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[Spider]

I don't know what's going on. I don't know what any of the things in the hive do. I have no idea how to get more food. You need to understand that players don't start out magically knowing things, and that you need to actually tell them.

[JOIN THE SQUAT demo]

Great potential but Raziel is a terrible boss. Two attacks that are laughably easy to dodge but waste your time, the one counterable attack that's easy to dodge but hard to counter, then a second phase that's seemingly unbeatable??

[Strange Garden]

Well, that was cool until I failed on the level Bricks were introduced because the game just straight-up did not give me enough Pig seeds to feed it

[CAKE QUAKE]

I like this one, best of the month so far.

My main complaint is that the early levels are weird to figure out. It really needs a few very short and easy levels just to introduce the mechanics before you get into the actual puzzling. I can imagine a few people gave up on understanding and quit at the first level.

Second main complaint is that the camera scrolls from the top every single time you restart the stage, which is really just an unnecessary wait.

Also, the game suddenly froze while I was wandering around trying to figure out the final level. Also also, I can't figure out the final level. Like I slide the bomb across the ice to get the laser to explode everything but the top, but then I don't have enough bombs to get to the top area and explode it.

[Run Run Rudolph]

I really like the concept and the gameplay, but man it gets really repetitive after 10 or so basically identical rooms. I quit after 15.

[Pad of Time]

I want to like this, with its promising 2D-in-3D style, but it just has so so many problems. First off, you can't just give it a control scheme this cracked out and not let us rebind the keys. The movement and action feels slippery and unresponsive and bad. The camera is too zoomed in to see anything useful. The tilting and time mechanics are just bad nothings, largely because they can only be used in specific places for no apparent reason.

[An apple a day]

This game severely needs at least some amount of input buffering. It's annoying to be thrown off from pressing the key a moment too early.

[Fire]

Biggest problem with this game is that the resources are completely unbalanced - wood is required for nearly everything yet the one single way to increase wood production requires spending wood. I hate pretty much everything else about this game too but I already spent way too much of my life playing this piece of garbage and I won't spend more of it writing an essay.

ErikSwahn responds:

I agree the management is unbalanced. Too bad the rest didnt capture any interests.

[Fiss the Elf's Puzzling Pin-Ups]

Mostly not too hard but I'm becoming convinced that the level 8 literally isn't possible