Cloudbuilt
This game is absolutely stellar. I doubt I will play anything better this year, or perhaps even in years to come.
First and foremost, this game grants the player absolute control over the character. The movement is fast and responsive, and the more you learn about the game, the better you can maneuver, to the point where you can do things you never would have thought possible at first. This sense of control is absolutely wonderful because I can apply both my reflexes and timing as well as my puzzle-solving skills to the level in front of me. The level design features branching paths that allow you to tackle the level many different ways, and give the player a sense of exploration. Will you go the easier and slower path, take more difficult shortcut, or will you look for the perfect jump to create your OWN shortcut? The game also allows you to place your own checkpoints, and unlike They Bleed Pixels, they actually mean it, meaning that you get to tackle the level before you on your own terms without compromising the difficulty.
– Real player with 120.5 hrs in game
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So close…so very very close. This would have been a GOTY contender for me but it slips and wobbles
hard
I’ll start with the good: Cloudbuilt is basically Sonic Generations. Remember boosting to beat your time and precision, quick twitch platforming within a level that has multiple pathways? It’s here. Maybe the budget isn’t, but the excitement and speed definitely is. As is the creativity, only difference here is levels have more vertical movement and therefore aren’t as fast, but the idea is the same.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
Dark Runner
it’s kinda odd that no one has reviewed this game yet
it’s a pretty fun game
i enjoyed the mechanics so far
graphic and musics are mostly okay
level design is really really good
but it’s kinda have a clunky feeling in it that is kinda normal for a indie game
i mean it doesn’t matter that much but it will make this game not 100% smooth
anyhow
a great indie game
i recommend it
and looking forward to the updates (if there is any)
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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Evasilix
Game Description
Control B-854, a brand-new testing robot coming right from the factory, created to be put at test in a huge facility filled with testing rooms, deadly traps, trains, and secrets!
Jump, dash, roll, and run with a unique movement system as you progress into the games and unfold the truth that lies behind evasilix!
Key Features
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A new way to play
Control your character differently than from other games, with the unique movements system that comes with evasilix!
On the left side of your screen, you will see various buttons that you can interact with your keyboard, each button representing one movement. By default, you select a movement with WASD and Trigger it with SPACE.
This system allows you to have a unique learning progression from level to level, putting your skill and your adaptation to test from easy to hard.
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25 unique levels
Face more than 25 levels, each having their unique layers and mechanics! Those levels include parkours, boss, and even train levels!
If you are stuck in one level, don’t worry! You can do the levels of a same area in the order you want!
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A huge HUB filled with secrets
Explore a huge hub divided into 6 areas, each of them having their ambiance and style. This hub is also filled with a vast quantity of secrets of all kinds: puzzles, mazes, monsters, and other weird stuff… So keep your eyes open!
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4 difficulty modes
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Normal
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Impossible: Middle respawn removed, traps added, and more
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Mirror Normal: World inverted!
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Mirror Impossible: The hardest way to play the game, impossible + mirror combined
This allows you to have great replayability, especially if you are always looking for a harder challenge!
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35 minutes long “movie”
Have you ever heard about the most intelligent living form called X1218?
As you progress into the game, unfold the story of X and reveal the truth that lies behind Evasilix!
Do you have what it takes for Evasilix?
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Spooky Speedrun
Emanate
You awake in limbo with a choice - await your fate, or find an escape. Leap your way to freedom with high speed movement and high-stakes obstacles. Experience Emanate’s atmospheric environment and fast paced soundtrack as you climb your way to the top in this single-level 3D platformer!
Gameplay
Emanate is a single-level, vertical world filled with jumping patterns made up of various platforming mechanics. The most common of which are the orange/red bounce pads, purple wall-jump pads, and the fading platforms, that vanish from under your feet after a very short amount of time. Combining these simple mechanics urges you to keep moving forward, making for some incredibly challenging and intense platforming gameplay.
What to expect
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Moody, atmospheric environments: Starting from the bedrock of oblivion, up through deep ethereal forests and vast looming clouds, to huge other-worldly cathedrals.
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Fast, exciting soundtrack: An ambient, break-techno tracklist that increases in speed and intensity as you progress through the game.
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Emanation orbs: You have three chances per checkpoint to learn the patterns ahead of you. If you fall, expend an orb and you’ll recall back to the last checkpoint you activated. Any misstep after your orbs are gone and you’ll find yourself falling back down below.
ADVERSE
Well the day has finally come, launch day! I’ve been helping out playtesting this game for a while now and It’s great to see how far it has come since the very first day I got my hands on it.
The game has quite a lot of levels, that being 40 levels across 8 worlds. The later worlds are usually longer and pretty tough mind you! So it’s welcoming to have a sort of challenge that gets progressively harder as you get further into the game. Furthermore the worlds has a very neat addition of interconnection between them. At the last level of the Pure world, you will start seeing trees and woodlands, leading up to the next Woodlands world. And the same for the end of Woodlands where you see a castle in the distance, etc. It’s a tiny thing but it really enhances the game experience!
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
Challenging! I love challenging.
This game is just what I’ve been looking for. A game to practise your skill at platforming and shooting targets that are NOT other life forms.
The controls seem to work well and I appreciate, as always, the option to change the key bindings for individual preference.
While you do get a better score for being fast, there’s nothing stopping you working your way through each level at your own pace. This makes it a more relaxing experience if that’s how you’d rather play. Though it can still be frustrating when you keep falling off, until you get good at it. Practise and patience makes perfect.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Ballfrog
#### Gameplay
Use fun and experimental controls to roll ball frog around awesome environments!
Use Ball Frogs tongue as a grappling hook to grab, swing and fling Ball Frog through the map!
Check Points are used so you don’t loose progress and will save your checkpoint for the next time you play.
Since this game uses physics a lot, we have many mechanics that can bounce, swing and even pop you as you play through the game.
#### Story
Ball Frog and his froggy friends enjoyed lazing around and eating flies and playing in the swamp all day long. That was until the flies started disappearing. The fly god was not happy about the flies being eaten so he captures all the frogs apart from one. Ball Frog. It is up to you to Roll, Swing and Jump your way to the fly god and save your froggy friends!
#### Cosmetics
The in game currency “Flies” can be collected throughout the game and can be spent in the shop to buy cosmetic hats and skins!
Boson X
I started playing this game a little over two years ago after somebody mentioned it in the comments section of a Super Hexagon video on YouTube, saying something to the effect of “If you think this game is hard, then you should try Boson X!” Having been looking for a new game to try out, I decided I might as well buy it and see what the game was all about.
Boson X quickly became my favorite game to play during downtime, such as before leaving for school or waiting to go someplace. I could play it while I was talking to friends online, while listening to music, or if I just needed to get my mind off of something, I could open the game and collide particles until I felt better.
– Real player with 909.9 hrs in game
Boson X. An fast-paced indie platformer that requires a lot of memorization of patterns to get you through.
It seems that the objective is to help two (or three if you consider a robot one) scientists discover three particles by traveling through some visual starfield. The goal is to run along blue platforms that emerge from the endless void around you, building up enough energy to spark a particle. This task, as you progress, isn’t as easy as it seems as newer stages bring forth new obstacles, may it be moving white flats, fragile red flats, thick walls, and even rings that emit electric currents. All this game really needs is mind power and complete concentration.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Bound Up & Squirming!
Bought it during a sale, and what seemed like a joke game turned out to be quite the challenging platformer.
It starts to get a bit frustrating in some levels around midway through the campaign - just when I thought I got good at it, the game whoops my ass.
It’s good in short bursts as a side activity while listening to/watching something, otherwise it might get a bit too frustrating (though, obviously, your mileage may vary)
– Real player with 11.5 hrs in game
Its a fun, simple, polished little game where what you see is what you get. It’s made by the same guy as Mount your Friends and Mount your Friends 3D and the similarities are obvious like the non traditional platforming and character design. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time with the game while listening to streams or podcasts which it has been perfect for. Bound Up & Squirming has offered me strong simple gameplay mechanics and fair challenge I’ll probably play it all the way through which has become more of a rarity with the large amount of games being released every month. If you have Mount your Friends 3D you should have automatically gotten a coupon for the game that takes off a dollar or so to the games already small price point. The game is far beyond worth the price of admission especially since it’s $5.69 Canadian. Check it out if you want something simple and fun to play while consuming other entertainment or are interested in weird platformers.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Brian the Brain
This game is good in my opinion, it’s like a flash game.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Brian the Brain is truly the Dark Souls of platformers.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game