Palette Swap

Fun to control and a great concept all-around, really short and sweet!

Super tight and responsive controls and fantastic platforming wrapped in an appealing retro aesthetic. Tons of care was put into this game to make it look, sound, and read like a game from the 8-bit era, but play like a modern responsive platformer. The palette swap mechanic is slick and adds fun depth to traversing the levels and hub world. I also appreciate little polish items and nods to it's retro inspiration. I've been loving every second - now back to grabbing the last achievements...

I won a copy of the game in the developer's release stream and had a blast playing through as is. As of current the game is rather short, there's a couple larger levels to explore and three, shorter speedrun levels. It took me a few hours to fully complete all of them and I spent a few more grinding to get faster times in the speedruns. Platforming in the game is much more fluid than I expected; some actions (like dashing) are a set length, but the levels are built with this in mind so you can keep moving instead of feeling stuck all the time. There are a few weird movement quirks and minor bugs I noticed pushing things for speedrunning, but from talking in their discord the devs seem committed to fixing anything that gets reported and making things even smoother as they update it further. Even without any tweaks though, I had a blast playing through the game as is and am excitedly waiting for more levels to be added and to play with the two(?) additional palettes.