Alteric

goonswarm / Jul 13, 2016 / Adventure, Indie

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Jump through boiling lava; run from perilous traps and saw blades; glide and climb through catacombs; fall into the abyss and overcome gravity. And don't forget to switch to a parallel dimension in time, because it’s Alteric!

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What players say

Mixed

63% positive, 43 reviews

Not recommended5 hrs played

As a person that has a friend trying to make a good platformer game, I was glad to have a discount coupon (which Steam gave me for crafting a badge) for this. However, I was disappointed quite quickly after getting into chapter 2, and chapter 3 was even more disappointing. I 100%ed the achievements anyway, but this isn't definitely the game I would recommend to platformer lovers. Here are some things which annoyed...

26 found this helpful, 2016-08-07

Not recommended1 hrs played

No problem for creating games that are challenging and hard. But give the player the means to beat the game fair and square. - Controls are slippery: there's some kind of inertia when stopping or changing directions which makes you fail at simplest jumps. Imagine if Super Meat Boy was slipping when trying to stop or switching direction. That's a deadly sin for precision platformers - Traps are usually unavoidable...

13 found this helpful, 2017-08-03

Recommended3 hrs played

Alteric is a very fun platformer with a pretty cool dimension switch mechanic and some very smooth minimalistic graphics. Definitely challenging, with the difficulty scaling nicely as you progress. Longer levels do have a checkpoint, but a majority of them are on the shorter side, and will have you starting from the beginning when you die. Each chapter is capped off with a boss fight that provides a nice change of...

9 found this helpful, 2016-07-18