ElecHead

Great game. 100%ed it in one sitting, brilliant puzzle platformer with a lot of secrets and collectibles. The developers clearly had fun working on this game and it shows, I absolutely loved playing! If you like this, play their other game, Ooo. It's also excellent.

If you like short puzzle platformers in the spirit of Donkey Kong, The Lost Vikings, Umihara Kawase, or Sutte Hakkun, but with a fresh modern mechanic, then I highly recommend ElecHead. The game's core mechanic is cleverly simple: electrifying objects. It's easy to understand, but it enables an impressive variety of puzzles. On top of that, the detachable head, its timer, and the ability to use it as both a power source and a teleport anchor able to expand the possibilities. The game kept surprising me with ideas like leaving your head behind to power devices, throwing it upward to activate unreachable objects, using checkpoints to reset puzzle states, or even self-destructing to intentionally advance certain puzzles. Every new twist felt like a natural extension of the same small set of rules. I also love the game's minimalism. There is almost no dialogue, barely any text, and the pixel art, music, and sound design create a calm, almost zen-like atmosphere. One detail I especially appreciated was how the music fades out for several rooms before gradually introducing a new theme, creating a subtle sense of anticipation and making the journey feel like an adventure rather than just a sequence of puzzles. Most importantly, the puzzles feel fair. Whenever I got stuck, the solution was always hiding within the mechanics I'd already learned instead of relying on obscure logic. Even the postgame secrets, while much more cryptic, ultimately reward experimentation rather than random guessing. ElecHead is a game about saving the world by sticking out your hand and decapitating your own head... or is it?