The Underside is an exploration based action platformer in the vein of games like Castlevania, Metroid, and Cave Story.
Set on a flat planet, called The World, The Underside begins with the legend of the World’s creation at the hands of a figure known as the Almighty King. When evil overtakes the surface of the world, the Almighty King decides to start anew by flipping the flat World upside down, with the upper side of the World now becoming the neglected Underside, and the blank canvas on the under side of the World now becoming the Overside.
You play a character named Ip, who is thrust from the prosperous world of the Overside into the dark depths the Underside. All the while, the once-benevolent Almighty King is on the verge of destroying his creation. Throughout his adventure, Ip must find his way back to the Overside, and maybe prevent the World from being destroyed while he’s at it.
The game’s world, characters, plot threads, and dialogue are heavily inspired by Earthbound/Mother 2, and are quirky, whimsical, and sometimes a little strange.
The Underside has been under development since early 2005.
August 13th, 2014 at 12:03 am
Any news on Underside? I really love the game design, it’s fantastic. Please continue it, I’d be happy to do something like Kickstarter to support you.
September 5th, 2014 at 11:05 am
well people, last time I checked up on this game it was 2010… and it seems to have changed nothing… and that makes me sad…
September 13th, 2014 at 2:19 pm
should we just give up waiting because I don’t want to keep my hopes up for the next 30 years.
September 28th, 2014 at 1:19 am
I WONT STOP HOPING FOR IT!
THE LEGEND NEVER DIES
November 1st, 2014 at 9:27 pm
I would definitely support a kickstarter for this game. The game felt so fluid and fun, and since it was so close to one of my favorite games, obviously cavestory by the name, I was psyched. I actually had a hard time deciding which one I liked more. because I loved the fact in cave story I was a robot, but in this game your combat system is so much more intricate. I really couldn’t say, but I was beginning to like this game almost as much, if not more, than cave story but I wanted to see the story develop before I gave a deciding factor on that. Yet… it died. I guess he probably wanted to create something more original, and from his own hands, then something people would flock to because it reminds them of something else. It’s a common thing that happens with a lot of developers that I’ve worked with and spoken to. Problem is, they never know what they want and get so lazy that they never amount to doing anything, which causes everything to die before I could even consider it alpha.
I would gladly support a kickstarter for this game; however, I’m not sure how many others would. It’s a shame seeing things that I’ve been dramatically interested in die so quickly, yet something as silly as “Potato salad” got so successful that it broke the fabric of reality.
January 25th, 2015 at 11:16 pm
Wow, it’s been years since I’ve checked on this game… Still nothing. Development started when I was 8… I’m 18 now. I can only pray to the highest heavens that this game gets released soon. Yes, I still have hope. Mr. Podunkian, you’ve got an amazing thing going here, a high-quality game that will no doubt go down as a classic, the game everyone will be talking about. I’m sure everyone who has posted here in the past couple of years would agree with me… I’m also sure everyone here still awaits the release of this game.
I ask you Mr. Podunkian, for the greater good of mankind, that you please finish this game. If I can help in any way, I will.
February 1st, 2015 at 8:55 pm
@Major: Just play cave story, dude.
February 5th, 2015 at 8:55 pm
I’ve been following this game for nearly a decade. I hope it gets released someday.
February 7th, 2015 at 5:33 pm
I’m trying to play your game The Underside, but after the first tutorial screen, the game crashes. I hope there is a fix. Thanks!
February 20th, 2015 at 1:20 pm
I have been waiting forever for this game. And I will continue to wait.
Cave Story is an amazing game, but I have played it many times now and I just must have more. CS 2 I hear is in the works, however that was some time back in 2011.
All these years and yet I still want another game of this type. I just love the demo and I hope that we will get this one day. The market is saturated with all kinds of terrible games and we really need some good QUALITY games like the Underside to show all the early access and greenlight bullshit what a real game is like.