Cooperate with Yourself

Quite original and challenging game. Thanks to this game I found out that simultaneously controlling 6 characters under time pressure is a bit too much for my brain.

"Cooperate with Yourself" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This platformer is a bad idea implemented badly (as so many games are)... I will say it's a novel idea, but just because nobody has done something before doesn't mean it's a good idea to do it... this game was a complete failure. This novel gimmick? Well, you control 6 different characters on screen with convoluted keybinds for each one of them (keybinds that you can't really fix). Each character just has three moves, left, right, jump, which are set up with different combos of keys (first one is Q2E for example). Like I said, just because it's a new idea doesn't make it a good idea... this is unfun to play and the godawfully bad technical delivery doesn't help one bit. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from g…