Biomorph

BIOMORPH is a 2024 Metroidvania developed and published by Lucid Dreams Studio, a Quebec team, released April 5, 2024 for PC with console versions following. A Kickstarter-funded debut, it holds Metacritic scores in the low-to-mid 70s and warm Steam word of mouth, built on one clean hook: kill a creature, absorb its form, and become it — turning the bestiary itself into the ability system.

You are Harlo, an amnesiac shapeshifter waking in the ruins around the last city of Blightmoor, morphing through dozens of enemy bodies — each with its own attacks and traversal tricks — while rebuilding the city hub with rescued survivors.

Technical Specifications

The Bestiary Is the Skill Tree

The morph system carries the game: enemy forms function as keys, weapons, and puzzle answers at once — burrow as one creature, wall-crawl as another, artillery-strike as a third — layered over conventional sword-and-gun combat and a city-rebuilding meta-loop with side quests and shops. Reviews and the Metroidvania community’s first-impressions threads converged on the same read: generous, content-dense, and mechanically inventive, with hand-drawn art in the Hollow Knight visual lineage — held back a tier by uneven pacing, some undercooked forms, and boss design that rarely matches the system’s ambition.

Where to Play It Today

BIOMORPH is on Steam, Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox, discounting regularly — a solid mid-tier pick for Metroidvania fans between the genre’s giants, with a mechanic none of those giants actually offer.