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cloakman
For: Renko Needle 3
Overall easy needle, some maps have cherries moving, but still far from a gimmick game.
The visual of the 2 stages is just extraordinarily bad, I have to blindly jump to somewhere hoping there is a block.

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Tagged as: Needle Short
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Rating: 3.0 30       Difficulty: 40 40
Apr 11, 2026
cloakman
For: Ebb Needle 2026
In needle game design, there’s always that nagging question: do you plan everything out in advance—mapping a super cool path, marking a few spots for second or third visits, and carefully arranging every obstacle so there’s one and only one way through, forcing the player to follow your lead? Or do you just pick a starting point, throw things down randomly based on what feels good, and build a single room one jump at a time, figuring it out as you go?

This game chose the hard route—and somehow pulled it off. Things go the designer’s way, but the flow is so smooth that players naturally go along with it and actually agree with the choices made.

You can clearly tell that the needle maker was thinking like a player during the whole process. Even though the game isn’t truly beginner-friendly, you never find yourself constantly wondering, “What’s the best way to do each jump so I die the least and get the farthest?” or “How do I even use this gimmick I don’t understand?” Instead, you just jump, and the game does the rest for you.

What this game proves is simple: a good needle game doesn’t need every single thing to stand out. Just making every part naturally good is more than enough.

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Rating: 9.0 90       Difficulty: 60 60
Apr 9, 2026
cloakman
For: Purify Needle
Solid Jtool Needle, traditional, good.
Clear and structured documents, clear in-game hints, decent graphics and music, no obvious bug during gameplay, above average.
Just little comment, the final 2 stages can be a liiiiiiiiiittle bit easier, the difficulty curve is a bit steer.

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Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 8.0 80       Difficulty: 65 65
Apr 7, 2026
cloakman
For: I wanna be the Python
when seeing the game is 3GB I was expecting some movie, but it ends up to be a super big engine trying to load maps as txt files as far as I can see

Totally different engine, made from Python, but the mechanism mock-up seems to have great deal of spaces to improve, e.g., the height of jumps are unpredictable, speaking in a good way it will be a literally super-big Randomizer game. Did'nt manage to clear the game myself but I still wonder about what is within the exe that is 3.03 GB.

Overall a good attempt of trial.

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Tagged as: Different_Engine
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Sep 15, 2025
cloakman [Creator]
For: Phase 1-1
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Aug 30, 2025

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GameDifficultyAverage Rating# of Ratings
Collab Automaker 50.0 10.0 8
Gimmick Collab Helper N/A N/A 3
Marie, Happy Birthday ! 52.6 6.9 9
P.M.P 1 31.0 6.8 22
Phase 1-1 50.4 7.5 14
Phase 1-2 53.7 7.6 16
Phase 1-3 59.7 7.8 17
Phase 1-4 58.0 7.4 13
Phase 1-5 57.0 7.5 12
Phase 2-1 54.7 7.3 11
Phase 2-2 56.8 7.7 8
Speedy_Mar09 35.0 7.3 2
Sprite Editor 0.0 6.5 4
Staged Jtool N/A N/A 2
I Wanna Start Out Small 69.5 7.5 5
The Avoidance Tool Relic N/A N/A 3
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