Prompt

Prompt

foxel_ · 2015 · Indie, Platformer, Difficult

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About Prompt

Prompt is a hardcore platformer. It is minimalist, it is retro, and it is very, very hard.

Everything from the visual style to the design of every level has been coded with love, just for you. Each level will give you a new challenge, and it will require you to complete it in a new way.

Prompt has a full level editor. Create and share levels with your friends!

Must-have Features:

  • Double jumping!
  • Simulated gravity!
  • Moving platform physics!
  • Full 1-bit color depth!
  • Extra widescreen 5:4 aspect ratio!

The excellent music in Prompt was produced by Matt Simmonds. Check out his other work at 4mat.bandcamp.com!

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

This minimalist retro platformer has decent graphics, solid audio, and runs smoothly on low-end systems, with accessibility for all audiences and gameplay that's easy to learn but hard to master. However, players consistently criticize the extreme difficulty as frustrating rather than rewarding, with unfair level design and frame-perfect precision requirements that make progression feel tedious and unsatisfying rather than enjoyable, despite the game's short initial playtime.

Recommended Feb 28, 2025
---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is! ☐ Beautiful ☐ Amazing for its age ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Paint.exe ☐ Don‘t look! ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Staring at walls is better ☐ Just.. don‘t. ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Human ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA for a spare computer ---{Difficulty}--- ☑ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks/achievements ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second life for grinding ---{Story}--- ☑ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Extremely Short ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ Wait for sales ☐ If you have some spare money left, I guess.. ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money! ---{Bugs}--- ☑ Never he…
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Recommended May 7, 2024
HOW TF DO I GET PAST THE "SUBMERGED" LEVEL"?!?!?!?!?!
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Recommended Jul 7, 2022
17m of gameplay, still a good game for what its offering
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Not recommended May 28, 2026
[h1]Quick Verdict[/h1] 👎 A minimalist retro platformer with an interesting presentation, but difficulty levels so extreme that it quickly becomes frustrating rather than enjoyable. [h1]Score Breakdown[/h1] [h3]🎮 Gameplay — 2.5/5[/h3] Simple platforming mechanics, but the extreme precision required on many levels makes progression feel frustrating instead of rewarding. [h3]🎨 Visuals — 3.5/5[/h3] Minimalist retro presentation and fake CRT aesthetic work well and give the game a distinct identity. [h3]🔊 Audio — 2.5/5[/h3] Functional and fitting, but nothing particularly memorable. [h3]⚙️ Technical Performance — 5/5[/h3] Very light and runs perfectly smoothly. [h1]Game Profile[/h1] [h3]⏱️ Length[/h3] Deceptively very long, not because of the amount of content, but because some levels require countless attempts to complete [h3]🎯 Difficulty[/h3] Very hard, often requiring near pixel-perfect precision [h3]🔁 Replayability[/h3] Low, aside from achievement hunting [h1]Highlights & Drawbacks[/h1] [h3]✅ What Works[/h3] * Distinct minimalist CRT presentation * Simple and easy-to-understand mechanics * Extremely smooth technical performance [h3]❌ What Doesn’t[/h3] * Difficulty oft…
Recommended Sep 4, 2023
it's exactly what it says in the description, very hard, but not the rewarding kind of hard, it's just a "you beat the level, now move on to the next one" kind of hard. instead of writing the rest of this review, i'll just read out what my experience of most levels was: there is a platform in front of you, you jump. now there is another platform but with some spikes, you jump and you fall directly into the spikes. [h3]respawn[/h3] there is a platform in front of you, you jump. platform but with some spikes, you jump and you fall into the spikes. [h3]respawn[/h3] platform, you jump. spike platform, you jump and fall. [h3]respawn[/h3] platform, you jump. spike platform, you jump. you made the landing this time, there is another platform with the exit on it! finally! you jump... and fall into the void! [h3]respawn[/h3] first platform, you jump. you fall. [h3]respawn[/h3] first platform again, jump and fall. somehow you completely forgot how to jump to the first platform, cool! [h3]a few respawns later[/h3] first platform again, you jump and make it. spike platform, you jump and fall. [h3]a few respawns later[/h3] spike platform, stuck the landing. jump to the end platform, there'…
Not recommended Oct 29, 2020
It starts of fun and gets into some extremely atrocious level design. Completing the hardest levels/collectibles doesn't feel satisfying. The frustration from what seems to be several frame perfect inputs as the intended way to solve levels outshines the fun that the game does have in it. It's not terrible, but not good enough to recommend it and it definitely needed some reworking to make it fully enjoyable.

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