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Hi, I'm Jopagu. She/they pronouns please :)
I don’t play much avoidance so my diff ratings on those might be scuffed.
Clears list is all the games I played before I started reviewing them. I'm trying to slowly go through those and replay/review them all.
I review games based on how much I would recommend them to others. 0s are reserved for games I do not recommend for ethical reasons. This does not mean I have anything against people playing or enjoying those games.
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Jopagu
For: How I See World In Desaturated Colors
For: How I See World In Desaturated Colors
An incredible artistic needle game. I just love the way everything is put together, from there being multiple paths, to the static visuals, to the story intermissions. The story is haunting, and makes the game really stand out to me. I love artistry like this in fangames, but I find it's often found in 70+ difficulty games. Seeing this in a beginner friendly game is wonderful.
A lot of people have mentioned the one-sitting requirement. If this scares you, be assured the game is short enough it shouldn't be an issue (I completed it in 20 minutes). If this angers you, perhaps you should consider the game on a deeper level, and put some thought into why the author made this decision.
I don't want to say too much about a game that is quite beautiful when experienced blind. I recommend the game wholeheartedly.
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A lot of people have mentioned the one-sitting requirement. If this scares you, be assured the game is short enough it shouldn't be an issue (I completed it in 20 minutes). If this angers you, perhaps you should consider the game on a deeper level, and put some thought into why the author made this decision.
I don't want to say too much about a game that is quite beautiful when experienced blind. I recommend the game wholeheartedly.
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 40 40
Jun 28, 2025
Jopagu
For: I don't wanna go
For: I don't wanna go
While this is an improvement over the developer's first game, the actual needle design is still quite generic and uninteresting. It's almost entirely named jumps, and as a result the balance suffers. A game with just a few screens should not have one save that's just a gate, and another that's a diamond at the end of other jumps.
The inclusion of gimmicks is a godsend, it always makes a game much more interesting. I highly approve of digging into the engine gimmicks. Particularly with Renex engine, you can make some really unique stuff with the wide variety of options available to you. While dotkid and telekid are great gimmicks on their own, I found their usage here pretty uninspired. The dotkid jumps are just kinda the very basic stuff you expect from every occurrence of dotkid. The telekid isn't really used for anything interesting, just some basic wall climbs.
In addition, the telekid allows for a couple skips. Unsure if this is intentional, but on both screens with the gimmick, the telekid-removers are poorly placed and you can pretty easily bypass them. In both instances, this allows some skips later on. On the second screen of telekid, it allows you to skip the entire rest of the screen.
I think the most interesting thing about the game is the aesthetic. Having the "crunchy" vibe for the visuals and music is cool. I wish it influenced the needle a bit more. Needle with crunchy/messy vibes is really cool to me, but this game is unfortunately pretty standard in its design.
One minor complaint I have is the confusing use of save blockers. Sometimes you can make a segment much easier by shooting a save that lacks blockers, sometimes you can't. In one case, there are two saves in a line with no blocker in between. This means that shooting from the right with save you twice, once with a delay. This can be annoying cause if you try to save and then jump, the second save will then hit and save you in midair.
Another thing is that most of the text is chosen to use colors that collide with the background, making it very difficult to read. This is a neat part of the aesthetic for the most part. However, I dislike doing it for the options menu. It's impossible to read the options, making it hard to do things like change volume or controls. I feel like the options menu should've been drawn differently to avoid this - it doesn't contribute enough to the aesthetic to be worth sacrificing the ability to change settings.
This game also has a few things I critiqued from the developer's previous game. Namely, the strange decision of making hard the first difficulty that comes up when creating a save, and the laziness in not renaming the game in the titlebar.
Overall, a solid improvement from the first game. Including gimmicks and experimenting with unique aesthetics is a huge plus. However, still brought down significantly by generic design and poor save balancing.
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The inclusion of gimmicks is a godsend, it always makes a game much more interesting. I highly approve of digging into the engine gimmicks. Particularly with Renex engine, you can make some really unique stuff with the wide variety of options available to you. While dotkid and telekid are great gimmicks on their own, I found their usage here pretty uninspired. The dotkid jumps are just kinda the very basic stuff you expect from every occurrence of dotkid. The telekid isn't really used for anything interesting, just some basic wall climbs.
In addition, the telekid allows for a couple skips. Unsure if this is intentional, but on both screens with the gimmick, the telekid-removers are poorly placed and you can pretty easily bypass them. In both instances, this allows some skips later on. On the second screen of telekid, it allows you to skip the entire rest of the screen.
I think the most interesting thing about the game is the aesthetic. Having the "crunchy" vibe for the visuals and music is cool. I wish it influenced the needle a bit more. Needle with crunchy/messy vibes is really cool to me, but this game is unfortunately pretty standard in its design.
One minor complaint I have is the confusing use of save blockers. Sometimes you can make a segment much easier by shooting a save that lacks blockers, sometimes you can't. In one case, there are two saves in a line with no blocker in between. This means that shooting from the right with save you twice, once with a delay. This can be annoying cause if you try to save and then jump, the second save will then hit and save you in midair.
Another thing is that most of the text is chosen to use colors that collide with the background, making it very difficult to read. This is a neat part of the aesthetic for the most part. However, I dislike doing it for the options menu. It's impossible to read the options, making it hard to do things like change volume or controls. I feel like the options menu should've been drawn differently to avoid this - it doesn't contribute enough to the aesthetic to be worth sacrificing the ability to change settings.
This game also has a few things I critiqued from the developer's previous game. Namely, the strange decision of making hard the first difficulty that comes up when creating a save, and the laziness in not renaming the game in the titlebar.
Overall, a solid improvement from the first game. Including gimmicks and experimenting with unique aesthetics is a huge plus. However, still brought down significantly by generic design and poor save balancing.
Rating: 4.0 40
Difficulty: 35 35
Jun 27, 2025
Jopagu
For: I wanna silly needlur
For: I wanna silly needlur
A low effort needle game that is almost entirely named jumps strung together lazily. The game is not even particularly creative with which named jumps it uses, managing to fit multiple diamonds and 9 jumps in three short screens. The difficulty balance is all over the place, it doesn't seem like the creator understood which jumps are actually difficult. For example, one save starts with a frustrating corner into a water grab, then the subsequent save is a single easy jump.
The game throws in some default gimmicks, like a single jump refresher, a gravity arrow that's used for one gate jump, and a couple basic platform and vine jumps. I felt like this was wasted potential, as each of these was put in almost as an afterthought. I feel like the game could've used them in a more significant way, but instead they're just filler between named jumps.
One bizarre decision is that "hard" difficulty is selected by default when you make a new save. If you just quickly create a save like you would in any other fangame, you'll end up on hard. I thought that perhaps the game was designed around this difficulty, but I don't feel like that is the case. The placement of wuss saves on the second screen gives a reasonable balance of save lengths, and their removal throws that balance off a good deal. I really feel like the creator should've made "medium" the default, as it is in most other fangames.
The game ends with the default renex engine clear screen. I've always found this kind of reuse of engine screens to be the height of laziness. In addition, the game's titlebar isn't changed to be the game's name, instead left as the engine default. I struggle to comprehend how someone puts in the effort to make their own game, but is too lazy to fully make it their own by changing engine defaults.
One other note - the game comes included with its entire source. All this really does is bloat the file size. I imagine 90+% of people are just here to play the game, not look at its internals. While I admire making your game open source (I do the same for my games), I would suggest hosting the files somewhere else, such as github.
Overall, a lazily put together generic needle game with a few odd design choices that drag it down even farther. I wouldn't really recommend this at all.
The game throws in some default gimmicks, like a single jump refresher, a gravity arrow that's used for one gate jump, and a couple basic platform and vine jumps. I felt like this was wasted potential, as each of these was put in almost as an afterthought. I feel like the game could've used them in a more significant way, but instead they're just filler between named jumps.
One bizarre decision is that "hard" difficulty is selected by default when you make a new save. If you just quickly create a save like you would in any other fangame, you'll end up on hard. I thought that perhaps the game was designed around this difficulty, but I don't feel like that is the case. The placement of wuss saves on the second screen gives a reasonable balance of save lengths, and their removal throws that balance off a good deal. I really feel like the creator should've made "medium" the default, as it is in most other fangames.
The game ends with the default renex engine clear screen. I've always found this kind of reuse of engine screens to be the height of laziness. In addition, the game's titlebar isn't changed to be the game's name, instead left as the engine default. I struggle to comprehend how someone puts in the effort to make their own game, but is too lazy to fully make it their own by changing engine defaults.
One other note - the game comes included with its entire source. All this really does is bloat the file size. I imagine 90+% of people are just here to play the game, not look at its internals. While I admire making your game open source (I do the same for my games), I would suggest hosting the files somewhere else, such as github.
Overall, a lazily put together generic needle game with a few odd design choices that drag it down even farther. I wouldn't really recommend this at all.
Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 3.0 30
Difficulty: 40 40
Jun 26, 2025
Jopagu
For: I wanna climb the holy tower
For: I wanna climb the holy tower
A pleasant 100 floor game that should be beatable by even brand new players. Unlike most easy 100 floor games, this one never gets boring, instead introducing new gimmicks for each stage, with some of them bringing completely different styles of gameplay.
While the platforming and bosses are relatively simple, they do a good job of remaining engaging without ever being very difficult. One of the highlights of the game is the traps, of which several are very funny.
I always like seeing high quality beginner games, and this is no exception. With a variety of interesting stages, funny traps, and neat bosses, this is an easy recommendation.
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While the platforming and bosses are relatively simple, they do a good job of remaining engaging without ever being very difficult. One of the highlights of the game is the traps, of which several are very funny.
I always like seeing high quality beginner games, and this is no exception. With a variety of interesting stages, funny traps, and neat bosses, this is an easy recommendation.
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 35 35
Jun 25, 2025
Jopagu
For: I Wanna Pointillism
For: I Wanna Pointillism
I've always found dotkid to be one of the easiest gimmicks to make fun. Going through really tight gaps and doing double diamonds for free is just cool! I've rarely been disappointed by dotkid needle, but there are only a couple uses of it that feel more interesting and memorable. Pointillism has absolutely crowned that list.
The game starts pretty slow, and even later on there are many screens that are pretty basic, and thus less interesting. But I think this is a game that deserves to be evaluated on its standout screens. And there are several standouts!
I think the very best screens are the ones that have some interesting visual aspect. These play into the "art" theme the most, and actually feel like they belong in this museum. These range from simple but artistically designed visuals, such as the very first screen and the four seasons one, to interesting visual gimmicks, such as many of the symmetry screens and the recursive labyrinth. Given the theming, I am a bit disappointed that the game didn't lean into this kind of screen more, as it feels like what I expect from an art themed game.
The game also has some cool gimmick screens. My favorite here was one of the final screens, that involved solving a sliding tile puzzle. Overall though, gimmick screens were generally more interesting than the vanilla screens, and something I wish the game used a bit more of.
I also quite liked the multi-screen paintings. I think the added space gives a lot of opportunities for interesting design, both visually and in terms of gameplay. The well screen was one of my favorites, the pathing through this one was just really fun.
Overall, Pointillism is a game with some masterfully done screens. This highlights elevate the game, making it one of the most interesting needle games I've seen. My biggest complaints are that the game didn't do the good stuff more! I felt many of the screens were too conservative, and didn't really feel at home with the art theme. However, I would still absolutely recommend this game to most needle fans! Seeing dotkid used in so many interesting ways was super fun.
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The game starts pretty slow, and even later on there are many screens that are pretty basic, and thus less interesting. But I think this is a game that deserves to be evaluated on its standout screens. And there are several standouts!
I think the very best screens are the ones that have some interesting visual aspect. These play into the "art" theme the most, and actually feel like they belong in this museum. These range from simple but artistically designed visuals, such as the very first screen and the four seasons one, to interesting visual gimmicks, such as many of the symmetry screens and the recursive labyrinth. Given the theming, I am a bit disappointed that the game didn't lean into this kind of screen more, as it feels like what I expect from an art themed game.
The game also has some cool gimmick screens. My favorite here was one of the final screens, that involved solving a sliding tile puzzle. Overall though, gimmick screens were generally more interesting than the vanilla screens, and something I wish the game used a bit more of.
I also quite liked the multi-screen paintings. I think the added space gives a lot of opportunities for interesting design, both visually and in terms of gameplay. The well screen was one of my favorites, the pathing through this one was just really fun.
Overall, Pointillism is a game with some masterfully done screens. This highlights elevate the game, making it one of the most interesting needle games I've seen. My biggest complaints are that the game didn't do the good stuff more! I felt many of the screens were too conservative, and didn't really feel at home with the art theme. However, I would still absolutely recommend this game to most needle fans! Seeing dotkid used in so many interesting ways was super fun.
Rating: 9.3 93
Difficulty: 75 75
Jun 25, 2025
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| Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
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| I Wanna Drill To Kill | 50.0 | 9.4 | 6 |
| I Wanna Escape The Clocktower | 32.5 | 5.8 | 5 |
| I Wanna Free the Fortress | 59.0 | 8.3 | 10 |
| The "Needle" | 53.5 | 6.9 | 20 |
| I Wanna [Expunged] the [Expunged] | 18.3 | 8.0 | 12 |
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