Surface Runner

Surface Runner

Bobby Sanders · 2023 · Adventure, Puzzle, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Emotional

PC
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About Surface Runner

This is a game demo

The player plays as an AI experiencing sentience for the first time and all of the emotions that come with that. The player will progress through three different levels gaining more and more sentience.

-narrative driven-platformer
-team of 4 college students making it in 4 months
-Created all in Unreal
-puzzle solving and parkour gameplay accompany the story
-Controller recommended for gameplay (use mouse and keyboard for menus)
-Playtime is 15min- 1 hour+

Controls-
Mouse and Keyboard-
Mouse= Look around
Space= Jump/ jump off wall
WASD= Move
Shift= Wall Run Mode
E= Interact
S= Jump backwards from ledge
V= Toggle Target Visibility Crosshair
F= Teleport

Controller-
Left Stick= Look around
A= Jump/ jump off wall
Right Stick= Move
R2= Wall Run Mode
X= Interact
Down on D-pad= Jump backwards from ledge
Y= Toggle Target Visibility Crosshair
B= Teleport

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Mar 28, 2026
"Surface Runner" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game. Typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is more of an Unreal tech demo/homework assignment than what anyone would call a serious game, it feels more like someone mucking around with Unreal without knowing how to optimize the engine or anything. They made a simple rudimentary platformer with jarringly mismatched game assets, janky gameplay, and a flew of unfixed bugs that should have stopped this being published at all. Since this is basically a kitbash of other people's assets, it's visually better looking than the actual game. The thing is, when developers don't budget properly and hire real artists, and lack the skill to do the rest of the job of a game developer and the result is deplorably bad quality junkware. "Surface Runner" proves this point perfectly. The "game" here is of a pretty low technical…
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Not recommended Dec 14, 2023
Awful platforming. Actually terrible. None of it feels smooth or consistent. I couldn't even bother playing this game any longer, it's terrible.
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Not recommended Mar 4, 2025
right stick sensitivity is too high and can't be changed jumping back from a platform always uses stick down, regardless of where the camera is pointing. extremely unintuitive WORST OF ALL, the wallrunning mode's default button is click in left stick. unforgivable.
Recommended Feb 20, 2025
tenho esquilos nas calcas
Recommended Dec 2, 2023
hi. can i please lower the graphics quality and also know WHERE TO GO?
Not recommended Aug 17, 2023
got to the second part of the tutorial thinking it would level out. nope. motion sickness just trying to get back on the first platform. nightmare

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