Stilt Fella
After 18 hours of what can only be described as psychological torture aimed at people with masochistic tendencies and fingers swollen to the size of bowling balls - I have finally beaten the game. And I feel the most accomplished than after beating any other game. And… and… I hate this game. I despise it. And I love it. It is so good it will literally make you hate it and love it at the same time. At one point it even confused me sexually. I cannot recommend this game enough. I’m serious. I cannot recommend it. DON’T BUY IT. Unless you like really challenging games that will force you to fail thousands of times in the most infuriating ways possible. If this review confuses you, then you understand how this game made me feel. But seriously, BUY THIS GAME. It’s amazing.
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
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I’m one of the beta testers and responsible for the menu and end credits music so I’ve walked along this game for a while…
I have seen people mention games like Getting Over It, but I do see that view a bit lacking. While Getting Over It starts fairly easy, forcing you to get around a tree, this is an instant slap in the face, much like QWOP. Although, because the stilts are much easier to control than the runner’s legs in QWOP, you will be picking up the correct rhythm quite quickly and feel like a god just finishing the first levels.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
Noita
Extremely fun and unforgiving game. There’s a lot to explore and learn about the game, and the more you understand the broader your gameplay becomes. I would highly recommend playing the game without any outside tips or help first, as it’s very easy to get spoiled on certain spell tricks and combinations.
The music is great, and comes in sparingly, which enhances your exploration and combat. The enemies are tough at first until you learn their attack timings and patterns. The wand building is the most deep and expansive thing I’ve ever come across in a game, there are so many tricks and combinations you can create with wands that are mind boggling and beautiful. There will definitely be many occasions of you killing yourself testing the waters. There’s also alchemical combinations with all types of fluids, and exploring their effects is also fun and satisfying.
– Real player with 372.7 hrs in game
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Games like Noita are rare.
Superficially, it looks like a basic dungeon crawler, with the addition of a completely dynamic and manipulable environment. Dig a little deeper, though, and you see the depth and amazing variety the game brings.
The wand, perk, and spell combinations alone make this game interesting, and give you reasons to keep playing. Me and my friends are still coming up with strange new ways to break the game…
But then you add the absolute difficulty of the game, the physics, the goofy interactions, the alchemy, the banger music, the huge amount of secrets, and… You get one of the best games ever made.
– Real player with 204.1 hrs in game
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
A lot of people are saying that this game is too difficult, has bad controls, or that the ball is too random. Everyone saying these things are wrong. I know because I used to be that person. I had left a very negative review that ripped apart this game for being unfair to the player in its design, but it turns out I was completely wrong about that. I was blaming the game for my lack of skill. But after playing it a bit more, I started to make progress.
This game gives me the same nervous sweats that Getting Over It gives me, which I love. The higher you climb, the more the tension grows. It’s what I imagine walking a tightrope feels like. Falling in this game often means losing a lot of progress, but unlike Getting Over It, that progress can be made up quite quickly. After a while, you become familiar with some of the areas through repetition, and that makes exploring new areas very exciting.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
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If you’re reading the bad reviews - check to see if they managed to beat the game, or if they are just raging.
Everybody thinks they have a point to make when they’re angry. It’s sad to see so many bad players blaming their lack of skills on the game. A game that was made to be this way on purpose. It’s actually easier than Getting Over It, it’s just not the same game mechanics at all.
Having said that, if you want a game to make you feel good about yourself, don’t buy this game - this won’t be handing you any free wins - you will have to earn it. Took me 2 hours in 2 different sessions. Now I feel like I can beat it in 10 mins since I learned many techniques along the way. I’m curious to see how the speedruns are doing…
– Real player with 8.8 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!
BH Trials
This game feels like learning to walk after suffering a stroke. At first your movement will be uncontrolled and you will flail your limbs about the place helplessly. But soon you’ll get the hang of it and instead stumble about like a drunken toddler. Great fun!
There is quite a bit of content and extra challenge, as each level offers a collectible and a highscore list where you can try to beat the times of your quadriplegic fellows. Some levels are insanely hard and the highscore lists at later stages have very few entries. I really wish this game would be more popular, it would be well deserved.
– Real player with 42.2 hrs in game
I absolutely love this game.
I have always wondered how these sorts of machines are controlled in real life so when I saw Northernlion playing this, I bought it pretty much instantly.
BH Trials is an obstacle course game, where you navigate a “backhoe loader”, as I’ve learned these are called, through a path riddled with all manners of different obstacles. The only problem is, that the only way of movement is manipulating the loader and the backhoe arm. The wheels roll but that’s about it, you can’t actually drive or steer the machine in a normal fashion.
– Real player with 37.1 hrs in game
Chicken Cannon!
pissed me off
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
game was fu just a bit hard to controll and aim
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Goop Loop
During the frustrating first play-through of this game I was convinced that it was not a game where you would eventually be able to consistently get past obstacles but I immediately proved myself wrong in the second run. Don’t get me wrong it is still hard but it is definitely a lot more manageable. I definitely recommend it if you like foddian games and if you aren’t afraid of a challenge.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Physics platformers are notorious for being insanely hard.
This one’s no exception. But it does have some quirky/clever vocal (English only) tutorial, that only really speaks up if and when you’re having trouble. I was actually quite amused by how the game knew when to say “You should slow down”, versus pretty much pre-emptively telling me I screwed up when I passed a point of no return.
It’s like having the developer commentary from Half-Life (But more quirky/punny), the goopiness of Gish (With more freedom of movement), and the jankiness of, well, basically every physics platformer out there. My hand started hurting after about an hour, so I had to take a break, but I’ll definitely be trying to finish it after I take a break.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Happenlance
A beautiful and addictive addition to the asldfj;oaisheouhigoiu genre. Highly recommended.
– Real player with 28.4 hrs in game
I like the game. Happenlances approach to teach things is like how it was done back in the 8bit days. Levels are designed in a way that you have to learn to do new tricks in order to continue, and you don’t get any annoying tooltips or small videos that show you what you have to do. You really have to figure things out yourself. And oh boy it gets challenging and fast.
Only thing that i would add, is somekind of collectibles in hard places. That way when you get better in the game, you would revisit some maps to get those collectibles that you couldn’t get before.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Here Goes Muffin
Here Goes Muffin is an exploratory, physics-based, puzzle platformer, starring… A muffin. With legs. Collect various sweets that will enable you to explore the world in new and exciting ways!
Powerups
Every powerup gives you a new way to move through the world. For example:
The Popsicle Lets You Jump!
The Lollipop Wheels let you climb hills, and hang below platforms!
And many more! Mix and match your powerups to overcome the unique challenges that come your way.
The world
Muffin beware: This place isn’t all sugar and sunshine. The path of a muffin is wrought with danger, and soon enough, you will just want to get back home.
There are several areas to explore; Some cheerful, some inhospitable, and some downright scary ones! All part of one big, interconnected world.
Jump, climb, swim, and fly your way to new heights (or depths) to see all that the world has to offer, and try not to fall into the many pits of spikes!
CubeHub
This is a collection of mini-games based on innovative game mechanics and parodying famous games and other works of modern culture with its help. This is a physics challenge with puzzle elements.
Gameplay
At the game level are various figures. Your goal: to put the figures so that they intersect certain parts. The game marks these parts with a pink color.
Using the keyboard, you control one of the figures: rotation, movement back and forth. You can push other figures.
Some figures may have AI and move independently of the player. Some figures can “shoot” cubes, they push the figures too.
At different levels, different settings for gravity and destructibility of the environment.
Game features
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Many figures of different shapes and colors.
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Tutorial levels.
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Different game levels. From simple and funny to very complex, from which you will break the keyboard and your nerves.
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The game develops attentiveness, precision of movements, intelligence and a sense of rhythm.
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This is a fun game for the whole family. Play it with your friends, parents, children, grandparents. Play it at work so that your boss can see that you are increasing your intellectual level and become more useful for the company.