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every game i've left a rating or review on i have cleared.
clear list is only used for monumental or impactful clears, or my favourite clears.
(My favourite games tab is different to my clears tab).
I don't tend to give rating or difficulty values anymore, since it's meaningless and was demotivating to be placed alongside people who didn't play through the game, or can't tell the difference between a problem with the game or themselves.
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137 Ratings!
64 Reviews!
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notmaxwell
For: AsTatine
For: AsTatine
rating based off a blind playthrough that never used the route image or any video references. this game has consistently poorly designed jumps, blind jumps, kind of silly align moments (with practically invisible black-on-black kid feet), and doesn't even pull off the needle design it goes for with the maze, the second half of the maze is incredibly obvious for the most part and is almost linear, whilst the first half is unbelievably unintuitive and not fun in the slightest. I'm convinced not many people have actually played this without looking at the cheat sheet, as it is not designed well at all, i don't think this game pulls the maze off properly, and even then the actual needle is horribly unbalanced, unfun, and poorly designed with an unreasonable amount of blind jumps, awkward maneuvers or unrealistically tight jumps in the middle or ends of saves. Some points for the visuals. Maybe this is fun if you spoil yourself on the route, but I feel like me suggesting to do that would be on the same level as "Cool puzzle game if you look at the answers". Also this game has a somewhat substantial skip that goes over ~5 or so saves, it's not problematic if you're looking at the answer sheet but stuff like this kind of sucks for blind players, as it appears to be the intended route (or just a different split path (this is another complaint i have with this game, i found it somewhat disappointing after clearing as there's only one route to take, unless you do that skip, it's basically a linear game hidden behind a bunch of frustration for blind players)). Also there's a jump that has a valign range where it's impossible. Also there's a visual bug especially on the last save after restarting.
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Rating: 2.2 22
Difficulty: 70 70
May 15, 2026
notmaxwell
For: chylomlensitpratlic
For: chylomlensitpratlic
Extremely unique and cool needle game.
The theme of this game is executed extremely well, both in needle design and visuals. Visually I think it's really cool well-made, the tileset is pleasant and the inverted side of the screen also includes an inverted version of the player, which makes it quite satisfying to look at. There's also some cool neat touches, the transition between from the 2nd to 3rd save is really cool, and it's genuinely just super unique for a difficult needle game like this. This game is on the shorter side, having only 3 saves, the first is a symmetrical precision save, I enjoyed it and think it's well-done, albeit not as interesting as the inverted saves but I think it's a cool introduction. Of the main 2 saves, I found the first to be a considerable amount more difficult than the second, but not by a problematic amount.
This game has really cool needle design, it looks absurd on first glance, the pathing isn't immediately obvious, and it's extremely dense while being limited to half of the screen. It looks intimidating, and somewhat even puzzling at first to figure out what the intended path is, and I think that's awesome. It's different, it might not be appealing to some but I found it extremely fun, there's some odd maneuvers especially on the 2nd save that end up getting extremely consistent and enjoyable to pull off, and overall it's just an extremely unique experience with how the needle plays- it seems randomly made or unrealistic at first, but I think it's incredibly well made. Third save is also quite nice, albeit a decent bit more simple and easier in execution, but I still found it to be quite cool of a save.
I really like this game's needle design, it's so unique from other difficult needle games and i believe it really executed it well. The visuals are cool too, theme is awesome and is also unique, overall clearing this game was an incredibly different and fun experience. My only complaints here, is that the game does seem to crash after ~10 minutes of being open, alongside that there was a certain save ( 2nd save ) that lagged a lot for me, but it could be a hardware problem on my end. I'd highly recommend playing this, even blind (as i did, and i really enjoyed it).
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The theme of this game is executed extremely well, both in needle design and visuals. Visually I think it's really cool well-made, the tileset is pleasant and the inverted side of the screen also includes an inverted version of the player, which makes it quite satisfying to look at. There's also some cool neat touches, the transition between from the 2nd to 3rd save is really cool, and it's genuinely just super unique for a difficult needle game like this. This game is on the shorter side, having only 3 saves, the first is a symmetrical precision save, I enjoyed it and think it's well-done, albeit not as interesting as the inverted saves but I think it's a cool introduction. Of the main 2 saves, I found the first to be a considerable amount more difficult than the second, but not by a problematic amount.
This game has really cool needle design, it looks absurd on first glance, the pathing isn't immediately obvious, and it's extremely dense while being limited to half of the screen. It looks intimidating, and somewhat even puzzling at first to figure out what the intended path is, and I think that's awesome. It's different, it might not be appealing to some but I found it extremely fun, there's some odd maneuvers especially on the 2nd save that end up getting extremely consistent and enjoyable to pull off, and overall it's just an extremely unique experience with how the needle plays- it seems randomly made or unrealistic at first, but I think it's incredibly well made. Third save is also quite nice, albeit a decent bit more simple and easier in execution, but I still found it to be quite cool of a save.
I really like this game's needle design, it's so unique from other difficult needle games and i believe it really executed it well. The visuals are cool too, theme is awesome and is also unique, overall clearing this game was an incredibly different and fun experience. My only complaints here, is that the game does seem to crash after ~10 minutes of being open, alongside that there was a certain save ( 2nd save ) that lagged a lot for me, but it could be a hardware problem on my end. I'd highly recommend playing this, even blind (as i did, and i really enjoyed it).
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 88 88
May 14, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Radiance
For: Radiance
very difficult setup needle game, looks somewhat interesting but the single screenshot of this game displayed on this site is basically the entire game, nothing outside of a 2 screen long room was even changed off the default engine template. I don't really know why you wouldn't put the minuscule amount of effort in to change anything in this game, it's frustrating as it's a very challenging game, so it's not a quick experience, with games of this difficulty it should be expected that the player spends quite a decent amount of time with them, so it's not really 'high quality' (or truthfully any quality at all) to just go in, place down some subpar needle gameplay and then do nothing with the game, the creator didn't even bother adding any saves into the game, there's just no effort or care across the whole board. As mentioned before, this game is just a single save across 2 screens, general structuring is probably the best thing this game has for offer, as it's pretty cool, background and tiles are decent although it's just recoloured guy tiles. The actual needle is sadly not great, I can't say there's a single jump in this whole game i'd really deem good, except for maybe the last sphincter of screen 1 but it's not a unique jump anyway. Screen 1 starts off with an annoying run-up to a forced cancel, it's just silly and a time-waster. The ledge plane's existence conveys to me that there's no real consideration for good intuitive needle gameplay. Screen 1 isn't anything too hard but it's just not very fun and feels terribly inconsistent and annoying to play. I don't like the turnaround with the prefinal jump (not sphincter) and i dont like the start of the final jump but those might just be nitpicks. There's also the 'double gate, 5 diagonals' jump in the middle, which is just an unfun usage of the most bare-bones basic named jumps. Screen 2 starts with whats likely the best jump of the whole save, which is a pretty fun (albeit easy) drop. Then it just throws 3 super f's at you for unknown reasons, it's also not particularly difficult it just asks the question of "why?". The water jump also brings the same notion except on a much larger scale, this is the only water usage in the whole game, and it's not a fitting jump, I don't know why it's here, it's unlike every other jump in this save so far and it's just arbitrary and inconsistent, the fact it's into a ledge aswell is kind of obnoxious. Then it's just a 1f corner, an invert and a double invert, plus a forced cancel in the middle of the screen. I'm unsure if any actual consideration was put into the needle gameplay of this game, as especially on screen 2 there's a good amount of just, random named jumps that don't bring anything worthwhile to the table. I didn't have a fun time with this game but I had atrocious hardware problems that ended up killing me at the final inverts ~7 times, etc. I believe someone could enjoy this game, and have a fun time with it, but I can't really say I think it's of decent quality either, everything in this game is just yoyoyo engine default, except 2 screens of mainly named jumps & unfun needle.
Review was a bit of a complain-sesh, but there's just not much *to* enjoy in this game. The general idea of the structuring is actually pretty neat though, if the needle was better then I could definitely see myself quite liking this game. I'm aware the default template stuff might be as a result of the creator trying to go for the "ftfa-like" genre, but the needle is not ftfa-like, alongside the menus, clear screen, etc.
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Review was a bit of a complain-sesh, but there's just not much *to* enjoy in this game. The general idea of the structuring is actually pretty neat though, if the needle was better then I could definitely see myself quite liking this game. I'm aware the default template stuff might be as a result of the creator trying to go for the "ftfa-like" genre, but the needle is not ftfa-like, alongside the menus, clear screen, etc.
Rating: 1.7 17
Difficulty: 92 92
May 3, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I Wanna ふなし The UFO
For: I Wanna ふなし The UFO
This game is broken and borderline unplayable on win11. I've tried patching it, using the optimization kit & compatibility settings but nothing seems to fix these problems. The game lags down to ~10fps for multiple seconds at a time every ~30 seconds or so, rendering an instant death. This happens absurdly commonly, to where it killed me deep into the save. This is already terrible for a ~90+ difficulty needle save, just having rng faultless deaths every less than a minute. To add onto this, there's input delay & 2 inputs on 1 frame is inconsistent, numpad is broken, 1f movement is also inconsistent and broken at times (and using numpad trick to move by 1f doesn't work, as it'll move you by 2f often), it's unplayable. Clearing this needle screen outside of this game is vastly easier than ingame, so i'd recommend to anyone looking to play this on windows 11 to make\use some port into a more updated current engine.
Actual gameplay is really questionable, there's an insanely difficult 14f 2-3p fj & fp turnaround, which is an insanely nasty jump deep into the save, followed up by another low pause off a long jumpheight, which is hardware-dependent, and the save overall has so many inconsistent jumps scattered around, there's multiple fp directional key jumps, some visually vague such as the bottom middle jump, overall these just end up feeling pretty mediocre to pull off and frustrating to die to. Top right jump to clear is actually pretty fun and cool, but it's considerably the easiest part of the save, so attempts never really get here. Valign shower in game window, which is cool, and fps counter aswell so you can see how many times the game lags down.
The visuals of this game are cool, and i think it's pretty interesting, i like the menus and difficulty select, so there's some positives. I wouldn't really suggest playing this, 100% against if you are on windows 11. Rating is not taking into account such windows 11 problems, even though this game is kinda recent (2022)
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Actual gameplay is really questionable, there's an insanely difficult 14f 2-3p fj & fp turnaround, which is an insanely nasty jump deep into the save, followed up by another low pause off a long jumpheight, which is hardware-dependent, and the save overall has so many inconsistent jumps scattered around, there's multiple fp directional key jumps, some visually vague such as the bottom middle jump, overall these just end up feeling pretty mediocre to pull off and frustrating to die to. Top right jump to clear is actually pretty fun and cool, but it's considerably the easiest part of the save, so attempts never really get here. Valign shower in game window, which is cool, and fps counter aswell so you can see how many times the game lags down.
The visuals of this game are cool, and i think it's pretty interesting, i like the menus and difficulty select, so there's some positives. I wouldn't really suggest playing this, 100% against if you are on windows 11. Rating is not taking into account such windows 11 problems, even though this game is kinda recent (2022)
Rating: 2.0 20
Difficulty: 91 91
Apr 28, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Blueberry Mochi
For: Blueberry Mochi
this version is harder than a maker clear, as there's no directional 1f tap fix and the fruit jump on scrn2 benefits heavily from such, alongside numpad rarely even let me do cancels \ 1fs here, and almost always ignored my inputs and did a 2f, which impacted my experience quite heavily aswell.
there's some very good needle gameplay here, some fun and consistent jumps, but there's also the 2 sphincters, both are the hardest jumps of the whole save by quite a bit, i personally found the one on scrn1 to be a good bit harder than the final jump. I'm unsure what i think of the balancing idea of putting a very hard choke jump at the end of a save like this, but i don't think i'm actually against such, I was more impacted by the movement problems and my own skill issue. I think i would prefer this save much more if the sphincter on scrn1 wasn't how it currently is, as it kinda detracted from that general notion and turned the save more infuriating.
the game has a cool background and good vibe though, gafro did well in porting this over from maker and it's not a low effort port, if interested in this game i'd just recommend expecting it to be a harsh experience.
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there's some very good needle gameplay here, some fun and consistent jumps, but there's also the 2 sphincters, both are the hardest jumps of the whole save by quite a bit, i personally found the one on scrn1 to be a good bit harder than the final jump. I'm unsure what i think of the balancing idea of putting a very hard choke jump at the end of a save like this, but i don't think i'm actually against such, I was more impacted by the movement problems and my own skill issue. I think i would prefer this save much more if the sphincter on scrn1 wasn't how it currently is, as it kinda detracted from that general notion and turned the save more infuriating.
the game has a cool background and good vibe though, gafro did well in porting this over from maker and it's not a low effort port, if interested in this game i'd just recommend expecting it to be a harsh experience.
Rating: 6.9 69
Difficulty: 80 80
Apr 26, 2026
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