Super Meat Boy

Its so fun, but hard, only for true gamers that love tryhard games. 😅

PROS AND CONS WOOOOO

Pros:
Music hits different
You can play this for hours and not get bored
Ogmo
Dark Souls Difficulty!
A NES can run this.
has less bugs than my basement ( I have no basement :D )
A boy made out of meat. What else is there to say?

Cons:
3-19X
It just gets painful when you get to Chapter 7.
Bandages are annoying.
Who taught this baby to flip people off?

One of the best precision platformers ever made.

Played this to death on the PS4. Also bought a copy for my steamdeck. Quick sub 30 second levels that require precise control of meatboy's momentum to get to the end. Very challenging but also very addictive. Instant restart means you keep trying and trying and trying.

And trying.

Crazy how they made a peak spinoff of that one PETA flash game Tofu Boy

I play a lot of 2d platforming games and fighting games. This game caused me severe hand pain that no other game before or after ever has. It's the way the physics in the game are designed, if you're very young and haven't used your hands much you might not notice it, but google will show you it's a problem unique to this game and not isolated to me. I was unable to continue playing it for that reason, and would definitely not recommend playing it for that same reason.

beating this was torture. but i loved every bit of it !

I like the jilll aand the meaat boyy and the ermmm... and um and the fetusss and the blueee reverse guy and the ermmmm ogmooo

I HATE THIS EVIL GAME WITH EVERY INCH OF MY HEART, GETTING THE ACHIEVEMENTS HAS MADE ME MURDER 7 INFANTS, WHO SAID THE MISSILE BOY ACHIEVEMENT WAS A GOOD IDEA, I'M GOING ON A KILLING SPREE!!! Amazing, funny game, 10/10.

For the love of god don't get it if your trying to 100% the achievements, some of them are just sickeningly unfun to complete.

meat man pisses me off but is very fun and rewarding would recommend

This game has a sick sense of humiliation by beating you down to the ground with each level and forcing you to play through them over and over again until you can complete each level without dying. This game taught me that with the power of love, I can overcome death-defying obstacles like homing missiles and moving saw blades to rescue my lover from an angsty evil post-embryo doctor. I have successfully maneuvered through every instance of challenge this game has to offer me, now it is time for me to find a girlfriend and show her how well I can perform parkour stunts to win her heart.

10/10 would recommend, especially if you are a masochist.

Pretty awesome of a rage game. First time playing the game I became a noob, but I got all A's in the forest and hospital light world chapters, and got commander, jill, and ogmo. Its pretty hard to memorize what you do in some levels depending on characters or runs you're doing. This game however is better than super meat boy forever :)

I am a fan of super meat boy, and I wish to beat more levels soon :)
I recommend this game

This game is so hard, but so fun. The level design is interesting (up until Hell though, I got traumatized) and the controls are very simple but well implemented!

-coming from a guy who played with a fight stick the entire time

As fun as it is hard, as hard as it is fun.

Great game, but good god is Celeste better

My controller is now in two trying to unlock The Kid.
Fuck this game. 9/10

It's a good game but holy hell it's hard. Everything is fair except the fucking cotton alley. Some levels in the cotton alley are fine but most of them are bullshit and poorly made and feel like they were barley tested. They're bad and it's not a suprise as to why few people have the no death run achievements on those.

This game will always have a special place in my heart. It was the game that introduced me to the indie scene, alongside "Braid", after I watched the movie "Indie game the movie" way back in 2012. I immediately bought the game after after watching the movie and instantly felt in love with it. To this very day I am still constantly looking for platformers that provide a similar experience.

About the game review itself, what can I say, if you enjoy challenging 2D platformers, this is Masterpiece, a must play, there together with VVVVVV, Celeste and Cuphead... It is S tier platforming with a healthy dose of humor and gore, it's perfect <3

On one last note, the soundtrack is freakin amazing! Kudos to Danny B, really gives the game the feel it has

It's nice and difficult. Would be nicer if there is coyote frame.

so fun! i love the new charcters! steve, runman and the others used to ply on ps5 the steam version changed my life!!!!!

Great game but the default keybinds suck and there's no way to change them in game.
However, you can still change them. Here's how:

1: Go to the game in your steam library
2: Click on the button on the right with the gear on it
3: Go into Manage, then click Browse local files
4: You will find a file called buttonmap.cfg (NOT buttonmap.cfg.bak). Open it in notepad
5: Change the keybinds to whatever you want, however they must be in quotes. The run button is labeled as special.
Hope this helped!

Good game, but i tried to get back into it after a while and it wont open anymore, please fix this, ive tried every suggestion i could find.

This game is very challenging and I love playing it

100% recommend buying

Really hard, if you like the challenge of beating something most can't complete it's for you. Warning you'll probably break 2 to 3 controllers in your attempts to complete :D

This brings back so much memories. And i love making levels. bro this GAME IS THE GOOOAAATT

Yeah, Super Meat Boy rocks. It absolutely holds up and you can understand why this was and still is an icon of indie games. The original soundtrack is awesome and adds a ton to the levels. It’s really a shame that it was removed from recent console ports. The core controls make it feel awesome to speed through levels. Even years later, this is the best wall jumping has felt in any platformer. The feeling of seeing a new level laid out in front of you, and managing to race through it on the first few tries is unparalleled. But the game also has a really good balance of difficult levels that feel impossible until you give them a few hundred tries.

I don’t love all the mechanics, like the fans or the orbulons that push you away from them. These more ambiguous or finicky obstacles are harder to intuit and plan around (it’s possible I’m just dumb). I feel this game is at its best when it lays out a challenge with very defined parameters. Luckily, the game allows you to skip 3 levels per world, allowing for greater player freedom and flexibility of playthroughs.

If I had to change anything, world bosses are probably the weakest point. It’s always awkward to implement bosses in platformers without sacrificing the strengths of gameplay. The “chase sequence” bosses are probably the best solution. Similar to Ori and the Blind Forest, they’re great for games that put all their cards into platforming. In comparison, the other bosses feel like odd difficulty spikes that are challenging for the wrong reasons. Especially the infamous world 4 boss, which is a frustratingly slow attack pattern memorization test (thematic as it is for a boss made up of your hundreds of failed attempts, it grinds the pacing to a halt). That said, the challenge of all these bosses make them feel like suitable finales to each world, and you definitely feel accomplished after beating them. Speaking of finales, the final 5 levels and ending are truly a gauntlet, and how I knew that I never beat this game 10 years ago. Just when my thumbs were starting to really, really hurt, I was able to best this game at last. I will not be going for 100% as I would permanently damage my thumbs and psyche.

Really nice game, designs, graphics, and very hard which makes the game more fun and exciting

The game does not lie. It is super. There is meat. It is a boy.

Jump and Run for starters

show this to any pro lifer to make them understand ultimate rage against fetuses

good game but controls suck ass and you can't change them as well... but if you can get pass the trash controls it okay.

One of the best 2d platformers ever

It is also, one of the hardest :)

Good game but theres a glitch where wall jumps or double jumps don't work and I don't like that but thats mostly only a problem for no death runs

good expirence feels responsive and slick great soundtreck:)competetive and romantic story i recommend

fun platformer, fun to pull out the old xbox controller :)

Maybe the best platformer ever made. It's ridiculously good and still holds up in 2025

Based on 106% clear
Rating includes extra

One of the big boys on the indie boom back in the 2010s and with good reason! Its a simple and straightforward platformer with a huge difficulty curve for a lot of people. I still find myself coming back to it off and on just because the level design and various level mechanics are just that much fun to interact with. Alongside having features such as bonus levels and a ton of unlockable characters that completely change how you play? Its got a lot of replay-ability especially if you're a completionist.

If you liked this game after playing however, I would strongly advise against playing its sequel Super Meat Boy Forever, as it completely drops things such as unique characters and retro levels in favor of being an "an autorunner with rng elements". Its a shallow imitation of what this game achieves and its a shame its such a stain on what this series was about at its core lol.

But yeah, this game good.... I do not perceive the sequel.

Unlike PETA, I love this game. Nice mechanics and a good rage / platformer game. Worth the cost.

i really wish i didnt refund ittttttt.... i was ass and got mad....

It's very fun, but I've also screamed at it more times than I can count. Be aware!!!

fck cotton alley but otherwise fun game

Meat Boy controls horribly, he is way to slippery and it feels like there's no buffer time in this game.

Very challenging game, yet insanely fun. I would recommend playing this.

In-game 100% 14 years after I first played it. This game is a masterpiece that will never lose its status

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boy
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ It's free, but... it's very difficult to play without spending money
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Newbie Friendly }---
☐ You got a friend in me!
☑ Easy if you've played similar games
☐ One or two tutorials on YouTube
☐ Not so easy
☑ Oooh f#©k...
☐ Where do I click? How do I play?... Alt+F4!

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ Servers }---
☑ Single Player
☐ Coop Local/Online
☐ Only NA
☐ Half of the world NA/Europe/Asia
☐ The whole world

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
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☐ 10

I mean, it's Super Meat Boy, the game that more or less turned the "difficult indie platformer" subgenre into what it is now. (Heck, Cuphead's devs directly said SMB's success inspired them to make their game) Still, as someone who isn't some diehard platformer fan, it's still definitely worth it.

The game's legendary difficulty is no joke, Chapter 4 and onwards is when the game stops messing around. And have you seen those achievements? Cotton Alley (bonus endgame chapter, stupid hard) deathless? and on dark world as well? Goodness gracious... Thankfully, this game follows in the Hotline Miami style of "death is cheap" gameplay. Died on the last jump again? Well, thankfully the par time for this stage is only like 20 seconds, so you'll be back to it in no time!

As mentioned above, trying to 100%/Platinum it is a... journey, to say the least. I don't even know if I have the patience to get everything lol. But there's definitely bragging rights in there.

Graphics aren't anything special, but it's going for a certain style that just works.

Music is god tier, especially the 2010 soundtrack. You ain't lived until you've listened to The Battle of Lil' Slugger.

Anyways, definitely recommend, to at least see how far you can get without throwing in the towel permanently. It goes on sale fairly regularly.

It's that I personally don't really enjoy precision platformers, but Super Meat Boy has set the standard in a major way.

fun for speedrunning, lots of tech

(Review copy received for free on 03/21/25, game releases 03/28/25)

There's this really funny game, have you heard of it? Well if you haven't, you're in for an absolute TREAT. Because Super Meat Boy is that really funny game. "Funny" is an understatement. This game is HILARIOUS. You play as Meat Boy, a cube of meat. Yeah, you read that right. MEAT. And he's on a race to save his girlfriend Bandage Girl from Dr. FEATUS. Literally the villain is a FEATUS in a jar, like who comes up with this stuff??

If you are a veteran gamer you will find that this game takes notes from and references a lot of other games from when you were a kid. For example, the very first level of the game teaches you how to play. Sound familiar? Because that's precisely what level 1-1 in Super Mario Bros for the Famicom did. You may also notice that Super Meat Boy and Super Mario Bros. share an abbreviation (SMB), highlighting a clear respect for the legacy of the Famicom classic. But be warned: unlike Mario there is some crass humor. Dr Featus flips you off every chance he gets. Like, with his middle finger, and it's not blurred out or anything. It is, however, done so very comedically and I literally get a kick out of it every time he does it.

Speaking of humor, the game also references a lot of memes from a bygone era. Whenever you get to a new world, you'll hear a rendition of a familiar melody used in the famous "Dramatic Chipmunk" viral YouTube video from 2007. But aside from oldschool references, this game isn't afraid to tip the hat to its similarly-hilarious contemporaries, making it a joyful experience for uncles and nephews alike. You will be delighted to know that Derp Robot (from the Newgrounds classic, Derp Robot) is PLAYABLE as a playable character.

I do not wish to spoil this game further as I am bound by a contract with the developer (who I can attest from private conversations is equally hilarious), so I will conclude by saying that Super Meat Boy is an absolute sidesplitter. I haven't even touched upon the EGREGIOUS difficulty of the game, but that honestly ties into the hilarity of it all. From level to level, I tear up at the sight of a hundred Meat Boys attempting to complete the level but dying en masse. This detail alone justifies the price tag that I paid for this free review copy, and even then it's only a fraction of the joys this game has to offer. You won't be disappointed.

I cannot wait for you to experience this instant classic.

CONCLUSION
Pros: hilarious, referential, experimental, funny, teaches you how to play
Cons: it ends

RANK: 5/5