aMAZE Frozen
- April 4, 2018
- Blender Games
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PC
Windows
Reviews
- The graphics are decent and provide a visually acceptable experience.
- The game offers a good challenge for maze enthusiasts, requiring significant concentration and precision.
- It has a satisfying amount of content with 50 levels to complete.
- The controls are frustratingly imprecise, leading to frequent and unfair restarts.
- The audio becomes repetitive and annoying, detracting from the overall experience.
- The game is criticized for being an asset flip, lacking depth and originality.
- gameplay7 mentions
- 29 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
The gameplay has been criticized for its frustrating mechanics, particularly the "you-can't-touch-the-wall" feature, which many players find infuriating and detrimental to the overall enjoyment of the game. Overall, it has received low ratings, indicating a lack of fun and engagement.
“Gameplay: 2/5”
- graphics6 mentions
- 17 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The graphics have received mixed reviews, with some users finding them merely adequate and not particularly impressive, as they resemble the screenshots. The pulsing effect of the maze edges in sync with the music has been noted as an irritating feature that detracts from the overall visual experience.
“The graphics are alright, but the edges of the mazes blend with the backgrounds and pulse to the beat of the music.”
“The graphics are alright, but the edges of the mazes kind of blend with the backgrounds, and on top of that, they pulse to the beat of the music.”
“Graphics are exactly what they are in the screenshot, nothing spectacular.”
“Graphics: 2/5”
- music6 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game's music features a single track that is initially enjoyable but quickly becomes repetitive and irritating, leading some players to mute the game entirely. Additionally, the pulsing visual effects synced to the music are seen as distracting and annoying, detracting from the overall experience.
“The graphics are alright, but the edges of the mazes blend with the backgrounds and pulse to the beat of the music.”
“The one musical track of the game is good, but it becomes repetitive after listening to it for an hour.”
“The music is repetitive, and the mapping of ball location to wall boundary, at times, seems off, with a visible gap being present but a restart being required all the same.”
“The soundtrack very quickly got on my nerves and I muted the whole game (including sound effects) by the 5th level.”
“And although you can turn off the nice background music, you can't turn off that annoying sound.”
“The music is repetitive and the mapping of ball location to wall boundary, at times, seems off, with a visible gap being present but a restart being required all the same.”
- story4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The reviews indicate that the game lacks a story, with multiple users noting the absence of any narrative elements.
“No story.”
“No story.”
- monetization3 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The monetization strategy of the developer has been criticized for relying heavily on asset flips and reusing game templates, leading to a perception of their releases as cash grabs. Many users feel that these games are hastily produced and quickly sold in cheap bundles, undermining the quality and originality expected from new titles.
“The developer, Blender Games, keeps copying and pasting the same game templates and dumping the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam.”
“Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs.”
“To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap daily indie game shovelware bundles very shortly after launch.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
Players express that the grinding in the game is excessively time-consuming, suggesting that it feels like one would need a second life to fully engage with it.
“You'll need a second life for grinding.”
