VVVVVV
Time for a controversial review. I’ve played this game on and off for the past 5 years, and I’ve gradually come to realize it’s not that great. I’ll try to explain why.
To get one thing out of the way, the music is fantastic. The chiptune album “PPPPPP” is a true modern classic, catchy and energetic and well-produced. The game sells for $5, but I’d be willing to pay $20 for the soundtrack alone. It’s that good. Even after hearing these tunes for 5 years, most of them still haven’t gotten old to me. But chances are you’ve already heard the music and know this for yourself.
– Real player with 46.4 hrs in game
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VVVVVV - timeless indie classic
One of my all time favourites (if not my absolute favourite, comming from someone having played Half Life, Castlevania SotN, Mario Galaxy, Journey, Portal 2).
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay is simple and effective, it’s exactly what it needs to be, nothing more, nothing less. Two buttons for horizontal movement and one button to flip gravity (and another for using machines). The game’s pretty twitchy though, but there’s an option to slow down the game’s speed if that’s a problem for you. You can save at big teleporters or at any time in the pause menue. It’s a puzzle platformer, you dodge enemies, avoid spikes and solve the challenges presented to you, sometimes requiring you to actively think about how you approach a situation.
– Real player with 30.8 hrs in game
Below The Ocean
Experience an expedition to the deepest depths for legendary treasures Below the Ocean!
Below The Ocean is a fun, adorable, and atmospheric 2D Side-Scrolling Platformer! Use your oxygen supply’s tether to swing around unique level designs and solve interesting puzzles.
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4 action packed Chapters with unique mechanics, hand-crafted puzzles, and legendary treasure to find!
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Find and collect shiny DIAMONDS as an optional challenges!
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Challenge yourself and race to the bottom for your best time in a Speedrun friendly enviroment!
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Features charming minimalistic 1-Bit style with a splash of color!
“My father used to tell me stories about the ocean’s deepest secrets. Home to treasures coveted by history’s kings. Countless explorers seeking glory and fortune, rallied to prove the legends true. Diving deeper and deeper against all instincts of safety and self preservation. This abyss is my destiny."
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Kraino ReAnimated
Kraino ReAnimated is a Hi-Bit Action Platformer, with crunchy melee combat, fun platforming, hidden secrets and tricky puzzles. Slash your way through nine action packed levels, ranging from dusty old crypts to the heart of an active volcano! Gain awesome abilities along the way to aid you in your adventure, like the hellfire punch, and the executioners axe!
Featuring nine levels (some with branching paths), a fun mini boss battle and an EPIC boss battle at the end. Each level also has hidden secret rooms with loads of treasure, hidden health and essence upgrades to help you on your quest!
Snowyland
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More than 50 levels.
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Solve puzzles in a very unique way.
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Beat the levels using your own solution.
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Collect hidden vegetables across the maps.
In Snowyland you should freeze an member of your family to create ice platforms that helps you to reach the meat at the end of the level. You can choose where the ice platform is placed, meaning that each player has an unique experience.
Super Catboy
Super Catboy is an action-packed platformer created in a high-bit pixel art style, combining the best elements of the golden 16-bit platformer era of the 90s with some ‘pawsome’ new mechanics! And let’s not forget; there’s plenty of CAT CONTENT!
Meet Super Catboy, your not so average tomcat! Together with his crazy sidekick, Weapongirl, he leaves nothing but chaos in his wake while trying to thwart the shady plans of his evil creator. Armed to the whiskers and equipped with the latest dashing sneaker technology, he must run, jump, dash, climb, shoot and fight his way through hordes of anthropomorphic dog soldiers. If you love the 80s and 90s, 16-bit platforming, catchy tunes, ‘furmidable’ boss fights, cats and hate dogs, (just kidding we love them) then you’re in for a treat.
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Super Catboy combines the authentic style and features we came to love in the 16-bit pixel platformer era, created with high-bit pixel art aesthetics
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Old-school style meets new school features! Super Catboy combines old-school platforming with exciting new mechanics of the run’n’gun and beat em-up genres
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Hone your platforming skills while taking on the hench-dogs of an evil scientist and sabotage his plans to take over the world – with ‘cattitude’ of course
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Enjoy a huge ‘repawtoire’ of different moves and master a deadly arsenal of weapons and melee combos
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Unlock bonus stages, such as challenging motor bike and mine cart chases
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A fun and action-packed story with loveable characters and challenging bosses at every turn
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Unravel the story’s yarn via detailed pixel art cutscenes and diverse levels, such as snow-capped mountain ranges, mystical forests and derelict factories
Super Neat Cat
Very fun game with a nice art style. There is an interesting underlying lore and the movement feels very nice.
– Real player with 42.6 hrs in game
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Super Neat Cat is a straightforward platformer that struggles to stand out. In general, the game is inoffensive and lacks any egregious issues. Typically, a game without many flaws is great, but there needs to be something special or different about it. Super Neat Cat isn’t a bad game, but it lacks a notable strength that pulls you in.
The platforming mechanics in Super Neat Cat are rudimentary and felt clunky to me. You have a basic double jump, but nothing else. There are no special abilities, you just run and jump. I found jumping to feel unusually slow, and it actually took a while to get used to it. To be fair to the game, this might just be a personal issue, as I don’t play a ton of platformers. I would have liked it if your character had a faster top speed, although it’s also clear that this game is trying to be more casual and laid-back than something like Super Meat Boy.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
The Death Into Trouble
Very cute and funny game!
I think hell is the hardest, I couldn’t get to level 3,
The soundtrack is really good too, recommended.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Once again you can expect what Hanoi Studios does the best with this game: An amazing work with the audio, soundtrack and sound design.
Besides this, The Death Into Trouble (TDIT) has an unique appeal to what an indie game can offer in terms of original voice acting as well, great job done by “Vozindie” with the voice director Caroli.
TDIT is a game to enjoy the journey in three different envrionments: Purgatory, Heaven and Hell. Each one of them having a great variety of monsters and enemies, and I’d love to have a “collector’s book” inside of the game containing information about each enemy, its name and maybe a short description of it.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Aeon Drive
I played the game for over hundreds of hours through various builds and i can say, the dev team behind it are so awesome and nice and worked their butts of to work on it day and night.
And i love pretty much everything about the game. It is fast, precise, has a banger OST and awesome graphics and is just awesome to play!
If you’re a fan of fast-paced, action-based 2D platformer and leaderboards, get it. You won’t regret it, especially if you’re a fan of speedruns.
– Real player with 63.0 hrs in game
Fun platformer with a great visual style and awesome music to boot. It always feels like there’s ways to go faster when you’re speed running and with 100 levels to play, this game offers a high replay value to continually improve. Even if you’re not a speed runner, this game offers a lot of hours of fun and is even better with a friend. Dev team is also great and values the community. Hope to see more tournaments/events in the future!
– Real player with 27.7 hrs in game
Apollo in Outer Space
Apollo in Outer Space Is a 2D platform / adventure game that makes use of physics mechanics in its puzzles. An adventure marked by challenges that follow continuously until the end of the campaign.
Apollo must jump between planets!
Solve puzzles to advance the campaign!
Dangers such as meteors and alien life forms will cause the player to
Think twice before taking a leap!
An adventure marked by challenges that continue continuously until the end of the campaign. With the desire to return to Earth, Apollo knows that his intelligence and the laws of gravity will be his greatest allies in solving puzzles, crossing space and protecting himself from dangers never seen before!
Catarro
Catarro is as challenging as it is cute (in its very particular way).
A very interesting platformer without a jump button, where you have to time the protagonist’s snoozes just right to get around the levels and avoid dangers.
Recommended!
– Real player with 466.4 hrs in game
Even though I died more in this game than in Celeste, I loved it! You have to be aware of the time from one sneeze to the next. It has a great balance between calm level and very challenging level.
The character is working well, with great fluid animations.
Tip: It would be nice to have a kill counter to see how many times you had your head blown up in the spikes
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game