Recent reviews by maildropfolder

It's a brilliant mix of deckbuilding and optimization, and I can't wait for this to hit it big.
I caught wind of this title quite a while ago, and I underestimated it. Then I tried the demo. This is already something special, and it's been getting better with every update. I actually have to go out of my way to avoid playing this game, since I would absolutely spend more time than is healthy comboing my way through runs. Nice work, Luca!

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I'd recommend this for the engine alone, but holy cow is it fun. I haven't even won yet and I still love it.

Note: you will die

A lot

In increasingly embarrassing ways

And it's amazing

Mind-bending timeline-jumping outsmarted-your-outsmarting big-brain gameplay. You don't need to be good at chess to do well. This requires a surprisingly different skill set.Disclaimer: actual play is 4D chess with multiverse time travel. There's an unused/assumed third spacial dimension that may as well be ignored.

My biggest complaint is honestly how long I went without knowing this game exists. This is the epitome of underrated indie puzzle games. It clearly wasn't made by a big team, but it didn't need to be! It needed to be well though-out, and I can guarantee you that it was. The complexity doesn't come from mountains of mechanics or excessive misdirection, it stems from the lack of limitations. You're allowed to bring levels inside of each other. You're allowed to duplicate and stockpile items. You're even allowed to set up and cause paradoxes, and the developer made it a feature. Let me emphasize that. Putting the game into an invalid state is a fully-implemented feature.

Fair warning, there are a few occasions where platforming skill is needed, especially if you want to get all the collectables. That, and the lack of an undo feature (if such a thing would even be possible in this context) means you will have to completely restart puzzles after messing up the very last step.

BUT, those are literally the only nitpicks I could possibly make. Everything else is hands-down amazing. Don't even get me started on the level design. Level design is make or break for puzzle games, and Recursed abso-flippin-lutely nailed it.

tl;dr Fantastic. Play it. Tell your friends. More people need to know about this game.

A brilliant mix of strategy and platforming skill!

'competitive mario maker' (as some call it) has been a continuously enjoyable expirience for me. I was utterly decimated in my first few online games, but I still enjoyed every minute of it. If you're willing to play the game long enough to get decently good at it, I cannot recommend it enough.

The addition of an online level-sharing system only added to the already endless playability, and lets players show their creative (or utterly evil, your choice) side. The console ports and PC update are on the brink of release, and there's plenty to look forward to in them!

If you plan on playing this with friends (which you totally should), buy it at the same time as them. My one mistake with this game was that I played it so much that I was way more experienced than my IRL friends by the time they bought it.

Lastly, the now-official discord server hosts tournaments every month! watch for sign-ups!