There Was A Caveman

I'm sorry, fans. This game sucks. I get it. You like the concept. You like retro platformers like this. You like the love story between the caveman and his dead wife, and you like the challenge. But there's a good way and a bad way to do challenge, and this game does it badly. Floaty controls, unfair level design, bad hitboxes, and punishing difficulty don't make a game fun. They make it bullshit. I'm not going to cut this game any slack because it's an indie title. This is where the big boys play, and you need to do better than this. The game is not properly optimized, and that is the failing of the developers. Gamepad support is only partial, and doesn't even work properly on all systems. The entire purpose of x-input is to make gamepad support idiot-proof, and yet somehow, this game manages to screw it up. People constantly praise how much better games were in the 8- and 16-bit days when they offered actual challenge, but a lot of designers and players don't understand that ther...

This game pushes the nostalgia buttons of gamers who remember playing such games when they were kids. I will give any game that does this a thumbs up, but I will not recommend this game. It's a solid platformer, but it's just bland and boring. Someone who's fresh to the genre will not appreciate this game, because it has nothing to offer to them. Just for nostalgia sake, older more experienced gamers will pick up this game, most likely play it to the end in one sitting (~2 hours) since it's easy, predictable and short, and then forget about it. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=604744492 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=658626981 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1567119016 Unlocked all achievements!

This is a difficult platformer with some rough edges. The graphics are solid, and it contains a few clever ideas, but it's mostly just frustrating, and mostly because of its stiff and unforgiving controls. It contains a super bad usability problem where if you pause the game, pressing the jump button exits to the menu without prompting (losing any progress within the level). I lost my progress to flawed muscle memory a few times because of this. You can collect skulls to buy items, but the items are fairly useless because unless you have already played through the game and memorized every trap, you're certain to die before you get to benefit from the item. (This mostly goes for the secret hearts, as well.) On the plus side, the boss fights were all pretty interesting and fun. The music sounds randomly generated, and the sound effects click like there's some 30HZ sine wave starting in the middle of its duty cycle. I played through it to the end, but can't really recommend. Games to pla...

It has a bit of a charm to it and it does do some things right but there is also a fair amount that needs improvement. I'd recommend this to you if you are prepared to deal with a bit of frustration. The game does a good job of trying to mix things up, it does all the platformy gimmicks like a level where you have to stay on a moving platform and dodge things coming from underneath, or a boss that gets a stronger attack when you've almost killed him (I'm at the final area right now and only one boss seems to have done that), and overall has a lot of elements that could make it a great game, including a level that is essentially a side-scrolling shmup like that old alien shooting game on nokia phones. Unfortunately a lot of little issues come together to make the experience less than ideal. First off, the way that jumping handles in this game is a bit jenky. The first jump works fine but the second jump throws your character in whatever direction he is facing which can sometimes c...

Clubbing dinosaurs to get laid? Why not! Gameplay is fun (you got double jumps, a dash that can also be used in air and the game mixes things up with climbing, flying, bouncing etc.). The game play from the first min just as you expect it from the trailer, which is a good thing! The difficulty is very challenging, if you think you can rush through the game, think again! PS: Remember the high praised and announced next gen fish AI in Black Ops, which didn't work in the final game? This game here doesn't even advertise it, but it has a Butterfly AI, which makes them fly away as soon as you brutal stinking caveman come close to them, and as soon as you go away, they return to do their butterfly thingys.

I was having so much fun with this game. But I came back the next day and had to start over. Not bad since i was still in the caves, hadnt made it very far. Played again, made it way farther, had hearts and other stuff, but then I paused the game for a minute to do something, unpaused and the whole thing reset my progress. Tried restarting the game and still didnt have a save file. This game does respect the player and their time at all. No working save system is a ship killer for me.

+ pixelart style + retro feeling + gameplay - music (although its still retro) - short game is not as hard as some comments suggest. mechanics are fluid, for me there were no jump issues (played it with controller) the game itself is developed by a single person, this alone deserves all of my respect! i really hope a second part is in development. coz this has alot of potential!

Recomended For true Retro Gamers

If you’re having trouble getting this game to work with your controller, try this as a fix - Game's properties>GENERAL>Steam Input-Per Game Setting is "Forced Off" Sadly, finally being able to use my controller didn’t help make this game any more enjoyable. The controls are unpolished, as is the gameplay; the difficulty curve in TWAC is non-existent. You’re pretty much pummeled with unfair, not fun gameplay from the instant you start the game. I’ll probably watch a play through on YouTube to see the rest of the levels, because there is no way I can waste any more of my time or sanity on this game. Between the control and gameplay flaws, I would only recommend this to the most patient gamers. Everybody else should steer far clear. I gave this game more chances than any other game I have in recent memory. Sorry dev, I really did try... 🤷‍♂️

It's the very definition of average, and it's not as challenging as the description claims. Everything from controls, to enemies, to the basic animation is just [i]okay.[/i] Run-of-the-mill. Even the music is a bunch of forgettable loops. You can imagine this game being on any disappointingly short NES cartridge. It's MEHtro. But it's still not [i]bad[/i] so cheers to the dev, I guess.