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Wonder Boy Returns Remix
Developer CFK Co., Ltd.
Wonder Boy Returns Remix is remaked by remix with original Wonder Boy and Wonder Boy Returns Released 13 Oct, 2016 in steam. From the Steam store page
58 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Aug 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
33 positive · 20 negative
95% range 49–74%
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| Steam reviews | 33 | 20 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
5 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
106 of 146 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
58 of 58 · most liked firstThe remake of a remake of the original arcade version. Does it hold up? Sure Generally, this game follows the original arcade version while making some parts easier. All of the extra stages and bosses from Returns are absent and the bad guy is the original head changing wizard instead of the devil that was introduced in Returns. You can play as both Tanya and Tomtom. Tanya uses a boomerang that goes in a straight line whereas Tomtom uses his original stone axe that travels in a downward…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been a Wonder Boy fan since the original, and I've played most if not all of the sequels and spin offs, including the excellent Monster Boy and Dragon's Tap remakes. This review is based on the fact that I know Wonder Boy very well and still play it often today. If you haven't played it, know that this is based on that game and it's pretty bare bones. If you like the aesthetic and game play style, go for Wonder Boy Returns. If you have played and love the game this is supposed to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6-1和8-2两关都有一个地方的云升不起来导致无法正常过关，6-1还有个小电驴给你冲过去，8-2就完全没办法了。 这时需要将电脑的刷新率改成60HZ就能勉强过关了。 6-1 & 8-2 has a critical bug ，the cloud can't rise ,so you can't go to the next level But you can lower your PC to 60HZ,and the cloud will rise a little
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just found how they "remixed" this game by making it more like the original from 1986, but deleted all the new levels, enemies, bosses and other things from "Returns" non-remix, also removing that game from store so we can't buy it. Why in this "REMIX" version, was not also that remake game with possibility to play as this Remix.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This remake of the original Wonder Boy is an excellent platformer. To start: this game modernizes what the series was doing before including "Monster" on its name along with RPG elements. Wonder Boy is 100% platforming. * Fun fact: the popular Hudson's Adventure Island is based on this game. There's 8 worlds with 4 stages each and they get harder as you progress. The only real con I found is that around the final stages of world 7 there's a part where the side-scrolling lags (on PC) and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played the original in the arcades pretty extensively and even more on the SMS so I grabbed this game enthusiastically after loving the Wonder Boy 3 remake. What a disappointment. The dev team behind this have obviously spent very little time with the original game and haven't bothered to replicate the feeling of it with the momentum of the character being far more slippery than the game it is based on. The jumping mechanics are also off and feel nothing like the original, there is no need…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is such a great remake! Though I'm more familiar with the NES Hudson's Adventure Island version of the original game, this version is outstanding due to the enhanced visuals, clean and efficient UI, and improved gameplay. Definitely give it a try. Also, I'd love it if the gamemaker decided to offer an alternative version using Hudson's Adventure Island's main character and music.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah my fav game when i was 10 :) Greatly remixed, for 4,5€ it's a bargain. Playing on Linux work again out of the box
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just a speed run while lacking same type of charms and ingenuity of Mario or sonic games. You only get one chance per level while having some extra lives which isn't very long level but there are too many unnecessary deathtraps and you get one hit and your dead. This game is altered from "Wonder boy returns" version which you can't fight the original 10 bosses where this version you just fight the same boss multiple times just with different heads. WHY!!!!!!! The story is even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good remake of the classic original. all the levels and gameplay are present with enough modern touches to make it possible to finally seen the end As a long term wonderboy fan (if not capable of a one credit clear) I enjoyed this very much Recommended
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →picked up Wonder Boy Returns Remix for £1.79 in a sale. this one has a weird history & kinda got lost amongst the more prominent Wonder Boy revival games but its a serviceable remake of the original game in this form & has probably the cutest version of wonder boy
unlabelledView post →Severe framerate issues. Tried all sorts of different Nvidia settings, none had any effect. Will ask for a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played the arcade version about 20 years ago, the memories! can't believe they made a polished version of this legendary game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Gameplay Itself Got Way Too Easy Considering Wonder Boy Can Now Shoot A Huge Stone Axe When Holding The Fire Button. Game's Challenge Is Partially Ruined Cause Its Now WAY Too Easy And The Original Was A Challenge Back Then. The Main Game's Music Is Pretty Good But The Boss's Music And Forest Theme Music Weren't Remade In This One And That Leaves Me Quite Disappointed Cause I Thought This Remix Version Would Nail All The Original Game's Aspects. The Enemies Used To Drop When Hit By The Axe…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A hidden gem of a game and a great update to an old classic, still lots of fun and not as easy as it looks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Wonder Boy Returns Remix" for PC offers a satisfying blend of nostalgia and modern gameplay. This updated version of the classic platformer boasts charming visuals and smooth controls that make traversing its colorful levels a joy. The remix aspect injects new life into the experience, presenting fresh challenges for both newcomers and long-time fans alike. While the difficulty can ramp up at times, it's balanced by the game's responsive mechanics and rewarding progression. Overall, "Wonder…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to play the original wonderboy arcade as a kid. Even though the stage layout is similar, this plays nothing like the original game. The momentum of the jump and run are all off. The night stage does not have the "scary" music. Many of the stages are much easier (i.e 7-2 cloud jump). Maybe I should not have expected it to play like the arcade version with better animation. I was very disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Purchased and returned it after 20 minutes of disgusting gameplay. Why? Laggy controls (fatal flaw for a platformer) and broken framerate. Yes, the game scrolls at 50Hz! 50Hz!!! It causes horrible and unnacceptable choppy screens while you play, leaving you with headaches after some time trying it. Simply infuriating!!!! It does no justice and pays no respect to the original game. 50Hz, no matter the resolution you choose. A completelly wasted opportunity. ARGHHHHH.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hello, hotsocks. I think your way of playing is wrong. Since Wonder Boy is a game that is played in the same form as Super Mario, you have to push the rudder forward while holding down the attack button and pressing the jump button. Play by referring to YouTube videos. https://youtu.be/G00SJs3sCYc https://youtu.be/EuEsgGvsDCI
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING: This is NOT a bad game, just a glitched one, but you should be able to get over a good number of glitches. I found the solution for the majority of the issues, but that doesn't make things suddenly ok BEFORE playing you must do two things otherwise the bugs and problems I describe below will occur 1. Set your monitor Refresh Rate to 60Hz 2. Ensure the game's resolution matches your monitor's. Then when the game starts, alt tab out of it and then alt tab back into it because by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far, I like this game. It's tough but not annoying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad controls, and in general a remake done wrong....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →High refresh rate monitors cause clouds to not spawn making certain levels unbeatable. Have to run the game at 60Hz. But this introduces shimmering since the game seems to run at 50Hz. It is headache inducing and almost makes it unplayable. Not that you'd be missing much sine there really isn't much to the game at all. Just go play the original.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The original troll game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game looks good (better than the original) but it still has some design issues. Also I had a controller lag where when I press the button the character doesn't jump (keyboard or controller). Not worth the asked price tag.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the best games i played when i was a kid they have done a good job on the remake of this game i hope they do more of old school games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got Wonder Boy Returns for PS4 recently, and ended up needing this video to figure out the difference between "Wonder Boy Returns" and "Wonder Boy Returns Remix." It pays homage to the Wonder Boy franchise by being two different games with similar names. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N-k...
unlabelledView post →Yeah, that's about where I am emotionally with Wonder Boy Returns Remix on Switch.
unlabelledView post →Vague memories of the original, I can see why I never got far. Primitive action with some awkward platforming thrown in. They seem to have added an overpowered charge attack and changed the boss head designs from bad to worse. Graphics and soundtrack are alright, far from The Dragon's Trap standards. Usually gloss over glitches but… some platforms weren’t there. Turns out the spawn in ones weren’t doing so on high refresh rates. Switching from monitor to television fixed the issue only to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed what this game is trying to do. It’s a unique platformer with its own rules. It doesn’t really feel like a typical platformer due to the high tempo that is required from you. You can move wherever you like but you have a health gauge that depletes with time. You have to eat food to stay alive. You’re encouraged to keep running through 8 worlds. Each world has 4 stages. A lot of them look similar or are practically the same, but new elements keep getting added. Think of new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wonder Boy Returns Remix édition collector sur Switch à 64.99€ chez amazon ➡️ amzn.to/3FNDpBc 🔢 tirage limité à 2000 exemplaires Les offres du jour ➡️ hmstr.fr/TcQPCO
unlabelledView post →Been playing Wonder Boy and Adventure Island all my life. This is a great little remixed remake with smartly applied QoL that keeps most everything but cuts through some of the quarter muncher save-state addled tedium. Really good game for the Steam Deck, as well. Colors absolutely explode off of the OLED like it's some sort of tech demo. You can run it at 5 Watts @ 90 FPS, as well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yaaa its wonderboy ...somehow. I don't know really why but its simply no fun. Maybe its the "anime"-like graphics (have seen american animes that look more anime). Maybe its the challange ...to stand against boringness. Maybe its the charged shot which kills almost every obstacle out of your way. Maybe its because it has problems with recognizing the X-box controller and not even cloudsave... I have never been a fanboy of wonder boy. But the original pixelated version had something that made…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, uh... Okay look. I had some decent enough fun with this game during the 5-ish hours it took me to 100%. I can't take that away from it. But I don't think I'd really RECOMMEND it, not at 13 entire dollars. Okay so, context. Wonder Boy. The first one. Arcade game from 1986, the one starring that blonde caveman boy that goes around throwing stone hatchets and starves to death if he doesn't eat for like a minute. Decent-ish for its time, if a bit frustrating in difficulty at points and with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not like the original. High frame rate will break the game. Performance issues. The game feels nothing like the OG. Id Prefer the PC engine version the most. I don't recommend this version. Even it's free don't do it not worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We have added: Wonder Boy Returns Remix, game review to our blog: Link below: crazyfrog-gaming.com/wonder-boy-r...
unlabelledView post →Couldn't get unstuck, only way to get unstuck was Alt-F4 and need to be pixel perfect for some jumps.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Works fine on deck
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's clouds missing on the second stage. You can't make the jump. I've read some also have the same problem and nee to mess around with settings ... but that's not good enough in this day and age. Fix it!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very nice game for fans of the classic Sega arcade and Master System game. It's a classic for sure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →tts + not remix https://youtu.be/9N-kIryeO38 More like a de-mix. First they’ve created Wonder Boy 7: Returns, which had the gameplay of the earlier pre-monster-world games. But then for some reason they decided to use those assets and the engine, to somewhat recreate the first game, and called it a re-mix. In the old version Tina was always easy because chicks, amiright peter? And the easy difficulty is too easy, you are basically immune to the enemies and there are no bosses.I’ve played a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nostalgia at its finest... And I still keep dying a lot. Good remake has stage selections.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the original wonderboy game is a classic game that been published a long time ago by sega and developed by Westone Bit Entertainment (A.KA escape) , a lot's of you who had nintendo hardwares might have played another game franchise called Adventure Island which was made and published by hudson soft and for which the first game is actually a clone of wonderboy. wonderboy return feature some decent handheld drawn visuals , an easy , normal and hard difficulty mode , the normal difficulty feel…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →??? Its WONDERBOY... just grab it, timeless classic, but I dont think we will see another remake TBF A solid 4/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →overall i have to say is a good game it have some problems like some frustating enemies and unfair jumps but overall is a pretty solid recreation of the original wonder boy so give it a try and see how much far you go
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The graphics may be generic and smooth compared to the original 1986 version, but at heart its still the same great game from 1986, same floaty but manageable jump, same annoying skateboard that you inevitably crash into and want to smash your head with, and same unforgiving difficulty. But if it didn't have these things it wouldn't really be Wonder Boy. By the way, if your expecting an RPG style game, like the other Wonder Boy / Monster World games, than turn around because this Wonder Boy is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →remake of the amazing nes games. only complaint is i do not rememeber the characters sliding so much
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played Wonder Boy as a kid on Sega Master System. It was delightful to play it again now and finish it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is revised version of returns has some improvements, yet it's large amount of content removal is inexplicable, its so different its actually a different game from the previous one. The old version should have been included with it if not incorporated into this version.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite of the critical bug due to higher refresh rate of some screens on PC (on 72 Hz worked fine here), it is a fun remake for fans of the franchise.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this knowing it would dissappoint me. I have this compulsive need to collect games for their historic value. It definetly felt like playing an arcade game, with a modern twist. I know that a game running and jumping to the right as fast as I can is not something I enjoy. To be fair I don't think a lot of people were SUPER crazy about, or else the wonderboy games would be as common knowledge as Sonic. Even so I like the updated graphics even though it they really highlight the lack…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good remix of an old arcade some challenge also in one-coin mode
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good remaster of OG Arcade/Sega Wonder Boy with slick, HD 2D graphics, catchy tunes, and the same intact gameplay.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun litle remake of a classic game. I didn't have any of the bugs people have been mentioning, probably because I was playing on 60hz.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Everything in this game makes me angry. Even the whimsical music seems to be mocking me. 10/10 just like the good old days
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good, charming fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although an interesting update on the arcade version it still doesn't hold a candle to "Adventure Island" by Hudson for the Gamecube (Hudson Selection Volume 4: Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima), a title I still play to this day. It gets a thumbs up while on sale @ 50% but it's definitely NOT worth the full price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →7/10 A welcome return of a classic. WBRR plays mostly like the original, but with a few changes. The main change to the game are the improved graphics, but there are also a few changes in the gameplay. The biggest one is that there are two playable characters, with Tina being the second character, and instead of finding new weapons on the way, they each have their own weapon (Wonder Boy throws hammers, Tina throws boomerangs) and they can also be charged to release a bigger projectile that…
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