Spinch
Queen Bee Games · 2020 · Action, Indie, Psychedelic, Platformer, 2D
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About Spinch
Enter into a world thick with bubbling psychedelia. Descend deep into a new ecology teeming with multiple pathways, luminous levels, and complex obstacles. Transcend the material realm and assume your true form as Spinch, a hyper-agile organism consumed by the quest to rescue its litter of missing offspring from an endless invasion of misshapen and malformed offbeats and oddities.
Bringing back old school difficulty, Spinch will have you replaying sections until you master your timing and reflexes. Dash, dodge, climb, swim, jump, and even shoot your own babies as you take on six enigmatic bosses in six vibrant worlds. Collect items to give you the upperhand while searching for your missing babies. Be on the lookout for your cousin - he's babysitting some of your relatives, but he's a little weird. With only a ticking clock and quick restarts - no lives or game overs - the game is welcoming to players of all experiences, but a formidable challenge to even the most capable of speedrunners.
The world of Spinch has been crafted and brought to life by talented award-winning Canadian cartoonist, Jesse Jacobs, known for his precise and detailed line work in combination with bold and simple color palettes. His works contain an affiliation with psychedelia, spirituality, alternate realities, and a blending of nature with technology. James Kirkpatrick, well known for his participation in the early Canadian graffiti movement and as avant-garde hip-hop artist, Thesis Sahib, created the audio landscape of retro soundbites and electronic sounds found within Spinch.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Players consistently praise Spinch's striking visual style, catchy soundtrack, and solid platforming mechanics, with many highlighting its unique colorful aesthetic and creative level design. However, the game receives criticism for floaty controls, inconsistent level design that deteriorates as difficulty increases, frustrating gimmicks in later worlds (particularly underwater levels), and persistent bugs that some players report prevent completion, suggesting the developers have neglected fixes for known issues.
Very good, no nonsense platformer.2 found this helpful
i cant believe these graphics are real. the mechanics and platforming are cool too. levels have a vibe to them that is very unique and "cha cha". i like.1 found this helpful
I really love the visuals and the soundtrack, but I ultimately can't recommend it because the game is broken. So many bugs that I was able to play around, but literally couldn't finish the last, pre-boss level because of one. I've seen this bug reported years ago, so it's not that they don't know it exists, it's that they have chosen not to fix it.1 found this helpful
this game makes my head hurt
Please do yourself a favour and play a different platformer. Spinch starts off pretty nice, the controls felt a bit floaty from the start, but nothing you can't get used to after a level or three. But unfortunately it doesn't give you more than three levels before the level design starts degrading. Even in the first world, the level design is sometimes very confusing, and that's without the gimmicks that make some of the later worlds borderline unbearable. This game has the worst underwater levels I've ever played, the execution of the almost-3-D-artstyle makes it hard to see where walls are at times, and the placement of platforms and obstacles seems to have been done without much thinking about the actual moveset the player character has. All this culminates in world 6; if you think it sounds fun to play a maze level with enemies that constantly chase you and get super speed if you get too far ahead of them, that also constantly swaps gravity without changing your camera or controls accordingly, and that sometimes gets you stuck in the ground for no reason (oh yeah, this game has some pretty bad bugs by the way, even softlocking me once so hard that I had to quit to menu and res…
I really enjoy the creature design, low-fi music, and rainbow art style. Platforming is very challenging as you progress, which is sometimes frustrating, but I love the variety of levels and the game overall.
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