YAPP: Yet Another Puzzle Platformer
Artless Games · 2017 · 2D Platformer, Puzzle Platformer, Casual, Difficult, Platformer
PC
Very Positive85% · 54 📉 Recent reviews down 76%
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About YAPP: Yet Another Puzzle Platformer
This is a game for you, if you meet at least three of the following conditions:
1. You like innovative puzzle games.
The main idea of YAPP is to make a game full of WOW moments.
In most puzzle games, if the game gives you a box, you simply push it somewhere and jump onto it.
In YAPP, a box can interact with your two abilities in different ways. In one of the levels you place the box onto your clone and jump onto the box to get higher,
later you place your clone onto the box, grab the box and jump, then teleport to your clone and jump again to make a double jump. In another level, you place your clone at the edge of a high ground, grab the box at a lower place and jump and teleport immediately and grab the box which "jumped" with you..
2. You like challenging puzzle games.
Within the scope of my knowledge, it is one of the most challenging puzzle platformers ever made.
(Not one of the most challenging puzzle games. At least it's easier than Stephen's Sausage Roll.)
3. You have played one or two platformers before.
The platformer part of this game is not hard for an average player, but still frustrating for newcomers.
("Double jump" included)
4. You can endure my awful artwork and poor English.
1. You like innovative puzzle games.
The main idea of YAPP is to make a game full of WOW moments.
In most puzzle games, if the game gives you a box, you simply push it somewhere and jump onto it.
In YAPP, a box can interact with your two abilities in different ways. In one of the levels you place the box onto your clone and jump onto the box to get higher,
later you place your clone onto the box, grab the box and jump, then teleport to your clone and jump again to make a double jump. In another level, you place your clone at the edge of a high ground, grab the box at a lower place and jump and teleport immediately and grab the box which "jumped" with you..
2. You like challenging puzzle games.
Within the scope of my knowledge, it is one of the most challenging puzzle platformers ever made.
(Not one of the most challenging puzzle games. At least it's easier than Stephen's Sausage Roll.)
3. You have played one or two platformers before.
The platformer part of this game is not hard for an average player, but still frustrating for newcomers.
("Double jump" included)
4. You can endure my awful artwork and poor English.
Features
- 6 worlds, each has a different theme.
- 42 unique puzzles, including some challenging ones.
- 10 stars, even more challenging.
- Changeable timescale. (helps a lot on the platformer part)
- Every puzzle is skippable. Except for the level select screen. (Yes, the level select screen itself is also a puzzle.)
- Several lines adapted from an ancient Chinese philosopher's writings.
- A big surprise in world 6-7.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise the game's creative level design and humor, with some appreciating the satisfying challenge of figuring out solutions independently. However, complaints center on poor communication of mechanics, particularly an unexplained double-jump technique in level 3-7 that requires pixel-perfect timing and blocks progression, alongside missing quality-of-life features like a quit button and hints for collectible locations.
even if minimalism is the idea a "quit game" button should be there3 found this helpful
Artless, but great level design exploiting the game mechanism. And that sense of humor is good as some have already mentioned. Guiding is good that I 100% completed the game with some thinking and without any help out of the game.
evil
Please give a hint to where the stars can be and have game mechanics explained better.
I really wanted to like this game, and was liking it until I got to level 3-7. Level 3-7 requires a 'double-jump' (in a game where the player can only perform a single jump), which is a never-explained mechanic that appears to require pixel-perfect timing to build extra momentum. No, this isn't the 'double-jump' mentioned in the game's description, because that one is done with a box: this just is done with just the player and their clone. From what I've gathered, this is the intended solution by the dev, and is required many times throughout the game, in addition to a 'triple-jump' that the dev claims actually requires pixel-perfect input. I was going to just skip this level and proceed, but... you need to perform the double-jump to access levels past world 3 it seems, so I'm out of luck here. When I play puzzle platformers, I want the issue to be the puzzle complexity, not mechanical execution. I'm disappointed here.
Well worth the price
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