vastly improved over the 1st game, the first 12 levels are genuinely fun puzzlers that primarily test your thinking ability (though only moderately). Level 13 switches to instead testing your reflexes with super tight timing required to finish the level, and I just really don't enjoy repeating a level over and over because I missed by half a second.

Even if the first few levels were fun only being about to play a 3rd of the game means I just cannot recommend this game.

Sadly this game has very frustrating physics. Up to level 16 they are okay to complete, after that it takes so much luck, especially when looking at the more finnicky levels where you have to make use of the aliens. Their behaviour is so fecky that I've had to restart level 17 more times than I cared to count and was still not able to complete it. After putting 30 minutes into it without anything to show for i am done with this game.

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Working an interesting combination of elements the level design doesn't live up to the potential of what's available.

Underland: The Climb is a console ported 2D retro pixel puzzle game from the unethical asset flippers and plagiarists at Minicactus games, famous for taking the work of others and claiming it as their own.

Minicactus Games have a known history of trying to scam people into paying them money for someone else's work, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. One example of Minicactus Games doing this is Mining Cats , which is really a reskin of the " J Connect Kit " asset, written by the actual developers, Jun.

This garbage puzzle game looks like a platformer, but it's not. It's a point and click puzzle game. Click on elements of the screen then use WASD to manipulate them until your path is clear to get to the exit. It's remarkably shallow, but we shouldn't expect too much from asset flippers.

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.

The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the game resolution caps out at 1080p, a very low resolution that became mainstream back in 2006 and became obsolete when 4K entered the mainstream in 2014. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers.

Because this is a console game, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 6 players. That's right, only 6. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on

I hate leaving bad reviews, but I just did not like Underland: The Climb at all. A few of the puzzles were interesting challenging because of the puzzles themselfs. However, all of them were irritating because of the way you interact with the game and the controls. Most of the puzzle solutions were straight forward as soon as you looked at them. Controlling the game elements to actually do what you need them too still took many tries because of how infuriating poor controlling the game was. Plus, several puzzles require several minuets of set up, then split second timing moving between several objects with the clunky interface, and inevitably failing the puzzle and requiring you to start over from the start. Even with it's very small price, I just dont recommend Underland: The Climb to anyone.