Bound Up & Squirming!

If you can find this game on sale for around half off (which is what I got it for..) it's a no-brainer purchase. It's also a no-brainer game, more than less.. with a simple mechanic of basically hopping around like one of those old school 'spring / suction' toys. You hold the jump button down to attach to the surface of the game's various difficult (and Q-Bert esque geometrically-shaped) platforms, as you approach the level's exit. Outside of that, there are not many gameplay elements. Precision jumps and intentional 'bellyflops' to orient the tripping balls main character on each platform bring about some complexity I wasn't expecting. The game looks great and its smooth, funny animation was something I wasn't expecting booting the game up at all. The player character's design is animated great, with funny results when he rams his head too hard into various surfaces. Unfortunately, the game's backgrounds are quite bland by comparison. Funny-looking pillars smiling at you are cool, but their lack of variety (as well as the for lack of a better expression "♥♥♥♥-shaped floating things") in the background not leading to a different set of background objects to space out staring at are unfortunate. All in all I enjoyed most all of my time spent with this game. I was streaming it at the time so my enjoyment might have been skewed to feel rushed to progress rather than having it booted up at a more chill pace. Great, funny, simple game with good animation on the main character. I hope the developers are able to put their animation and zany character design into other titles.

Its okay game, nice little mechanics but its get pretty repetitive after level 9 but what can you expect from a cheap indie game

if you like playing as spring mario from mario galaxy for god knows what reason, you might like this

I'd like to imagine that this was an actual acid trip that the employees of Stegersaurus had.

This is the hardest 3D platformer I ever played. Very interesting physics-based movement mechanics, psychologically unsettling and hilarious presentation make this a very good and challenging 3D precision platformer! The difficulty ramps up in a smooth curve and gets really REALLY hard. There are optional level times which are very tight to be beaten, but I guess it's not necessary to get all achievements. Edit: Nope, you gotta beat all the times to 100%! I like this challenge! Edit2: This achievement was removed by the developer, so that it's not necessary anymore to beat all challenges and beating all levels is sufficient. Crazy smiling jelly worms and the bound up character being super scared with big popping eyes make this feel like a fever dream. I guess this must be what it is like to be a game developer. Scary players expecting a super fun game from you and you're like bound up by expectations and insecure if you will make this way with a thousand gaps to fall down. All those retries, those iteration loops you must go through before getting it right. Frightening!...

Getting Over It.The Bennett Foddy don’t use his feet.But this game did!

Bought it during a sale, and what seemed like a joke game turned out to be quite the challenging platformer. It starts to get a bit frustrating in some levels around midway through the campaign - just when I thought I got good at it, the game whoops my ass. It's good in short bursts as a side activity while listening to/watching something, otherwise it might get a bit too frustrating (though, obviously, your mileage may vary)

Its a fun, simple, polished little game where what you see is what you get. It's made by the same guy as Mount your Friends and Mount your Friends 3D and the similarities are obvious like the non traditional platforming and character design. I've been spending a fair amount of time with the game while listening to streams or podcasts which it has been perfect for. Bound Up & Squirming has offered me strong simple gameplay mechanics and fair challenge I'll probably play it all the way through which has become more of a rarity with the large amount of games being released every month. If you have Mount your Friends 3D you should have automatically gotten a coupon for the game that takes off a dollar or so to the games already small price point. The game is far beyond worth the price of admission especially since it's $5.69 Canadian. Check it out if you want something simple and fun to play while consuming other entertainment or are interested in weird platformers.

scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as "positive reviews" go but this is still somewhat enjoyable and thus earns a recommendation from me.

I was BOUND to like this one.