Rocket Escape
Compact Square Studios · 2022 · 2D Platformer, Physics, Puzzle Platformer, Hand-drawn, Bullet Time
PC
8 user reviews88% · 8
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About Rocket Escape
Rocket Escape is an innovative 2D platformer about rocket jumping your way to the goal. Despite being around in gaming for a long time, rocket jumping is usually relegated to a side mechanic. However, we believed that rocket jumping could be so much more. Featuring mechanics such as slow motion/rocket time, speedrunning timers, black hole rockets, and more, Rocket Escape is an expansion on the time-tested concept of rocket jumping. We at Compact Square Studios have been working on Rocket Escape as a passion project over the last few years, and we are excited to be able to release the game on Steam and share it with the world.
We look forward to seeing how you approach and enjoy the game!
We look forward to seeing how you approach and enjoy the game!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise Rocket Escape as a creative short platformer with solid puzzle design, engaging mechanics, and a great soundtrack that shows clear developer care. However, some players report significant technical issues with rocket spawning and explosion positioning that feel inconsistent and undermine the gameplay experience, creating frustration despite the game's promising concept.
This game is great!! I bought it twice!!2 found this helpful
one of the games of all time2 found this helpful
Rocket escape was a really fun short game with some challenging puzzles, cool platforming mechanics, and fun Easter eggs. There was a lot of detail put into the game and I found no holes within everything that the game presented, making it clear that the developers put a lot of work and effort into their project. Would recommend as a short play for people who like platform games.1 found this helpful
Terrible, terrible execution of an otherwise good concept. I thought sure, the game looks very shoddy but the gameplay would be worth it? Nope, it's just as awful as it looks. So here I am trying to rocketjump vertically along a wall. I jump up and fire a rocket. Observe where [url=https://i.imgur.com/pNJnJWH.png]the rocket actually spawns[/url] when I fire it. Wayyy off the rocket launcher! Now watch where [url=https://i.imgur.com/q8eHDK5.png]the rocket explodes[/url] upon "contact". Wayyy off any actual surface! What the hell? It is INCREDIBLY inconsistent and annoying, and it kills any potential skill ceiling or just fun in this game. Even worse! Let's simply fire a rocket down at our feet. How wrong could that go? Well, observe where [url=https://i.imgur.com/4ZYdXVI.png]such explosion occurs[/url] exactly. ABOVE our feet. Which means that simply firing a rocket downward results in zero vertical momentum! In fact, even if you jump and fire too early your character can still ignore the explosion completely - even with your feet not touching the ground! How could this possibly be okay? It's only gets worse and worse from here: - Level timer just keeps going when you fail and re…1 found this helpful
Banger. Chat loved it. Fully recommend. The soundtrack is peak music.
Phenomenal game, almost as good as Weezer
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