El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster
Released Sep 2021
El Shaddai, originally released in 2011, is a unique third-person action adventure filled with a deeply artistic world-building, outstanding aesthetics and thrilling battles. Experience an incredible mix of 2D-like platformer action and a colorful 3D world in an exceptional setting.
84% positive · 507 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Steam $7.49 $29.99 −75%
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Evaluation
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron HD Remaster launched on Steam on September 1, 2021 as an HD remaster of the original 2011 game. Following launch, the developer shipped several feature patches through early 2022 — adding keyboard support, Steam Cloud, Simplified Chinese subtitles, and a leaderboard feature — but these were polish and quality-of-life updates rather than new story or gameplay content.
The most notable post-launch development is a drama audio work titled "El Shaddai Drama Sound: Lucifer's Fall" (El Shaddai ドラマサウンド『ルシフェルの堕天』). This was announced as a streaming release in September 2025 and then released as a paid DLC item on March 20, 2026 — making it the most recent piece of content for the game. The developer described it as a story that "picks up immediately after the events of the game" and teased it as potentially being "El Shaddai 2."
All three DLC items in the store listing — the Soundtrack (September 2, 2021), the ArtBook (September 2, 2021), and the Drama Sound (March 20, 2026) — are now marked as released. There are no unreleased DLC entries. The developer's post-launch update activity has been sparse, consisting mainly of early stability patches and occasional sale announcements, with no roadmap or announcement of additional content following the Drama Sound release. The game appears to be a complete package as of March 20, 2026.
Evidence
Drama Sound 'Lucifer's Fall' released as DLC on March 20, 2026 — the most recent piece of content for the game
Game launched on Steam as an HD Remaster of the original 2011 title, alongside Soundtrack and ArtBook DLC
Content
3 of 3 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
crim Co., Ltd.
Achievements
49
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
SUMMARY/BRIEF DESCRIPTION
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, originally released in 2011, is a unique third-person action adventure filled with a deeply artistic world-building, outstanding aesthetics and thrilling battles. Experience an incredible mix of 2D-like platformer action and a colorful 3D world in an exceptional setting.
An ever-changing endless visual experience
El Shaddai's artistic setting aims to provide a canvas-like world that changes in an organic way as long as you progress your adventure. The world keeps changing constantly in the most creative and innovative ways, perhaps even nostalgic.
Easy to play, hard to master
You'll only have four buttons: jump, attack, guard and weapon stealing. But this simple way of proceeding is deeper than one can expect. There is no need of manuals or walkthroughs to get into the game, but if anyone is ready to deepen into the mechanics, the game will offer a profound, precise and rewarding timing-based action experience. The motto of El Shaddai's gameplay always was to be "easy but profound". Many of the game's mechanics such as the offense-defense systems were carefully created to provide the best possible game feel.
The game received the "Future Game of the Show" award in the Tokyo Game Show 2010 and the script, noting some of the characters lines, got a gold mention on the Internet Buzzword Awards 2010 as well. The original aesthetics, the uniqueness of its concept and the feeling of being ahead its time (2011) were widely discussed on the international media.
Release notes:
The game is fully dubbed in English, but subtitles in German, Spanish, Italian and French are also available on its worldwide release.Last evaluated Jun 23, 2026
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