Extricate

Extricate is a bunnyhop speedrun styled game with 50 levels to get times on and improve at. The gamplay is different based on how you approach it, casually i think its far too slow and boring but building momentum via bunnyhopping and strafing is very peculiar to me as someone with 0 source engine movement experience. I think it served as a great introduction and while getting all the dev times is extremely tight and requires some serious skill to do, its quite an enjoyable experience, the earlier levels A-C are about squeezing for a faster time while D and E are about just beating the level with your momentum as the levels get SO much harder there, i think the level design suffers from a lot of claustrophobia causing you to have to shimmy your mouse a lot which hurts after a bit, but nonetheless it wasn't enough to hinder my enjoyment of the game. Graphics wise the game isn't insane or overly stylistic, it does make elements very distinct, with harmful objects being orange/red tones and everything else being distinct enough that if you're zooming around the level you'd have time to recognise them, for that i can't fault the game, the simplicity works. Music wise the songs are a mix of synthwave and electronic music which im not gonna lie sounds SO damn good, i didn't expect this game to have that but it sure did, before long though since its only around 5 tracks you get fed up of them but for the time they had, they were good tracks. Overall its a very nice introduction to the scene of bunnyhopping, while it didn't walk my hand the entire way i felt i learnt a decent bit and had my skills tested to a degree which i enjoyed a lot and can safely recommend it to anyone looking for a source style speedrunner game :)