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Genre: Indie

Manic Archers

Update 3.5.2


  • Holding the Fire-button now charges the arrow
  • Fairies can now be called when player has died (press any button) - this results in competitive button-bashing among defeated players
  • Fixed a bug in scoring in last man standing mode
  • Dynamic lightning now looks much more comical - and more suiting in style
  • Bombs can now be properly kicked
  • Many fixes & improvements

Update 3.5.1


  • Finally added keyboard support
  • Fixed last man standing scoring (in combination with new fairy revives)
  • Added score / frags in last man standing mode
  • Reduced fire radius to reduce burning players overall
  • Many fixes & improvements

UPDATE 3.5 - Fairies


  • two new levels - one with mushrooms and one with destructible walls
  • fairies now pop up around crystals etc. and can revive players - reviving will reset frags and is and closeness to fairies is a big strategical advance
  • NPCs throw apples (health)
  • trees can now be hit and things might fall out (i.e. fairies and apples)
  • new join-game music
  • new winner-screen with new music as well
  • improved short full-screen-animation on player death
  • destructible walls
  • mushrooms spawn spores on hit
  • many more improvements and fixes

Update 3.4.2


  • Finally fixed the bug creating black borders around the game in resolutions lower than HD
  • Changed bouncing arrows in supercharge mode to many smaller ones instead of just explosive ones
  • NPCs now throw apples which restore health
  • Bugfix: Pause menu did not clear when "Select map" was chosen
  • Many fixes and improvements

UPDATE 3.4.1


  • Probably fixed a screen resolution bug which occurred under rare circumstances - disabled retina support and 4K/set the resolution hard to HD - as I could not test on all devices I would be happy for a feedback if the bug is fixed
  • Added back buttons the Join Game and Map Selection menus
  • Changed the appearance and highlighting of the menu font and updated some menus
  • Many fixes and improvements

Update 3.4

Big coop-mode Update



  • Completely new enemies for coop/singleplayer
  • Option to reset levels added to reset coop progress
  • Tornado arrows in supercharge mode now create a wind channel
  • Added cloud-shadows and removed rain as possible level ambience
  • Many new and improved animations and graphics
  • Many fixes and improvements

Update 3.3.10


  • Fixed a bug for the ballista powerup
  • Some arrows and objects falling into water now cast swirls
  • Changed the bullet-time animation for better visibility of arrows
  • New animation for supercharged ray
  • Many fixes and improvements

Update 3.3.9


  • Crosshair powerup is now casting an arrow rain in supercharge mode
  • Bullet-time visualisation for arrows so movements are easier to spot
  • X-markers instead of exclamation marks for coming hazards
  • Many new animations
  • Many fixes and improvements

Update 3.3.8


  • disclaimer for the first 3 starts of Manic Archers, recommending a 1on1 against a human first
  • arrows now stick to the players (and corpses)
  • new jump-bomb animation
  • new dash trail animation
  • Many fixes and improvements

UPDATE 3.3.7 - COOP

Many fixes to Coop-Survival mode incl.:



  • AI-player enemies are not revivable and do not revive other players anymore
  • Correct pixel perfect size for enemies
  • Stomp move does not affect other players anymore
  • Homing arrows do not target other players anymore

Other fixes:



  • Radius in which players are getting burned from fire/fire arrows lowered - to reduce players being on fire almost constantly
  • Rapid-fire powerup arrows cannot hurt owner anymore

+ Many more fixes and improvements