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Goosthetic is a single player platformer game with fantasy and science fiction themes. It was developed by Smilewire and was released on March 28, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

Arm yourself with sticky boots, a smart-pistol, and the titular 'Goosthetic' grappling prosthetic to swing, slide, jump, boost, and shoot your way out of a twisted and abandoned scientific facility! Escape captivity and evade slime mutations in this fast-paced action-platformer FPS.

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97%Audience ScoreBased on 65 reviews
music6 positive mentions
stability1 negative mentions

  • Unique and fun movement mechanics including grappling, wall running, sliding, and dashing create a fast-paced and fluid gameplay experience.
  • Distinctive art style and vibrant graphics combined with a great soundtrack enhance the overall atmosphere and charm of the game.
  • Short but engaging with built-in speedrun timers that offer significant replayability and appeal to speedrunning enthusiasts.
  • Performance and optimization issues such as frequent frame rate drops, crashes, and lack of graphics options like FOV or key rebinding negatively impact the experience.
  • Some mechanics feel unbalanced or clunky, including an overpowered grappling hook and occasionally awkward or buggy wall-running and camera behavior.
  • Enemy AI and combat lack challenge or threat, making enemies feel non-threatening and reducing the tension during gameplay.
  • music

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 13% negative mentions

    The music in the game is widely praised for its unique, goopy and immersive qualities, perfectly complementing the fun, squelching atmosphere. The soundtrack is energetic, engaging, and adds a distinctive charm that enhances the overall experience.

    • “From the amazing squelching music to the squishing of the goo, this game is a 10 out of 10.”
    • “The art literally "oozes" character, and the soundtrack is fantastic.”
    • “The soundtrack goes crazy and keeps you locked in.”
  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    38% positive mentions, 37% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The game's bright, readable graphics and unique, fun art style are widely praised, bringing areas to life and enhancing the experience. However, some users report performance issues like unstable FPS and crashes, potentially due to lack of graphics settings or outdated hardware. Overall, the visual aesthetic is appreciated despite occasional technical drawbacks.

    • “Graphics are readable, colors are bright, and the aesthetic is a lot of fun.”
    • “Great game, I love the artwork; the movement was amazing, reminds me of Titanfall's movement. It just felt a little stiff sometimes, but I got used to it quickly.”
    • “The art style is unique and makes every area come to life.”
    • “Sucks this game doesn't have graphics settings because it has random FPS drops and they are never stable, especially when the game just doesn't look like something that would perform that badly. Kinda sucks for a dash 'n shoot.”
    • “I don't really know what it's like (I keep crashing and it's really laggy). Seems hopeful though. I think it'd be like Ultrakill. I think it's because my graphics card is not updated.”
  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally praised for its fun and fast-paced mechanics, especially the grappling hook, which adds excitement but can feel overpowered and render other movement options less useful. Some elements, like wall riding, are noted to be a bit buggy and the overall mechanics occasionally clunky or lacking cohesion, yet the momentum and swinging systems contribute to an engaging experience.

    • “Great grappling hook mechanics, the wall ride is a bit buggy, but it's fast paced and awesome!”
    • “Going into it I didn't know what to expect but I was impressed with the gameplay and the way it plays as well as the game mechanics were really fun.”
    • “The momentum mechanics are fun but quite aggressive in their acceleration.”
    • “However, the grappling mechanic is just too overpowered, and once you get it, you can overcome any obstacle, which makes the other movement techniques useless.”
    • “While the gameplay is a little clunky and the abilities are not very cohesive, it's still a fun time and a worthwhile play.”
    • “The wall ride is a bit buggy, though the grappling hook mechanics are great, and the gameplay is fast-paced and awesome.”
  • emotional

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

    Users find the game emotionally impactful, describing it as fun, satisfying, and creatively engaging, with some experiencing strong feelings that even brought them to tears.

    • “A very fun, satisfying, and creative game that made me feel like I was playing at an arcade.”
    • “Awesome game, I cried three times.”
  • stability

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

    The game offers great grappling hook mechanics and fast-paced gameplay, though the wall riding feature can be somewhat buggy, affecting overall stability.

  • replayability

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

    The game's replayability is enhanced by its short average playtime and the inclusion of a speedrun timer with developer-set times, encouraging players to repeatedly improve their performance.

    • “The speedrun timer, complete with developer-set times to beat, really adds a lot of replayability to the game despite the average playthrough being about half an hour.”
  • optimization

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

    The game offers an enjoyable concept but suffers from poor optimization, as even high-end gaming PCs experience low frame rates during gameplay.

    • “Fun game and concept, however I must address this: the game needs a boost in optimization. I have a very powerful gaming PC yet the frame rate I experienced playing this game was a bit low.”
  • atmosphere

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

    The atmosphere is praised for its fantastic art and music, creating a gooey, immersive environment that complements the frenzied FPS action, though some physics bugs and underwhelming enemy behavior slightly detract from the experience.

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Goosthetic is a platformer game with fantasy and science fiction themes. Common tags for Goosthetic include free to play, time attack, first-person, 3D, linear and others.

Goosthetic is available on PC and Windows.

Goosthetic was released on March 28, 2025.

Goosthetic was developed by Smilewire.

Goosthetic has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Goosthetic for its music but disliked it for its stability.

Goosthetic is a single player game.

Similar games include Alien Removal Division, Grimhook, FleshBound, SkyIsland, Cyber Hook and others.