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Diari

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55%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, replayability
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
77% User Score Based on 22 reviews

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About Diari

Diari is a single player casual platformer game with horror and comedy themes. It was developed by Lunziestella and was released on August 12, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Arise player, welcome to Diari! Explore the world of Ekrose with Aimacra, giving them insight as she traverses through platforming and puzzles to meet her friend Sirestias. Guided by intuition and emotion, you will shape Aimacra through her journey and how it all ends. Diari is a puzzle platformer at the least but can vary in its different styles of gameplay being compared to a souls-like or a …

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77%Audience ScoreBased on 22 reviews
graphics4 positive mentions
story2 negative mentions
  • Beautiful and charming pixel art style accompanied by great music and sound design.
  • Fast and smooth character movement with engaging platformer and Metroidvania-inspired gameplay elements.
  • Multiple endings providing significant replayability and an interesting, alive world with memorable characters.
  • Unpolished and inconsistent platforming mechanics with problematic jumps, hitboxes, and delayed input responsiveness causing frustration.
  • Poor save system relying on scarce save points, forcing frequent repetition of long sections and causing save file bloat.
  • Buggy and sometimes confusing UI and gameplay design, including unskippable dialogues, unclear mechanics, bugs, and accessibility issues.

  • gameplay

    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 60% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions

    The gameplay is experimental and feels unpolished, with mechanics that are often confusing or inconsistent, such as health and movement systems. While the world and graphics are interesting, the gameplay experience is short, somewhat random, and can feel like a mix of bugs and unclear design rather than a coherent, polished experience.

    • “Although the gameplay is short, the author told me there are 8 endings!!!”
    • “After around five minutes of gameplay you're presented with three different jumps - Z to jump normally, X to jump faster and lower, and C to jump forward ('dodge').”
    • “It also has nice graphics, runs well, and fun gameplay but no one really plays games for those things :)”
    • “A lot of the mechanics feel very unpolished.”
    • “An interesting world with very weak movement mechanics.”
    • “Diari is a random mishmash of either bugged or incomprehensible game mechanics.”

  • music

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The music is widely praised for its charm, energy, and suitability to the game's style, contributing positively to the overall atmosphere. However, some users find volume control cumbersome and the music can be unexpectedly loud at times. Overall, the soundtrack is considered a strong and enjoyable aspect of the game.

    • “It's truly charming visually, with a lovely style and great music to boot!”
    • “Music becomes really energetic here.”
    • “I love the artstyle and the soundtrack is nice to listen to :)”
    • “Main menu boots up and blasts my ears with extremely loud music.”
    • “You can't rebind controls, but you can change the volume... by moving down or up to the 'music' or 'other sounds' symbols, and then constantly pressing either left or right to minimally lower or raise the volume.”
    • “I stumble through it, gather a music collectible, jump forward through some next rooms, bugging out and appearing on their other sides when dying, until I accidentally stumble back to where I came from.”

  • graphics

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    80% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's graphics feature a well-executed and appealing art style with acceptable building layouts. Users appreciate the visual design for being both attractive and smoothly running, contributing positively to the overall experience.

    • “The overall art style of this game is quite good, and the layout of the buildings is acceptable.”
    • “This game is amazing and has an amazing art style!”
    • “It also has nice graphics, runs well, and fun gameplay.”

  • story

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 33% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions

    The story is considered decent but is overshadowed by the game's overall quality, which limits its impact.

    • “It's a fine story, but the game it's attached to holds it back.”
    • “No story”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is challenging and often requires additional efforts or resources, such as using a second life, making the process more demanding than usual.

  • stability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game demonstrates solid stability with only a few minor bugs and visual glitches, maintaining a smooth experience enhanced by its impressive art and sound design.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game offers strong replayability through multiple endings and branching paths, encouraging players to revisit it. Additionally, its challenging gameplay provides extended engagement as players work to clear rooms.

    • “It's short, but the different endings and paths you can take offer a lot of replayability. You'll also spend a lot of time clearing rooms, as it can be quite challenging at times.”
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Play Times

36h Median play time
36h Average play time
36-36h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Diari is a casual platformer game with horror and comedy themes. Common tags for Diari include indie, psychological, emotional, pixel graphics, psychological horror and others.

Diari is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 36 hours playing Diari.

Diari was released on August 12, 2024.

Diari was developed by Lunziestella.

Diari has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Diari for its graphics but disliked it for its gameplay.

Diari is a single player game.

Similar games include Ageless, Pankapu, Rebel Transmute, Akatori: Сhapter One, Hue and others.