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Genopanic
Developer Mobirate
Genopanic is a pixel-art, Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformer. Explore corridors of the space station, teeming with secrets and dangers, and engage in boss fights. Solve puzzles and uncover hidden mysteries in the dark atmosphere of a sci-fi research complex. Discover the truth with each step From the Steam store page
165 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Aug 26, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
113 positive · 43 negative
95% range 65–79%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 113 | 43 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
9 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
298 of 385 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 165 · most liked firstI was cautious when I read 'Metroidvania Inspired' and still expected it to be a Metroidvania. So far it's not one. It's a shame because it very well could have been one since it does a lot of stuff Metroidvania games does, it has great level design and gradually gives you new powers you use to progress. The world is however totally linear and there is very little exploration or even reason to use the map. It feels more like a stage platformer than an open world. Maybe it opens up more later,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Genopanic claims to be non-linear but my experience was entirely linear. It's been wrongly tagged on Steam by users as a metroidvania; It isn't one. There was a small section of the map I could have unlocked and returned to and that probably would have unlocked a different ending. There was also a valve I don’t recall returning to use, but these were so far away from the end of the game where I was saved at that I had no desire to return to these spots and investigate. The game has all of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it on sale, probably worth it at $5. Pros: Art, basic gameplay, gimicks Cons: Abilities, story, achievement trickery + Art: Watch the video on the store page. If you like what you see, then yes, the rest of the game is also that pretty. I enjoyed the art. + Basic gameplay: Jumping around and killing stuff feels good the whole time. Sword remains relevant the whole game (actually it deserves a separate keybind...), and things like double-jump, glide, and dash may be well-worn staples…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Full Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/ju9vV5xe_uc ★★★★☆ Gameplay: Good Graphics: Retro Music: Good Story: Good PC Requirements: Potato Game Time: 2.5 - 3.5 hrs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one. Genopanic is a cute and short linear platformer that the developers describe as being "metroidvania-inspired." It is not a metroidvania and that's okay. It's an action platformer with elements of progressively gathering equipment and weapons as you move from one section to the next in the game, giving you better movement and access.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is probably one of the weirder thumbs down reviews I've made, since this game has its positives, but overall I probably wouldn't recommend that others play this game. The positives The pixel art is fantastic, everything in this game is gorgeous The movement is actually quite tight and responsive, the movement with the full gearset feels quite good. The negatives This game is incredibly linear, despite the fact that the game uses hidden paths through walls frequently, there are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After all this time? — Always... It's not just a game, it's part of my life - and i`m happy that i can play it right now! Cute art style, cute enemies and of course....VOLGA! WE NEED MORE VOLGA! ( i love this game so much )
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IT'S NOT A METROIDVANIA BUT IT'S A REALLY GOOD PLATFORMER WITH REALLY CUTE STYLE! I got a few hours nice time for the price of one beer. Recomended for kids from 6 - 40 y.o.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it a bad game? Well, it depends what you are expecting from it. In the first half of the game you're exploring the space station in a rather linear fashion, solving really trivial parkours and puzzles and getting new abilities quite frequently, a bit too frequently to be honest. When you stop getting a new ability every 5-10 minutes you know you are in the second half of the game, which is totally linear with the same trivial parkours and puzzles. At this point you maybe didn't collect all…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun but I got softlocked at the end with no solution but to reset all progress... Dude WTF
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game, and I love it. so it's unfortunate i can't recommend the game in it's current state. Metroidvanias have back tracking. That's part of their nature. So when a metroidvania has bugs and pathing that soft lock you when you back track, and save your game while you unknowingly get stuck, that's a really huge flaw. this happened to me while playing this game, twice in one day. I did eventually finish the game by using unofficial tools to get unstuck, but that shouldn't be required. Once…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →painfuly linear. got a game breaking softlock while trying to retrieve skipped collectable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Middling Experience: Fun for Casual Play, but Lacking in Depth This game is exactly why I wish Steam had a more nuanced rating system. I can't wholeheartedly give it a thumbs up because, honestly, it falls short in nearly every category it promises. But I also hesitate to give it a thumbs down, because for what it is—a casual gaming experience—it was enjoyable. The problem is that it doesn’t excel anywhere and feels mediocre across the board. COMBAT: It's there, but barely. There's no real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic Adventure in "Genopanic" I recently played "Genopanic," and it was an absolute blast! The game features gorgeous pixel art that perfectly captures the spooky, atmospheric feel of the space station. Exploring each area is a delight, with plenty of secrets and hidden areas to discover. The gameplay is a perfect blend of challenging puzzles, exciting platforming, and intense boss battles. The controls are smooth and intuitive, making it easy to immerse yourself in the adventure. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a nice simple (almost basic) linear platformer which wants to be metroidvania but lacks it's main features.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost finished the game and noticed I missed a pick-up. I go back to collect it and the elevator leading to it is not responding and I also can't return the way I came. I am literally stuck. Why not have a switch to call the elevator back or a way to get back to where I came? I wasn't trying to break the game, this was just simple cleanup at the end of a Metroidvania game and the only way I could have gone to get the pickup if I missed it initially. I ended up having to use CE to get back out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend this game but only slightly. 6/10. The art and music are excellent. The control is spot on. The weapons are all fun to use. However there is very little plot or game-play here. My runtime was 5 hours to get 100% and it felt like a tutorial for the first 2.5 hours. 0 challenge whatsoever. Save rooms are so abundant that there is no consequence for dying. Eventually a few challenging platforming sections and then the end is a pain-in-the-ass, run from instant death, like the worst…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addictive, completed the game 9845 times
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Pixel-Perfect Adventure – Genopanic Delivers a Thrilling Metroidvania Experience! Genopanic is an absolute gem for fans of pixel-art and Metroidvania-inspired adventure-platformers! This game masterfully combines exploration, puzzle-solving, and intense boss battles, all set within the eerie and atmospheric corridors of a sci-fi research complex. Gameplay: 10/10 Genopanic nails the Metroidvania formula with its expertly crafted levels and satisfying progression. Navigating the labyrinthine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Add me to the growing list of people who is soft locked out of advancing with seemingly no response from developers. I went back to collect one of the GMOs, now I am stuck with no way to get out of my current situation after an unavoidable save. If the elevator leading to the next area was there I would be fine I believe. DISGUSTING this has not been addressed, AVOID!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not necessarily bad, it's just very underwhelming and doesn't seem like a good deal at 13-ish bucks. 4 hours worth of a pretty looking but very rudimentary and mostly linear puzzle platformer with a wee handful of extremely basic bosses and no real replayability or exploration to speak of. Also the English translation is so abysmal it's borderling on being incomprehensible, though luckily there isn't really much to read.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/] With 1,400+ reviews, make sure to follow The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more! Genopanic: ~~~~~~~~~ SIMBIRSK is a private organisation whose unauthorised activities are to develop experimental genetically modified organisms or GMOs, and it suffered a significant setback in its underground research plant on the planet TRIES-2B. As TRIES-2B has been placed under quarantine, no humans are allowed to be sent under such conditions,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is another hidden gem from 2024 indie genre, a short and fun 2D adventure platformer, metroidvaia inspired style with multiple puzzle rooms that you need to solve to proceed further. The style of the hidden paths is new idea I liked as well. The boss fights were fun and the soundtracks were mind relaxing throughout the journey. If one thing I would suggest is to add an HP bar to bosses with their names. Other than that, the game was really enjoyable. Great indie game from Mobirate.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short, sweet and glorious (non)Metroid-like game by Mobirate with excellent controls, pixel art graphics, atmosphere and ambient music. Why is it a (non)Metroid-like? It basically has all the elements of a Metroid game with different weapons and upgrades but it has a lot more linear gameplay. Don't go expecting a huge expansive map with shortcuts and need for backtracking. Genopanic is all and all an excellent action platformer with puzzle elements.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its cool game. Really. Funny, nice style, etc. Sooo why negative? Just cos of stupid softlock in the middle of the game: DON'T TRY TO RETURN TO RED PART OF MAP FROM THE PINK ONE!!!! And there is only 2 solutions^ 1. U r lucky, as drunk leprechaun, and U instantly recognized softlock and have backup save files not corrupted by running between two save points in attempts to get out of that sh!t 2. New game There is bunch of threads in game community about that dаmn part. Developers still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has the metroidvania tag when it's as linear as it gets. Gameplay offers pretty much nothing other that mediocre platforming. (Enemies are glorified stage hazards and the couple of bosses are just pinatas for you to smack around.) The cat girl is extremely out of place and is an obviously intended as an 'eye catcher' for marketing. (Also why does she look like a blow up doll in game??) The underwater segment made me contemplate my existence on this earth despite only being 10 minutes long.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't in good conscience recommend this game. The art is absolutely fantastic, the creates are interesting and the light horror elements are charming. But the gameplay is incredibly meh; it's a totally on rails experience (you can't even go backwards once you hit one of several points of no return), there's no real secrets of note, and the combat is repetitive and trivial. This game is *so close* to being a thumbs up, it just needs more gameplay depth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41005226/]Curation page. I cover a wide range of genres both paid and unpaid, providing unbiased opinions as well as regular giveaway events. A little disappointed it wasn't Metroidvania So, after a recent binge of Metroidvanias, I came across this game. It looked fascinating, both artistically and in terms of music and gameplay, so I gave it a shot. I prefer non-linear games. Finding mysteries, multiple pathways, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Relax game, no-sweat metroidvania-like (i have immersive sims and survival horror for that). Take couple of beers, gamepad and chill out
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, I liked this game. It was... nice.. maybe a little bit too linear and easy considering the type of game it is. Then there isthis bug that a lot of people has been denouncing in which there is a room which upon backtracking you get trapped in and there is no way to recover from it. You cannot chose a different saveslot and therefore the only solution is to restart the whole game. I read through the forums and a lot of people have been talking about it for a long time but it seems the devs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically a short, linear Metroidvania. The pixel art is excellent throughout and the gameplay is just strong enough for it's runtime. Hope you guys make a sequel!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game! Not stressful at all. Just what I need. "Alien" but pixel art and platformer)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed this game for about 5 hours and nearly finished it. It's a simple 2D platformer with very little backtracking required. Great visual theme. It could use some updates though to fix known soft locks. I just went looking for one missing upgrade and due to the area design in a specific place I cannot get out. Can't go forward, back, teleport, or reload to a previous save. The issue has been known for almost 2 years now with no update or reply from the Dev Team.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Empty shell of a game. Pretty nice looking shell though. This game claims to be "metroidvania" yet has almost NO branching paths. You just go where you can go each time, and it works each time. Yeah there are collectables, but there is no incentive to collect them at all. In addition to that, the gameplay loop is really bland: go left, collect a new ability, go right using that ability, collect the next one. Then there is a couple of platforming challenge rooms for toddlers later in the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has been a fun and relaxing experience so far. To me, it's like the devs thought: "what if we make a Metroid-influenced game that's more of a cute, low-stakes adventure with less mandatory backtracking and constant enemy threats?" If you're looking for an action-packed challenge, look elsewhere. If you appreciate well-designed platformers that won't leave you frustrated, then you'll love Genopanic.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very buggy. If you use teleport, you get stuck very often. Just one savegame backwards, is not enough...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got permanently softlocked... there needs to be a button to reset yourself when softlock happens. I was enjoying the game, so if they update it with the fix I can change my review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shortstack catgirl is my favorite genre of woman.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a lot of fun with this game, but I strongly hesitate to recommend it at its current price of around $15USD. Grab it if it goes on sale below $5USD. Or play Cave Story (you the original for free from the developer's website) for a similar experience at a better price. The game is very linear, which isn't a bad thing, but there's some confusion about whether this game counts as a metroidvania. If you go into this game expecting to be able to explore a large world at your own leisure, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love it really. Very gamepad friendly, can't wait it on my Switch
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice game, perfect art, atmospheric environment
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game after playing the dev's previous work, Space Expedition (and I loved that little microgame!), so I already kind of knew what I was getting into. This was a cute puzzle platformer with a delightfully dark twist. The dev rightfully says that this is not a metroidvania. Although it has a map and some upgrades, the progression is rather linear and the collectibles are usually nearby. Sometimes you have to hold off on grabbing one immediately, but then it is usually obtainable…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome metroidvania! This particular game focuses more on the platforming aspect instead of combat like fighting enemies for xp, leveling up etc. Theres enemies here that you kill but they're not the main focus here- it's the platforming. Timing your jumps, avoiding lasers, pits, using your dash and double jumping etc. And it's all done really well. The platforming starts simple but goes to more challenging but never feeling unforgiving or like those rage-inducing games. You get several…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Во-первых, это не метроидвания, а адвенчура, т.к. она линейная. Не самая плохая, но и не шедевр. Начало было многообещающее - понравилась проработка антуража, взаимосвязь событий с миром игры и отражение это в визуале. Подкупает внимание к деталям и классное адуио оформление. Но чем дальше идёшь, тем больше видно пренебрежение к этой взаимосвязи, или просто кончился бюджет на игру. Техническое исполнение приемлемое, за исключением физики - гравипушка в игре явно лишняя. Когда играл в демку…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →extremly bugged
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent, but way too short. Only like 3 bosses total. real shame cause I love the art
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So originally I would have given this a thumbs up: - graphics a decent enough - gameplay is mostly quite responsive with nice poppy effects - overal solid platformer puzzling, nothing too hard, with plenty of restore points But this game failed massively on two points for me: - Backtracking. There isn't any. There should be, with some portals that got implemented a week ago? But I didn't see any. There were several bits were I assumed I'd just come back later, only to find that you can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have not played a metroidvania where you can lock yourself out of progress and not be able to move forward. it's a fine game, the breaking through walls never gets old. but yeah I don't understand why the developers have a problem with scaling back up walls.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a metroidvania at all. Although the style and controls are positive do not expect a metroidvania. Refund requested.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little platformer, it's not a metroidvania at all. But it has nice pixel art, nice movement, nice level design.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Generally, I like it. But... (minor spoilers) I feel the game suffers from the "Doom key" problem. In Doom, you get a blue key card. What do you do with it? Open the blue doors. You then get a yellow key card. What does that do? Open the yellow doors. You then get a red key card... In Genopanic, you get a variety of items, like a sword, a gun, a magnet gun, double-jumping, etc. A good dozen things. The game also has a variety of different obstacles, blocking your progression.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like many other reviewers are mentioning this game is in fact NOT a metroidvania! Instead what Genopanic is, is a short and sweet action platformer game with smooth gameplay and fun level design. It didn't blew me away but it entertained me throughout its 4 or so hours runtime. Like i said this is mainly due to the smooth and responsive controls that always do exactly what you want them to do. The only nitpick here is that the dash distance, believe it or not, feels bigger than you'd expect so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot say this game is bad. I had it wishlisted, and it turned out to be not what I expected from the demo. If you are considering getting it, the two important things to know is that it's very short (about 2.5 hours to 100%), and it's the opposite of a metroidvania. It technically possesses the all-important attribute of a metroidvania, where you must acquire a skill to proceed, but it is used in an entirely linear way. You never ever have to wonder where to go next. That in itself…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not a fan of platformers or pixel-art games, but sometimes this type of games help me to just sit and enjoy. Gameplay is smooth and for me as a casual player it's adequately challenging though not too easy. For the lovers of the style I think graphics is good. Not great but not terrible, as they say. Sounds are bombastic and juicy, music is calm and pleasant. Not eargasm but very good. Very interesting story and unexpected turns along the way! Overall I think the game is nuts! Definitely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A wonderful platformer game to relax in the evening and enjoy aesthetic pleasure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#NSFW #furry #furryart #art Played a game called Genopanic and did a little fan art of a character. Mainly for my youtube thumbnail.
unlabelledView post →+++ updated +++ i am still going to enjoy the game as the issue others have been having may not even affect me and i do like the game... the platforming and exploration and pixel graphics are very appealing! the soft-lock issue towards the end of the game means its pretty much unwinnable and cant be finished... Devs patched the game with an untested level change i think from what people have said as it differs from YouTube paythroughs prior to the patch... i was enjoying what i saw while…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a metroidvania, it's too linear. The controls are not great and mess up sometimes. The art is pretty good, and if you consider it just a 2D platformer it's alright. It's too easy though, and there isn't really anything original here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty good. Charming and not especially deep story. Sometimes challenging but not too-difficult platform game that is nice to play for a few hours. Controller support is excellent, the game is very stable and runs nicely windowed.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome graphics Awesome soundtrack Awesome controls Awesome setting and story NOT SO AWESOME SOFT LOCKS. Ruins the entire experience. Can’t complete the game now. Can’t recommend this game in its current state.
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