Разработчик: Étienne Périn
Описание
The end does exist, can you reach it?
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- 5 game modes (Normal, Baby, Hard, Time, Touch)
- 23 Steam achievements
- Tons of Psychedelic effects
- Electronic music, jokes and LOLcats
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Read before playing:
A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. If you, or anyone in your family, have an epileptic condition, consult your physician prior to playing.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Compatible DirectX 9.0c
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 100 MB available space
- Sound Card: Audio standard
Отзывы пользователей
Brain damage simulator.
Entertaining game about trying to nearly fill a gauge. My favorite part by far is that this game has an impossible achievement, which prevents you from filling the achievement bar, lust like the bar in the game. I really respect the artistic vision, and am incredibly entertained by the fact that completionist crybabies got really mad at the developer for creating a piece of art that doesn't cater to the very specific way they think games and achievements should work.
"I don't try to be a rebel, I just play with your expectations, that's the purpose of making games, pushing and using the rules to bring players to some new places they wouldn't expect." - Étienne Périn
The gameplay makes my arms a bit sad, but the audio visual experience this game provided was well worth it. Love this kind of stuff, cheers to the dev for going out on a limb and trying something weird and wild.
It's not for everyone. Like if you're epileptic this game will probably kill you. But if you like really strange minimalistic stuff and don't mind flashing colours, try it out.
Fantastic game that will appeal to anyone who enjoys watching reality crumble.
This product offers a nice feeling of actually playing against the game, not with it. It will deliberately mess around with you, and it seems many reviewers don't like it, but I see this as a very brave and unusual design choice, definetly. Very pleasant to see that not all games cater for their players like for tiny babies with huge autism.
The plot is riveting, it's entertaining to see what's going on in the background and to wonder what's going to happen in a few million scorepoints.
The soundtrack is nice while it's there.
Sometimes the game would deliberately open youtube music videos in your browser, happened twice to me, loaded "Never gonna give you up" and "Pump up the jam", both being nice blasts from the past.
In spite of the flashy trailers, it's a pretty simple game. Hold space to get the bar as close to full without going over and keep it there as long as possible, do it long enough and it will give you a second bar. This makes it harder, but gives a lot more points. Meanwhile the game itself does basically every visual trick in the book to try and make you fail. It's a psychadelic endurance test with a pretty good sense of humor. That might be worth $4 to you, it was to me.
On that note; if you have epilipsy, PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS GAME I AM SERIOUS.
On another note: In this game about not filling bars, there is an impossible achievement, preventing you from filling the achievement bar. I thought that was clever, but at the time of this writing, there is a 22 page thread filled with people getting impossibly angry at this. The dev themselves couldn't help but make light fun.
Maybe THAT is worth $4 to you.
It would be to me, but I already bought the game.
What?! Is this supposed to be a "game" ? I can't believe I spent money on this. I kept expecting something to happen, but no.. there's zero variety. And no, I don't care that there's badly clipped videos of cats off of Youtube.
Played it for about 10 minutes, and I now have a headache, and my wrist is killing me. Play this, and you WILL get RSI or have a seizure. If you like button-mashing, go play Daley Thomson's Decathlon from, like, the 80s. At least it has some variety.
Pretentious pap. UNINSTALLED.
Personally, I love this game. I just started playing it tonight, and I played it for about an hour and I am pretty sure my eyes are going to fall out. But hell, it was worth it. That was one heck of a ride. Yes it is a simple concept, and loads of people do not like it and never will. It is actually pretty challenging though, because there is SO MUCH going on and everything changes all the time.. its so much fun! Yeah, I got it for like a dollar on sale and I would encourange anyone interested to do the same. If you like getting your mind and eyeballs fucked, then go for it!
I feel like I may still be on acid
It's basic.
If it looks or sounds interesting to you, it is probably worth it when on sale. I've played a long session about 4 times, each being about 20 minutes average. I have really enjoyed it, but it is strenuous on both your eyes and fingers.
I love it for it's unabashed sense of entitlement, which is probably why it turns people off.
It is a game for those who want to challenge themselves, as far as they can reach.
It is a game for people who like cats.
It is a game for people who like babies.
It is not a game for babies, or cats.
But I would recommend this game to most other people.
This game is insane.
Do not play if you are photosensitive or otherwise have trouble with quickly moving images or bright flashing lights.
The mechanics in this game are simple: hold spacebar to fill a gauge. Then maybe press ctrl to activate a second gauge and then hold ctrl to fill this gauge.
If either gauge fills completely, then you lose a life. If either gauge empties completely, you also lose a life.
Keeping gauges close to full awards bonus points, and sometimes bonuses will appear which can only be received by almost emptying the first gauge.
Keep playing until a high score.
The trick is, this game throws as much visual noise at you as possible to distract you from these goals. It will also invert and scale and wobble and blur the gauges to throw you off.
Very rarely does this seem unfair, with the only visually confusing technique I've encountered being changing the background to match the gauge.
Overall, it does a very good job of making the gauge levels distinguishable in some fashion, even whilst playing with your eyes and head.
It is a very intense visual experience and, as the achievement "Wanker" might suggest, a very intense digital experience.
As such I would not play this game for prolonged periods of time, as otherwise you risk damaging your sense of balance and fingers.
But, in small doses, this game is remarkably fun.
The baby level is creepy though. Maybe don't play that one before bed.
The thought of a game where all you do is press space bar to control a gauge sounds terrible but it's actually really fun, especially with the flashy background, awesome music, and just how the game tries to distract you all the time.
I don't know what I bought this at but if it was more than a dollar I feel bad.
It's not a good game to me.
Literally all it is is pressing a spacebar while physcadelic shit happens.
Please don't buy it unless you're okay with wasting a dollar
The game isnt as cool as it looks, however I did enjoy playing it. I tried to ignore the gross 80s barf but it was too prominent, like a CRT threw up on a couple sheets of paper and those were used for backgrounds. Baby mode is horrifying and not babylike at all, haven't unlocked other modes or any acheives yet so this review is WIP but so far 8/10
I was hoping for something with actual gameplay, but this is nothing more than Spacebar: The Game. Music is ok, I guess.
4/10
Gauge is the perfect game for fans of Super Hexagon, an addictive and fun test of your reflexes and precision. A great way to pass a few minutes, the simple design is genius. Great fun.
i love this game to death. twitchy as super hexagon, psychedelic as space giraffe, and with an extension system that will make you just ever so slightly better as you play more. you're going to keep coming back to test your old score. well worth the investment.
Scored billions of points. Developed a strange urge to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
10/10
It definitely looked a lot cooler than it was.
Not sure why it's not written in HTML5 and uploaded to some shitty website somewhere, it'd be beloved by millions if that were the case. Not worth spending any money on. It's nothing new, just a quirky idea with some pretty (and slightly mad) colors splashed in.
Hotline Miami without the amazing soundtrack, blood, guts, story, gameplay, or use of the mouse. So, nothing much really. It only retained the obnoxious colors and 80s drenched effects.
If the controls for Super Hexagon were too hard for you, Gauge is here to help. Wait until it's on sale for $0.49
man, steam really, really needs a wobblehand recommendation option.
okay, so, since the trailers are pretty dubious and what not, i'll try to make this easy to follow.
this game is called gauge. you fill a gauge, you get points for filling the gauge, you get more points for having the gague as full as possible without overfilling it. sometimes a collectible happens, and you must drain the gauge to collect it, which gives you points and the ability to trigger a second gauge for even more points. you start with a point multiplier that increases at set intervals, and it also counts as your lives--run out of lives, and you lose. the entire game is controlled with the space and ctrl keys, and there is no pausing--once you start, you will keep going until you lose/give up.
the game makes itself harder by tossing in flashy screens, text, audio cues, stylistic changes, screen-shaking/zooming, and other such distractions to get your focus off the gauge--if you have problems with flashing lights or erratic motions, this isn't a game for you. it's simple enough to pick up, but difficult to master once the distractors start rolling in--they can happen at any time in any combination, so you have to keep on your toes.
would i recommend it? depends--it's a fun little time waster, and a neat game for what it is. that said, it's definitely one of those sit-in-a-hospital-lobby-and-watch-your-wait-time-fly-by games, so its value is diminished a bit on steam. still, it's fun, so if ou've got the money and notice it on sale, go ahead and give it a go. i see myself coming back to it pretty often in the near future.
DISCLAIMER / PROTIP: IF YOU SUFFER FROM EPILEPSY OR ARE VERY SENSITIVE TO FLASHING LIGHTS AND COLORS, DON'T BUY OR PLAY THIS GAME... YOU'LL PROBABLY DIE.
So after earning the achievement for playing a single round for 20 minutes and landing myself 4th on the global leaderboard, I suppose I can adequately evaluate this game:
It's simple.
It's fun.
It will cook your eyes and strenghten your fingers.
This game reminds me a lot of Super Hexagon for its simplicity; if you liked that game then you will probably like this one, but it is also a bit more... bizzare. The premise is simple: use the space bar to control a colored bar between the upper and lower limits on a "gauge" while the background flashes alternating colors and patterns. The closer to the top of the gauge you are the more points you earn per second, but if you TOUCH the top or bottom you lose a score multiplier A.K.A. your lives (think the Bit Trip series: reach zero multipliers and its game over). Periodically you can collect score bonuses near the bottom of the gauge and, if you so elect, press the CTRL button to start controlling 2 bars at once for twice the points.
Problem is, the game doesn't like it when you start scoring high and progressively speeds the rate of color flashing, swaps patterns more quickly, stretches/shifts/flips the screen orientation, moves the location of the upper and lower limits, changes music, and even flashes text questions and pictures of cats when you least suspect it.
It gets very difficult and I don't recommend playing for extended periods of time, especially on a large screen. That being said this can be a really fun game in small doses and getting put on the leaderboard is satisfying. In addition, after playing certain amounts more and more game modes unlock for you to try, tweaking one aspect of the game at a time to keep it fresh.
In conclusion I would give this game an 8/10 as a casual, but challenging, lunch break spender. The only detracting aspects of this game for me are:
-The music is good, BUT it could be better. I prefer something even more aggresive in this type of game to keep me focused.
-The agressive strobing of bright colors for minutes on end make this game difficult to play for more than 10-15 minutes, basicaly forcing the player to stop playing after a short time (and thats saying something because I have a pretty decent tollerance for this stuff).
All in all, for 4 bucks I'd say its well worth the money.
Still not exactly sure what is going on, not sure the game wants me to know whats going on, and I'm okay with that.
A very simple, fun and moreish game which plays with your mind as you try your hardest to look at a bar and maintain it's gauge by pressing space/ctrl whilst the game trys to distact you by manipulating the screen and playspace.
Some may want to wait for a price reduction if they don't think $4 is worth a 'distraction' myself I think it's well worth $4 for a distraction as I have a game that I can pass 5 - 10 mins waiting by my side every day until I get sick of it.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Étienne Périn |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 84% положительных (51) |