Viaerium

Good to use my time for light gaming

A quaint little game, kind of like the embodiment of inspirational quotes. Only took about half an hour, but I still enjoyed and would recommend. Runs great on deck too.

Cute little motivational game. I got it for free and wouldn't have played it otherwise, but if you're specifically interested in this little half hour experience, $3 is probably fine.

30 minutes of simple but competent platforming + collecting gameplay. The platforming is easy, and the very occasional puzzle requires actual thought but usually is solvable with about 5 seconds of thinking. This is actually kind of impressive, since many game "puzzles" are blindingly obvious and just require going through the motions you've practiced in a thousand other games (sliding block puzzles and the like). This game has none of that; the puzzles are fresh, even if they are easy. I wish there had been a lot more of them. The collectables are super easy to find, and each comes with some kind of vapid philosophical flavor text that's best ignored. They don't seem to be required to progress and don't really add much to the game. The graphics are minimal to a fault but the architecture makes up for it. Unfortunately, more focus was put into making the structures aesthetically repetitive in a brutalist kind of way then on what would make a fun game level, and several of the levels involve repeating the same thing 4-6 times, which means duplicating the same gameplay that number of times, too. For a game that's 30 minutes long that's nearly fatal. The music is nice, though. A technical issue: the game is meant to be played with keyboard and mouse and a gamepad isn't properly supported out of the box (but enabling steam input to emulate mouse + wasd fixed this well enough). There's only one action button required (jump), and nothing requires highly refined reflexes so it's very friendly to disabled players like myself. I paid less than a dollar for it and I'm not sure it was really worth that, but I did enjoy the 30 minutes of game play so I'm not asking for a refund. If I had paid more than a dollar (list: $3!) I'd be more inclined to get my money back. I'm marking it as recommended, but only at significant discount.

游戏钱还是很好赚的 我反正觉得这游戏是为了装文艺而装文艺 实际玩法和内容都很乐色 干，为什么会在我库里啦

Fun relaxing 30min game. The music and sounds are very nice and relaxing. Very easy to get 100% achievements, just make sure you get all the shards.