Celeste

yes. just yes.
a difficult, incredible 3d platformer.

the chances are you will be able to beat it on your own (unassisted), but it'll take determination.

all i can say, is do not be afraid to use assist mode. as the achievements and such are still unlockable with it on, you can use it as much as you want. its amazing.

Fun game play, beautiful story, overall amazing package and should be considered a masterpiece

good game. if u are an achievement whore pls get multiple spare keyboards. you will need it

The second I booted up the game I fell in love and i couldn’t put it down, the platforming is so fun and the level designs are perfect and each stage adds something new and it makes it more fun, you’ll die a lot in this game but it’s all trail and error and once you beat the stage you had trouble on it feels so rewarding after many attempts. The story and characters are great and the music is fire and the pixelated visuals and the hand drawn art style is soooo gooddddd. 10/10 MASTERPIECE!!!

I'w writing a good review, but it feels like I'm still under Stockholm syndrome - this game hurt me physically, mentally and emotionally. Still this is the best platformer in the world. 11/10 would fall off a cliff again

Celeste is definitely the best indie platformer game i've played this year. Challenging difficulty but also very rewarding with a banger of a soundtrack and great visuals honestly 10/10.

Umm, It was definitely an awakening experience. 11/10 Would experience 100% again.

This game was amazing to play. When you climb Celeste Mountain, the pressure makes you feel like you are actually there.

I just completed the game, and my fingers hurt like crazy. This game gave me arthritis.

If you enjoy challenging gameplay with a meaningful narrative and great OST, it's worth playing. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’d really like to come back and complete it someday.

Celeste is an excellently-designed platformer with a nice story and lots of challenge. The movement in this game is incredibly fun, and installing mods is pretty simple. Celeste also has a great modding community with thousands of custom maps to play that will add much higher difficulties and new mechanics, so there's plenty to do after you beat everything the base game has to offer. Not to mention that the music is also awesome. Still cis though.

Where do i begin?! The story is so beautifully done. The art, the characters and challenges you face along the game make the conclusion to the story so much more satisfying. For anyone looking for a game that is going to speak to your soul and make you appreciate who you are- this is your sign to get this game. Remember to enjoy the experience (though I hated the windy level with a passion). I love the assisted option for those that want either a less challenging game or for those that might have disabilities preventing them from enjoying most platformers- such a small thing that goes a long way to include everyone. The B-Side tracks are no joke!

TL;DR - emotionally great game with a great challenge and art. Highly Recommend.

♥ For those that perished climbing the mountain ♥

celeste is like garfield cart if it was a platformer bc itz also rly difficult adn only for hard core gamers
fantastic video game but doesnt hav garfiel in it

Man, this game.
A friend of mine suggested I play Celeste, so I did — and hoo boy, I did not expect an emotional rollercoaster out of this beautiful masterpiece.

For anyone wondering: Celeste is a hard platformer game. But you know that already. What I (and probably many others) am trying to say is that this might not be the type of game for you — BUT!!! there IS an assist mode. If it weren't for the assist mode, I myself wouldn't have been able to finish the game AND the DLC. So, just beware of the difficulty, although it is suggested to play through it with assist mode turned off.
Anyways, I managed to talk about anything but the game so far. Great start to a review.

As I was saying, Celeste is a hard game, but it's FILLED with content. You got like 9 levels, most of them having another "side" (basically a bonus level) or two. Like, no wonder I almost got to 100h with this game. (Although I have to admit that some part of it is due to skill issues...)
But yeah, you'll be sitting here for a LOOOONG time if you want to do EVERYTHING [i ](or at least hunt the achievements down) [/i] .
I promise, though, it's really fun. If you're unsure about the gameplay, I suggest you read about it in other reviews that dive a bit deeper into the gameplay side of this game.

The story. Holy moly. I'm not gonna spoil the whole thing for you, but I'll try to describe the way it made me feel.
You are a funny little blob character (she’s a person, but it’s funny to say it this way) who wants to climb a mountain (who would have thought) and that’s what you do.
On your way, you’ll meet a few more characters — some more charismatic than others.
All of the characters have their arcs, goals, and personality.
Basically, there is one specific character who made me rethink the way I view myself — which is weird, since my favorite game didn’t even manage to achieve this level of self-awareness / self-reflection. They are so well written to the point where you understand their motives better when starting a second run.
The rest of the cast is also amazing. I love them so much — they're just great.

One thing I noticed is also how the story and the gameplay go hand in hand in several sections of the protag's journey.
There’s a section that feels super hard and exhausting to get through? Probably what our girlypop (protag) is also feeling.
There’s a section making you feel empowered? Madeline feels empowered too.
It’s just beautiful how the game puts you inside Madeline’s shoes and makes you FEEL what she feels.

And don’t get me started on the music. Just *chef’s kiss*

I know, if this is one of the first reviews you’re reading about this game and you took your time to get through this one, you might be disappointed by the lacking content (*of this review). But hey, maybe you got curious enough to either continue looking at reviews or you’ve decided to play Celeste yourself.
I know I did. A 10/10 experience indeed

The fact that the achievement for completing all C sides in this stupid hard game has been gained by over 7 percent of players speaks for itself.

Also, yay Trans rights :3

Great game with a challenging difficulty honestly but so rewarding in the end. Awesome pixel art visuals, great soundtrack and it only took me 2588 deaths for the main story... Totally worth it!

Awesome platformer with good story and unique levels.

I love the music of this game. There are a lot of music's from games and this game, no master piece is on top 3 od my favorite video games music (gameplay is fun for the most of the game)

Just finished chapter 6 as of writing this. The game is amazing! Dying somehow doesn't feel stressful, and completing a difficult jump feels so rewarding! The storyline is amazing and the characters have so much emotion. It's very difficult but also very fun.

It's a very good game and my sister who used to be my brother won't stop playing it.

on the surface this is a game about climbing a mountain but really it is a game about developing finger cramps

My all-time favorite platformer! The game play is fluid, the story is impactful and the art is amazing. You can really feel the love that when into this game while you play it...

And then you get to the later chapters and the 'cassettes' where the difficulty jumps astronomically. A real challenge which is pretty rare for games that emphasize on the story as much as Celeste does.

Experience this game for yourself, don't read any more reviews. This is a MUST GET.

It's addictive god help me I'm losing my will to resist it calls to me day and night I can't get away if you're reading this please ease my burden by buying it./.

A great game that can both be a challenge and easy. The story and music for this game is where this game shines the most. Both are very heartfelt.

just realized I never wrote a review for this game, not that it needs it. One of the most popular indie games of all time. Its the best platformer. Nothing else to it. gave me carpel tunnel tho. I played this game about 150 hours all devices, had it on my switch first but my switch is an old man, dying of old age. had it on gamepass for awhile then I stopped paying my subscription so I bought it here. best game next to terraria

double dipped for this game on steam after originally buying on switch. one of my favorite games ever

the best platforming game, music 10/10 I listen to it even when not playing, the platforming is also 10/10, every chapter brings new mechanics and the mechanics are pure gold. the story is also just great and the pixel art is also great. the game is just 10/10. also even after finishing the game and all the side levels there are so many awasome mods to play. (though the game itself is long enough on it's own) (also the difficulty is awasome)

The graphics are surreal, the story is great, the difficulty is on the harder side but still manageable, farewell might be a bit hard for some. The best indie game imo. definitely worth buying.

Bought at the original price, well worth it. Simple movements yet infinite possibilities. One thing I particularly love is that all the levels are so well designed that they do not focus merely on inputs but also on strategies. With that being said, it's still a very hard game and B sides and C sides are probably not for me...
I also love the art and the music.

One of my all time FAVOURITE games I'd say, (and I'm not all that good at platformers, lol), - OST and visuals are absolutely stunning, same w/ the overall story, ; hits the soul, and close to home at times I'd say, ; there are so many little details that you can tell how much love and care was put into the game,
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Yes,
It IS difficult at times, don't get me wrong, (curse you pufferfish and that one wavedash room (f-01) in Farewell, >:C), but in my experience it wasn't all that frustrating to die over and over AND OVER again, it's genuinely fun, and once you get it, it feels SO AWESOME!, >:]
The game introduces so many different mechanics w/ only four controls, and it's amazing how much you can do w/ them!,
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But, yeah!, BEAUTIFUL game, **very** challenging at times, yet so fun to play, and would 100.1% recommend to anyone for sure,
[[Anyone, as even if you're really not the best at platforming, or need a lil' help, there's also an assist mode for people who'd still like to enjoy the game which is neat!]], C:
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ALSO,
Crouched Madeline is great, 100% best sprite in game, fr, lol, ; she smeeshin', >:P

Amazing visuals, touching story, optimized and most importantly best 2d gameplay of all time
you can tell the gameplay is really well thought and has been passionately studied to make it as fair as possible
Totally one of my favorite games! absolutely recommend

The main story is a 10/10 experience, the difficulty curve is quite down-to-earth, and progress is rewarding.
The side challenges however are not what I'd call "fun", but they are worth it if you, like myself, don't care about your sanity. Literally hardest game I have ever played. I look foward to meeting who designed the final room of 7C in hell.

As a trans person myself, i absolutely love this game straight off the bat
But bias aside, celeste really is a good game, it's infuriating yet you feel rewarded for all the struggles you may (or may not) have to go through.
also the ost is a banger.

celeste is the best game ever, you want celeste, you need celeste, everybody needs celeste, buy celeste, i love celeste.

I put off writing a review for Celeste for a long time, this game is really intertwined with me and my own personal journeys through adversities and my love for mountaineering.

Celeste is one of the few games that successfully marries thematic expression with gameplay and no where is it better represented than the continuous process of dying, learning and trying again. What sets apart Celeste from other difficult platformers is its incredibly personal journey through the exploration of ones identity and the trials that come with it

I really adore Celeste, for a lot of reasons but at the end, it is simply a really good game that managed to be something more for the people who play it.

celeste is just the best precision platformer out there. if you like meat boy, play this game. if you like mario maker, play this game. wake tf up and beat the c-sides, then tell me you're bored. 10/10

You decide to climb a mountain that makes you feel like you're fighting the entire universe. The game throws impossible jumps, precise mechanics, and a story that touches your soul. Every failed jump is a small agony, but something strange happens: the soundtrack embraces you and gives you the strength to keep going. Because yes, the music is so perfect that even the pain of dying on the same jump ten times feels... kind of beautiful. And in the end, when you reach the top, you realize the real challenge was accepting that all this made you a better person. Or maybe just a little more patient.

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QUALIFICATION

9/10 MOUNTAIN

This is one of those games where I judged it by the cover and did not read enough of the reviews! I though this was going to be a comfy, cozy platformer with a cute story. Ohhh boy was I wrong.

This game is a painstakingly handcrafted instrument of unyielding psychological torture.

Don't get me wrong.. I'm loving it. But goodness gracious, this is challenging. There's like... 4 controls? Direction, jump, climb, and dash. That's pretty much it. But the amount of things they did with that... it's nothing short of amazing.

This is a precision platformer in every sense of the word. You have to practice, die, practice again, and eventually you figure out the timing, the coordination, and all and get it. And that was one room. Now go to the next one. Each room is hand crafted with devious and malicious intent. It's kind of glorious.

The great thing is they don't punish you at all. Respawns are super fast, and you start right at the beginning of the room you were on. Rooms can sometimes be one screen only, so you basically just have to nail the room down. It appears that later in the game there is more scrolling and the rooms get larger, but I'm not quite there yet. Regardless, this can be more challenging than it sounds even if it is only one screen, as usually you need to zig zag through and avoid all kinds of nefarious things they put in your path... but it's doable. And when you finally beat a room, you are happy about it... and then you see the next one.

There are also a bunch of things later in the game, like enemies and such but I have no idea how those work so I won' t comment on them now. There is a story here that appears to be pretty cute. It's a simple story, but I quite like how they present it. It's about a girl named Madeline (changeable) climbing Mount Celeste (yes, I know, I thought Celeste was the girl's name at first as well) to prove to herself that she can.

This is a game that could potentially become frustrating. Frustration is the enemy of gaming, and so I recommend taking it in small doses if you are prone to that. Don't try to play this for 8 hours straight if you are at risk of going full tilt... it won't help. You need to breathe and be calm and coordinated with this game. I play for a room or three, then put it down and do something else. I'll slowly work my way through it over time, and that is fine with me because I enjoy every time I do get into it, and the challenge is always something I'm ready for.

This is a great game, and I am looking forward to slowly working my way through it.

Just breathe, Madeline... you can do this!

If you're a computer science major, you know the appeal of this game. If you're not, then it goes like this: You will not get any of these levels right on the first couple tries. But when you eventually get them right, you feel like a genius. This game is excellent.
Also got a killer soundtrack.

0/10 game TOO good dont play if you dislike 10/10 visuals 100/10 gameplay 10/10 replayability

Badeline.

Wife Material
'Wife material' is described as "a phrase often used to describe a girl whom you feel possesses certain qualities that qualifies her to be a model wife for you"

I haven't played much of it and I have not completed everything, but this game is truly amazing. The platforming is fun and the game has cool mechanics added to each different section of the game. The graphics are awesome! I highly recommend the game!

Entre más juegas más lo odias, eso es inmerción en el personaje, 10/10

The best platformer I own, with a great story too. I reccomend this game to anyone who likes a challenge.

quickly became one of my favorite games ever, difficult, good for speedrunning and challenges and nice community/modded community :3

peak. peak storytelling, peak gameplay, peak characters. absolute cinema.

This is an incredibly difficult game that i am not good at, but it also one of my favorite games. I've never played something that encouraged me so much. I genuinely recommend this to everyone to try.

One of my favourite games of all time.

10/10 gameplay
10/10 story
10/10 soundtrack
10/10 art
10/10 community

If you like platformers, "Celeste" is just the game for you.

This game is extremely OK. Haha, get it.

For real though, great game. Have a strawberry, you earned it. 🍓

farewell is the video game equivalent of dropping a cinder block on your nuts

good easy to learn hard to master game, can be raging at times but the cute artstyle makes it for it. 9/10