Run The Gamut

$0.99

Release Date:: Jun 17, 2016
Developer:: Playdev Gaming
Publisher:: Playdev Gaming
Platforms:: Windows

Indie Adventure Action Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing Single-player Partial Controller Support

About This Game

Classic-style skill based platformer, consisting of 100 levels split over 4 worlds. To complete this game you will need a lot of skill, a bit of luck and a whole lot of anger. This game is seriously hard.

Act I : the Underworld - Consisting Of 50 Levels.
Act Ii : the Overworld - Consisting Of 30 Levels.
Act III : The Outerworld - Consisting of 15 levels.
ACT IV : The Netherworld - Hidden world consisting of 5 levels.

Features

The ability to play at your own skill level - The game has three standard difficulty levels, Casual, Hardcore or Ultra Mode.

If you want something even harder, you can customize your players abilities in Ultra Mode. The lower your players ability the higher your score multiplier.

The levels "mutate" between the difficulties, i.e. casual mode is very easy, with few obstacles, easy jumps, etc. Hardcore mode is more of a challenge and Ultra mode is only for the experienced.

20 different random events that can occur, ranging from silly to the near impossible.

A unique scoring system that generates your level score based on time, total deaths on the level, if the collectible was taken and if a random event is occurring.

A collectible on every level that acts as a score multiplier. Can you collect all 95 coins?

The scoring system also tracks total deaths and total time - can you beat your own score?

Variety of level design - some require skill, some require timing and some are puzzles to be solved.

The ability to skip levels after 25 deaths on Casual Mode, 50 deaths on Hardcore Mode and 100 deaths on Ultra Mode.

19 Steam achievements.

Customizable controls and gamepad.

Screenshots

User Reviews

Mixed

5 user reviews

60%

Positive

User #324976 english

59 min at review

Recommended

I'm gonna make up my own story here because so far the game doesn't actually seem to have one: You are a little devil and you are trying to escape from hell. You have unlimited lives, but the penalty for death is that you are still stuck down here in hell. I have no idea if there is any kind of ending; I'm not even close to making progress towards it. I'm about 8 levels in and ready to cry. --- So… as for a review: Look very closely at the screenshots and videos for the game on the store page. If you don't like what you see, don't buy the game; because what you see is what you get. At it's core Run the Gamut is a simple old school platformer that reminds me of nostalgic pixel platformers from the 80's and early 90's but with cell shading and shinier colors. Beyond that, Run the Gamut is hardcore. The difficulty is relentless and it doesn't let up. Each level is a screen wide puzzle that you must jump through to reach the exit. All while avoiding fire and spikes. The controls ar...

User #784015 english

1 hrs at review

Not Recommended

Run The Gamut is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The graphics are terrible. It's just untextured, basic pixel blocks and blobs, and a few simple vector shapes. It's clear the developer didn't even try to produce any real graphics for the game and just phoned it in. It's unclear why such a lazy approach was taken, whether it may be caused by lack of talent, budget, or motivation to do their job properly. It also doesn't matter... what matters is that this has resulted in a game with zero visual appeal for gamers. It's an immediate failure on that measure alone. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look ...