Just Squat
Soonsoo · 2024 · Shoot 'Em Up, Choices Matter, Pixel Graphics, Visual Novel, Bullet Hell
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About Just Squat
Let’s defeat the Barbell Boss, which is getting stronger!
Get Ready to SquatThe boy's fear of squats turned out to be a monster! Face new fears as you grow the boy step by step!
Just Squat has 12 distinctive barbells! If the boy sweats hard, no matter how slow it is, the barbell moves toward the end!
Experience all kinds of funny and absurd stories that happen at the gym and at school!
The gym is always full of the sound of iron and the smell of humid sweat, and the school is always loud with the noise of friends.The boy will react and grow with the people around him according to your choice!
In Just Squat, you can meet a total of 30 NPCs in 20 omnibus stories!
You can experience all sorts of funny and absurd episodes at the gym and watch how the boy overcomes bullying at school!
Game Features!
- 'Just Squat' is a shmup game that combines an omnibus-style visual novel and bullet hell action.
- Face the barbell armed with various bullets and attack patterns, and succeed in the squat! You have to lift the barbell all the way up!
- Enjoy your own story! In 'Just Squat', the story branches out depending on your choices!
- As the boy grows, new talents will be revealed! Lift the barbell with stronger and more unique abilities!
- Add your own favorite exercises! The boss's attack pattern will change depending on the exercises you add!
- Grow a boy by meeting all sorts of weirdos at a sweaty gym!
- Overcome the absurdity and bullying of bad friends with the boy at school!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players criticize "Just Squat" as a poorly executed joke game that prioritizes low-quality visual novel-style writing over meaningful gameplay, with shallow and badly assembled minigames including top-down pixel adventure sections and bullet hell elements that feel tacked on and unpolished. The core complaint centers on lazy writing that relies too heavily on telling rather than showing, combined with technical incompetence across multiple game genres, making it feel more like an amateurish e-book than an actual game.
"Just Squat" is a badly made Unity joke game, more e-book than anything else, but punctuated by RPG Maker like (ugh) top down pixelcrap adventure gaming and the odd shoot 'em up/bullet hell minigame. All of which is exceptionally badly put together. The topic is a joke game around a boy not wanting to do squats as part of his exercise routine. Okay, now we know for sure all the good ideas for video games have been used up. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but i…
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