Chasm

One hour in, and apparently I've got plans for the weekend now 😂 In my opinion, Chasm is a brutal but fair pixelated platformer that rewards skill and punishes carelessness. Every death felt deserved, and every win felt earned. The game’s core hook is exploration. Procedurally generated rooms keep each run feeling fresh, loot drops can completely change your approach, and rescuing NPCs add shops and side content to the hub town. Boss fights are a standout: tough, smartly designed, and usually placed near save points so you can jump back in quickly. Early combat can feel cramped, and without better gear it can get frustrating, but the progression system helps smooth this out as you play. The story did not grab me in my first hour, but that is likely just my taste. I tend to need narrative-heavy presentation to care about a plot, and honestly, I have played plenty of great games like Mario where the “why” did not matter to me at all. Here, the gameplay loop was enough to keep...

Looks great and plays mostly great (the glide mechanic is wonky), but it's far too short and the setting/characters feel like stock assets downloaded from Free Assets Dot Com. If you need a metroidvania fix it will fit the bill, but not for very long and it won't leave much of an impression.

Satisfying little metroidvania. Dev is active :)

It's a solid metroidvania. The procedural generation doesn't really add much to the gameplay, but I didn't find it particularly annoying either.

Pretty solid for what it is. Make sure to pick it up on sale.

The controls were stiff and clunky and unsatisfying to frustrating rather than intuitive and fun. The levels and enemies seemed more about gotchas and timing than anything and I just felt it was not fun and more just frustrating.

LOVE this game. 10 / 10