JUMPGRID

This is exactly the kind of game that plugs directly into my brain and doesn't let me stop. You can finish it in 20 minutes, but I'm 12 hours in and just getting started. Perfectly responsive controls, simple concept, serious difficulty, infinite room for improvement. Tragic that more people aren't playing this, I've already gotten in the top 20 on some of the leaderboards.

Fun little diversion that's ripe with speed running potential.

It's okay. Ultimately, it's a twitch action game. Collect all the stars (diamonds?) and come back to the goal. The bad news: there are a ton of moving obstacles. The good news: you jump between grid points, so you can avoid those obstacles even if they are between your starting and ending points. Each level is blazing fast, because you're only playing on a 3x3 grid anyway. Finishing a level in 1 or 2 seconds isn't unheard of. Now, the obstacles are also unfair; they are completely deterministic, but sometimes their movements are unintuitive. You'll die a lot. But you'll learn from them, and restarting is frictionless, the game just cuts right to your next attempt. Together with a techno soundtrack, you're always pumped up the whole time. Now, granted, I went into the game because I thought it was more a puzzly, meditative nature, of trying to figure out how to dodge the obstacles. While you do have to figure that part out, you want to execute them very quickly, and typically this means just memorizing your entire approach for each level and then timing all your button presses accordingly. The game has 100 levels (divided into 4 quadrants of 25, also there's a final boss for each quadrant), but they will fall down quickly, nothing poses too much of a puzzly nature. The game instead encourages you to do the run quickly and flawlessly; there's an achievement for doing so in each quadrant. It's not quite what I was looking for. But I think, if you want this kind of game, if you like pushing yourself to speedrun this thing, you'll like it.

One of the few games where you can die before you've realized the level started

This game is intense. Wholehearted yes.

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