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Alien Spidy

Alien Spidy is a fun, addicting and challenging game. However, unresponsive controls can bring extra challenge to the platforming game that is not necessary and rather frustrating.
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35% User Score Based on 126 reviews
Critic Score 58%Based on 3 reviews

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Alien Spidy is a single player platformer game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Enigma SP and was released on March 20, 2013. It received neutral reviews from critics and negative reviews from players.

After losing contact with his explorer friend Virgi, our fearless alien hero Spidy heads to Earth in his spacecraft to find her. While entering the Earth’s atmosphere, his spacecraft suddenly fails and starts to break up, causing Spidy to crash-land on the strange planet, with his craft scattered across forests, throughout ponds and into dark caves. Spidy finds himself alone on an alien world and …

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  • Unique and charming art style with cute alien spider character and colorful neon visuals.
  • Challenging and skill-based physics platformer gameplay that appeals to perfectionists and fans of speedrunning.
  • Addictive score attack system encouraging replaying levels to master precision and timing.
  • Controls are floaty, unresponsive and inconsistent, especially the core web-slinging mechanic, causing frustration and making progression difficult.
  • Frequent bugs, glitches, and input lag, including web shooting failures, crashing, and save file deletion issues.
  • Difficulty curve is steep and punishing from the start, with high score requirements blocking progression, which can make the game feel unfair and tedious.
  • gameplay
    36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay centers on navigating levels using jumping and a web-shooting mechanic, but many players find the web mechanic inconsistent, glitchy, and frustratingly unresponsive. Controls are often described as awkward and unintuitive, leading to difficulty progressing despite the game's high difficulty being otherwise appreciated. While the visuals and core design have potential, gameplay issues with the key web-swinging mechanic significantly hinder enjoyment.

    • “Players must utilize jumping, bouncing, and web slinging mechanics to navigate through intricately designed levels.”
    • “This is a console ported 2D retro action/puzzle platformer where you control a black-foreground-colored-background alien spider with a web swing mechanic to solve various platformer challenges needed to progress between levels.”
    • “The main mechanic of this game is shooting your webs in mid-air to attach to tiny platforms, using your momentum to throw you across gaps and obstacles.”
    • “The problem is that on top of the difficulty, the controls are fairly awkward to use, the mouse cursor is unintuitive, and the mechanics seem to be partially broken since the web shooting mechanic doesn't always work, and sometimes it works but not properly (stops shooting while you're still clicking down).”
    • “Normally I can get used to hard controls of a game, but this game's 'web' the alien shoots flips out and doesn't respond well as it can be reeled in and elongated while swinging, messing with its actual swinging mechanics and sometimes even causing the web to be shot upside down.”
    • “Despite its gorgeous visuals and adorable art style, stubborn controls and an atrocious web shooting mechanic make Alien Spidy the most frustrating game of 2014, and not in a good way.”
  • graphics
    26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics of the game feature a charming, kid-friendly cartoon art style that many find visually appealing and nostalgic, though some consider it basic or reminiscent of older flash/XBLA games. While the visuals are generally praised for being cute and vibrant, performance and optimization issues—such as lag and blurry or flickering displays—hamper the experience for some players. Overall, the graphics are adequate and attractive for the game's scope but not groundbreaking, with mixed opinions on how much they enhance the gameplay.

    • “This is a beautiful game with nice graphics, a great art style, and very catchy music.”
    • “It has wonderful artwork and runs flawlessly on even my laptop which struggles with most things.”
    • “Great graphics and gameplay.”
    • “The graphics and art style remind me of flash games or some XBLA games from the 2000s.”
    • “This, however, is something I definitely don't want, since the graphics are blurry, distorted, and my monitor is flickering as though it's about to die.”
    • “I repeatedly had an issue where the webs would lag out for a second or two before attaching, and I could still fall and die in that time (it was fixed by lowering my graphics settings, but my PC never has those kinds of issues with those games, so it just comes down to poor optimization).”
  • music
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is generally described as catchy and fitting the funky, kid-friendly aesthetic, contributing positively to the overall atmosphere. However, some users find it repetitive and occasionally grating, leading to a desire to mute it after extended play. Overall, the soundtrack is appreciated but may not appeal equally to all players.

    • “The movement, music, and level mechanics are 1000 times better, and the high difficulty doesn't detract from the experience at all.”
    • “Alien Spidy is a platformer with puzzle elements ala Locoroco, Speedrunners, Super Meatboy, N+, etc. It has a fun, kid-friendly aesthetic with a funky feel-good soundtrack and a cute little alien spider as the player character.”
    • “This is a beautiful game with nice graphics, a great art style, and very catchy music.”
    • “First off, the sound and the music don't fit at all.”
    • “The music gets repetitive fast.”
    • “At 3 hours of play I found myself wanting to shut the music off (let's face it, I wanted to do it earlier).”
  • stability
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent bugs, occasional softlocks, and problematic web physics that cause erratic character movement. Additionally, alt-tabbing freezes the game, disrupting gameplay and making it difficult to play smoothly.

    • “I really wanted it to work, but it's buggy and impossibly difficult to play as a result.”
    • “It's buggy and you can softlock yourself in some levels.”
    • “Alt-tabbing in this game freezes or pauses the whole game.”
  • story
    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is simple and minimal, serving as a basic backdrop rather than a focus, which places greater emphasis on the game's controls and challenge. While the straightforward narrative is visually appealing, the limited storyline may lead to frustration for some players.

    • “When there is little to no story, the controls are basically half the game, and it will frustrate you too!”
  • grinding
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is described as tough and creative but can become tedious and frustrating, especially due to repetitive item collection after each death, leading to burnout for some players. The infinite continues from save points help, but don't fully alleviate the monotony.

    • “Fun, tough, creative, but it does get a little tedious. Couldn't finish because after so many hours of swinging and dying, I got burnt out.”
    • “The infinite continue from save points feature is nice and works, but having to start back from where I just was every time I die and having to collect all the same items again and again is not fun; it's tedious and frustrating.”
  • optimization
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Optimization is notably poor, causing occasional lag issues such as delayed web attachments that can negatively impact gameplay; while lowering graphics settings helps, the problem persists despite users having capable PCs.

    • “I repeatedly had an issue where the webs would lag out for a second or two before attaching, and I could still fall and die in that time. It was fixed by lowering my graphics settings, but my PC never has those kinds of issues with those games, so it just comes down to poor optimization.”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The emotional impact is minimal and somewhat confusing, as unexpected and harsh game mechanics—like being instantly killed by touching a mushroom—can feel more frustrating than emotionally engaging.

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Alien Spidy is a platformer game with science fiction theme.

Alien Spidy is available on PC, Mac OS, Windows, PlayStation 3 and others.

On average players spend around 1 hours playing Alien Spidy.

Alien Spidy was released on March 20, 2013.

Alien Spidy was developed by Enigma SP.

Alien Spidy has received neutral reviews from players and neutral reviews from critics. Most players liked Alien Spidy for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Alien Spidy is a single player game.

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