Masky

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Simple, fun and great with friends.

A hypnotic and rhythmic (and mystical!) game. Visually I love it. The mechanics are quite easy and the evolution of the levels is mainly focused on increasing the difficulty on the same base. In any case it is very entertaining, and ends up hooking you to see if you achieve one more level. I've never tried it playing online with other people, but alone it's fun enough.


[ESP]
Un juego hipnótico y rítmico (¡y místico!). Visualmente me encanta. La mecánica no tiene mucho misterio y la evolución de los niveles se centra principalmente en aumentar la dificultad sobre la misma base. En cualquier caso es muy entretenido y acaba enganchándote para ver si logras un nivel más. Nunca lo he probado jugando en línea con más gente, pero a solas resulta lo suficientemente divertido.

Masky is an extremely minimalist bit of low quality console ported shovelware. It's a very simple "see-saw" balancing game where you stand in a 2D side view room with a bunch of other people all neatly spaced out. You wear a mask. You can wobble left or right, being careful to maintain your balance or your mask falls off. You can move into other people and they also put a mask on, and you are "stuck" to them. People on the left will drag you to the left, people on the right will drag you to the right. You must maintain a balance between the people on the left and right while also keeping your mask on.

The only motivation to do this is to see how many people you can collect. That's it. You might as well play a game of bouncing a basketball for an hour, to see how many times you can bounce it. Then, the next hour, you try again and see if you can beat your previous score! What amazing fun. Not. You can see how shallow this is and why it's just shovelware pollution, with no serious merit or value as a game for PC gamers.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality vector art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals.

The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.

Because this is a console game, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone.

This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).

Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Masky" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Masky has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for collecting the first mask, a cat themed one, but only around 5 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 5 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

Masky is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam.

Wow. WOW. What a cool little game. Just one little, interesting idea, and they've put such soul into it. I just love what this publisher puts out, and what this developer has made. Such tight music, the rhythm is perfect with the meter, and where another developer might have just put whatever song they felt like in there, the devs went the extra mile and incorporated it into the gameplay. It's a dollar, so don't expect a ton of variety, but it does have cool new worlds to see and different masks and stuff. It's not a *compelling* story, but it's enough to encourage you to want to make it to the next level. Yep. I don't want to write too long about a game like this. It's an excellent experience for a dollar.

Edit: If anyone wants to play together to try to get the multiplayer achievements, just send me a message. Thanks.
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I regret not playing it immediately after I bought it - so I could still request a refund.

In about 5-10 minutes you'll have done everything the game has to offer. It's nothing more than a balancing game.

You'll probably play (a lot) more for the achievements though - and you won't even be able to get the multiplayer ones.

Cute characters, bad soundtrack and repetitive gameplay. 3/10

---{Gameplay}---
🔳Try not to get addicted
🔳Very good
🔳Good
🔳Nothing special
☑️Ehh
🔳Bad
🔳Just dont

---{Graphics}---
🔳Masterpiece
🔳Beautiful
🔳Good
🔳Decent
🔳Will do
☑️Bad
🔳Awful
🔳Paint.exe

---{Audio}---
🔳Fascinating
🔳Very good
🔳Good
🔳Decent
🔳Not too bad
☑️Bad
🔳Earrape

---{Audience}---
🔳Kids
🔳Teens
🔳Adults
☑️Everyone

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

---{Story}---
☑️Doesn't have
🔳Something isnt nothing I guess
🔳Not greatly told
🔳Average
🔳Good
🔳Lovely
🔳Will make you cry or smile alot

---{Playstyle}---
☑️Almost never the same in any two people
🔳Varies a little bit from person to person
🔳Weapon AND character classes
🔳Weapon OR character classes
🔳Creative AND Survival
🔳Creative OR Survival
🔳Melee AND Ranged
🔳Melee OR Ranged

---{Difficulity}---
🔳Just press a bunch of buttons
🔳Easy
🔳Significant brain usage
☑️Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔳Not so easy
🔳Difficult
🔳Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
🔳Nothing
🔳Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
🔳Isnt necessary to progress
🔳A bit grindy sometimes
🔳Average grind level
☑️A bit grindy
🔳Insanity

---{Game Time}---
🔳Long enough for a cup of tea
🔳Short
🔳Average
🔳Long
☑️Depends on you
🔳Endless

---{Price}---
🔳Just buy it
☑️Worth the price
🔳Wait for sale
🔳Maybe if you have some spare money left
🔳Not recommended
🔳Dont throw money into a rubbish bin
🔳Free

---{Micro-Transactions}---
🔳EA
🔳Mobile Game(Necessary if you don’t want to wait 15 weeks to construct a toaster)
🔳”Premium” Currency AND Normal Currency
🔳”Premium” Currency OR Normal Currency
🔳Quick way to advance
🔳Fortnite(Skins/Emotes/Etc)
🔳Only to show off big time
🔳Level DLC
☑️None

---{Bugs/Glitches}---
🔳Never had any
☑️Minor bugs/glitches
🔳Few bugs/glitches
🔳Can get annoying
🔳Ruining the game
🔳The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs/glitches

---{?/10}---
🔳1
🔳2
🔳3
🔳4
☑️5
🔳6
🔳7
🔳8
🔳9
🔳10

What a peculiar game. Your goal here is to to try to connect with as many other people(NPCs) as possible, while maintaining a balance that doesn't result in you tipping over. You've seen pretty much all there is to see within the first 10-15 minutes of the game.

I found it to be a bit shallow, lacking any real depth. Each level results in a some experience which will open up new levels to play. The new levels are just new music from what I saw, and that doesn't add anything to the game that really makes you want to keep playing after the initial level. No track screams out at you trying to lure you into its embrace.

This game is excellent value for money if you can get it in a sale. Very good music and engaging gameplay.

Others have said it's a glorified balance meter and that's fairly accurate. Some of the levels have complicating effects, like being upside down, or tilted, but overall it's a matter of trying to balance your line of dancers against the people you pick up, who have various pull-strength against the group.

That said, it's addicting (and sometimes infuriating), and with its cute style and quirky music it's a fun little casual time-waster.

Do not buy this game if you like 100% achievement completion: the 2 multiplayer achievements are almost unobtainale. The game itself is good for the first 10 minutes. Then it becomes boring for the rest of its existence. The artwork is interesting, the music and the atmosphere enjoyably bizzarre.

Local Vs Review!

It was fun for a little bit. It's just a balancing act. All you do is keep the bar centered. If it goes to far to the left or the right all of the dancers fall over and you lose. I had fun for like an hour. It's worth the $.50 I paid for it, but probably not much more than that.

There's not much I can say about this game. It's an arcade-style game but unlike others that I own, it doesn't get boring quickly. I love playing this with friends and, though I wish there was an option to play without the computer players, the bots aren't too powerful that they can't be beaten. I've never seen or played a game like this and I love it. I will say that the multiplayer game is more fun than singleplayer, but either way it's a refreshing take on an arcade game.

An extremely simplistic balancing game with no tutrotial. That being said, it is oddly addiciting. By playing, you can unlock more masks which give you a different song to listen while you balance your way into forming the largest dance group. Some masks up the difficulty and make it harder to balance as well. Overall it is a $1 game and it is well worth the pricetag. I wouldn't pay more that $5 for it due to how simplistic the game play is. But it is addicting and I keep feeling like I can get a higher score next time and immediately want to try again after I fail. This game is worth it if you enjoy high score chasing and need something to play that you dont need to think about too heavily. Though with no tutorial it may take you a bit to figure out how to play, but you should have it figured out within the first half hour. The game also has cute character designs and frequent changing backgrounds. So art wise the game is still simplistic but interesting. :-)

First impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgZKHRgFRrM&feature=youtu.be

So I saw this game earlier this year and bought it and I've just been waiting for a moment where I wanted to play a silly game. Masky is perfect if you ask me. It's crazy, has awesome music and the visuals really stick out to me.

I've always loved bright colours on stark black background, in fact a lot of my artwork is like that. So yeah, this game seems like it was made for me because of the colour design and its simple but addicted gameplay too!

It's only a dollar so why not give it a try? I found it to be very fun at least!

Wanna dance without having to get up? Or infect others with the rhythm? Masky brings it in with being a balance dancing game as you collect more and mor people to bring up your score.

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Potential party game for the price of a 99¢ meal deal

Meh, it's a time waister. Better with a couple of mates round. Just a balance game. You can get this in a pack of games. Which are all pretty cool and worth the price. Get the pack and get a discount.

Fun little casual game. Cool art style, and bizarro music. Worth the buck it costs!



7/10

This is a very addictive game that is super fun with its catchy melody's and good gimmick and also its really cheap to play

Even for a dollar it's just...boring. There's no sort of progression in the game play, just the same thing over and over.
You balance by moving left or right picking up more people. Having more people on one side will make you lean towards the other side and so on. That's pretty much it.