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The player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments and traps as he searches for his sister. The developer built the game's puzzles expecting the player to fail before finding the correct solution. Playdead called the style of play "trial and death", and used gruesome imagery for the boy's deaths to steer the player from unworkable solutions.
Steam User 51
---{Story}---
☐ Doesnt have (Not counting historical stuff)
☐ Something isnt nothing I guess
☑️ Not greatly told
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ Will make you cry or smile a lot
---{Gameplay}---
☐ Try not to get addicted
☑️ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Nothing special
☐ Ehh
☐ Bad
☐ Just dont
---{ Grind }---
☑️ Nothing
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ Insanity
---{Graphics}---
☐ You forget reality
☐ Masterpiece
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑️ Decent
☐ Will do
☐ Bad
☐ Awful
☐ Pixel art
---{Audio}---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑️ Decent
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Earrape
---{Audience}---
☐ Kids
☑️ Teens
☑️ Adults
☐ Everyone
---{PC Requirements}---
☑️ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{Difficulity}---
☐ Just press a bunch of buttons
☐ Easy
☑️ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Not so easy
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{Game Time}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of tea
☑️ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☐ Depends on you
☐ Endless
---{Price}---
☐ Just buy it
☑️ Worth the price
☑️ Wait for sale
☐ Maybe if you have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ Dont throw money into a rubbish bin
---{Bugs}---
☑️ Never had any
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Few bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Ruining the game
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
---{ ? / 10 }---
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Steam User 46
It's not a “puzzle platformer". It's a "find new hilarious ways to die simulator".
This game is absolutely one of the most beautiful video games I have ever played. It even inspired me to write a horror story, starring my ex wife! It is true that this game looks violent, but the art style gives it an attribute of ‘dying beauty', something very beautiful, mystic and inspiring that leaves you wanting more while vanishing in an abyss of no return. A subtle, eerie plot with music that is unique. Limbo was absolutely something else back when it came out.
The gameplay is not that innovative these days, but the incredibly eerie atmosphere it creates using its monotone art style and impeccable sound design is some of the best I've seen. The character controls extremely well and his range of actions is simple but engaging. Jumps, ledge grabbing, it was all very fluid. Couple that with some of the most clever puzzles of any side scroller and I'd say the gameplay was very much up to the level of the atmosphere. Though short, I personally loved the game. It helped that I played it in the dark, really helps with the mood.
I really liked the puzzles. They felt like they were carefully guiding you toward the solutions. And none of them were really difficult so I rarely had to stop in the middle of a puzzle when I couldn't solve it, which I appreciate as an adult with little free time to play. Mechanically speaking, the best physics puzzles I've ever seen. As anyone who's ever used the Gravity Gun can tell you, physics engines tend to be wonky. There's zero leeway or wonkiness in Limbo's puzzles. Every solution feels perfect and deterministic. Very simplistic as well, which is something that is actually pretty rare these days. No instructions, just fluid exploration of a dark world.
The reason the game was so popular, and still is to this day, is that like many really popular indie games they do so much with so little. Throughout the story you are never told where you are, your name, your motivation(other than to survive), virtually no conext is given to your surroudings. BUT you still feel connected to this little boy. A sense of wanting to survive. Sometimes it's what we are NOT told that interests us more than what we are told.
10/10
Steam User 15
Limbo is such a cool yet simple game, it's actually brilliant how fun and smart the puzzles are, I also love that it doesn't overstay its welcome, short and to the point with cool achievements, the No Point in Dying one also let's you put your skills and everything you learned along the way into practice, and considering the discounted price is basically less than a dollar this is more than worth your time.
Steam User 13
Fellow indie games enjoyers, THIS GAME IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU ALL. Gotta give credit to Playdead for making game that still holds up after more than 10 years and one might argue this game still beats plenty of other games, be it 3A or not.
LIMBO offers a creepy and eerie vibe that gives u goosebump as u enter it's LIMBO (no pun intended). From giant spider and ruins and deathtraps. The puzzles in this game isn't really something one might say easy either, u have to apply more logic to it at time which what make it fun as it isn't too diffcult either, u just have to be focused while playing it.
The gameplay is so simple that you only need 5 keys(i am not kidding) to play it and yet it feels immersive with the smooth animation or the boy moving around and jumping and doing things that probably isn't possible IRL.
Definitely a 10/10. Especially when you are an indie game enjoyers like me.
PS: Credit to my friend for "Scamming" me to get the bundle during winter sales
Steam User 8
The game’s great, I’m just stupid
Having played INSIDE before, I decided to give Limbo a try despite knowing how frustrating it’s going to be, and I unsurprisingly found myself tugging my hair each time I missed a jump only by a split-second or got insta-killed by an unpredictable environmental hazard. However, dying is part of Limbo’s charm in addition to its brain-melting, physics-based puzzles that require dexterity, logical problem solving skills, perfect timing and a holy amount of trial and error which can be frustrating to idiots like me.
It’s funny how I can play Outlast without batting an eyelid but I was utterly shocked by the brutal deaths in this gloomy 2D puzzle platformer - perhaps because you’re often blessed with the gruesome sight of the boy’s rag doll corpse flying around when you’d least expect it. Much like every other aspect of the game varying from the simple controls and minimal story-telling to its short length, the B&W graphics are also very simplistic yet so eerily pretty, as if conveying the message that sometimes ”less is more”.
I would’ve hoped for a clearer insight into Limbo’s fascinating world as well as a more forgiving approach to the timed puzzles like in its follower INSIDE, but this surely is a thrilling experience for those who love a bit of horror-ish puzzling and cursing. I know, I’m sorry, Mom.
Graphics
☐ Stunning
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Jumble of pixels
Gameplay
☑ Super fun
☐ Enjoyable
☐ Normal
☐ Boring
☐ Don’t fall asleep
Audio
☐ Eargasm
☑ Amazing
☐ Good
☐ Not horrible
☐ Better without headphones
PC Requirements
☑ Potato
☐ Medium
☐ Fast
☐ Ask NASA for a spare computer
Difficulty
☐ Piece of cake
☐ Easy
☐ Average
☑ Difficult
☐ Very difficult
Story
☐ No story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Masterpiece
Length
☐ Super short (0-2 h)
☑ Short (2-6 h)
☐ Average (6-10 h)
☐ Long (10+)
☐ Endless
Price
☐ Free
☑ Worth the price
☐ Buy it on sale
☐ If you have extra money
☐ Not recommended
Bugs
☑ No
☐ Minor
☐ Annoying
☐ Too much
☐ The game itself is a bug
Replayability
☐ No replay value
☑ Maybe once
☐ Multiple times
☐ Infinite replayability
Scariness
☐ Try not to yawn
☑ Has its moments
☐ Very scary/tense
☐ Nightmare
8/10
Steam User 7
Interesting little game with nice puzzles and no over the top difficult parts, recommended for everyone thats a fan of the genre and especially when its on sale. Played it on Steam Deck, didnt find any problems or bugs too.
Steam User 9
This adorable game destroyed me in 33 unfortunate ways, among which are asphyxiation, guillotine traps, electrocution, drowning, gravity throws, spikes impalement, arachnid and human attacks, shots, crush injuries under and between giant objects, mind control (vive the Baldur's gate!). I definitely liked it.