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every game i've left a rating or review on i have cleared.
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(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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notmaxwell
For: I wanna Escape the Sleepywood
For: I wanna Escape the Sleepywood
Alright 32px setup needle game or ftfa-like.
Visually there isn't much, especially for an ftfa-like, there isn't really any effort on structuring, which does make it seem a bit distinct from what i'd generally call ftfa-like with it's open-ness. Alongside this, the game just has a default unchanged clear screen, which is pretty disappointing to see. Overall even for an ftfa-like it's not really anything special visually & it doesn't really try to be so either. Presumably the game is focusing more on the gameplay department, which in my opinion also isn't anything great by any means. There's a few cool jumps, the first 5f & the 2 final 5fs are all interesting enough, satisfying & consistent alongside the 6f 3f which is decently unique and fun (+ the 4f wallhug fj is also quite nice). All these jumps are on the easier side of jumps in this game though (atleast in my opinion) as sadly the hardest jump in this game by a significant proportion is the fj frame perfect 8f turnaround to grab align 0 in the middle of the screen, it's a really difficult and pretty evil jump, I found that it takes a decent while to get consistent at and isn't the most responsive jump to play. It's position doesn't help either, it's effectively a big wall in the middle of the save. Furthermore, the 18f 1-3p fj inbetween inverts is also a kind of irritating jump, but that might just be me.
Overall the game has a few fun things in it, but I wouldn't really recommend playing it to clear, it's not a very fun experience and is quite unbalanced with the harder jumps being on the more annoying side. There's also admittedly not much going for it truthfully, it's quite basic even for a ftfa-like.
[0] Likes
Visually there isn't much, especially for an ftfa-like, there isn't really any effort on structuring, which does make it seem a bit distinct from what i'd generally call ftfa-like with it's open-ness. Alongside this, the game just has a default unchanged clear screen, which is pretty disappointing to see. Overall even for an ftfa-like it's not really anything special visually & it doesn't really try to be so either. Presumably the game is focusing more on the gameplay department, which in my opinion also isn't anything great by any means. There's a few cool jumps, the first 5f & the 2 final 5fs are all interesting enough, satisfying & consistent alongside the 6f 3f which is decently unique and fun (+ the 4f wallhug fj is also quite nice). All these jumps are on the easier side of jumps in this game though (atleast in my opinion) as sadly the hardest jump in this game by a significant proportion is the fj frame perfect 8f turnaround to grab align 0 in the middle of the screen, it's a really difficult and pretty evil jump, I found that it takes a decent while to get consistent at and isn't the most responsive jump to play. It's position doesn't help either, it's effectively a big wall in the middle of the save. Furthermore, the 18f 1-3p fj inbetween inverts is also a kind of irritating jump, but that might just be me.
Overall the game has a few fun things in it, but I wouldn't really recommend playing it to clear, it's not a very fun experience and is quite unbalanced with the harder jumps being on the more annoying side. There's also admittedly not much going for it truthfully, it's quite basic even for a ftfa-like.
Rating: 3.5 35
Difficulty: 87 87
Mar 13, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I Wanna Escape And Be Free
For: I Wanna Escape And Be Free
Difficulty rating includes visual challenge. Without would be ~82 - 84
Unique 32px setup needle game. Visually amazing, and thematically really good too. You can tell that it has a quite high amount of care and effort put into it which is somewhat rare for stuff like this.
Gameplay wise it's somewhat questionable. Save 1 & 2 are around the same level of difficulty while save 3 is a bit easier, it's different to the rest, and truthfully had me stumped since I was doing the first jump in a horrific way that made it vastly more difficult. Anyway, save 1 is pretty good for the most part, it has a valign jump such as the prefinal 8f which i think is good, and some other jumps such as the plane into corner & the jump before the prefinal that I found enjoyable, on the other hand the first jump is a bit awkward, though it got consistent, and the 12f into corner is also inconsistent, but for reasons i'll mention later. Final jump I personally didn't vibe with much either and ended up figuring out a strategy involving align 2 that made it better, but I still think it's a bit questionable to have it there at the end.
Moving onto screen 2, I really don't like how align 0 is forced upon you if you grab align 2 from screen 1, I know it's the good ledge align, but it's kind of a shame since the ledge jump in screen 2 is one of the hardest, but also least enjoyable jumps by a good bit, it would be a lot better if you were able to save that align, the jump wouldn't be so irritating and inconsistent if align 0 wasn't just immediately put upon the player on the screen transition.
Screen 2 has some banger jumps, the vstring corner and djump I liked, and the final drop & jump into I'm a big fan of, though it is somewhat easy. I did the jump after the valign plane with a 14f and quite liked it, though there's other strats for it. Now on the other hand the top half of this save is diabolical, the first jump is nothing much but the 2nd jump into the forced bad align ledge is pretty iffy, I didn't like it much. Jump from the ledge is unique and I respect it conceptually but I also didn't find it great to pull off, and deaths to it seemed uncontrollable. The valign plane afterwards I'm sort of 50\50 on, I think it's a pretty interesting jump and in isolation I don't think it's bad, it just becomes somewhat frustrating after the 2nd jump & my problems with the visuals heightened this. It's not a terrible save, but it gets pretty annoying due to those jumps at the top of the screen, it's a shame. Also I lowkey died to the choke diagonal at the end but that's not even really the game's fault lmao
Screen 3 I can't talk much on but it plays very differently to all prior screens. First jump is a very cool jump and once consistent does feel awesome to pull off, though using left right priority abuse for it at first does feel unintuitive, but that's fine. The rest of the save I think is pretty good though the ledge into ledge is a wee bit awkward but that's all good.
Now my biggest problem with this game is sadly that the visuals hurt the experience quite a lot. The custom kid sprite is cool as, and I love it, but I don't think it plays well especially on setup needle gameplay as it's a bit longer horizontally (as the feet can sometimes slightly clip into spikes) and vertically from what I can tell. Alongside this, most of the background is pretty dark, and a good chunk of the kid sprite is also dark grey or black, on my laptop (which does have a poor colour range, but albeit it's not that old of a device) I couldn't properly see the kid when in motion, it all became a blur, this affected jumps like the 12f corner turnaround heavily on screen 1 and overall made the game just way harder for me. It's a shame since while the visuals are awesome they do detract from the experience of the game itself, and damn did I find it a lot harder to clear screens with these visuals compared to without. I'd love if there was an option to change the kid sprite to even just a darker coloured version of the default, or maybe a brighter coloured version of this custom sprite but I understand being against that addition.
Overall it's good, I'm kind of conflicted on it though since I didn't really enjoy a lot of it, but I still think it's a pretty good game overall and it does bring a unique experience & has some high spots (but sadly a good few low spots too)
[0] Likes
Unique 32px setup needle game. Visually amazing, and thematically really good too. You can tell that it has a quite high amount of care and effort put into it which is somewhat rare for stuff like this.
Gameplay wise it's somewhat questionable. Save 1 & 2 are around the same level of difficulty while save 3 is a bit easier, it's different to the rest, and truthfully had me stumped since I was doing the first jump in a horrific way that made it vastly more difficult. Anyway, save 1 is pretty good for the most part, it has a valign jump such as the prefinal 8f which i think is good, and some other jumps such as the plane into corner & the jump before the prefinal that I found enjoyable, on the other hand the first jump is a bit awkward, though it got consistent, and the 12f into corner is also inconsistent, but for reasons i'll mention later. Final jump I personally didn't vibe with much either and ended up figuring out a strategy involving align 2 that made it better, but I still think it's a bit questionable to have it there at the end.
Moving onto screen 2, I really don't like how align 0 is forced upon you if you grab align 2 from screen 1, I know it's the good ledge align, but it's kind of a shame since the ledge jump in screen 2 is one of the hardest, but also least enjoyable jumps by a good bit, it would be a lot better if you were able to save that align, the jump wouldn't be so irritating and inconsistent if align 0 wasn't just immediately put upon the player on the screen transition.
Screen 2 has some banger jumps, the vstring corner and djump I liked, and the final drop & jump into I'm a big fan of, though it is somewhat easy. I did the jump after the valign plane with a 14f and quite liked it, though there's other strats for it. Now on the other hand the top half of this save is diabolical, the first jump is nothing much but the 2nd jump into the forced bad align ledge is pretty iffy, I didn't like it much. Jump from the ledge is unique and I respect it conceptually but I also didn't find it great to pull off, and deaths to it seemed uncontrollable. The valign plane afterwards I'm sort of 50\50 on, I think it's a pretty interesting jump and in isolation I don't think it's bad, it just becomes somewhat frustrating after the 2nd jump & my problems with the visuals heightened this. It's not a terrible save, but it gets pretty annoying due to those jumps at the top of the screen, it's a shame. Also I lowkey died to the choke diagonal at the end but that's not even really the game's fault lmao
Screen 3 I can't talk much on but it plays very differently to all prior screens. First jump is a very cool jump and once consistent does feel awesome to pull off, though using left right priority abuse for it at first does feel unintuitive, but that's fine. The rest of the save I think is pretty good though the ledge into ledge is a wee bit awkward but that's all good.
Now my biggest problem with this game is sadly that the visuals hurt the experience quite a lot. The custom kid sprite is cool as, and I love it, but I don't think it plays well especially on setup needle gameplay as it's a bit longer horizontally (as the feet can sometimes slightly clip into spikes) and vertically from what I can tell. Alongside this, most of the background is pretty dark, and a good chunk of the kid sprite is also dark grey or black, on my laptop (which does have a poor colour range, but albeit it's not that old of a device) I couldn't properly see the kid when in motion, it all became a blur, this affected jumps like the 12f corner turnaround heavily on screen 1 and overall made the game just way harder for me. It's a shame since while the visuals are awesome they do detract from the experience of the game itself, and damn did I find it a lot harder to clear screens with these visuals compared to without. I'd love if there was an option to change the kid sprite to even just a darker coloured version of the default, or maybe a brighter coloured version of this custom sprite but I understand being against that addition.
Overall it's good, I'm kind of conflicted on it though since I didn't really enjoy a lot of it, but I still think it's a pretty good game overall and it does bring a unique experience & has some high spots (but sadly a good few low spots too)
Rating: 7.0 70
Difficulty: 87 87
Mar 11, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I Wanna Be The GDeveloper
For: I Wanna Be The GDeveloper
Comparing this game it doesn't really do much or achieve anything but I don't think that's the point of it, it seems to be more of a showcase of loose-ly replicated fangame physics etc in GDevelop (I don't really know what this is, it's my fist time hearing about it).
If this was a game that I'd have to download to play I would understand being quite harsh on it, but the fact I can play it in browser quickly does give it some intrigue, even though it's a very quick game and uses default everything.
I am, inherently posting this review since I think the 0.1 rating is a bit harsh, it seems to be the creator's first game and they had passion to make a fangame in a (to my knowledge, basing of that i've never heard of this before) niche engine thing, giving it a 0.1 instantly with a snarky review calling it both a shitty game and shitty engine just seems unnecessarily mean to a newcomer.
Yes it's not great, the game itself isn't much, and the engine does feel pretty clunky, but c'mon, can't we be at least somewhat nice to people who want to share their passion?
edit: moomoo changed their review to be less harshly worded and not 0.1
[2] Likes
If this was a game that I'd have to download to play I would understand being quite harsh on it, but the fact I can play it in browser quickly does give it some intrigue, even though it's a very quick game and uses default everything.
I am, inherently posting this review since I think the 0.1 rating is a bit harsh, it seems to be the creator's first game and they had passion to make a fangame in a (to my knowledge, basing of that i've never heard of this before) niche engine thing, giving it a 0.1 instantly with a snarky review calling it both a shitty game and shitty engine just seems unnecessarily mean to a newcomer.
Yes it's not great, the game itself isn't much, and the engine does feel pretty clunky, but c'mon, can't we be at least somewhat nice to people who want to share their passion?
edit: moomoo changed their review to be less harshly worded and not 0.1
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Mar 9, 2026
notmaxwell
For: I'll be here
For: I'll be here
to quote sans undertale
"bad time"
good game though
it certainly showcases itself to have a decent amount of effort put into it, which is very nice for a ftfa-like (or aleast it seems to be, probably borderline on the definition for me personally) intro sequence is unique and cool, and the general visuals aren't anything crazy but it's different enough when comparing to other similar games of the same difficulty to where I think it holds up pretty well.
I'm just going to say it now, the last save is considerably the hardest part of this game, it took me longer than every other save combined, but I also did get massively screwed over by things outside my control, nevertheless it's still a massive difficulty jump so i'm going to just save that for last.
I quite liked every other save in this game. Some even a great amount, saves such as 3 & 5 especially I had 0 problems with any of the jumps, got incredibly consistent very quickly, and was a blast to play. Genuinely some of the best 32px setup needlde i've played before. Save 1, 2, 4 are also bangers, but they all have one jump that is a bit questionable. 2 not as much truthfully, I think I just kind of played bad, so take that with a grain of salt. Save 1 has the turnaround 2f which I found to be a bit awkward, but this is pretty much just a personal preference nitpick, I still quite liked the save and had a good time. Same with 4, the 2nd jump was a bit weird to play, but not much of a problem. Still really liked those saves and before I got to save 6 I was having a blast.
Save 6 (or the final save) is certainly the most challenging, and most questionable. This is a notion that a good few difficult ftfa-likes do, making the last save of the game the most difficult (& usually not the greatest, but those 2 things don't rely on eachother) I understand why they do this, "save the best for last" & Ftfa itself was balanced in such a way where the last save is the most difficult and questionable. I don't really love this personally, it feels too close to the source material for me, to the point where it's bringing over the faults of ftfa into games inspired by it. Up until this point, there's only been 1 jump which I think is more awkward then good (Save 4 2nd jump), and it wasn't a big deal. This save adds 2, or even more, onto that counter, while also being a good few tiers above the rest of the game in difficulty. These questionable jumps are the bottom left drop's djump, and the bottom right corner, with some honorable mentions being the 14f and the 16f. Starting with the former, this drop just didn't feel that well visualized, it ended up getting pretty consistent but it never felt fun to pull off, and deaths felt rarely fair, it's a visually open gap but in reality it's pretty tight movement-wise, and with the game's dark colour palette I found myself in a state where the player felt a bit blurred on the drop down, and with the open gap I'd usually just mess up by a frame or so, it just didn't feel that great. The corner is a weird one, since the corner itself is actually quite easy and fine, it's just the left-facing spike right after. I think this spike was added in with only the jump from the ledge in mind, which is a shame, since it affects the corner so damn badly, I just found it to be wildly inconsistent, i'd consistently just go too quickly and pass the corner just to die to that spike, it's a shame since I do a cancel to get out of the ledge, so that spike doesn't even really affect the jump out, only just the corner. It really just felt the jump wasn't a setup needle jump, and just didn't really get consistent for me. In stark's review right below me they mention "not ftfa-ish jumps", and how it wasn't the best idea for a ftfa-like, that's effectively the same problem that I had with this corner, it just didn't fit in, and didn't get consistent like the rest of the jumps, truthfully i'm probably negatively biased on it, since the amount of deaths I had to this corner is genuinely unreasonably large, but I still stand by that from the start of the save, it's just not consistent, and deaths don't leave you with much improvement, dying to other jumps such as the 9f immediately give you feedback on what you've done wrong, and you still do get that to some extent here but it's certainly not as meaningful and it doesn't really translate over to muscle memory well, atleast for me. The 14f 8p fj is an interesting jump as it is, and it doesn't suffer from my complaints about not being setup needle or visually intuitive, more does it just not feel the great to pull off, this is ~80% chance a nitpick from me, so this jump and the one I'll mention after aren't really taken into account much, I just found that 13f 8p felt so much better than 14f 8p to the point where I kept doing it way too often. 16f fj has a somewhat similar issue, 15f felt way more intuitive, and I think you can actually die from djumping on the latest frame even if you do a 16f which is a bit questionable, but I haven't checked if that was a valign thing, likely might be.
Overall the save does have it's high points, the final jump I think is cool and good, the 9f 9f I think is also quite good, the 5f is nice and while I did say the 16f was questionable it does feel quite good to pull off. It's a good save overall truthfully, as you can see my rating is still pretty high, while it does have issues I don't think I would've had much of a problem if at all if it wasn't for me being absolutely screwed over.
Now a quick disclaimer, I'm not sure if it is windows 11 causing this, or a weird laptop problem, but i've spoken to a few people on windows 10 and they haven't had this issue, so for now I presume it is windows 11. I also think this is caused by the engine, as i've noticed on other games with the same engine this same problem, while some other studio 1.4 games don't have this issue.
This game had absolutely broken 2 inputs on 1 frame for me. Like, insanely messed up, it was incredibly noticeable on the last save, likely since I wasn't paying much attention prior, but it's absolutely devastating for setup needle. It turned almost every single jump into a slight lottery chance, I'm going to use numpad 2 keys on 1 frame as a basis to show how much it got messed up on this, but it's not just a numpad problem, ofc after noticing this I tried not using numpad at all and still had the same issue, I also noticed that 1fs are considerably less consistent and almost always 2f, same with numpad 1fs, barely happen. Anyway, 2 inputs on 1 frame in topi's jtool is around ~90% with numpad for me, while ingame it's like ~60% (The weirdest part about this, and the main reason I'm kind of unsure if it might just be some laptop issue, is that session by session it seemed different, at one point I opened the game and it dropped down to ~20%, immediately quit out and a few hours later got back on and it was ~50% or so, it never went above ~70% though.)
This made the last save especially incredibly messed up, it's like if you just had a 30% chance to die every jump for no reason. As expected, this resulted in a incredible amount of deaths at the end of the save, since the numbers don't discriminate, so as mentioned prior, my view on the last save has definitely been tainted because of this. I won't complain like crazy, but I can't stress this enough that it was Really, Really, not a lot of fun to play with this, it's setup needle and this problem just made the game insanely frustrating and not much fun to deal with.
It quickly got to a point where I was certainly good enough and consistent at every jump to clear the save, but I just had to wait for the damn RNG to not kill me, I had a last jump death where it killed me as a result of this too, and truthfully the fact I only died there once is a damn miracle, but almost all of my deaths far into the save were just as a result of this, it was terrible. Pair this with my unreasonable lack of skill at the corner and you get a not very good experience. I even had a clip where I got up to the corner 3 times in a row, which is exceptionally funny since normally that's quite far into the save, but with this input reg problem & my skill issue it felt like getting nowhere. Overall I had like ~70 or so deaths to the corner (I stopped counting at ~30, but that was far, far before I cleared the save), ~15 or so to the jump after the ledge, 5 to the 14f and once to the final jump, 4\5 of my deaths to the 14f were as a result of my input reg, and ofc that final jump death was too.
Clearing the final save was more of a challenge against this (presumed) windows 11 problem then it was a challenge against the actual game. This is why I haven't given this a low rating, it's not the game's fault, it's whatever is causing that damned problem. I think the last save quality wise is fine, I just got such a bad experience from things outside my control.
Also the ending crash and re-open is super cool I think that's awesome
Overall, good game. I think gameplay wise it's quite nice especially for an ftfa-like of such difficulty, visually stands out a decent bit and is pretty high quality in a genre that's notoriously low quality. I'd recommend this, but if your on windows 11 and notice an input problem then I'm not sure if I would encourage continuing on.
[0] Likes
"bad time"
good game though
it certainly showcases itself to have a decent amount of effort put into it, which is very nice for a ftfa-like (or aleast it seems to be, probably borderline on the definition for me personally) intro sequence is unique and cool, and the general visuals aren't anything crazy but it's different enough when comparing to other similar games of the same difficulty to where I think it holds up pretty well.
I'm just going to say it now, the last save is considerably the hardest part of this game, it took me longer than every other save combined, but I also did get massively screwed over by things outside my control, nevertheless it's still a massive difficulty jump so i'm going to just save that for last.
I quite liked every other save in this game. Some even a great amount, saves such as 3 & 5 especially I had 0 problems with any of the jumps, got incredibly consistent very quickly, and was a blast to play. Genuinely some of the best 32px setup needlde i've played before. Save 1, 2, 4 are also bangers, but they all have one jump that is a bit questionable. 2 not as much truthfully, I think I just kind of played bad, so take that with a grain of salt. Save 1 has the turnaround 2f which I found to be a bit awkward, but this is pretty much just a personal preference nitpick, I still quite liked the save and had a good time. Same with 4, the 2nd jump was a bit weird to play, but not much of a problem. Still really liked those saves and before I got to save 6 I was having a blast.
Save 6 (or the final save) is certainly the most challenging, and most questionable. This is a notion that a good few difficult ftfa-likes do, making the last save of the game the most difficult (& usually not the greatest, but those 2 things don't rely on eachother) I understand why they do this, "save the best for last" & Ftfa itself was balanced in such a way where the last save is the most difficult and questionable. I don't really love this personally, it feels too close to the source material for me, to the point where it's bringing over the faults of ftfa into games inspired by it. Up until this point, there's only been 1 jump which I think is more awkward then good (Save 4 2nd jump), and it wasn't a big deal. This save adds 2, or even more, onto that counter, while also being a good few tiers above the rest of the game in difficulty. These questionable jumps are the bottom left drop's djump, and the bottom right corner, with some honorable mentions being the 14f and the 16f. Starting with the former, this drop just didn't feel that well visualized, it ended up getting pretty consistent but it never felt fun to pull off, and deaths felt rarely fair, it's a visually open gap but in reality it's pretty tight movement-wise, and with the game's dark colour palette I found myself in a state where the player felt a bit blurred on the drop down, and with the open gap I'd usually just mess up by a frame or so, it just didn't feel that great. The corner is a weird one, since the corner itself is actually quite easy and fine, it's just the left-facing spike right after. I think this spike was added in with only the jump from the ledge in mind, which is a shame, since it affects the corner so damn badly, I just found it to be wildly inconsistent, i'd consistently just go too quickly and pass the corner just to die to that spike, it's a shame since I do a cancel to get out of the ledge, so that spike doesn't even really affect the jump out, only just the corner. It really just felt the jump wasn't a setup needle jump, and just didn't really get consistent for me. In stark's review right below me they mention "not ftfa-ish jumps", and how it wasn't the best idea for a ftfa-like, that's effectively the same problem that I had with this corner, it just didn't fit in, and didn't get consistent like the rest of the jumps, truthfully i'm probably negatively biased on it, since the amount of deaths I had to this corner is genuinely unreasonably large, but I still stand by that from the start of the save, it's just not consistent, and deaths don't leave you with much improvement, dying to other jumps such as the 9f immediately give you feedback on what you've done wrong, and you still do get that to some extent here but it's certainly not as meaningful and it doesn't really translate over to muscle memory well, atleast for me. The 14f 8p fj is an interesting jump as it is, and it doesn't suffer from my complaints about not being setup needle or visually intuitive, more does it just not feel the great to pull off, this is ~80% chance a nitpick from me, so this jump and the one I'll mention after aren't really taken into account much, I just found that 13f 8p felt so much better than 14f 8p to the point where I kept doing it way too often. 16f fj has a somewhat similar issue, 15f felt way more intuitive, and I think you can actually die from djumping on the latest frame even if you do a 16f which is a bit questionable, but I haven't checked if that was a valign thing, likely might be.
Overall the save does have it's high points, the final jump I think is cool and good, the 9f 9f I think is also quite good, the 5f is nice and while I did say the 16f was questionable it does feel quite good to pull off. It's a good save overall truthfully, as you can see my rating is still pretty high, while it does have issues I don't think I would've had much of a problem if at all if it wasn't for me being absolutely screwed over.
Now a quick disclaimer, I'm not sure if it is windows 11 causing this, or a weird laptop problem, but i've spoken to a few people on windows 10 and they haven't had this issue, so for now I presume it is windows 11. I also think this is caused by the engine, as i've noticed on other games with the same engine this same problem, while some other studio 1.4 games don't have this issue.
This game had absolutely broken 2 inputs on 1 frame for me. Like, insanely messed up, it was incredibly noticeable on the last save, likely since I wasn't paying much attention prior, but it's absolutely devastating for setup needle. It turned almost every single jump into a slight lottery chance, I'm going to use numpad 2 keys on 1 frame as a basis to show how much it got messed up on this, but it's not just a numpad problem, ofc after noticing this I tried not using numpad at all and still had the same issue, I also noticed that 1fs are considerably less consistent and almost always 2f, same with numpad 1fs, barely happen. Anyway, 2 inputs on 1 frame in topi's jtool is around ~90% with numpad for me, while ingame it's like ~60% (The weirdest part about this, and the main reason I'm kind of unsure if it might just be some laptop issue, is that session by session it seemed different, at one point I opened the game and it dropped down to ~20%, immediately quit out and a few hours later got back on and it was ~50% or so, it never went above ~70% though.)
This made the last save especially incredibly messed up, it's like if you just had a 30% chance to die every jump for no reason. As expected, this resulted in a incredible amount of deaths at the end of the save, since the numbers don't discriminate, so as mentioned prior, my view on the last save has definitely been tainted because of this. I won't complain like crazy, but I can't stress this enough that it was Really, Really, not a lot of fun to play with this, it's setup needle and this problem just made the game insanely frustrating and not much fun to deal with.
It quickly got to a point where I was certainly good enough and consistent at every jump to clear the save, but I just had to wait for the damn RNG to not kill me, I had a last jump death where it killed me as a result of this too, and truthfully the fact I only died there once is a damn miracle, but almost all of my deaths far into the save were just as a result of this, it was terrible. Pair this with my unreasonable lack of skill at the corner and you get a not very good experience. I even had a clip where I got up to the corner 3 times in a row, which is exceptionally funny since normally that's quite far into the save, but with this input reg problem & my skill issue it felt like getting nowhere. Overall I had like ~70 or so deaths to the corner (I stopped counting at ~30, but that was far, far before I cleared the save), ~15 or so to the jump after the ledge, 5 to the 14f and once to the final jump, 4\5 of my deaths to the 14f were as a result of my input reg, and ofc that final jump death was too.
Clearing the final save was more of a challenge against this (presumed) windows 11 problem then it was a challenge against the actual game. This is why I haven't given this a low rating, it's not the game's fault, it's whatever is causing that damned problem. I think the last save quality wise is fine, I just got such a bad experience from things outside my control.
Also the ending crash and re-open is super cool I think that's awesome
Overall, good game. I think gameplay wise it's quite nice especially for an ftfa-like of such difficulty, visually stands out a decent bit and is pretty high quality in a genre that's notoriously low quality. I'd recommend this, but if your on windows 11 and notice an input problem then I'm not sure if I would encourage continuing on.
Rating: 8.5 85
Difficulty: 91 91
Mar 8, 2026
notmaxwell
For: Ebb Needle 2026
For: Ebb Needle 2026
rating stuff later (i have cleared, just like every other rating\review, dw)
the real mystery is what happened to ebb needle 2025..
[0] Likes
the real mystery is what happened to ebb needle 2025..
Rating: N/A
Difficulty: N/A
Mar 8, 2026
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| 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 |