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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).
Best clear: I wanna hold right (97.5 Difficulty, 0.15 rating.)
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102 Ratings!
32 Reviews!
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102 Games
32 Reviews
notmaxwell
For: I Want My Struggles To Like Me Again
For: I Want My Struggles To Like Me Again
I really love this game, it's a very good experience with fun needle gameplay with a few not-too encumbering gimmicks, has beautiful visuals which i loved, great soundtrack, and an overall vibe and story that just added to the experience. It's around a hour or two long, depending on your needle skill, so it's a good length and not too short. (Game length spoilers, I'd recommend going into this game completely blind personally)
Alike Oti's other game, I played this at midnight in complete darkness, I would actually recommend other people do so (just playing it in darkness in general, though, be warned, you will get flashbanged..) as it really immerses you into the game's atmosphere and is such a cool experience.
The game itself going into more detail comprises of darker visuals and elements, but a really cool and enjoyable ending aswell, i personally loved the long save at the end, and the ice vines too, from what i've seen making good needle gameplay at this difficulty range with long saves is pretty difficult to do so in a fair way especially when the player doesn't know how long the save is, but i think this game does it right, massive props (ending stage spoilers)
overall, really nice visuals that were a massive vibe with good atmosphere, great soundtrack, good gameplay and not too difficult, hard recommend.
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Alike Oti's other game, I played this at midnight in complete darkness, I would actually recommend other people do so (just playing it in darkness in general, though, be warned, you will get flashbanged..) as it really immerses you into the game's atmosphere and is such a cool experience.
The game itself going into more detail comprises of darker visuals and elements, but a really cool and enjoyable ending aswell, i personally loved the long save at the end, and the ice vines too, from what i've seen making good needle gameplay at this difficulty range with long saves is pretty difficult to do so in a fair way especially when the player doesn't know how long the save is, but i think this game does it right, massive props (ending stage spoilers)
overall, really nice visuals that were a massive vibe with good atmosphere, great soundtrack, good gameplay and not too difficult, hard recommend.
Rating: 10.0 100
Difficulty: 60 60
Aug 26, 2025
notmaxwell
For: How I See World In Desaturated Colors
For: How I See World In Desaturated Colors
I love it. I played this game at midnight in the complete darkness and alongside with the incredible atmosphere it makes for a one of a kind experience, the game is especially fun aswell with good gimmicks and great gameplay, perfect balancing, no issues at all, and the emotion behind it and genuine care, effort, and soul put into the game genuinely shows, i'm only not giving this a 10 because i haven't played enough fangames to iron-out my ranking system yet but in the future i very well might change it to such, genuinely an all-time favourite game of mine and it resonates with me quite well. Play this!
Update: I'm realising I didn't really talk about the *contents* of the game itself, rather talking about my experience, which was great ofc, but the game is just in general really high quality, it's a darker atmosphere than most needle games in this difficulty range, and the visuals consist of well, desaturated places, with enough variance in the design that it's not repetitive or anything, I really enjoyed these environments, good ambience and music aswell that helped add to the atmosphere. I'll now talk about the story, i see a good few people labelling it edgy and so on, and i guess i can't deny it falls into that category, but, it's really good, i do quite like the ending, quite a lot actually, i think it's done super well, yes, including the music cut-off and the semi-loud jumpscare (ending spoilers) but you can see how the story affects the world around it. Also the gameplay is really nice, it introduces some casual good gimmicks that aren't too heavily complicated or confusing and don't take up the entirety of the gameplay either, it's a good balance.
Also I actually think the gimmick that is stated explicitly in the README.txt file That you should read before playing the game is good. I completely understand not liking the game as much because of such, but, I've seen atleast 2 reviews on here saying that it is completely not mentioned or warned about, which is just wrong. And i think it adds to the game personally, it makes the game feel more personal and not persay replicatable, and well, it also ties into the story in a great way, but i'd get not finding the game as fun as a result, but i think it's actually innovative and cool imo..
Overall, hard recommend, read the file called readme though, but it's not a bad gimmick or anything, and, it's a great game and i truely love it, amazing experience going through this in the dead of night in complete darkness :)
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Update: I'm realising I didn't really talk about the *contents* of the game itself, rather talking about my experience, which was great ofc, but the game is just in general really high quality, it's a darker atmosphere than most needle games in this difficulty range, and the visuals consist of well, desaturated places, with enough variance in the design that it's not repetitive or anything, I really enjoyed these environments, good ambience and music aswell that helped add to the atmosphere. I'll now talk about the story, i see a good few people labelling it edgy and so on, and i guess i can't deny it falls into that category, but, it's really good, i do quite like the ending, quite a lot actually, i think it's done super well, yes, including the music cut-off and the semi-loud jumpscare (ending spoilers) but you can see how the story affects the world around it. Also the gameplay is really nice, it introduces some casual good gimmicks that aren't too heavily complicated or confusing and don't take up the entirety of the gameplay either, it's a good balance.
Also I actually think the gimmick that is stated explicitly in the README.txt file That you should read before playing the game is good. I completely understand not liking the game as much because of such, but, I've seen atleast 2 reviews on here saying that it is completely not mentioned or warned about, which is just wrong. And i think it adds to the game personally, it makes the game feel more personal and not persay replicatable, and well, it also ties into the story in a great way, but i'd get not finding the game as fun as a result, but i think it's actually innovative and cool imo..
Overall, hard recommend, read the file called readme though, but it's not a bad gimmick or anything, and, it's a great game and i truely love it, amazing experience going through this in the dead of night in complete darkness :)
Rating: 9.7 97
Difficulty: 40 40
Aug 23, 2025
notmaxwell
For: I Wanna Healthy
For: I Wanna Healthy
Considering i'm the only rating on this below 5.5 i feel like i require an explanation - I really didn't enjoy this game, I mean, some saves are good, but the main issue i had was balancing, especially todo with the water save & the last save. I also didn't like how the 2nd to last save appears symmetrical but actually isn't and blocks you off from going the right-side path, but circling back to the last save the ledge is really not the greatest and overall the screen just felt inconsistent.
Then again, everyone else seems to have enjoyed this so maybe don't take this review with a considerable amount of realism to it, but I really didn't enjoy playing this, I took 16 minutes ingame to clear and i think ¬70% of that time was on 2 or 3 screens specifically, I found it incredibly unbalanced and the harder saves to be really unfun.
on the contrary, those easier saves are quite good gameplay, and are pretty enjoyable, so i'd still probably recommend this just maybe not if this isn't considerably below your skill level
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Then again, everyone else seems to have enjoyed this so maybe don't take this review with a considerable amount of realism to it, but I really didn't enjoy playing this, I took 16 minutes ingame to clear and i think ¬70% of that time was on 2 or 3 screens specifically, I found it incredibly unbalanced and the harder saves to be really unfun.
on the contrary, those easier saves are quite good gameplay, and are pretty enjoyable, so i'd still probably recommend this just maybe not if this isn't considerably below your skill level
Rating: 3.0 30
Difficulty: 60 60
Aug 23, 2025
notmaxwell
For: Not Another Needle Game
For: Not Another Needle Game
I'll update this when I 100% Clear it, so for now the review applies to the bad ending without the use of any TNT (for non-spoilers, it's not 100%)
I do think it's an amazing game overall, it's incredibly high quality and has so much charm to it, I also think all the positives have already been well-stated by other reviewers, but it is a great amount of fun with so many good gimmicks that have been well used and is very funny aswell.
my only real complaint is that there is no pause menu, at first admittedly i was hesitant on pressing esc incase i had to re-launch the whole game again, and this might be schizophrenia, but i swear, when i was perfectly safe sometimes i would be afk and die when not looking at the screen after a while... maybe this game is just haunted though (this didn't change my rating given ofc dont worry)
otherwise, i did think screens 170-180 were too difficult or just inconsistent, i found room 180 to be possibly the easiest aswell other than the last jump before the 2nd save, and many of the other rooms were somewhat demotivating to play due to having very quick inputs back to back, atleast i found it that my keyboard did not want to co-operate sometimes, and in general i think they are such a difficulty spike, the rest of the game is like ~40-50 diff needle gameplay if you have a base understanding of each gimmick, and then i found those 10 rooms to be ~60 diff, i also think it's a big of a weird state for new players, because i could see those 10 rooms to be incredibly infuriating for players who would have to spend a considerable amount of time on them, but overall, i didn't find it too be much of an issue, certainly not enough to lower the rating much, and i'd still recommend it.
overall, game is amazing, love it, would highly recommend, will be going for the 100% clear soon after i finish some other things aswell!
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I do think it's an amazing game overall, it's incredibly high quality and has so much charm to it, I also think all the positives have already been well-stated by other reviewers, but it is a great amount of fun with so many good gimmicks that have been well used and is very funny aswell.
my only real complaint is that there is no pause menu, at first admittedly i was hesitant on pressing esc incase i had to re-launch the whole game again, and this might be schizophrenia, but i swear, when i was perfectly safe sometimes i would be afk and die when not looking at the screen after a while... maybe this game is just haunted though (this didn't change my rating given ofc dont worry)
otherwise, i did think screens 170-180 were too difficult or just inconsistent, i found room 180 to be possibly the easiest aswell other than the last jump before the 2nd save, and many of the other rooms were somewhat demotivating to play due to having very quick inputs back to back, atleast i found it that my keyboard did not want to co-operate sometimes, and in general i think they are such a difficulty spike, the rest of the game is like ~40-50 diff needle gameplay if you have a base understanding of each gimmick, and then i found those 10 rooms to be ~60 diff, i also think it's a big of a weird state for new players, because i could see those 10 rooms to be incredibly infuriating for players who would have to spend a considerable amount of time on them, but overall, i didn't find it too be much of an issue, certainly not enough to lower the rating much, and i'd still recommend it.
overall, game is amazing, love it, would highly recommend, will be going for the 100% clear soon after i finish some other things aswell!
Rating: 9.5 95
Difficulty: 66 66
Aug 23, 2025
notmaxwell
For: Conforming Needle
For: Conforming Needle
conforming needle: yeah im challenging jumps
this game is really good actually, caught my attention randomly when going through delfruit and thought i'd give it a try and it turned out to be one of my favourite ftfa-like screens that i've played, and possibly my favourite for it's difficulty behind actual ftfa screens.
(almost) all the jumps in this have good visual cues, intuitive, good setups, and overall become very consistent, especially for a 32px needle game this is really impressive, the first 3 and last 2 jumps were personally my favourite, i did find the jump with a plane to be a bit iffy on quality, specifically the visual setup for the jump, but i don't even really think its *bad* just less great than the others. I should also mention that i took ~4h to clear, and, for ~3h 20m of that playtime i took the *wrong align* for that jump, and made it incomparably harder than it actually is, and struggled with it so so badly and got very mad at it when it was completely my fault :sob: < this also makes me unsure on the game's difficulty, because after finding out to not take that align i was able to get to the last 2 jumps every ~5-8 minutes or so, since every other jump is really well-designed and consistent.
I'm also mentioning that this game has backspace for valign and a really nice practice mode which just help add to the quality of it, overall it's just well made and a really good screen of difficult needle, and it's always a really good sight to see, the only real reason i'm not giving this a higher rating even though it's some of my favourite jumps & overall screen is because it's so short, it would be amazing to see more screens similar to this and it has a whole lot of potential imo.
Save 1: 6139 Deaths, Time: 02:33:44 (Intended)
Save 2: 3103 Deaths, Time: 01:11:11 (Practice) (i'm not lying about that number that's crazy)
+ ~20 min from remaking the screen in maker
12 deaths to the 2nd last jump, 5 deaths to the last jump
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this game is really good actually, caught my attention randomly when going through delfruit and thought i'd give it a try and it turned out to be one of my favourite ftfa-like screens that i've played, and possibly my favourite for it's difficulty behind actual ftfa screens.
(almost) all the jumps in this have good visual cues, intuitive, good setups, and overall become very consistent, especially for a 32px needle game this is really impressive, the first 3 and last 2 jumps were personally my favourite, i did find the jump with a plane to be a bit iffy on quality, specifically the visual setup for the jump, but i don't even really think its *bad* just less great than the others. I should also mention that i took ~4h to clear, and, for ~3h 20m of that playtime i took the *wrong align* for that jump, and made it incomparably harder than it actually is, and struggled with it so so badly and got very mad at it when it was completely my fault :sob: < this also makes me unsure on the game's difficulty, because after finding out to not take that align i was able to get to the last 2 jumps every ~5-8 minutes or so, since every other jump is really well-designed and consistent.
I'm also mentioning that this game has backspace for valign and a really nice practice mode which just help add to the quality of it, overall it's just well made and a really good screen of difficult needle, and it's always a really good sight to see, the only real reason i'm not giving this a higher rating even though it's some of my favourite jumps & overall screen is because it's so short, it would be amazing to see more screens similar to this and it has a whole lot of potential imo.
Save 1: 6139 Deaths, Time: 02:33:44 (Intended)
Save 2: 3103 Deaths, Time: 01:11:11 (Practice) (i'm not lying about that number that's crazy)
+ ~20 min from remaking the screen in maker
12 deaths to the 2nd last jump, 5 deaths to the last jump
Rating: 8.0 80
Difficulty: 77 77
Aug 19, 2025
1 Game
| Game | Difficulty | Average Rating | # of Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|
| crude riverbed | 62.5 | 8.5 | 4 |
22 Favorite Games
| Game | Difficulty | User's Rating |
|---|---|---|
| I wanna break through Seven trials | 60.0 | 7.7 |
| I wanna fly the Far away | 83.0 | 3.0 |
| Not Another Needle Game | 66.0 | 9.5 |
| Decession | 92.0 | 10.0 |
| Synæsthesia | 86.0 | 9.6 |
| Float. | 60.0 | 9.4 |
| I Wanna Eat the Winter King | 93.0 | 8.7 |
| I wanna Ascend | N/A | N/A |
| I Wanna Get Rid Of TV | 60.0 | 9.3 |
| I'll be here | 91.0 | 8.5 |
| sick | N/A | N/A |
| How I See World In Desaturated Colors | 40.0 | 9.7 |
| Best Year | 55.0 | 10.0 |
| So cute～ | 60.0 | 8.2 |
| I Wanna Black Another | 80.0 | 9.7 |
| I Want My Struggles To Like Me Again | 60.0 | 10.0 |
| I Wanna Remember | N/A | N/A |
| I Wanna Wane | N/A | N/A |
| I Wanna Feel The Cold Soil Press Down Upon My Chest | N/A | N/A |
| I Wanna Defeat the TeamChobol | N/A | N/A |
| I Wanna Descend | 85.0 | 8.6 |
| SONAFLEKI | N/A | N/A |
15 Cleared Games
| Game | Difficulty | User's Rating |
|---|---|---|
| I wanna break through Seven trials | 60.0 | 7.7 |
| I wanna fly the Far away | 83.0 | 3.0 |
| I Wanna Be the Hades | 67.0 | 7.2 |
| I wanna be the DLすんな | 85.0 | 0.5 |
| Decession | 92.0 | 10.0 |
| Synæsthesia | 86.0 | 9.6 |
| I wanna be the DLしとけ | 81.0 | 0.4 |
| I Wanna Eat the Winter King | 93.0 | 8.7 |
| I wanna Escape the Sleepywood | 87.0 | 3.5 |
| I Wanna Escape And Be Free | 87.0 | 7.0 |
| I'll be here | 91.0 | 8.5 |
| I wanna Marcescence | 87.0 | 4.0 |
| Conforming Needle | 77.0 | 8.0 |
| I Wanna Black Another | 80.0 | 9.7 |
| I Wanna Descend | 85.0 | 8.6 |