Squirm

This is a must buy title for indie platformer lovers. It's a bit hard but never unforgiving. This game has a great soundtrack and really great challenges. There's a neat little story and the 2D pixel graphics work well. Even small details exist like stepping on the snow and watching it crunch down. [h1]Pros[/h1] +Great difficult platformer with fair mechanics +Fun music +Easter eggs and secrets +Diverse areas and bosses +Funny dialogue [h1]Cons[/h1] -No real cons here that I found. Just a great platformer that might be on the short end, but the price is well worth it. The game may take you under two hours to go through depending on your skill. This would be a great title to speed run and try to get less deaths on. If you enjoy platformer games just do yourself a favor and pick this up sometime. [quote=Crimson-Albedo]Follow my reviews through my curator at [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/32482033/]Crim's Humble Opinion[/url][/quote]

It's got solid gameplay, a good difficulty curve, and lots of character and charm. Lots of fun to be had for the low price of $1.99

For the cost, Squirm is great value. It's a nice little platformer, which has a surreal and wacky atmosphere that I always like, but which can get surprisingly creepy and weird in occasions. Music and graphics are nothing "special", but they fit the game very well. Heartily recommended.

I can't recall the last time I smiled this much from a game in such a short time. The soundtrack has a few less-than-stellar songs, and the game sometimes temporarily froze from loading new screens and sound effects, but other than that, I loved it. I recommend diving headfirst into this game without knowing what to expect.

A very competent platformer. Short and sweet, you can see all the content in under an hour without trying too hard.

The dialogue is weak. The music is gratingly simple and loud until the lategame. The level design is buggy (I found two softlocks by just walking into them accidentally) and there's a rookie mistake with the keypress events which makes it so that you have to let go and re-press the directional keys just about every time you die or change rooms. Those would all be forgivable if the game felt good to play. It doesn't. The physics are slippery and raw and vary wildly with minute changes in keypress lengths. (The jetpack sequences were especially awful.) Deaths have no sound, no weight, and no delay: their only redeeming quality is the morbid humour of the body sticking around for just a little too long when you hit some spikes, or even so much as look at them the wrong way. The gun can be fired as fast as you can mash X and Enter—none of the keys are remappable, by the way—and this seems to trivialize entire boss fights, as well as wreck a couple of platforming sections that revolve ...

Squirm is the latest phenotype in the evolutionary lineage of platformers. The style inherits elements from the classics of past decades to express an original experience for veterans and newcomers alike. The aesthetics blend the longing for nostalgia with the demands of modern gaming. Retro-themed tiles and colors characterize each world, featuring a well-composed soundtrack with a nod to its 8-bit origins. The controls respond with requisite precision and show none of the frustrations that plagued the original generation of platformers. With less than five hours to complete the game, I appreciated the intense brevity of Squrim. I found the game to be just as fulfilling as longer platformers, with enough of a story to entice up to the end. Squirm contains all the elements of a timeless masterpiece. Everyone should play this game.

Totally awesome game. Perfect for beginner speed runners, and an overall fun story plot. Get ready to die... a bunch. ORB!!!!

For tight, precise platforming to be fun, you have to allow the player to make tight jumps. I beat the entire game, including the true ending and all the bonuses. But most of the time I wasn't having fun. Those floaty jumps were garbage, and the jetpack controls made me want to die.

Fantastic little platformer game, not particularly long, only took around 1 hour and 35 minutes to beat the game 100% and then another 25 minutes to get the 3 easter eggs I missed for 100% achievements, with around 330-ish deaths by the end. (rough estimate) Soundtrack's pretty alright, nothing too to memorable but I liked a couple of the themes and they never really got annoying, the pixel art is pretty primitive but charming with it's style, character conversations got a good couple chuckles out of me. Squirm is only £1.69 outta sale so you may as well just pick it up regardless if it's on sale or not if you're interested in it, that's only slightly more than a good sausage roll and the game is easily worth it's small price tag.