- July 28, 2020
- One More Dream Studios
- 20h median play time
Ageless
A challenging platformer with an interesting hook and some frustrating mechanics.
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Ageless is a single player role playing game. It was developed by One More Dream Studios and was released on July 28, 2020. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and neutral reviews from players.
Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
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- Unique and creative aging/de-aging mechanic offers interesting puzzle-platforming gameplay.
- Challenging puzzles with multiple solutions encourage experimentation and creativity.
- Appealing pixel art style and an engaging soundtrack contribute to a charming atmosphere.
- Controls and hitboxes are often imprecise and floaty, causing frustration especially in precision-required sections.
- Difficulty spikes and poor checkpoint placement in boss and timed escape sequences lead to excessive retries and stress.
- Technical issues including bugs, glitches, input delays, and inconsistent level design negatively impact the gameplay experience.
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Ageless offers a creative and innovative puzzle-platformer experience centered around an aging mechanic that adds depth and variety to puzzles. While many praise its clever level design and unique gameplay hook, recurring issues with clunky controls, occasional glitches, and frustrating difficulty spikes hinder the overall flow and enjoyment. Fans of challenging, mechanics-driven platformers may find it rewarding, but the gameplay can feel uneven and occasionally punishing for others.
“The level design is great: no level feels useless, very dynamic, sometimes action packed and sometimes a stop and think puzzle; no single mechanic is left unteached and none are without a relic challenge, with each passing chapter bringing you a new change in the mechanics, even if the base is the same.”
“The main mechanic, aging, is very cool and made me very excited every time I started a new world to see the many life stages of its inhabitants, but it doesn't stop at that: as the game progresses, it becomes even more interesting, with some extremely cool mechanics that create very clever puzzles.”
“As a puzzle platformer, it's got creative mechanics that lend themselves to both good puzzles and good platforming challenges.”
“The mechanics and the collectibles were more annoying than fun even if the mechanic was decently unique.”
“The controls are unpleasant; I don't want to think how much worse they'd be on a controller. It's a 2D platformer where aiming is important, but not in a combat sense. Your power to change beings' age is an arrow being shot, which also has a short windup, timing of which doesn't really bring much satisfaction in gameplay.”
“The gameplay progresses way too slowly and mechanics players can figure out in the first couple of rooms don't get used until much later, instead reusing the same ones until you get sick of them.”
Ageless
In the end, Ageless has the signs of many great puzzle platformers. It has the colour, the beautiful and stylish pixel art, and it simply is an endearing puzzle platformer. Just like its protagonist, who is trying to give her life something of a meaning, the developers have kept focus on a single gameplay mechanic and fleshed it out to make it meaningful. The game has a solid concept that it sticks to and evolves with new ways to play with its ageing mechanics that some players will be genuinely surprised at how smart the puzzles become. But, I cannot help but feel the game is missing that final polish, that spark that puts it on the same pedestal as Celeste and a few others. There are some irritating issues with the controls, which spoil what would otherwise be a quality puzzle platformer. I can say that fans of the genre will entertain with what Ageless delivers, and anyone who enjoys a challenging game, if sometimes frustrating, will find something to like here.
70%Ageless (Switch) Review
A challenging platformer with an interesting hook and some frustrating mechanics.
70%Ageless Review
Ageless is the sort of game that could best be described as a great concept that almost nails the execution. The sombre narrative, cerebral gameplay, and distinct presentation are all great in their own regard, but each is plagued with enough inconsistencies and caveats to hold back the overall experience from true greatness. We’d give this one a cautious recommendation, as the distinct brand of puzzle-platforming gameplay ultimately proves to be a worthwhile experience, but this is also certainly not the ‘next Celeste’. Still, if you’ve been looking for a decent new indie for your Switch that you can clear in a reasonably short timeframe, it’s tough to go wrong here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ageless is a role playing game.
Ageless is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
On average players spend around 20 hours playing Ageless.
Ageless was released on July 28, 2020.
Ageless was developed by One More Dream Studios.
Ageless has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its gameplay but disliked it for its grinding.
Ageless is a single player game.
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