Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

4.3 out of 5
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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds. Warp Giana’s vivid dreams to alter your abilities and destroy the twisted creatures lurking within.
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About Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

About this game

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds. Warp Giana’s vivid dreams to alter your abilities and destroy the twisted creatures lurking within. Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams combines the challenge of retro era platforming with graphics that pack a visual punch and tight controls.

Fluidly morph between two dynamically different dream worlds to solve puzzles and combat grueling enemies. Players will have to intertwine sweet Giana's twirling jump attack with Punk Giana's hammering dash attack to survive the dualling dimensions.

Now featuring a brand new competitive multiplayer arena racing mode!

The game sets up to 4 players against each other in local PvP, speed-running in an effort to push each other off the screen with the help of boosters and power-ups.

Smash through all obstacles! Run, dash, jump, head bonk, fire cannonballs and barrages of bullets onto your opponents. Switch the level layout on the fly as you rush through dreamgates. Collect gems to fill your speed booster and use your power-ups to knock out the other players.

Key Features

  • Powerful Abilities: Change Giana's personality to unlock her unique abilities - you'll need to control both sides to survive her dreams!
  • Intuitive Controls and Smooth Gameplay: Master the tight knit controls to defeat the cunning trials ahead.
  • Visual Punch: Giana’s dreamworlds leap off the screen with gorgeous 3D graphics that morph before your eyes.
  • Twisted Puzzles: As Giana changes so does the world around her. Collecting gems and finding secret locations requires strategy and interchanging the two worlds.
  • Legendary Soundtrack:Each dream layer has its own music style. Experience a dual crossfading soundtrack by Chris Hülsbeck and Machinae Supremacy!
  • Explore and Discover: There are 23 rich levels across 3 distinct worlds, each transforming into the two contrasting dreamworlds.
  • Epic Boss Battles: Take on gigantic creatures dredged from the depths of Giana’s most terrifying nightmares. Each unique boss has only one thing in common with the others – they’re utterly brutal!
  • Gut-wrenching Hardcore Modes: Hardcore and Über Hardcore modes also await players who are full masters of the game and quite possibly insane.
  • A remixed “easy” mode for all levels and bosses. The remixed mode is a lot easier to survive than its standard mode. The “easy” difficulty for Giana should roughly correspond to the “normal” difficulty for casual platformer games.
  • Extras: Halloween-themed levels accessible from the start.

Game Details

Platform:
steam
Release Date:
October 21, 2012
Developer:
Black Forest Games
Publisher:
HandyGames
Rating:
ACB rating of 3
ESRB rating of 6
PEGI rating of 7
USK rating of 6
Supported Languages:
English
Franchise:
Giana Sisters
Link:
Features:
Local Coop
Steam Achievements

Full controller support

Steam Trading Cards

Steam Cloud

Steam Leaderboards

Singleplayer

Multiplayer

Product Requirements

Minimum (or Recommended)

  • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 @ 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 3.3 GB
  • Video Card: SM3.0 DX9.0c level hardware (Nvidia GeForce 6800, ATI X1800 XT or higher)
  • DirectX®: 9
  • Additional: Keyboard

Recommended

  • OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.0 GHz (or any Dual Core CPU)
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 3.3 GB
  • Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 280, ATI HD 4800 or higher
  • DirectX®: 10
  • Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)

Critic Reviews

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Gamereactor Sweden

70 / 100
"Despite being a little rough around the edges, this is a true sequel to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Giana Sisters series. It's fun, it's fresh and it's so much more...

Eurogamer Germany

90 / 100
"In the here and now,Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is not only the best-looking platformer, gameplay-wise it's also one of the best of its kind. It's a modern game in the best...

Gameblog.fr

80 / 100
"Giana stopped copying Mario and found its own, charming, and successful identity, all the while remaining in the old-school platforming genre. Caution: the game is hard and...
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Don't Ragequit! 56.96%  of players consider this game to be Tough

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Completionist! 5.26%  of players have Conquered It

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams User Reviews

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User Rating

Average score from 15 ratings
75% of users would recommend this.
4.3

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Great side scroller

dansoy
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Great side scroller using dual personas. Enjoyed this one.
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Recommended

rafaa14
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nice ...
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It was just ok!

Fanatical User
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Game was aight! The gameplay was not bad, but I didn't enjoy it to be honest. Watch some gameplay first before buying!
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Not Recommended

Fanatical User
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My Video Review can be found here: https://youtu.be/5QY8gc2HMX4 Honestly, I have got really mixed feelings about this game. On one hand it has very good atmosphere, interesting game mechanics, beautiful graphics, and nice music but the imprecise controls along with quite high level of difficulty make this game rather punishing than challenging. Pros: - atmosphere - game mechanics - graphics - music Cons: - controls - sometimes checkpoint system - difficulty Despite all the positives I am sad to say that I cannot recommend this game to fellow fathers and their families due to one big flaw – controls. I am therefore giving this nice but punishing platformer Thumb Down and VideoGaming Father’s index 6- out of ten.
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Frequently Asked Questions

There are 4 editions. They are Twisted Dreams Rise of the Owlverlord, Twisted Dreams, Twisted Bundle, and Trilogy Pack
Are you ready for a challenge? 32% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right. 67% of GameFAQs users said Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is Tough or Unforgiving.
According to PEGI, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is suitable for players aged 7 and above.
Yes, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is Steam Deck Verified. Valve’s testing indicates that Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is Verified on Steam Deck. This game is fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display.
  • All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
  • This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
  • In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
  • This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
Minimum (or Recommended)
  • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 @ 2.8 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 3.3 GB
  • Video Card: SM3.0 DX9.0c level hardware (Nvidia GeForce 6800, ATI X1800 XT or higher)
  • DirectX®: 9
  • Additional: Keyboard
Recommended
  • OS: Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.0 GHz (or any Dual Core CPU)
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 3.3 GB
  • Video Card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 280, ATI HD 4800 or higher
  • DirectX®: 10
  • Peripherals Supported: Windows-compatible keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360® Controller for Windows recommended)
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 13 hours. 69% of users played Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams for over 12 hours.
71% of critics on Metacritic recommend Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. The Metascore is 77 out of 100.
75% of Fanatical users recommend Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. The average review score is 4.3/5
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams was released on October 21, 2012
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is published by HandyGames
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams was developed by Black Forest Games

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