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Escape This was available as a giveaway on May 28, 2016!
Escape This is a casual puzzle game where the main objective is for the player to complete the given stages. Each stage is selected at random. All maps can be edited and you are also able to create your own unique maps and share them with the rest of the community.
Can you escape?
OS: Windows 7,8,10, Processor: AMD FX 6300, Memory: 500 MB RAM, Graphics: GTX 750TI, DirectX: Version 11, Storage: 60 MB available space
$0.99
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Dear users,
More keys have been added. Feel free to share your thoughts about the game, your feedback is very important for us and for the developer.
Sorry for the inconvenience and have a great weekend!
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Always yours,
GOTD Support Team
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Dear users,
We asked the developer to provide us with additional license keys. We will add them as soon as possible.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Always yours,
GOTD Team
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Giveaway of the Day, the license key sent to my email address earlier can be used for someone else. I will not be installing STEAM and thus, not using the license key. Thank you GOTD.
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Escape This
In Brief:Video's:
The Game:
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nice
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not bad
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You really have gotten ridiculous with selling us out for a free game.. 99 cent games and I have to install that stupid ad driven steam software? Nope. 2 strikes..
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Thanks for the memories but I will not use GGOTD or its parent, GAOTD when I'm asked to jump through hoops. I do not understand the purpose.
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gg
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Steam has like zero customer support. Good luck with getting this game from them. My vote is. )--> LAME <--(
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Win10 64bit Home. Well, I tried Steam again and I have to say never again. My Bitdefender came up and said I had a virus. In all my years with GGOTD I have never had that happened to me. Sorry have now removed the whole thing.
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Suzanne, It came up as I was playing the game. Everything download and loaded fine, just as soon as I started playing. All I had running in the background was my Steam account. False positive, probably. But wont chance it again.
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I found "Escape This" to be quite intriguing. I enjoyed my time with the game. I appreciated the color coding. I found it to be very helpful especially with the list provided. I liked the music. I felt it was upbeat, but after a while it made me a little edgy. I was glad I could turn it off.....a real plus.
I did check out the wiki that goes with the software. It seems very detailed. I may get into map creation later and very much appreciated that guidance would be available.
All in all, I give "Escape This" 8/10 and a thumbs up. Can't beat it for $.99. Thanks Four Winged Studio for the gift today and as always I enjoyed the review Stephen. Thanks GGOTD.
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I'm not Steamophobic. In fact, the majority of my games are on Steam and I think it's great. However, I am phobic of people stealing my personal info, so I have a big problem being forced to log into Steam through someone else's web interface where they could possibly snag my login info to get my free game. Any time I find a free Steam game offer that won't simply give me the Steam key, I avoid it.
So, if this is the new way Game Giveawayoftheday is going to work... having to log in to your Steam account through Giveawayoftheday's interface, then I guess this is the final nail in the coffin for me with this site. I can handle being given a Steam key or using an installer like the old way, but having to give this site my Steam login credentials to get a free game... no thanks. To quote someone famous: "all good things must come to an end or change for the worse".
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ok, PUZZLE Game. I just opened a new Steam account . It was fast and easy I don't know what took me so long to do..I read on forums the fighting about steam being trojack and malwarey. People on both sides of issue. I downloaded today so I guess I have switched sides. I needed name, e-mal address, I made up a new password, checked to being over 15- 50* so I do qualify age. I clicked away, waited for some downloads update steam..Very fast very easy..Even thinking about it - just do it. I been a member for only 2 hours got this puzzle game and I have already the HD Attack as well..I am off to very good start with Steam, TY very much all the gang....
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Thanks for some great games here on GOTD - I've found some games I'd never have known about or thought I wouldn't like but did after trying them for free and bought the previous or later versions of the games from the company providing the freebie and they've given me hours of entertainment and raised a few £ for the companies supplying them that they wouldn't have got previously. However, the last few months have been a farce on this site. I was in the USA in February and whilst there the GOTD page changed and the format and offers were a lot worse than I was used to in the UK - I thought I'd hit a lower quality US based site but coming home I found it was the same here. Today's farce was the final straw for me looking at this as a regular trustworthy site - saying everyone get a Steam code and then running out of Steam codes is just embarrassing. Ok, it was sorted out later but when the site has been giving limited release codes for a while, why make a promise that everyone gets one and then fail to fulfil it at the time? I'll still pop on and have a look every so often but it won't be regular like it has been for the last couple of years. But thanks for what you have provided, you were the MySpace of the gaming world for a while but unfortunately are now becoming the equivalent of Myspace these days which is a shame
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This looks like a reasonably nice casual game for under $1. I watched the video on Steam, and it did look interesting (again, for the price). The visuals apparently used to be much worse but was recently updated to what he has now which, again, don't look too bad. I am a little concerned though on how quickly one can finish this (100% in 3 minutes?) Fortunately though, the author has alleviated this concern just today with a post on Steam indicating the game is to receive a big update soon:
"Hello all. In about 1 - 2 weeks from now we will be releasing our largest update for "Escape This" yet.
This update has changed the game to make it challenging for everyone.
What we will be releasing in our next update:
We have completely re-built our Map Loading system. Our system now allows us to create multi-layered maps. How ever by doing this all maps that where in the game before will no longer function correctly and because of this the Four Winged Studio team has been working around the clock to get a whole new set of maps out. We will be removing all the old maps but adding at least 40-50 new maps in return.
What we are working on:
All the features that we are working on that are listed below may not be ready for our large update how ever we feel like we should tell the community anyway.
We are working on a Stage/Level system each map will be categorized in their own difficulty. The way the game will work once this system is completed is: when you complete 6 easy maps you will go to the medium maps and when you complete 6 medium maps you will get a set of hard maps and so on.
Once we have finished our new stage/level system we will also be adding new achievements into our game. From the beginning we where never happy with 5 (That is just to easy :P) so we hope to add at least 10 more achievements at the end of all our major updating. "
I tend not to play a lot of games I get- casual PC games and my Nintendo systems get more play- so since keys seem to be limited, in the interest of those who would definitely play this more, I will wait until about midnight to try to get this game. Otherwise, $1 isn't bad at all though I will likely wait then until the update (of course, the price might go up then too).
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WhiteRabbit, thanks for the offer. I am still interested in Pixel Puzzles 2: Birds as I mentioned last week (I just hope it doesn't have anything nearly as annoying as the flying pixie in PP2: Anime who won't.shut.up), but I will have to take a close look at the list for anything else- that is a long list and I haven't heard of most titles so it may be awhile. I'll make any further replies there.
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reminds me a bit too much of games I used to make on my Commodore. Vic20. Srsly. But, it's free, so...
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....removed by moderator due to unsuitable language........? Duplicate product code...
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La quiero
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Hey Wrascally Wabbit,
If there was a way, I would give Melika a 100 Stars/Thumbs Up for their review. No instructions, terrible pix-elated graphics(I just got 5 days credit for the pixelazation on my cable TV..so I know all about pixels.), the colours/shapes are really out of focus, and god awful music. It hurt my ears and eyes.
How to fix: Add just a bit of instructions, make it an Android game(would help the pixelation being smaller), tone down the brightness on the colours and change or give an option to mute the music.
GGOTD Support Team: somewhere in the above info make it known that this IS a STEAM game. There are people who have to pay for their bandwidth...so it would be nice to know this.
Thanks for the game review, Wabbit. Hugs to you and the family. Take your time with the keys. No hurries. It's summer time..so not in the house a lot.
This is a wonderful, generous thing you are doing. :)
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No comment on the game yet, but Thank You to Four Winged Studio and GOTD for making it available.
The process for getting the Steam key was quick and easy, got an e-mail with a key within a few minutes. The game registered in my Steam account without problems. I know a lot of community members dislike Steam, but I find it very convenient and mostly like the idea that when I finally upgrade to Win 10 my games will go with me. I would rather have DRM-free games to manage on my own PC, but Steam seems to work well when DRM is imposed by software companies. Steam is a great source of information about most games, with user comments and guides and videos/screen shots. Much preferred instead of the wrapper that's been used by GOTD the last few years.
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Update: Tried the game and like it, but it has much work to do. Steam achievement popups were small and out of the way, if I want to see what they are I can go to Steam. Menu is downright ugly - text doesn't fit into the arrow bars, I have no idea what the quality up/down arrows do since I saw no impact. Screen resolution seemed to be at max already. Graphics did not seem blurry like the pictures here, but had on odd translucent look. Colors are ok with me. Would be nice if they showed the name of the level as you play so you go back to it from the Load menu. Maybe they do and I missed it?
Game is challenging, timing is everything but you also need to try different strategies on some levels. I played about 12-15 levels and most had some unique challenge. Keyboard control works well, especially since you can hold two arrows at once to move in diagonals or arcs. Would like to see mazes with multiple layers, and when you go over an edge, would be good to see your cube at least start to fall -- right now, the level resets immediately instead of showing your demise. Could have different death animations for touching red blocks, gun turrets, falling, spikes.... and another for reaching the destination or going through transporters. Just something quick that gives more of a feel that something *happened*. I'm glad I got this, glad we will get updates from Steam, and recommend it if you like puzzles.
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to all the Steamofobiacs. You do realise that unlike the "old" giveaways, this giveaway ensures that if your system crashes or you buy a new pc or whatever reason you might have to lose the game, you now DO get to keep the game instead of having to wait until it is offered again right?
It is not like fakebook, it is just a drm platform. games nowadays use DRM, no way around it. Yes you have to install a Steam platform but is this any different then making an account with the developer themselves? Using Chrome or google or yahoo exposes you to the world a hundred times more then signing up with steam, Yes you CAN make a friendlist on steam but nobody forces you to, yes you CAN link your steam account to other networks but nobody forces you to. Yes you can buy $1.000.000 worth of games, but nobody forces you to. There is no pop ups, there is no intrusion, it only needs to run (in offline mode if so desired) to play your (always up to date) game
If you play other games than these casual games, Steam is a must have. It saves you time (no more searching for updates and add ons) and money (during sales games that cost $60,- retail can go down to $5,,- ) for example get the whole withcher trilogy (the Witcher: Enhanced Edition Directors Cut, The Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings Enhanced and the Witcher 3 WildHunt for only $29,95 istead of $80,-)
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Mavadelo, ... I'd add that Steam does not send you emails, or share your email address; but I agree with T about not getting good customer support -- your question seems to disappear into the ether.
I did sign up with Steam some months ago, and there were a lot of hoops to jump through, but they certainly haven't bothered me.
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Mavadelo, I have Steam and games on it and I HATE it. I've never had a problem re-installing a game before Steam and if I've even lost a game, it's because I didn't play it that much. Maybe I'm not a serious enough gamer, but I don't need updates to my games. Most of the updates I get to my games on Steam involved what I consider superfluous; mostly badges and achievements. I don't think I've ever gotten an update involving the game engine or graphics. I've bought games that were updated (at least it said so on the page), but it was long before I got around to buying them and since then they've never updated with anything of significance.
I don't think I would hate Steam as much as I do if it weren't for the draconian updates. Not all of us are on unlimited, super fast bandwidth. I actually avoid playing the games on my Steam account because of how the program acts. Whenever I want to play a game, it automatically looks for an update for the Steam client (takes quite a bit of time on my connection) and there always seems to be an update for the client. Then I have to wait for that to download (if I don't have to stop it immediately) just to play a simple game. Once that is done "updating" then ALL of the games I have installed start looking for updates and downloading what's available whether I need or want it. So then I have to go through and stop all the games that are updating, but I don't get an option to choose not to update, I just get to pause the update until the next time I start the Steam client. I have on more than one occasion used up all of my bandwidth for the month because I forgot to check if games were "updating" with the nonsense.
The only work-around I've found is to remember to disable my internet connection before I start the Steam client. It's a ridiculous and annoying thing to have to remember which games are Steam and then to do that before playing. I'm glad there are those of you who like Steam and more power to you but that doesn't make the rest of us ignorant of the product who need to constantly be brow-beaten about how wonderful it is to you.
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thanks
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This is complete madness !
I select to get key by mail, get a link on that mail bringing me back to this website in which I need to allow steam linking. So be it and then it asks me a nick and a mail. this is when things start to go wrong because whatever data I enter in these 2 fields it keeps telling me it's wrong !!!
I used my steam nickname and the mail address I used to get 1st message => "wrong mail address"
I did the same with the mail address linked to my steam account => "wrong mail address" again
I even create a useless FB account with another nick, linked to the mail address from which I got the 1st link => "wrong mail address" again and again and again...
Pure crazyness. OK then, somehow this website saved a mail address for me that is not one of my mails so I will never get the steam key...
I don't remind creating a GGAOTD account in which I used a mail address, so how in hell could this happen ?!
Learn from the proper steam keys resellers to solve the pure stupidity of such a situation instead of trying to do your own way, leading to something that DOES NOT work.
You don't want to send keys directly to mails to avoid guys getting 10 keys and resell them, I can understand. But then implement a simple log in system in your website (with steam account linked to it for steam keys, but not something mandatory) and put the key in the "my account" page for us to add it to our steam account.
I have more than 700 games on my steam account and it's the very first time I get such a mess with a key giveaway. Contact humble bundle team or bundle stars team and ask them how to do things properly, because right now it's just a complete mess.
It was soooooo simple when the website simply gave away games as DRM-free. Now you just changed from best DRM-free giveaway website to the worst steam key reseller. Period.
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I was able to get a key - but no download
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Perfect Thank You
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Please, Please, Please, make it easily visible that the download requires we sign up for something (steam) and if it is not a simple download. Very Aggravating to find that I had to create an account. Skipped it.
Why isn't there a link to this site from the standard gotd site anymore?
Thanks for all you do white rabbit.
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skybase,
I agree. There was nothing that told me it was a steam game until I clicked the download link.
I'm disappointed.
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got it, thanks for the game guys!
(add trading cards soon plz! after the work on the game is done preferably!)
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will the key be useful at a later time so I can add it to my "to be given away" keys? or do I need to use it today?
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Mavadelo, omg, Stephen please correct my usefu* mistake ty lol
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Steam code ?!?
Hell yeee !!
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this is a very unappealing looking game ...and the system requirements are way way over-kill for it...believe it oe now I had thought this was one of those older 16bit coffee-cup games it is just that much lacking for graphics.....this is of course my opinion,,,I've already started going other places to get my games ..months now actually and I don't need steam and have to login to play .... I still keep coming here just to see or to help a few people .....this is a very very sad play now
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coll, sorry my bad ..I only saw afterwards spelling errors should be "believe it or not,,I had thought this was one of those older 16bit coffee-cup games"...
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coll, you are correct, I have been coming here for several years and have become disillusioned with the entier site. I will no longer bother myself with my usual daily check
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GGOTD getting to be a waste of time. Thanks for the great service in the past.
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So I created the Steam account, and tried to download. It tells me that the activation codes have ended, even though there's still about 17 hours left to get this game. What am I supposed to do now?
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I've tried multiple times to download this game and it will not only not start to download, now I find out it's a Steam product. When will you understand they won't give their games away? Every single time they've "offered" a game, there's been some problem with the download, or the key or something else. Apparently this one is no key for the game. I'm done! Please close my account with you.
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waiting for good game
good luck
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Talk about BS.... All I get is Activation Code Has Ended.
What happened to:
"Today everyone who wants one will be getting a Steam key."
It won't even let me down load the game!
I'm sorry but this BS every weekend is really old!!!
This is no longer a Game of the day giveaway site it's a contest try to win a key, maybe we'll let you download a game this weekend site!!!
I'll keep trying but I have a life to live outside of this site and don't have the time or energy to be competeing for a Steam Key I may or May not win!!!
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Dear user,
Today's giveaway is available for everyone, so it is not a contest to win a Steam key. Unfortunately, we didn't expect that we will run out of keys so fast. Additional keys will be added shortly.
Sorry for the inconvenience and have a great weekend!
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Always yours,
GOTD Team
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I tried to download this several times, but kept getting no more keys message, which is different from the wrong captcha message others were getting. Only once did I get the actual images to choose - in my case - trains. Still didn't work.
Don't know what else to do!
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UPDATE: Thanks for getting more keys GGOTD team! I was able to download it this time around.
That being said, I gave it a try. Downloaded with no problems on my Win10 64. Of course, it downloaded through Steam.
I gave it a good try. The home screen felt confusing. The buttons for the different options didn't feel as if they had loaded correctly. It wasn't clear how to get out of one of the buttons once opened (click on it again). The whole game board felt "fuzzy" as far as the graphics went.
Game play itself is pretty straightforward. However, I felt it was a step backwards having to use arrow keys or the A, S, D and W keys to get around. Yes, I appear to be attached to my mouse. I played several different levels, never quite knowing how or what I was doing. Play felt sluggish - even though I would be pressing an arrow key, it took a tiny bit before my cube would respond. While I enjoy puzzle games, I didn't enjoy this one.
Maybe my expectations are too high and others will think this game is great. For me it's not a keeper though. However, I do appreciate the fact that it was put out there for me to try.
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i tried to get free game but got the message that all keys used up
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Thank U !
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I did not like this game. Where to start? This is a basic puzzle maze game. You need to move a block through obstacles to complete the level. It's been done to death before and done much better than this. The only thing that may make this attractive over another similar game to someone is that you are supposed to be able to create your own levels. That is a feature that has been done before as well but it isn't common so some who enjoy that type of thing may find it attractive. I can never see the point in level editors. I want to play a game, I don't want to create one.
Upon starting the game, you are greeted with a very minimal, dated interface. It's old school and not in a good way. You aren't given any instructions as to what to do. It seems to presume you know exactly how to navigate the game. There were four options in the upper left corner, none of them obviously labeled "Play the Game". I guessed the first option as the other three seemed to imply the level editing feature. Why three of them? Who knows. I didn't find the labels particularly instructive, I just knew from WhiteRabbit's review that there was a level editor. Now, I am sure the labels are probably perfectly clear after you know what they do and are familiar with the interface. I'm saying that at 5:30am after being up most of the night the interface is overly confusing. This is a very simple game, the first menu shouldn't be that hard even after an all-nighter. I know I keep saying this with some of these games but I'll say it again anyway: I want to play a casual game. I don't want to have to read the developer's mind.
The graphics were extremely fuzzy. I think they were going for "glowing" and what they got was "out of focus". It was an eye strain. Everything is in block form (thank you Mine Craft for setting game graphics back 30 years). It's boring. Just blah. I have some minimalist designed games that are absolutely beautiful and work very well. This just struck me as being lazy. They also included jittering graphics around the game board that I presume are supposed to make this game visually excited. It was an absolute fail for me in this regard. It was annoying and added just a bit more eye strain. Worse, at some points during the game the jittering decorations actually got in the way of seeing the board. At first I thought this was purposeful as part of the puzzle, but after replaying the board I realized it was simply an accident.
Game play is standard puzzle maze but in a "3D" environment, meaning the board will self-adjust to change the camera angle just a bit. It's COMPLETELY unnecessary for such a simple game. There are few games where I find this type of camera angle game play useful and/or desirable. This isn't one of them. There are people who seem to enjoy this kind of thing in games and so for them, this would be a selling point.
You get no instructions on HOW to play or where you are supposed to go. There is no clear indication of which is the beginning or end of the maze. You don't even get a hint as to which colored block you are. Being that we're almost half way through 2016 I thought control would be via mouse. Nope! It's keyboard, specifically the arrow keys. Maybe when one sees the "Made with Unity Engine" emblem one is supposed to presume there is no mouse support. Now, none of this is rocket science and it can be figured out, I just don't want to figure it out. I want to open a new game and get some very basic information either at the beginning of the game or during the first few levels.
The first screen features red, green, and purple blocks. The red ones move around, so we can presume those are blocking. Are you the green or purple block? You can only know by trying to move. Do the red blocks kill you if you touch them? I don't know because the game doesn't tell me. Sometimes I touch them and nothing happens, sometimes the level starts over. No indication that I'm "dead" or that I've done something wrong, just a sudden reload of the level. What do the purple blocks do? I didn't know until I accidentally ran into one and reset the level a few times. Oh, and a Steam reward for using teleportation (or something like that) popped up. Then I realized I was teleporting to the other purple block and running right into a red block that was suddenly able to kill me the first time I touched it.
Steam rewards: why the blazes was I getting Steam reward pop-ups during the game? WHY????!!!!!! OK, maybe people need a lot of encouragement to do something they enjoy so this is common in other Steam games I don't generally play. If you are going to do this then leave the reward badge up for more the 1 second (literally) so someone can read what they won. I had 4 pop-ups stack on top of each other and the only reason why I saw "teleportation" (or something) was because the movement caught my eye and I was looking right at it when it popped-up.
I only have one thing to say about the music: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH DEAR GOD MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!
Another ill-advised attempt to make a sedate game "exciting". Please just stop.
I played a few levels (-5) until my eyeballs and ears were hurting. The only thing that was particularly challenging was trying to figure out exactly how many times I can hit something red before I "die". I'm still not sure. I don't know if you can turn the music off or pick something else as I didn't see anything labeled "options". It may be there, it may not.
When exiting the game to the main screen I noticed a new button labeled "Wiki". This may contain instructions on how to play and the available features or it may be instructions on how to create your own levels. For level creation this is definitely needed and welcome. However, if a casual user is supposed to visit a Wiki to learn about the game play I would say it is ridiculous. It's a very simply game, there should be some very simple how-to basics in-game.
I would not recommend this game to anyone unless they loved these types of games, enjoy repetitive techno-music, and are looking for a way to create their own boards. If you are a casual gamer, there are better alternatives available.
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Graphically, the game's very simple. You control a box and have to navigate through the stage without getting hit by anything. This can be very frustrating, but can be fun also if you try not to take the game seriously. The levels from what I can tell are randomly created and you can edit levels too. Also, you may create your own levels too which can open up more opportunities to create even more challenging puzzles. Overall, I give the game a 7/10. :)
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Tried email reCaptcha until it worked thanks to the posted comments here. Glad I did. Nice little game. Obviously, a work in progress but worth keeping and replaying.
Posted a comment is Steam Discussions and got a quick and useful reply.
Thank you to the devs for the giveaway and I wish them future success.
A question: I know this giveaway is for windows PC, but are there, or will there be, versions for Apple, iPhone, Android, etc., in the future?
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Tks for fix
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