Games You Played Today: 13 Going On 30

Just since I like to mention this sometimes when it happens, I eventually picked up and started playing Dubio, a game I stumbled upon thanks to my obsessive Steam new release list watch. Basically a single screen/single button platformer, the ball rolls around the screen and you have to time your button press to make it jump and pick up the diamond thing to complete the stage. Seemingly 100 stages in the main route grouped into sets of 4, each group seems to either introduce a new way to use said jump (ex. holding down the button basically makes you a superball) or some other gimmick. I’m only through the first 40 or so but it does keep things moving pretty well, if one gimmick irks you you’ll likely be past it and onto another one shortly after. It also seems to reward you for completing the stages in a minimal amount of button presses (I assume this unlocks the hinted at bonus stages), not sure I’ll bother with that but it’s nice to have.

What’s funny is that every time I stumble upon the game (first time I saw it and tried the demo, when I purchased it on sale off my wishlist, when I finally got around to playing it) I go “this aesthetic feels slightly familiar”, look at the game page and realize it’s the same guy who made ibb & obb. I think I’m just gonna keep stumbling onto this fellow’s games no matter what.

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