JumpJet Rex

There is literally NOTHING to dislike about this game,it has great music, fun gameplay, lot of achievements, cool concept, it has two of my favourite things: Dinosaurus and Aliens. Only thing what puts it down a bit, is to its one of the harder platformers, so if you want you can go whit something easier.

Fun platformer. Good way to kill some time.

A fine little time trial based platformer. Feels VERY 2015 in the presentation, artstyle, and just the very concept of "Hey! Let's make a 'retro inspired' pixel platformer!", but the multiplayer is fun, the game poses an actual challenge if you want to get 100%, and it's well priced. 7/10.

Go play Celeste instead lol

Descent enough pseudo retro platformer. Satisfying jetpack controls. Short and sweet story. Challenging but with generous checkpoints and the stages are short enough to make the no death/time trial stars achievable. Except that last level, that can do one.

Has too many bugs with controller. The "universe view" where you actually select missions, with controller I can only move left or right, it won't move up or down making me not be able to select missions that I need to do next. In this same view, the menu only allows you to resume back and not select anything else (it seems no button except "back" work in the menu). I was pretty turned off by these controller bugs as this is definitely a controller game. In other places the buttons seemed to work as intended.

Just finished the first boss, this is one of those games that winning is an inevitability. I would have liked it more if it was a Mario style game with a real penalty for dying. Getting 3 stars on all the levels is fun though, and I will be playing more.

This is the highest amount of nostalgia I've ever had. Playing this game on the original XBOX 1 was basically my entire childhood, but after I grew up I completely forgot about this game. But then one day I sat browsing my steam queue, and this was the last game in it. As soon as I saw the name, a hurricane of nostalgia hit me straight in the face. Jump Jet Rex is a good game, and if your someone who loves sci-fi, dinosaurs, and tough as nails platformers, then I couldn't recommend it enough. 8/10

The game does have its moments, but I can't help but wonder if the devs should've put more effort into this game. The level design feels bland overall and the controls are workable, but not optimized for time trials. Speaking of which, a major gripe I have is when devs decide to add a time trial to stages regardless of whether they're designed for them or not. The result is that you get stages that flow poorly and are not fun to complete.

I also have issues with how the bosses are huge damage sponges. Unless you find out some secret, you'll be at them a while and it can get pretty aggravating.

This one's another on-the-fence game. Around mediocre quality.

Genuinely one of the best indie games I've played. The controls feel tricky at first, but once you master them it becomes really fun to fly around. You'll die a lot in this game, but trust me, it's not as frustrating as it sounds -- the levels are fairly short, restarting is super quick when you die, and if you keep trying you'll eventually get good enough to get past them. And it's so addictive!

The music and graphics are also very charming and Rex is adorable. It's a lot of fun to collect accessories to change his appearance.

A well put together game, but not very fun on a foundational level.

The setting is in space, but the gameplay is essentially like an underwater level from any platforming game, for the entire game.

And every single level looks like it was built in a super simple level editor. There are a lot of levels, but it's not suprising when you realize just how barebones the levels are. There is no memorable or unique features of any of the levels. It's all just blocks and doors and hallways for the entire game. The bosses mix up the gameplay a bit but they are too far spread out.

They should have cut about half the levels in this game and put more thought and uniqueness into every level.

This game gave me some serious nostalgia from playing my old sega games back when I was a kid. Jump jet rex is an amazing game, the levels are very colorful and the music is great. The controlls work well with the level design but can be pretty precise sometimes. I loved the boss designs and the abilities to customize your character along with the subtle homage to older games based on character design and other things. The devs are great and responsive, I found a total of two bugs during my playthrough of the game and after I recorded a short vid of what I did to cause the bug and I showed it to them they immeadiatly patched the game to fix it. The levels have different challenges that you have to complete which gives the game a good sense of replayability if your a completionist. My only issue with the game is the final stage, in an attempt to not spoil the game I will state that there is a MASSIVE difficulty spike between the final stage and the rest of the game that I did not feel that the game had prepared me for. It almost made me quit the game but I powered through it just to say I finished the game. I would give this game a solid reccomendation, if you are having trouble with the final stage just dont bother with it. Play the rest of the levels on the game because they are a blast and worth running through again. Overall I would give this game a solid 8/10 due to my issue with the flawed final stage. otherwise this game is great!

It's unfortunate that, among all of these retro-throwback games, JumpJet Rex doesn't seem to get a lot of attention and is even negatively compared. It clearly has plenty of buyers and players, but it's still seemingly not often mentioned. Even after reading some of the criticism (not that there's much anyway) I am still flabbergasted as to why, because it's easy to see just how much of a labor of love this game is (and I'll note right now that the game controls great, don't know why that was an issue for anyone). Much care and thought has been put into the game, what with the level design coinciding with the strict yet still possible time limits given if you choose to speedrun levels. This is mixed with some legitimately nostalgic aesthetic touches which show that the people who made this game clearly were alive back in the day long enough to know what it was like. This isn't just any ol' imitation, I could legitimately see a game like this having been around back in the 90s on the SNES (not the NES despite the style of the soundtrack; the graphics are too nice for the NES otherwise), and as a child I could imagine this being my favorite game.

Admittedly, as an adult it's not my favorite, as it can be frustrating at times, particularly when attempting to obtain some treasures in the game, though it is due to a legitimate toughness as opposed to any glitches or nigh-impossible fake difficulty. Though the game does get harder, it does become more rewarding to play as you feel like you actually accomplish things when you obtain victories, even minor ones, as the game takes practice rather than luck. This is the case whether you are speed-running, exploring to find secrets, or just breezing through the levels, and it's great that all of those options are available. The game retains its challenge either way since you'll be facing actual platforming (or "platflying") challenges, especially when treasure-seeking. I will say, however, if you do happen to just play through the game in a "Point A to Point B," manner, you are not going to enjoy this game nearly as much since, especially for ten bucks, the game can actually feel like a great adventure (yes, adventure).

Though I said it's not my favorite game as an adult, the passion the developers show here seeps into my heart and makes me love it just as much as they likely did, and so I still find this to be among the greatest games on all of Steam, possibly even the best of the retro-throwbacks I've played (if not, it's damn close). In terms of recommendations, particularly since it doesn't seem well-known or oft-discussed, it comes quickly off the top of my head among my first recommendations.

I really love this game. It's simple, colourful, and great. It reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog a bit ,but it isn't a problem,is it!?
Pros:
- Great soundtrack
- Good boss fights
- Colourful graphics
- Customizable HQ and character
- Local CO-OP and Arena mod

Cons:
- There may be some FPS drops in some levels
- You need stars to proceed further levels, and they can be hard to earn
- Sometimes the leves can be a bit hard

First playing through all the levels and collecting stuff, I was a little indifferent. It was decent fun, but it was kind of on the easy side. Didn't really stand out.

Going back and playing through in speedrun mode after I knew the levels kind of well, I got it, yeah. And going through and getting good times on individual levels by themselves, too, I got it. This is a great speedgame, but a relatively easy game on its own, for a platformer at least. It's like, a casual speedrunning game, or something. There's not a lot of competition in the leaderboards though, unfortunately.

The bosses all have a trick to them that basically trivializes them but fighting them any other way is tedious, I find them very weird. Sometimes it feels like my dash input was being dropped, or the dash cancel was being dropped. Not often, but I noticed it, felt weird when it happened.

Game looks nice, probably not enough levels, only about 45 and only a few take more than a minute when speedrunning, ends up feeling really short. Not a fan of some of the grindy achievements, but they're optional and most of the achievements are good.

It's fun to play and optimize the levels and that's about all I could really ask, just wish there was a bit more of a challenge to it overall but ehh! Pretty good game, not one of my favorites ever or anything but I'm glad I played it.

JumpJet Rex is a solid casual jump and run.
Unfortunately with a few flaws.

Pros:

- Nice retro setting.
- Nice retro music.
- Good control concept with the jumping jet boots (although it feels like flappy bird sometimes).
- A lot of secrets.
- Weird but nice and supershort story.
- "Super Mario Style" amount of coins. Which you can use to buy skins. Nice!

Cons:

- Engine: One main problem is its performance. I play it on an i7 quadcore with an ok gaming video card.
In a ridiculous resolution (1280x720). And the game lags in huge levels. I even got the feeling, that sometimes when I hit a button it just doesn't react at all. So there seems to be a technical problem in the core engine.
- Speedrunning concept: The developers want you to speedrun the levels. There is a bonus if you finish within a narrow time limit. But you just don't see enough in a lot of levels with your small point of view. So sometimes, suddenly, out of nowwhere, an enemy appears or a big block goes straight towards you. And you don't feel like you had a lot of chances to avoid it, except for learning the level by hard. Wrong approach in my opinion.
- Boss fights: The bosses mostly annoy me, they are hard but not in a good way. Hard to describe.
- Full price is too expensive. I paid 5€ during sale which seems ok, but it is definitely not worth 15€. Here you have better options (e.g. BattleBlock Theater).

Conclusion:
It's ok to play it in easy mode, casually, then you will have a lot of fun. But I wouldn't speedrun it or try to get every achievement.

Had to configure the gamepad manually despite the Steam Store claiming full controller support, and the game's website claiming my controller to be compatible. But other than this minor inconvenience, heck yes. This game is awesome.

If you like to beat leaderboard times and/or speedrunning, you might like this game. The game has an interesting 'speedrun' mode with the objective to achieve the fastest time possible. Though the game is fun playing casually, I found more enjoyment in beating people's times on the leaderboard.

If you are looking to play the game casually, it's a very fun platformer where you are speeding through levels as a T-Rex with booster shoes! It also has a nice soundtrack that matches the game's nice 16-bit graphics. But it IS a short game(2-3+ hrs) and depending on how loose your wallet is, $15 might be a steep price to pay. I recommend this game and if it ever receives goes on a discount it would definitely be worth it.

TL;DR

Great but short platformer. T-Rex in space, Chris Pratt would be proud.

The best parts of this game? All of it. The soundtrack, the gameplay, the customization, the co-op, the collectables... This game has a lot to offer, so really, when you beat the game, you're really not finished yet, there's still plenty left for you to do. There's still treasure, stars, and coins to collect if you're aiming for 100%. Even after you've done all that, there are two other ways to play, and then there's co-op.

I think this game is a piece of art.

very simplistic controls but still very fun to use.
every level is perfect to speedrun and fun to do so if you are in speedrunning.
even a casual playhrough its a blast.

I do reccomend this game if you are in to platforming/speedrunning.

Just picked this up, insta-buy for me. Graphics are spot on, music and sound effects are awesome, game play is fast based, casual. But it's the type of casual that you can invest hours into and really lose the hours.

Awesome! Keep up the solid work, Indie dev power!

This game is RAD.
I'm not the kind of person that likes to play platformers - I usually get bored and frustrated by them really quickly. This, however, is GREAT. It's like Super Meat Boy met Flappy Bird and gave birth to a dinosaur with jetpacks on his feet. "Eww, Flappy Bird! That game is soooo stooooopid!" You may or may not have just said. "That also came out in 2013!! Are you stuck in the past, grandma?!" Haha okay there buddy, but seriously, hear me out!
In my first dive in I found that the game was very easy to pick up; the controls were very responsive and so easy to grasp that within minutes I was literally flying through the levels like I was DINO-PETER PAN! It feels like its at the right speed too - not too slow to make it feel clunky, and not too fast to make it overwhelming.
The art style is super cute - I just love my lil' Rex with his lil' cyborg eyepatch - did I mention you can dress up and customize Rex? Yeah, you can DO THAT. And it's AWESOME. I may be just biased though because I'm a GIRL. Who sometimes plays into GENDER STEREOTYPES.
Aaaanyways, the levels are quite diverse and I never knew what to expect going into each one, which is fun! I love mysteries! I mean it's not exactly Jump Jet Agatha Christie but y'know, it's cool. In all seriousness though, the level design is tight. There's also no forced tutorial but rather a main hub where you can learn basic mechanics and manoeuvres either yourself or through training, which is a nice option.
This game, despite being so easy to pick up, is very punishing - something that it openly advertises, so that's probably what the devs were going for. I found myself getting a little frustrated with the first boss battle after I died a ton trying to figure out how to beat it. The problem with this one battle was that the pacing was so different from before - I'd been trained to just GO GO GO as fast as I could throughout the previous levels while in this battle I had to wait for the right time to attack - it was actually easier to stand still than to keep moving. Despite this I've still really enjoyed JJR and heavily recommend it to anyone that is looking for a strong platforming game that you'll not only have a ton of fun playing but will also challenge you. Even a filthy casual like me enjoyed it! Support your the indies, guys! :)

This game is fantastic.
It's a 2D beautifully pixel art platforming adventure game. Rex is a dinosaur trying to stop the evil from being so evil, a very straight forward and enjoyable theme much like the classics of Mario Megaman Donkey Kong and recent ones like Shovel Knight.
But this actually has very unique gameplay mechanics. You mostly move around by dashing, dropping height, and jet boosting across traps, bad guys and spikes.
Something you don't see at first too is that this game has the level of detail that makes it so unique and awesome to come back to. Like finding secret stages, secret exits, hidden coins, collectible items that come back to your Space HQ and decorate it, all with adorable and awesome design and art tune.

This game right now is still in development, and even chatting with the players to find possible new awesome content. Right now it has quite a lot of content tho. A shop with very iconic references for unique outfits like Megaman's helmet, Castle Crashers, Sub Zero's Mask. And the shop randomizes which items you have available so it's a fun thing to check .

Each stage is quite unique and the soundtrack follows the exploration-adventure theme fantastically.

Even has some Speed Running mechanics and a game mode in the future, as well a Rage Quit game mode that I would not try since I would not have a death wish but awesomely referencing Michael from RT "I believe".