Creature in the Well

Delightfully clever mechanic, that can get a tad finicky but does have a technique. Some puzzles are get drastically easier with a certain upgrade. Neat story and fantastic art style. Easily worth the price.

Great soundtrack and art style, some compelling and unique game mechanics, overall a very cool little indie game

One of the few games I've liked so much I've bought it twice. Really relaxing game with a nice gameplay loop and good progression system. Not technically Deck certified but it plays flawlessly for me.
Last boss can a bit of a pain but it combines everything you've learned throughout the game so it's really rewarding when you beat it.

While this has been a great little adventure under the mountain. i will say YOU SHOULD MOST DEFINITELY PLAY THIS GAME WITH A CONTROLLER!!!!! the keyboard + mouse controls are horrible. one thing that could be improved on is that along with some minor bugs i had here and there where i was simply stuck into geometry in healing pools (i believe it's the off shoot one in the north star level and in a few of the later levels where i was stuck on bumpers causing me to have to start the level over) cute lil game, quite short almost finished it within 3.5 hours which, while not being a bad thing, does leave me wanting more out of the game. the world building is good while being small; just the right size for the game.

the gameplay, while i acknowledge i am playing on mouse and keyboard which could hinder my experience greatly. i found it very hard to move around fluidly. if you were swinging either of your bats you're feet are super glued onto the ground which causes a lot of problems in the final boss fight ( i still gotta beat it, still up for the challenge >:) ). hit boxes felt like they sometimes didn't line up with the ground based lasers and the BOT.

over all, 8/10! i don't think i would replay it much but for a one time play through it's a great time!

Hack & Slash pinball game!? Sick. I did abandon this game after a handful of short sittings, but I do think it's really cool. It didn't have the narrative thrust it needed to keep me playing though.

A fun puzzle game requiring quick reflexes and a minimum of luck.

Decent. Execution is a little rough which is why I rate it lower.
There are balls. Confusingly, you use one weapon to hit the balls and kind of gather them and power them up, and a second weapon to actually launch them. From there, the balls bounce on everything you need to destroy to advance. It's not really pinball because you have unlimited balls and tend to have a dozen or more bouncing around pretty quickly, nor is there gravity physics, everything is completely flat and friction-less.
It's just too fiddly and doesn't do enough with the idea. Some things fire at you, some cause explosions, and there are drones that come at you. Generally you are hitting things until you are done, but in a few places there are more interesting things like timers and reset buttons you want to avoid.
The controls are not super responsive, and your dash is important but I found it stilted. In a few vital sections it was hard to get to where I needed to be.
The slightest elevation change is a brick wall for your ball.
There is a huge disconnect in the story: The titular creature in the well destroyed hundreds of engineers and clearly could squish you like a bug, but never does. When you die it even deposits you outside the well. It is also doing something with its time but we never get a sense of what it wants.