic book style cutscenes.4 extra arcade modes to unlock, including local deathmatch and co-op, Survival mode, Time Trials, and even Armless fighting.

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★ 7.4/10GOG · 195 ratings
GOGLast checked November 1, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 3 / 5
You need the Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1 installed to play this game, or the game will not run.
★ 5 / 5
When awards time came around at the end of last year, I was always disappointed, no matter whose list I was looking at. Every time,…
★ 4 / 5
I've owned this game for at least a couple of years now, so I was surprised when I saw GoG add it. ...Actually what am…
★ 5 / 5
This game was a pleasant surprise. What captivated me initially (and hence its purchase) was the hand-drawn, exquisitely detailed graphics. Fortunately I found a very…
★ 2 / 5
Like everyone else has said, graphics and music are awesome. The gameplay is really good in some parts, annoying in others. In all I think…
★ 5 / 5
The premise is pretty straightforward: you've crashed on an alien planet, and you need to find a way to escape. Besides the standard jumping and…
★ 3 / 5
My Video Review can be found here: Capsized was not an easy game for me to review. I admit that I even put it aside…
★ 3 / 5
This game has a lot of potential with it's nice graphic style, mouse gun aiming, and physics manipulation tools, but it unfortunately falls short with…

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★ 3 / 5
short and relatively easy platformer/shmup in a strange but beautiful alien world, accompanied by fantastic (licensed) music and a disappointing ending. not that anybody would…
★ 4 / 5
It's a fun little game that gets a bit too hard at the end. THe main draw through most of this game is fast based…
★ 3 / 5
My Video Review can be found here: Capsized was not an easy game for me to review. I admit that I even put it aside…
★ 2 / 5
A good game, yet the game goes against the cautious, stocked up ammo do not carry in between levels. Still good, just a warning.
★ 1 / 5
This is one of those games I could tell I hated it within 5 minutes of gameplay. the zoomed out picture causes me to squint…
★ 5 / 5
The premise is pretty straightforward: you've crashed on an alien planet, and you need to find a way to escape. Besides the standard jumping and…

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