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El Cipitío: The Cuscatlecan Legends playtest
by ILLUSION GAMES, Digno Madriles, Uriel Blanco
El Cipitio and the Cuscatleca Legends is a retro game with 16-bit pixel art style. It is a top-down twin-stick shooter. This 2D shooting game with a top-down perspective combines retro gameplay mechanics with a story based on Salvadoran folklore.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Mar 26, 2026
- Released
- Apr 15, 2026
- Developer
- ILLUSION GAMES, Digno Madriles, Uriel Blanco
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, Spanish - Latin America, Spanish - Spain
How to join the El Cipitío: The Cuscatlecan Legends playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the El Cipitío: The Cuscatlecan Legends playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Some visual and audio assets were partially generated with the help of AI tools. These elements represent a small portion of the overall content and were further edited and integrated by the developer. AI was also used to assist with minor code optimization and to translate all in-game dialogue.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About El Cipitío: The Cuscatlecan Legends
The Cipitio and the Cuscatlecan Legends is a retro game with 16-bit pixel art style. It is a TOP-DOWN TWIN-STICK SHOOTER, a 2D shooting game with a top-down perspective that combines retro mechanics with a story inspired by Salvadoran folklore.
In this world, El Cipitio, son of La Siguanaba, is trapped in an ancient curse. La Siguanaba, punished by the god Tlaloc for deceiving her husband, was condemned to become a terrifying apparition that frightens men near rivers and streams. As a consequence of this punishment, her son, El Cipitio, was transformed into an immortal goblin who never ages or dies. Though mischievous and playful, El Cipitio feels tormented by eternity, and in his despair, he decides to turn himself into stone to escape the endless loneliness.
During the two thousand years that El Cipitio remains asleep, humanity nearly becomes extinct after a great war. The survivors adopt pre-Columbian cultures as their religion and, through the technology of the ancient gods, manage to channel their power. However, human greed leads them to create monstrous creatures to fight among themselves, provoking the wrath of the gods, who eventually abandon the Earth, leaving their technological advances behind.
Taking advantage of the chaos, a dark sorcerer, a malevolent entity that has existed since ancient times, begins to plot a plan to seize this ancestral power. Recruiting mythological beings from Salvadoran folklore—such as La Chancha, El Padre Sin Cabeza, La Descarnada, El Justo Juez de la Noche, and even La Siguanaba herself—the sorcerer gathers an army of dark creatures.
Faced with this threat, the god Tlaloc decides to awaken El Cipitio, giving him the mission to stop the dark sorcerer. To aid him, Tlaloc grants him the manifestation of his warrior spirit, Ixtli, who together with the Cadejo Blanco will accompany El Cipitio on his epic adventure to save the world.
From the game's Steam page.
