A Night at the Races

At the intersection of SMB and Papers Please, this game offers a great deal of fun. The platformer part was quite challenging, and you can immediately bounce back from failure, which reminds me of Hotline Miami in the sense of game feel. The point-and-click part had stunning scenes that gives the feeling of a dystopian universe. The game delivers that unique atmosphere with a very tasty aesthetic. Although the game has a vast untapped potential, I blame the recommendation algorithms and the way that market works against indies, which portrays this masterpiece of art as a humble underdog. Ten years before, a game like this easily would have a cult following. I strongly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys the games mentioned above.

A good challenging platformer. Game is simply without much story, you control a box and you need to jump at the right moment to climb up, and make sure not to miss any enemies. What I begin to find it difficult is to do the jump - dashing and break walls at the same time. I stopped right before I got angry about myself.

Сложная динамичная игра. которая наверняка придётся по вкусу фанатам Super Meat Boy, одна ошибка и смерть (хотя есть настройка сложности), мгновенная реакция и сотни перезапусков уровня ждут вас. https://youtu.be/iK5D5UQTQ8U

Awesome and unique style and visuals paired with few simple controls, yet filled with levels that demand everyhting from you from the beginning onwards to not make a single mistake if you do not want to redo the whole level. Outstanding platformer.

I wanted to like this game, but sadly it is a little too wonky for me. I played through roughly half the game, seeing as there are 12 worlds and I am on world 6 right now, but it just keeps annoying me more and more. The Pros: - The story inbetween isn't much, but I liked that little world and would have liked to know, why the stuff is going on, that is going on. I don't know if it explains it all at the end, but so far I was always happy for a little break to click on a new message. - The graphics are clear, you can clearly see the path you want to take and most of the time, how to approach it. - The controls are very responsive, feels pretty good to use.. however.. The Cons: - For me personally, it feels a little too fast to react to stuff you have not seen yet. There are all kinds of moments where you will die, because you'll need to remember how the level is built to properly maneuver through them. I know that the game has an assist mode, but I've played through all kinds of incredibly hard platformers in my life and never did I need to use some kind of assist mode. If this was the only complaint on my end, I am sure that I would have powered through, since I love a challenge and hard games in general. It's just that it doesn't really feel fair in this game. - You don't see enough of the level. This point is probably an extension to my previous point, but if you could see more, you could react better. Sometimes there are "springs" that launch you up into a deathtrap, to which you can only really react, if you know that its there beforehand. Its a cheap death everytime it happens. - The next point is what made me stop playing this game any further: It feels bugged. I don't know if everything i've encountered is intentional or not. there are times where you get launched by the little enemies that you need to kill/collect and get so much speed from it, that it launches you THROUGH the walls. I played a bunch of levels that I felt like were way harder than they had to be, just because I had to play around the fact that it would launch me somewhere I am probably not supposed to be. (might even be intentional, but it feels like a bug to me at least) - Lastly, I reaaaally dislike games that don't let me play in windowed mode, since I play ALL my games in a window. I noticed that if you spam Esc in the menus, it slips into some form of windowed mode, but it doesn't work properly and cuts of parts of the game, and I guess wasn't even intended to work, since I just tried to quit the game at that time, which made me figure it out by accident. As much as it annoyed me, I also had a lot of fun, but the bad things just kept piling up the further i got. If I could, I'd give a rating between "Yes" or "No" But as I gotta decide, I gotta say no. Theres definitely fun to be had though!

A Night at the Races is a fun game with an intriguing story. It's basically consisted of two intertwined games. One is an adventure game, the other is a platformer one. After playing a certain level of platformer levels, you continue the adventure (story) sequence. After the adventure sequence, the platformer game continues and so on. The adventure part has an gripping story, supported by great visuals. The developer of the game is really talented in story telling. The puzzles are quite easy, I considered the adventure part as interactable cutscenes, which didn't bother me at all. I kept wondering what would happen next in the story. The platformer game is extremely hard and unforgiving in default, while it's labeled as "Normal" mode. Fortunately, it's possible to change the difficulty of the game, which makes the game much more enjoyable for people who are not platformer experts. I started to enjoy the fun of the mechanics in the easy mode. In conclusion, this is a game with a gripping story, which might require you to choose the easy difficulty to enjoy the game unless you are a game expert.

20 minutes in and I'm hooked. I came to see what others said about the game. Its quite addictive but I might have to change the difficulty to casual.