Knife Quest

Knife Quest is one of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of video games everywhere. This is a very generic platformer with a vague fantasy theme as you lob knives at retro pixel blobs while otherwise being a kind of lame ripoff of Super Mario Brothers, only considerably worse. This mess was slapped together lazily with the craptastic Godot Engine, giving GameMaker Studio a solid run for the money on the race to be the absolute worst video game engine ever. It looks like it was made just filling out a template/copying a 2D platformer tutorial. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and no matter what you do with a shoddy game engine, it's impossible to make a decent game out of it, as Knife Quest shows clearly. Resolution and controls are locked, and can't be changed or customised to improve the visuals or the control experience. A choice was made to use obsolete 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. These flaws push this game far below min…

An enjoyable mini platformer despite it's frustratingly difficult design. $5 might be a bit much but it's been in several bundles so could be worth a pickup there for a quick bit of fun.