GAUGE

DISCLAIMER / PROTIP: IF YOU SUFFER FROM EPILEPSY OR ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO FLASHING LIGHTS AND COLORS, DON'T BUY OR PLAY THIS GAME... YOU'LL PROBABLY DIE. So after earning the achievement for playing a single round for 20 minutes and landing myself 4th on the global leaderboard, I suppose I can adequately evaluate this game: It's simple. It's fun. It will cook your eyes and strenghten your fingers. This game reminds me a lot of Super Hexagon for its simplicity; if you liked that game then you will probably like this one, but it is also a bit more... bizzare. The premise is simple: use the space bar to control a colored bar between the upper and lower limits on a "gauge" while the background flashes alternating colors and patterns. The closer to the top of the gauge you are the more points you earn per second, but if you TOUCH the top or bottom you lose a score multiplier A.K.A. your lives (think the Bit Trip series: reach zero multipliers and its game over). Periodically you can col...

I was hoping for something with actual gameplay, but this is nothing more than Spacebar: The Game. Music is ok, I guess. 4/10

If the controls for Super Hexagon were too hard for you, Gauge is here to help. Wait until it's on sale for $0.49

It definitely looked a lot cooler than it was. Not sure why it's not written in HTML5 and uploaded to some shitty website somewhere, it'd be beloved by millions if that were the case. Not worth spending any money on. It's nothing new, just a quirky idea with some pretty (and slightly mad) colors splashed in. Hotline Miami without the amazing soundtrack, blood, guts, story, gameplay, or use of the mouse. So, nothing much really. It only retained the obnoxious colors and 80s drenched effects.

I don't know what I bought this at but if it was more than a dollar I feel bad. It's not a good game to me. Literally all it is is pressing a spacebar while physcadelic shit happens. Please don't buy it unless you're okay with wasting a dollar

Still not exactly sure what is going on, not sure the game wants me to know whats going on, and I'm okay with that. A very simple, fun and moreish game which plays with your mind as you try your hardest to look at a bar and maintain it's gauge by pressing space/ctrl whilst the game trys to distact you by manipulating the screen and playspace. Some may want to wait for a price reduction if they don't think $4 is worth a 'distraction' myself I think it's well worth $4 for a distraction as I have a game that I can pass 5 - 10 mins waiting by my side every day until I get sick of it.

This game is insane. Do not play if you are photosensitive or otherwise have trouble with quickly moving images or bright flashing lights. The mechanics in this game are simple: hold spacebar to fill a gauge. Then maybe press ctrl to activate a second gauge and then hold ctrl to fill this gauge. If either gauge fills completely, then you lose a life. If either gauge empties completely, you also lose a life. Keeping gauges close to full awards bonus points, and sometimes bonuses will appear which can only be received by almost emptying the first gauge. Keep playing until a high score. The trick is, this game throws as much visual noise at you as possible to distract you from these goals. It will also invert and scale and wobble and blur the gauges to throw you off. Very rarely does this seem unfair, with the only visually confusing technique I've encountered being changing the background to match the gauge. Overall, it does a very good job of making the gauge levels distinguishable i...

The Game isn't fun It just hurts your eyes

The thought of a game where all you do is press space bar to control a gauge sounds terrible but it's actually really fun, especially with the flashy background, awesome music, and just how the game tries to distract you all the time.

man, steam really, really needs a wobblehand recommendation option. okay, so, since the trailers are pretty dubious and what not, i'll try to make this easy to follow. this game is called gauge. you fill a gauge, you get points for filling the gauge, you get more points for having the gague as full as possible without overfilling it. sometimes a collectible happens, and you must drain the gauge to collect it, which gives you points and the ability to trigger a second gauge for even more points. you start with a point multiplier that increases at set intervals, and it also counts as your lives--run out of lives, and you lose. the entire game is controlled with the space and ctrl keys, and there is no pausing--once you start, you will keep going until you lose/give up. the game makes itself harder by tossing in flashy screens, text, audio cues, stylistic changes, screen-shaking/zooming, and other such distractions to get your focus off the gauge--if you have problems with flashing li...