White Knuckle

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Hours played at review time, across 1.7K reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Endlessly addictive movement gem. There's so many little tricks and interactions that allow you to do cool stuff in this game. After about 25 hours, I learned you can blow up vending machines for free stuff. It's just a neat feeling to have little things for players to discover (except the ladder ♥♥♥♥ that achievement). It's also nice how consistent many of the games "rules" are. Throwing rebar gives you knockback, which means the player can understand throwing bricks does the same, or shooting the flair gun, and all the knockback is consistent so you can use any combination of the three to make a big jump once you've gauged the distance. As an added bonus to the great gameplay, the atmosphere and visuals are fantastic all the way through. The short little "themes" that play when you reach a new area really help sell the desolation of how much worse things can get. Somehow even the voice acting is decent, which I was beginning to think was impossible for an indie title. You can tell this is a passion project where the developers are incredibly particular about every detail. Just in case the devs read this: My one wish is to add a toggle that randomly throws the shortcut zones into endless mode for a little bit more variety. Anyways this review is long enough so small shoutout to Astralspiff, would never have found this game without his streams.