Clockwise Jinx

Clockwise Jinx

Pavel Gorev · January 13, 2022 · Puzzle, Difficult, 2D, Arcade, Minimalist

Clockwise Jinx is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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7 user reviews86% · 7
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Clockwise Jinx is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Clockwise Jinx

Find your way from a dragon's castle in a series of mind-bending challenges! Be carefull: the dungeon is full of traps. And your character is cursed and feels really dizzy!
All you need to do is to go through a room avoiding chainsaws, lava fields and other traps. But after you win, one more room is added. This is a duplicate of the room you just passed, but it is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The player in this room moves right when you press the up arrow key, move down when you press the right key, and so on.
When you pass the second room, you should go through another one, which is rotated 180 degrees, and so on until you go through the full circle.
But that's not all. By pressing the arrow keys, you control all players in all four rooms. So you need to keep in mind that the players in the previous rooms won't step into their own traps while you try to pass the current location!

Clockwise Jinx — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 28, 2023
[h1]Before I played Clockwise Jinx, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
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Not recommended May 3, 2025
"Clockwise Jinx" is certainly one of the worst ideas for a "puzzle" game I've seen in a long time. You play in a room that's a duplicate of the previous one, but rotated 90 degrees clockwise. You move your character through rooms avoiding traps. The story is about navigating a dungeon, and the gameplay involves avoiding traps while moving characters through various rotated rooms. This isn't a great idea, and it's certainly not fun. It's easy to see why this was a complete failure. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs and the latest 3D graphics cards to play 2D games. Even mobile phones and game consoles can do 3D graphics now. There's no excuse. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even gi…

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