The Lonely Helmet

A fun and silly game platformer game where you play as an astronaut helmet. Too bad the developer plans to delist it. I'd say even if it weren't going to receive updates and tech support going forward that the developer should still keep it available. It's a free game, I doubt anyone cares about how buggy it might be 40 years from now or whatever. Art is art and this game should not become lost media for such a trivial reason.

"The Lonely Helmet" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is an incredibly badly done platformer where you take on the role of a helmet... because, I guess doing sprite animation is too hard for some developers or something. So yeah, you control a helmet jumping around (somehow) across 20 poorly done minimalist pixelcrap platformer levels. There's skins, which makes me wonder why the developer wasted time doing that instead of learning how to animate stuff. But asking too many questions about failed Itch garbage on Steam is hardly productive... it's self evident why this was such a failure. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. Itch has one job, and it's not a hard job, but they failed again... to keep amateur stuff in their…

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The Lonely Helmet takes a wonderfully odd idea and turns it into a small but charming puzzle-platforming adventure. Instead of playing as an astronaut exploring the dangers of space, you control the piece of equipment normally protecting one: a helmet separated from its human. Developed and published by Laim McKenzie, the game embraces the personality of this unusual premise rather than attempting to deliver a complicated science-fiction epic. The result is a straightforward indie platformer whose appeal comes from its quirky protagonist, accessible mechanics, and compact structure. The adventure revolves around finding the missing space-human associated with the lonely helmet. This provides a simple objective for a journey through 20 individual levels filled with platforms, obstacles, collectibles, and environmental challenges. There is not an enormous amount of narrative exposition, but that works reasonably well for this type of game. The strange image of a helmet independently traveling through space already provides enough character to make the journey memorable, while the relatively uncomplicated story keeps attention focused on movement and puzzle solving. Platforming form…

This is an awesome little platformer about a... lonely helmet!? Sure, whatever works.

The game crashes every few levels at the goal, and because of how the game saving works, that means you'll have to redo the entire level. Not only that, but the camera is horrendous. I can't believe i am saying that of a 2D game, but here be are. For a precision Platformer, this is inexcusable. And the hidden pressure blocks are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. You already had a mechanic of pressing buttons, why did you switch it up in the middle of the game to a completely invisible, undetectable and intangible spot you need to not only reach, but stand on for a while before anything happens ?