MAZE (2024)

Jump mechanics are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. 1: You are incapable of stopping once you jump, so every jump requires 100% certainty that you are fully prepared. 2: you are incapable of pivoting once you jump, meaning, if you jump at a 45 degree angle, that's it, you're going that way and cannot change direction until you land or fall. 3: momentum is inconsistent and even carries from a moving object. Example: In the "hard" maze, a platform moves left and right, if you jump perfectly straight, there is a chance your angle will be ruined due to the moving platform you're standing on. Overall: the sloppy and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up jump mechanics ruin this small game. The effort went into graphics and not gameplay. If you want a few fun mazes with solid graphics, good gameplay, and interesting mazes... GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!

I really, really enjoyed the first three levels, and I really wanted to try the fifth level, but the fourth level being a platforming challenge with poor controls means I can never unlock the fifth level. I know this game will probably never be updated, but if it is, I'd at least like all levels to be accessible from the start!

bro the hard level is impossible at the level select has such bad frame rates with only a minor improvement when actually playing the levels

made me sick

I beat the first three levels in 7 minutes and then the parkour in the fourth one made my brain melt. I liked the game but I'd rate it a 3/5 because the controls weren't great, you can't change your sensitivity, and the motion blur made me ill. Don't download if you get motion sick easy

"MAZE" is an abandoned Early Access tech demo. Like it says on the box, this is a "maze" game, you're in first person perspective, you wander around the maze until you find the goal. No monsters to shoot, no puzzles to solve, this is as barebones as it gets. The developer dumped this in an unfinished state on Steam and hasn't touched it over a year. There's some 3D platforming elements that don't fit the theme and add little to the extremely poor experience. This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's clear the developers behind this don't understand that. 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading …