Celeste

This game is genuinely life changing. I just bought it on steam but I have 80+ hours on xbox and it's my favorite game of all time. It took me 4 years to beat farewell, but every second of it was amazing (Aside from maybe chapter 3, 6B and a few rooms in farewell.) This game has genuinely helped me through rough times in my life by showing me why I shouldn't give up. First time I played it, I beat the game, got a good amount of strawberries, and put it down. Second time I picked it up (A year later,) I got every normal strawberry, beat 7b, and thought that was a good stopping place since I thought I'd never beat farewell. Fast forward to a few months ago, I beat every B/C side, beat farewell, and got the final "Normal" berry, along with a few goldens. This time, I'm going for them all. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get the farewell golden, let alone any of the b sides or harder a side goldens, but I'm gonna try. It may seem literally impossible now, but hey, so did beating normal farewell all those years ago, and look at me now. Celeste, despite how difficult it is, has somehow become my comfort game, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes platformers, even if you don't think you can do it. P.S. I'm also a girl now, which is cool.

i don't really enjoy 2d platformers; i grew up with the extra dimension, and consider myself quite bad at them. that said, 49h and 13,000+ deaths later - i've finished all of the chapters and achievements this game truly deserves all of the praise it gets

Be careful! If you've downloaded Celeste on itch.io or a different method, and try to play the game through Steam, it will overwrite your first save file! I nearly lost my original save file with around 190 strawberries unlocked, luckily I could restore it with the backups the devs had the insight to set up. That being said, this is a game worth buying twice. The first time, I purchased Celeste through an itch.io bundle at a steep discount, but I love this game so dearly I bought it again here to officially unlock all the achievements. My real playtime is more than 300 hours. Snappy, satisfying gameplay, gorgeous pixel art, a thriving mod community, I'm sure it's all been said at this point. Fantastic game. But BE CAREFUL with those save files.