Run The Gamut

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 are unforgiving, the deaths come fast and furious and if you can't maintain your calm you will just die even faster on the next attempt. This is a game intentionally designed to test your patience as muc…

it's like super meat boy except it controls like total ass and has stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ events with no thought behind them and levels that are unfun

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 right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced ga…

[h1][b]Not Recommended[/b][/h1]

It's slippery and everything feels inconsistent. I could probably fill a textbook with lessons called "What not to do in your precision platformer", which I'd gleaned solely from playing this game. You might like it if you enjoy ice levels and awful feedback.

https://youtu.be/OTeG1ilKTOc Masocore 2D platformers have developed a lot in the past decade and the one thing that makes or breaks this style of game is the controls. In the case of 'Run The Gamut' the gameplay is ruined by the imprecision and slippery controls for the character. The level design is muddled by a low contrast visual style which blends hazzards into the background leading to confusing deaths with occasionally unpredictable causes.