AsTatine

Creator: Athgienin

Average Rating
6.5 / 10
Average Difficulty
65.3 / 100
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Needle (7) Promethium-like (2)

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  • by Wolfiexe
  • by egg
  • by Wolfiexe

11 Reviews:

Wolfiexe
A pretty tricky 3x3 room needle game with wrapping paths and interesting manoeuvres, reminiscent of the QoQoQo style. The game comes complete with a map in the game directory which is nice when finding the way forward gets a bit confusing.

AsTatine's visual style is pretty simple which makes for a non-intrusive platforming experience. Nothing gets visually noisy or distracting which is nice, and the music create a pretty chill atmosphere which is always appreciate in this kind of needle game.

A couple of segments stung a bit in difficulty. There are quite a few saves that feel weirdly short, usually accompanied with a very long drop, only to be followed by a hefty gauntlet with a ton of pretty tricky jumps which made for quite a bumpy playthrough. Three seperate saves in particular probably cost me the majority of my time, so perhaps some overall nerfs would've made it a bit smoother.

All around though a pretty solid needle game. Worth playing if you're into the whole looping paths kinda needle style and don't mind a bit of difficulty alongside it.

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Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 7.6 76       Difficulty: 67 67
Mar 16, 2019
egg
One very large screen, comes with an image file that shows the route.

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Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: N/A       Difficulty: N/A
Jul 17, 2017
Cythraul
Rating based on a Studio Port.
It's much better than original, thanks to 29th_letter!
Link (with other studio ports too): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p8cKbqIbIxNSsVz0T7U3DmiKqSSlsZbvIzSMGHmwokU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

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Tagged as: Needle Promethium-like
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Rating: 7.0 70       Difficulty: 62 62
Jun 5, 2026
notmaxwell
rating based off a blind playthrough that never used the route image or any video references. this game has consistently poorly designed jumps, blind jumps, kind of silly align moments (with practically invisible black-on-black kid feet), and doesn't even pull off the needle design it goes for with the maze, the second half of the maze is incredibly obvious for the most part and is almost linear, whilst the first half is unbelievably unintuitive and not fun in the slightest. I'm convinced not many people have actually played this without looking at the cheat sheet, as it is not designed well at all, i don't think this game pulls the maze off properly, and even then the actual needle is horribly unbalanced, unfun, and poorly designed with an unreasonable amount of blind jumps, awkward maneuvers or unrealistically tight jumps in the middle or ends of saves. Some points for the visuals. Maybe this is fun if you spoil yourself on the route, but I feel like me suggesting to do that would be on the same level as "Cool puzzle game if you look at the answers". Also this game has a somewhat substantial skip that goes over ~5 or so saves, it's not problematic if you're looking at the answer sheet but stuff like this kind of sucks for blind players, as it appears to be the intended route (or just a different split path (this is another complaint i have with this game, i found it somewhat disappointing after clearing as there's only one route to take, unless you do that skip, it's basically a linear game hidden behind a bunch of frustration for blind players)). Also there's a jump that has a valign range where it's impossible. Also there's a visual bug especially on the last save after restarting.

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Rating: 2.2 22       Difficulty: 70 70
May 15, 2026
bereavement
While the pathing is intricate, the gameplay suffers from it. Lots of blind screen transition jumps, uncomfortable maneuvers and questionable save balance.

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Tagged as: Needle
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Rating: 5.5 55       Difficulty: 62 62
Sep 27, 2025