Permute

Despite the negative reviews, I actually enjoyed this game. The game is very short and once you got the hang of the controls you can speed run it in just 5 minutes, but the game concept is pretty good. I would like to see a more polished up sequel to this with more content.

Apparently there are computers in Sri Lanka! Who knew??? I state this not to be facetious, but simply more for the reason that we rarely see game products from any other nation than Russia. It's seriously like the whole nation of Russia is one big network of bad developers. Babies in Russia are first bred. Then ordered to walk. Then given Unity on their 1st birthday. Then learnt how to torture others. Sri Lanka on the other hand, whoever hears of Sri Lankan games? This has to be something special right? https://twitter.com/cleverweek (his website was taken down) I use to live next to some Sri Lankan's. I like them. I like their culture. First thing that surprised me is that they don't have a word for hello in their language. Instead they greet people with 'Ayubowan' which basically means 'Live long and prosper' and while it might sound as if the whole nation of Sri Lanka are Star Trek geeks, their greeting is basically wrapped up in their Buddhist beliefs that we are stuck in some sort of reincarnation loop of suffering, suffering and more suffering. Personally, thanks to this 99% Russia 1% Sri Lanka ratio currently on Steam I'm starting to believe that. The goal of a Buddhist is to keep improving their life until their granted Nirvana (nonexistence) that way they can't be tortured by anymore bad Russian steam games. Wow. Sounds heavenly. Unfortunately if your imperfect like me and make mistakes, then their beliefs will condemn you to an eternal loop of badly designed Russian Steam games forever. Sorry for getting all manic depressive on you. You probably just wanted to know about 'Permute' and didn't want to know about all this gloom and doom. Problem is, in all honesty 'Permute' is not really much better than a Russian Steam game. It's a Unity asset dependant, 10 level platformer with one soundtrack. The objective is to quickly bounce around to the last block of each track, completing that track. While there is a speed timer, the leader boards don't work and there really isn't any extra reason to do so. Each track is basically the same, there are two types of blocks. Yellow which are stagnant and don't move and pink blocks which will move to another position when you click the mouse button to jump. Hence the trick sometimes is to hit the mouse button a second time while you’re in the air so that you can again reposition the pink block underneath you for landing. Wow how thrilling. And that's pretty much it. No variation. Once you have done the first track then you have literally done them all. The whole ten tracks should take you no longer than 20 minutes for 10 easy pointless achievements. In final, its cheap when on sale (50 cents) and it works. But given its skeletal content in comparison to other great platformers https://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/ coupled with the fact that it is usually $2.00 seems unreasonable. In all honesty, the only thing that this bare frame work game did, with its so called relaxing music that loops and makes you suffer, suffer, and more suffer, was make me really long for Nirvana (nonexistence). Could have been a LOT better. Full game by someone else… https://youtu.be/_jCQ-iAOOHQ If you enjoyed reading this review feel free to subscribe to my curator page. Thanks... http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6843548/

https://youtu.be/N368U8PVrbg Shifting platforms are the intended source of challenge in this collection of jumping puzzles but the loose controls and spotty physics are the real source of frustration.

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Oh boy, where do I start with this one? Permute is a very, very bare-bones 3D platformer with a speedrunning focus. While it is a simple and short game, it has many issues, some of which are very difficult to overlook. [h1]Pros:[/h1] ✅ - Once you get the hang of the controls, it can be fun to try and speedrun the levels. ✅ - The music is nice. It's very chill, which doesn't feel like it fits a speedrunning game, but I liked it regardless. There is very little music, however. [h1]Cons:[/h1] ❌ - The game will crash and close out every time it's booted up. I had to reduce the graphics to the minimum to get it to boot. It took a lot of fiddling with the booting options until I found what would work. ❌ - There are only two options: disabling music and mouse sensitivity. The former option does not work, and will not save. ❌ - The levels are very similar to one another and you'll end up feeling like you're playing the same level again. This game only has 10 levels, but they still feel repetitive. ❌ - You are required to sprint to play this game. Which would not be a problem, but every time you die, you'll stop sprinting even if you keep holding the button. It makes re-attempting the level feel clunky. You can't just jump right back in. You'll be back to walking and unable to progress unless you remember to fix it every time. It will take you about 30 minutes to beat the game and collect all of the achievements (Which are awarded just for beating the levels of the game). As it stands, I can't recommend spending the money [i]or[/i] the time on this one. It's not the worst game ever, and you can find some enjoyment in it, but it's a very bare-bones game that could have been made in less than a day, and it shows. I do not feel like this game should cost money. It feels like a quick student project that only did the minimum required to make a game. I would like to see the developer try harder and make a more complete game in the future. [b]Score: 3/10[/b]

Permute is a badly made minimalist, low poly first person 3D puzzle platformer. Gameplay consists of jumping along a platformer course to reach the end, but with a twist, jumping changes the orientation of some of the platformers (hence their "permutations"). There's an annoying soundtrack and through some form of incompetence from the developer, the option to toggle the BGM off doesn't actually work. In fact the game doesn't work for many, again due to zero interest in software testing, the game won't launch through Steam, you have to go launch it as administrator (seems a little suspicious), otherwise it crashes to desktop on launch. If you do get into the game, you're going to be disappointed. While you can set the game resolution and even customise the game controls, there's no other interface tweaks at all, so there's no way to improve the lacklustre visuals. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with. You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, the court of public interest has spoken, through the actions of gamers. Permute has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is simply called "1", for completing the first level, and only 3.7 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. A tiny, tiny number. The game flopped. Permute is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. It's likely most people just got this for the trading cards.

Very nice game