Squirm

This is a must buy title for indie platformer lovers. It's a bit hard but never unforgiving. This game has a great soundtrack and really great challenges. There's a neat little story and the 2D pixel graphics work well. Even small details exist like stepping on the snow and watching it crunch down. [h1]Pros[/h1] +Great difficult platformer with fair mechanics +Fun music +Easter eggs and secrets +Diverse areas and bosses +Funny dialogue [h1]Cons[/h1] -No real cons here that I found. Just a great platformer that might be on the short end, but the price is well worth it. The game may take you under two hours to go through depending on your skill. This would be a great title to speed run and try to get less deaths on. If you enjoy platformer games just do yourself a favor and pick this up sometime. [quote=Crimson-Albedo]Follow my reviews through my curator at [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/32482033/]Crim's Humble Opinion[/url][/quote]

DISCLAIMER: I am actually friends with the developer(and even mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section, woo!!") Anyone who wants to develop a 2D platformer should be legally mandated to play this game first, it's honestly so good. The level design is clever and unique, the controls take a little getting used to some of the time since there's some contrast between heavy and snappy controlling but it's really not a problem. I really enjoy the humour and the bizarre character designs, too- the dialogue with the randoms is always funny. It's a fairly short game, but for the price it's DEFINITELY worth it. Usually when playing games like this I put on some music or a YouTube video to listen to in the background, but for the 90 minutes I spent playing this game I was engaged enough with the gameplay and the game's own soundtrack that I never felt the need to even do that. Basically just buy the damn thing, it's worth it and you will enjoy it!!

It's got solid gameplay, a good difficulty curve, and lots of character and charm. Lots of fun to be had for the low price of $1.99

The dialogue is weak. The music is gratingly simple and loud until the lategame. The level design is buggy (I found two softlocks by just walking into them accidentally) and there's a rookie mistake with the keypress events which makes it so that you have to let go and re-press the directional keys just about every time you die or change rooms. Those would all be forgivable if the game felt good to play. It doesn't. The physics are slippery and raw and vary wildly with minute changes in keypress lengths. (The jetpack sequences were especially awful.) Deaths have no sound, no weight, and no delay: their only redeeming quality is the morbid humour of the body sticking around for just a little too long when you hit some spikes, or even so much as look at them the wrong way. The gun can be fired as fast as you can mash X and Enter—none of the keys are remappable, by the way—and this seems to trivialize entire boss fights, as well as wreck a couple of platforming sections that revolve around enemies. Ostensibly this game was made for people like me, who play difficult games to prove the game isn't better than them. But it's just not fun. It feels unfair when you lose and, more importantly, it doesn't feel satisfying when you win. Edit: allowed comments

this game is amazing and also made me wanna cry, the last last SECRET LEVEL made me cry... 781 deaths in 2 hours, im pretty much an PRO gamer at this point ok ok but in all seriousness my boy amaar hooked me up with this game, (hes one of the guys who made some of the music) its a great game and super silly and fun, i suggest this to anyone 11/10

Genre: -Action Platformer -Fit for me: Top 3 fav genre, so great fit! Pros: -Neat visual style brings back nostalgic memories of games I played as a kid -Easy to learn w/ just a couple simple mechanics -Funny story that doesn't take itself too seriously -Solid platforming challenges which are the main focus -Creative and unique boss encounters -Cheap as balls, under $2 -Solo dev that put a lot of heart and soul into this -Good difficulty curve that starts easy and slowly pushes the player to improve Cons: -Short, will be beaten by most between 2-3 hrs -A little rough around the edges as to be expected from a solo dev. A couple of times I got stuck to walls that I shouldn't have gotten stuck, and if you hold down left or right when entering a new room, you can't move until you let go of that button. -There are a ton of very similar games available w/ more polish -Not as responsive as better games in this genre -Doesn't feel mechanically fluid when moving, dodging, jumping, etc Thoughts: -I enjoyed this one more than I expected. I thought the story was engaging but also really funny, and I liked the platforming sections quite a bit. This was the mental break I needed from some of the tougher platformers I have been playing lately. Consensus: -Middle of the Road Game (Tier 4 and makes up 25% of my reviews). This is a good game for indie lovers that are looking for a change of pace between their other games. It's a good way to recharge your batteries and enjoy yourself. It's under $2, so give it a try and support this dev.

okay, lets be real, there are a LOT of cheap, quirky indie platformer games and this one is no exception, you might've even played a few and been massively disappointed with their horrible quality... but nah, squirm is definitely not one of those, its actually really good for being developed by like, 1 person (and a separate composer for a select few music tracks i guess, but let me have this one). the platforming is reasonably difficult if a little janky, but the way your own character moves in the world is pretty unique. not to mention that this game somehow manages to achieve an atmosphere of loneliness and desolation, despite the many npc's you can encounter, which i really enjoy. the obscure secrets and general aimlessness of the game really just add to the charm as well. buy this game and spend an afternoon playing it, and maybe come back in the morning to finish off all the rest of the achievements because the game is unusually fun to play despite the simplicity of it all. i think that can be owed to the uniqueness of the world for sure.

this game is great, it makes me want to re enact the final 5 minutes of kurt cobains life at times, but its still a blast. 9/10, shame it makes me want to die sometimes

Quick Score: 4/5 Really well made platformer/metroidvania. Unfortunately it is severely lacking in difficulty both in-game and in terms of achievements. The majority of the game is about 1/10 difficult and in the hardest bonus section at the end it maybe reaches 3/10. Aside from the lack of difficulty though, all around great.

Quite liked this one! It is by no means perfect, but it is a fairly difficult pixel-platformer with dark and dumb newgrounds-esque anarcho-presentation. Graphics, gameplay, OST and sounds are more than decent (really liked the score of the final map) and you can kill ~2 hours with it.