Disconnect

I would like to thank the developers for sending a copy of this game for review. Released on steam in 2024, Disconnected is a visually striking platforming game. With simple shapes combined to make every object in game, combined with the choice of using only black and white for colour, gives this game a unique look. The game can be controlled by keyboard or controller, and there are language options, that mostly affect the menus. The focus of the are the platforming segments, that consist of fading and moving platforms, with coins that you can collect and later buy items to help in these segments. Each level presents another cutscene. Although I enjoyed the game, is one I must present a caveat to recommending. It is visually interesting and challenging but the difficulty of the platforming segments, not helped by the camera controls, can make them frustrating. Alas, if you look for a tough game that has a unique art style, I feel I can recommend Disconnected. If this style of review drew your attention, consider visiting [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44722081/] [u]Backlog log[/u] [/url] my curator page.

Very unusual and almost abstract game where you first get to play a puzzle like stage, and then go through a short third person stage where you follow a guy in a black and white world through his life, from school to the workplace, and look for an interaction spot that moves on to the next puzzle stage. There’s no text, only a weird presentation and short cutscenes. The main gameplay takes place in puzzle like stages made out of blocks that start dropping the moment you step on them. The goal is to move quickly across these blocks towards the finish, but there are other blocks on the path, such as elevators that take you up or down, blocks that disappear faster, and the most annoying disappearing blocks, where you have to carefully time your steps. The only broken mechanic that depends more on luck is the moving block, which never works as intended, and the only way to go through it is to keep trying until the game finally decides that the platform is solid so you don’t just clip through it. There are even a couple of apparently solid normal blocks, but you fall right through. Fortunately, there are also checkpoints, so you don’t have to beat the entire stage in a single go. On the other hand, level 15, which I assume is one of the final stages, either has a mechanic I’m not familiar with or there’s a missing block. One block takes you up, but there’s nothing to take you back down to the next block. Along the way, you can collect items that you can use, such as one that slows down time, as well as coins that let you buy those same items in a shop, which is also found somewhere in the puzzle stages. However, the items can be ignored completely because I never used them, and the coins only matter for an achievement. However, each death removes five coins, so it’s virtually impossible to gain 100 coins in the normal way because you die constantly. The only way is to cheat by using the save button and then loading the save to respawn the coins inside the current level while still keeping the ones you gathered the first time.