Mistaker

I had high hopes for this game, looking at the screenshots and the description on the store page. It reminded me a lot of the old school Apogee platformers like Commander Keen and Crystal Caves which I loved playing in the nineties. I struggled with it for about forty minutes, and while I do think it has a lot of potential, I must unfortunately give it a negative review, based on the small part of it that I was actually able to experience. - Jump controls are floaty and imprecise. I never felt like I had tight control over when my dwarf would jump, and where he would land. - The dwarf does not automatically grab onto ropes and ladders when he jumps toward them. Instead you must press the "up" key at exactly the right moment to make him grab them, otherwise he just falls straight down (usually landing on spikes or some other hazard). This makes it very difficult to complete stages where you must jump from one rope to another. - There is a single "attack" key that is used both for attacking monsters, and for breaking blocks. Unfortunately it is difficult to control the direction of the attack; the dwarf would often accidentally break the blocks underneath him (and fall into a deat…

Mistaker is a "template" flip. The "developer" filled out a basic template in the craptastic Corgi Engine (a basic template/construction kit that leverages Unity to make really crap games) and put it on Steam as if it was a real game. Unsurprisingly, the result of this kind of laziness is pure garbage in terms of "being a game". Mistaker is very awful badly made 2D retro platformer, to almost comical extremes of bad. The developer grabbed a bunch of different elements of Corgi Engine and slapped them around the 2D level design, not really caring if it works or makes sense. This is really just laughable shovelware... remember, this isn't someone trying to learn to make video games (by using a codeless construction kit), it's a cash grab, they're charging money for this trash. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visuall…

Bad, bad, bad. Very poorly made. Big NO, sorry! Here's a funny note, though: I was surprised that such a low quality game had a key rebind feature, but yeah, huh, what was I thinking? Of course it doesn't work. :D