Space Fat: To the Core

Developer/Publisher: winknowgames THE PREMISE Starting in space you battle your way thru the various layers of the atmosphere, working your way down to the planet and then attempt to make it to the planet's core. The is a 2D vertically scrolling shooter with platform and some puzzle solving thrown in for good measure. THE GAME Your lasers double as your retros. As you progress downward you can either land on the many platforms, or shoot them and continue downward, being careful to avoid asteroids and the like. You can destroy them with your lasers, and indeed must if you are to progress. Destroy platforms that is. Also floating in space are what look like gold coins. What they're doing in space is not explained. Along the sides of the screen you will see doors with platforms under them. Be sure not to destroy the platforms before you go inside. Some doors require a key to enter. As you descend you will come across Blockades. You destroy the locks on either side with your laser to proceed, but things then ramp up considerably, with hordes of things to destroy and coins to collect. MYSTERY CUBES Inside each room is at least one small cube. Shooting it a few times will unlock a g…

Space Fat: To the Core is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This shovelware platformer/shooter hybrid is particularly badly made but does feature a less commonly used form factor as you shoot downwards in a kind of "endless faller" game style. Novel ideas for games don't cancel out terrible implementation quality, unfortunately. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look…