Super Meat Boy (2010)
- Developer
- Team Meat
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Genres
- Indie
- Rating
- 4.7 of 5, 38,787 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 6.5 hours
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
A brutally precise twitch platformer that demands split-second reflexes and relentless retries, laced with darkly comic absurdity.
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What players say
Players love the tight, satisfying movement and sense of mastery, but split on the controls: some find them responsive, others call them floaty or laggy. The difficulty is praised as rewarding, though later levels and specific gimmicks like the black maws are widely hated. A few report a game-breaking FPS bug at the final boss, and the game struggles on Linux from the Salt Factory onward.
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