SCARF (2021)

-very basic and slow movement -platforming and puzzles quite boring -story isn't really engaging since most of it is told in optional cutscenes and some aren't skippable -you are often forced to walk or to pet the scarf -poor performance +nice artstyle And to top everything off, I encountered a softlock in the desert area, due to a bug I could't feed my scarf with the orb, so I restarted the game and now I get a crash every time I try to load (of course there are no manual saves or older autosaves). So yeah, no recommendation at all...

Short story time... Missed one collectible in an hour long level. Re-entered level to grab collectible. Can't get back to hub world without beating hour long level again. Uninstalled game.

I like playing all kinds of games, but when it comes to platformers, I have one simple rule: either give me precise controls or make the jumps forgiving enough that I don't need the reflexes of a caffeinated squirrel. SCARF does neither. The biggest challenge in most 3D platformers isn't the jumping itself: it's convincing the camera to cooperate. Unfortunately, SCARF seems to believe that depth perception is a luxury. More than once I missed jumps not because I misunderstood the puzzle, but because I misunderstood where the platform actually was. After a while, I wasn't fighting the game anymore, I was negotiating with the camera. There were several moments where I seriously considered uninstalling it, but the stubborn completionist in me refused to let a scarf defeat me. So I pushed through to the end... and, to be fair, the ending was the best part of the entire experience. Was it worth all the frustrating jumps? Let's just say the ending earned the game a few extra points, but not enough to earn my recommendation. Then again, I'm not a hardcore 3D platformer fan. If you are, you may find more to like here than I did. As for me, I was happier when the credits rolled than at any…

This game is extremely glitchy, laggy, and hard to navigate, even more so than Abzu, and that alone ruins the experience completely. On top of that, the gameplay was the very boring casual puzzle solver type without any interesting parts and bad controls, and the story was extremely shallow, with only the vague pixilated graffiti on the level walls, and the vaguely scared but weirdly uncaring spirits to imply that the scarf is possibly evil and should be killed. 2/10 If it was not so badly made and the gameplay was fixed it would have had potential, as I liked the twists of the ideas where darkness is not always pure evil and you should not always help others you have little reason to trust or aid. Unless the developers release a remastered version of this game like goat simulator did, do not buy this under any circumstance! Saurian is more fun than this, and that project was reveled to be a incompetence ridden scam...

This game visually is very pretty. It has a really lovely art style and an interesting story concept. Most of the puzzles are fairly simple to complete and has helpful environmental clues for some that need it. That being said, the actual gameplay was a little frustrating. The character has a pretty large turning circle - so much that you can walk forwards just by hitting left and right - which makes the movement a little clunky. If you want to make small adjustments to your position you often have to walk away and come back at a different angle; not super helpful for some of the parkour sections in the game. The ground isn't smooth, which looks really nice with some small rocks and paving stones, but your character often gets stuck on them even though they are only at ankle height, meaning you have to either walk around it or jump over it. The audio is loud. Specifically the music. Turning it down to one still overpowers the other sounds when the background music peaks. It's easily solvable by turning the game down in your volume mixer, but even then at times the music would come through very strongly. And as others have said, it has a lot of lag spikes. Even with a good compu…

ITS RELAXING AND FUN