Play as an alien hive-mind who murders bosses and absorbs their consciousness.
Zapling Bygone is an open world platformer where you play as an alien hive mind who takes control of dead enemies to learn their history, obtain their memories and unlock their abilities.

Explore
Uncover the mysteries of an alien planet by running, climbing and murdering your way through a large interconnected world. Collect skull fragments that tell the stories of long dead societies and discover the worlds secrets in your own way.

Fight
Slap, beam, slam and pogo your way through unique boss fights, with a huge emphasis on tight and responsive controls. Upgrade Zapling by collecting mutations that modify Zaplings abilities to your liking. Take advantage of Zaplings sticky tentacles to fluidly jump and climb around the world.

Thrive
Bend the mechanics in the world to your liking, kill bosses to absorb their consciousness and take their abilities. Make every inch of the alien planet your playground as you learn its secrets and use them to your advantage.

Explore a vast interconnected world littered with secrets in every room. Find game-changing mutations, collect skull fragments that shine light on long dead civilisations. Collect memories of your foes by finding their memories in the form of comic strip pannels.
Piece togther the events that occured in a post-apocalyptic alien planet, and use its secrets to fight a fragment of your own hive.

Zap is an alien hive mind who hops from planet to planet absorbing the memories of dead civilisations, looking for information that may help win a war against a fragment of its own hive. Upon finding a planet somehow hidden from view, it sends a Zapling down to investigate.