Thumper

What a blast. I loved the visuals, the sounds, and the challenge. Controls are simple just one button and directions, but the track moves fast. Loud, flashy, and fun.

A low-input rhythym game. Fun to play, feels very chaotic.

I'm glad I finally got around to actually checking this game out. It's pretty good, yeah, I like the *feel* of the game. Sometimes it's the blisteringly fast speed, sometimes it's the actual feedback of the game? Hitting those air-slams on the thump pads and making the game freeze for like a fraction of a second, jolting back up to high speeds, landing *ANOTHER* air-slam on an already charged pad hits a certain feeling in me that I can't quite express, it's just a thing you need to see and feel. It feels good to be good at this game, when I'm good at it. I wouldn't say it's an easy game, either. It is, technically, a rhyhtm game, I assume. I know absolutely nothing about music, I bring no music theory to this table. What I can say is that the game feels like, to me, is that it has some kind of rhythm. The problem, though, is when the game starts to get *too* hectic for me. Everything I'm supposed to react to has a sound, a ping, a ding, a clap, a *vroooo*, and so on. The game gets to a point where it's so hectic I can't actually process any of that audio, some of the late game turns end up being frustrating because the only thing that gives them away, a clap, when I can't *see* the turn coming up, is drowned out in every other kind of noise and there's no way to separate THE MUSIC from THE SOUNDS. That's my biggest issue with this game? Those are the only times I've felt genuinely frustrated with the game. It's pretty unique, imo, or maybe at least it once was. From the audio design, to the visuals, to the weird premise that genuinely makes me want some kind of story for a game that probably didn't have much thought to its 'story(?)' other than "what if you were a beetle on a rail and there was an evil face sometimes", it's a decent fit for the steam deck (he says, having spent most of his time at the PC playing this), the control scheme is probably about as simple as it gets these days as it only utilises your analogue stick and the A button. Or the D-Pad and shoulder button, whatever floats your beetle you FREAK