Revolve

Revolve plays like it states on the tin, a minimalist inertia based platformer. You control a space bike traversing ever more challenging levels from left to right (essentially only in that direction) by providing input to it's primary/jump thrusters, brake, and some sort of gravity inverter. It's designed to be played in self contained stages that realistically take only 2 minutes to clock each. The physics behave intuitively enough to effectively time leaps over deadly red glowing exposed power conduits (that make up the only hazard I've discovered so far), and yet it's compact layout, lack of time limit and gentle vangelis-esque soundtrack keep this simple premise from being either too frustrating or straight boring. It's not a title to immerse yourself in, and here-in lies my only complaint. The soundtrack stops jarringly after each death returns you to the begining of the stage; and I personally think it'd add something to the gameplay flow if the low key track just strummed a...

Where to start.....Revolve is awesome! Beautiful colors, great sound track, levels progress with difficulty nicely, and just an overall blast. Challenging but relaxing at the same time, if that makes sense. My only grip would be is the mechanic of when you need to jump and use your boost, seems like both are drained together even when you only use one. Now this is probably coded this way for a reason to make it more of a challenge, but its gets a little frustrating at times. Other than that, the game is def worth it!

Revolve was showcased @ Indigo 2017 by Dutch Game Garden. Bought the game the same day to play it with my son. Nominated the game for the Steam 'Defies Description' award.