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- Cutscenes are in video format and are somehow rubberbanding (stuttering) while also looking compressed (and still the game size is 13 GB?).
- Most bare bones settings page I've ever seen, not even a separate slider for music/sfx.
- A decent amount of the puzzles are just solved by trial and error, most range from boring to terrible.
- Looooooong animations for everything, I know this is like a staple of the point & click genre but it doesn't have to be and it's also really bad here.

The game has some sort of a mission log to track what you need to do which sounds nice but it just shows you a bunch of random tasks before you've even gotten to them.
For example, it's like it'd say "Release the yellow elephant from the cage" but you just started a new chapter and didn't even see any elephants or cages.
It's like the game is spoiling itself by showing you a bunch of things you're supposed to do before you've even talked to someone about them, bizarre.

Even the achievements are dumb, I never understand games that have achievements that require you to purposefully do something wrong that you wouldn't normally do when it's not an interesting or fun interaction and this game has a bunch of achievements that require you to do those things 5 times in a row (they're also missable and there's no chapter select, you gotta use manual saves for that), what's the benefit of it besides just wasting time?

My played time is inaccurate, it took me around 4 hours to get 100% but it felt way longer.
But hey, at least it's got nice art.

Amazing arena-shooter in the vein of Devil Daggers.
KILLBUG is more forgiving and allows for more freedom of movement, instead of dying in one hit you have a health bar which you can refill with melee kills.
You got double jump, wall running, ground smash, melee dash and two types of "secret" demon shots at your disposal as you absolutely demolish all these nasty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bugs.

Getting all achievements is a challenging but doesn't feel like an impossible task and obviously the real challenge lies in leaderboards.

This game just begs to be expanded on, it can totally be made into a full campaign and I hope the devs decide to do more with it in the future.

What We Do In The Shadows, Season 1 Episode 3 - 00:48 / 23:56

Tinykin is a 3D platformer that really manages to scratch that collectathon itch.

You will go through six unique zones each packed with things to do in every corner and exploring them is just a delight, it's very satisfying to move around the room which is what you'll be doing most of the time.

They really nailed the movement with the soapboard having you unlock rails you can grind on, as well as one of your abilities letting you stack your tinykin into a ladder allowing you more freedom of movement as you progress a level.

It takes around 10 hours to 100% all achievements and it isn't very hard to do, I do wish there was an upgrade that helps your track missing objectives after you finish the game or something but I just made sure to fully explore everything before moving on so it wasn't a big deal.

There's also extra challenge races that are not required for any of the achievements but are very fun to do and reward you with skins, and getting the platinum medals can be quite hard.

(Note: there's a bug where to have some achievements unlock you need to revisit all levels, but it's barely an issue and the only one I encountered)


Overall it's just a very solid game, highly recommended!

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If you're looking for a good time go play the free [Time on Frog Island - Prologue] instead, it's actually a better experience than this and it's what made me believe the full game was worth playing in the first place (back when it was still named Trading Time).


Time on Frog Island features an absolutely beautiful art style that's doing most of the heavy lifting but unfortunately that's where the compliments end as the game just fails at being fun.

• Game doesn't really provide clear goals or directions, NPC's only communicate by drawings which will often be misunderstood leading you on wild goose chases.
  
• Many items and landmarks have no purpose and would act as red herrings when on said wild goose chases.
  
• As you'll spend most of your time running around trying to figure out what you even need to do you'll soon discover the game features a day/night cycle for seemingly no good reason and that NPC's go to sleep forcing you to run back to camp and wait for the next day.
  
• When you'll wake up again you will also find out there's also (random?) days when it rains which prevent you from doing some activities and are only needed to make an item wet which you can already do by throwing it in the water.
  
• There's also no map which could have been really helpful at mitigating some of the headache.
  
• Only 3 permanent upgrades available as a quest rewards, 2 of which are totally useless and the other needed for an achievement and a mechanic that most people won't even discover.
  
• Speaking of achievements, some are counterintuitive to fun in a game of this nature such as missable achievements or throwing items 1000 times (why?).

All of this is before even mentioning that it also has some critical bugs that can be really demoralizing like achievements that fail to unlock or having items you worked hard to get glitched out of the map.


The game seems like it had stopped receiving support shortly after releasing and so I suspect non of this would ever get addressed, just one of those games that gets released and immediately abandoned which is disheartening as this game has some of the makings of a great one but instead just ends up being a frustrating waste of time.

Decent hidden object game, looks like the devs really like cats.

* Paid DLC is required for full achievements.
* Adopt don't shop.

On the surface this looks like a very straightforward and simple arena shooter but what makes this game really great is the amount of polish and attention to detail.
The gun-play, the movement, all the little gimmicks and secrets make you forget you're actually playing a $5 game ($3 when discounted).

Looking at the patch notes it seems the dev has put a lot of care and effort into this game and honestly I don't think I can praise this game enough, my only complaint would be that a weapon wheel option would be better than the current weapon bar.

It's a short game, would probably take you under 5 hours to 100% all the achievements which aren't very difficult.

Do yourself a favor and give this one a try.

This is a very lukewarm recommendation.
It's kinda meh, barely a game and more of a pretty toy.

There is a very limited amount of patterns which you will quickly learn to recognize and you will often spend more time watching the level ending animation than actually doing anything.
After playing it for the first time it's probably good for short 5-minute bursts before you'll get bored again.

Would only recommend you get this if you're buying the bundle with Linia Super which is actually fun as it's so cheap.
Also why do you need to accept these intrusive ToS[www.nexent.io] and Privacy Policy[www.nexent.io] for a game like this?

Despite some of the things I'm about to say, Filament a good game that is well worth your time if you're into puzzles.

Filament shares a lot of similarities with The Witness, the biggest ones being the variety of different mechanics and the fact it teaches you new things by letting you solve very simple puzzles and gradually ramping up the difficulty. (And they do get very hard). Due to the nature of the mechanics some puzzles felt like I was just brute forcing them.

The game also has some interesting side content in the form of environmental puzzles that you solve in computer terminals and they range from being pretty fun to just downright bonkers complexity.
When solving the computer terminal puzzles you’ll receive lore pieces in the form of text messages, but the problem is that there is an insane amount of them (mostly being just fluff) and the terminals are excruciatingly slow and uncomfortable to navigate their bad UI.

Besides the messages there's also the main story being told through the companion character that talks to you throughout the game. But I have to say after finishing the game I have absolutely zero idea about what the story was about.

On the technical side I encountered some bugs like the cable getting stuck on things, the robot completely separating from the cable and sometimes just inconsistent behavior when wrapping around certain angles leading to you being able to solve puzzles in ways I think were unintended.

Also when zooming out you can’t move your character and when using a controller there aren't any button icons which seems like a very basic thing to have.

On the artsy side the game looks beautiful and features a pleasant soundtrack.

You have a simple objective, draw a line to match the color sequence in each level.
Some of the levels will require precision timing and placement of your line and could get a bit challenging, but otherwise it's pretty chill.

It's a fairly short game with only 20 chapters, each featuring a unique beautiful visual theme and some varying rule set.
After completing each chapter you'll unlock 'Hot Mode', which is just a harder variant of that chapter.

Fun experience and definitely worth it for the price.