Widget Satchel

Death Stranding Meets The Beastmaster A cute, but clunky platformer that challenges the player to lug around widgets in a satchel. The more widgets the player fits in the satchel, the slower and harder it gets to move. Carrying the widgets in the satchel to a certain point allows the player to upgrade their character. WARNING: This is obviously a bias review being a huge fan of ferrets since first watching The Beastmaster as a kid. While there are plenty of games that have ferrets available as companions in RPGs (Torchlight) or units in strategy games (Tooth and Tail), I think this just might be the very first Mustelid-based platformer that ever existed. This overlooked gem will most likely wind up existing to an obscure few ferret fans who are lucky enough to stumble across this and get a chance to enjoy the charm and simplicity of being the one of the cutest space-couriers of the future. If you are a fan of ferrets, I highly recommend picking this up and supporting developers who...

The premise of the game looked fantastic and I commend the author on selling it sight unseen. That said, I cannot recommend this game. The premise is fantastic and the gameplay mechanics hold a lot of potential. Picking up widgets quickly encumbers your character, forcing you to explore and strategize to make the most of your carrying capacity. At the end of the first couple of levels you can find a "fabricator" (really a shop you can only access once) and obtain items which affect which paths you can take. The graphics are cute (though the animation feels clunky by comparison, especially when jumping) and piles of objects obligingly spill over and bounce down the halls as you crash through them, accruing points in the process. At least, all this is in theory. In practice, beginning in the third stage and becoming starkly apparent by the fourth, gameplay begins to drift southward. Widgets become sparse, with the three, five, and higher value widgets disappearing in lieu of single val...

This is the most fun I've ever had with a ferret! And I collected so many socks! Ferrets must love socks.

Cool game with an interesting method of allowing multiple routes through a platformer

Lol what a fun game! You know, this is one of those little games you should play just to remind yourself you're a human being. I've played it a bit and will continue to play more. It's as involved as you want to make it on any particular play through but it can really pull you in, especially as it allows you to "stop caring" and just play the game for the sake of fun, something that is just not possible with today's games where the game can end every two seconds. It has great themes and a sense of humor. One thing I wasn't expecting was that it's also really interesting: this is a game that leaves me guessing where the mysterious pathways and doors are leading to and from, and that's a little unusual that a game made me care. Why do I care with this game? Not sure. It's not because you have to know to "complete" the game (you don't, unless I would imagine you play it strictly as a completionist, which I guess some people insist for themselves), and that I think is the key: it's i...

An adorably fun little game that's worth the price! Especially because I'm a sucker for games about silly ferrets.