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.
February 27th, 2015 at 6:59 pm
@Art Li: I already have. Countless times, in fact. I love Cave Story, but it can only be replayed so many times. The Underside looks fresh and as magnificent as Cave Story does. To be honest, I don’t see the point of your comment. Everyone (or almost everyone) here wants to see The Underside completed and playable, so it’s only natural that we exclaim our hopes, it can’t hurt. It’s like you don’t care about the progress of the game yourself…
March 9th, 2015 at 9:08 pm
Is there a guide for the Almighty Paintbrush anywhere becuase I need some serious help.
April 24th, 2015 at 10:13 am
How do you fix the PxPlay.mfx error?
I’ve been trying to fix it for a year.
May 6th, 2015 at 5:31 pm
@Ooga Booga
You need msvcr71.dll and place it inside your windows folder (for example C:\Windows\msvcr71.dll)
It won’t work if you place that DLL in the game folder.
The problem I have though is that I crash when entering in the cave after the tutorial starts. Anyone know how to fix that? I was thinking of using the save on an older version or something.
June 14th, 2015 at 1:59 pm
This is a great game, its no more a rip off of cave story than cave story is a rip off of Metroid…
@Arthur Lee, are you still alive? you know this game has an very interesting setting and story with earthbound and cave story elements and a nice bright color palette.
July 13th, 2015 at 3:28 pm
Is this game ever going to come out? It looks so awesome!
July 20th, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Is there a mac version? Probably not…
July 23rd, 2015 at 8:20 pm
can’t wait till 30XX though
August 30th, 2015 at 12:35 am
10 years later…
September 3rd, 2015 at 11:11 am
@Another lost soul
Thank you so much! I can finally play this game after 10 years!