A hardcore, hyper-caffeinated platformer where each room is a timed agility puzzle with instant death waiting. Kitsch pixel art and absurd humor soften a brutal difficulty. For those who relish a hundred retries.
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Category
Platformer4 players3+
Co-op
Description
Slime-San, swallowed by a giant worm, must escape before being digested. Published by Headup, released worldwide in 2017. Timed sprints through the innards, slowing time, passing through green walls, hundreds of rooms and quirky humour.
Slime-San review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"From the very first seconds"
Tearing through stages that demand pixel-perfect timing delivers an instant rush. A botched run restarts in a heartbeat, so you dive back in, refining each leap until the run clicks into place. The jittery black-and-white look and slick momentum turn brutal difficulty into pure delight, and chasing the clock becomes a happily addictive itch you scratch run after run.
Off to the side of the adventure, the party modes and races draw a fast, chaotic competition for up to four, where you squeeze through, skid and get pipped at the line. The rounds are brief, readable at a glance, and the pixel humour defuses the cheap shots, leaving only the laughs. Ideal as evening filler, you relaunch one more mini-game without a second thought.
