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TVs: The Awakening

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73%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
79% User Score Based on 43 reviews

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About TVs: The Awakening

TVs: The Awakening is a single player arcade platformer game with fantasy and mystery themes. It was developed by Capital Digital and was released on July 28, 2022. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

What happens when a TV wakes up and finds himself in an illusional world, where the facts become a crazy dream, TVs is a platformer game combining intense action with challenging puzzles and fight the scary bosses.

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79%Audience ScoreBased on 43 reviews
graphics9 positive mentions
optimization3 negative mentions
  • Unique retro pixel art style with vibrant colors and catchy chiptune soundtrack creates a nostalgic and charming atmosphere.
  • Engaging and challenging puzzles that progressively increase in difficulty, offering fun and thoughtful gameplay.
  • Intriguing and mysterious narrative with environmental storytelling that appeals to fans of quirky, surreal experiences.
  • Poor optimization causing frequent lag and performance issues even on mid-range hardware, requiring low graphics settings to play smoothly.
  • Frustrating fixed camera angles and slow platform movement often hinder gameplay, making platforming sections overly difficult and tedious.
  • Lack of polish with confusing storytelling, sometimes obtuse puzzles, and limited game length, leaving some content unfinished or missing from the final release.

  • graphics

    22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    41% positive mentions, 45% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    TVs: The Awakening features a distinctive retro pixel art style with vibrant colors and psychedelic aesthetics that evoke nostalgia while creating a visually engaging world. Although the graphics are not technically demanding, some users experience performance issues even on mid-range hardware, requiring lowered settings for smooth play. Overall, the unique visual vibe combined with a complementary soundtrack makes for a charming and immersive experience despite occasional technical shortcomings.

    • “The pixelated graphics evoke a sense of nostalgia for the golden age of platformers, while the vibrant colors and quirky character designs create a visually interesting world to explore.”
    • “The charm of TVS: The Awakening lies in its retro aesthetic.”
    • “The overall aesthetics and graphics of the game are unique and have just their own 'vibe'.”
    • “Often any attempts at being more game-y are undermined by poor fixed camera angles, and a level of performance that tanks far more than the mediocre graphics ought to.”
    • “With my 1050 ti, in order to get steady 60fps I had to drop resolution to 720p and graphic settings to very low (there are no detailed graphics settings, just 6 presets).”
    • “It shows my having 1.7 hours in the game, but at least a half hour of that was playing around with the graphic settings.”

  • music

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    78% positive mentions, 22% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is widely praised for its catchy chiptune style and dynamic soundtrack that perfectly complements the visuals and gameplay. It greatly enhances the immersive experience, adding to the game's unique atmosphere, mystery, and puzzle-solving elements.

    • “The soundtrack perfectly complements the visuals, offering a catchy chiptune vibe that feels right at home in this digital dreamscape.”
    • “Beautiful music and atmospheres accompany you along this adventure where you encounter unique hurdles and bosses.”
    • “This game goes deep with its mystery element and the background music makes you feel really involved.”

  • story

    9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 34% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The story of TVS: The Awakening is intriguing and mysterious, unfolding through cryptic messages and environmental cues that require patience to piece together. While engaging and enhanced by the retro aesthetic, some players find the storytelling frustratingly obscure and minimal. Overall, the narrative offers a compelling premise that keeps players curious despite occasional challenges in clarity and gameplay.

    • “A bewitching story (but one that needs patience).”
    • “The story of TVS: The Awakening is undeniably interesting.”
    • “The narrative unfolds through environmental storytelling and cryptic messages delivered by a mysterious voice on TVs and radios.”
    • “However, piecing together the story can be frustrating at times.”
    • “Just be prepared for some pixelated jank, cryptic storytelling, and the occasional bout of camera-induced rage.”
    • “The story was pretty much non-existing.”

  • gameplay

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

    The gameplay combines running, jumping, and puzzle-solving with a retro aesthetic and engaging story, creating an enjoyable experience despite occasional frustrations and slow pacing. While some mechanics like camera control and narrative clarity need improvement, the smooth performance and charming visuals enhance the overall fun. Many users found the gameplay surprisingly good and highly recommend the game.

    • “The core gameplay involves running, jumping, and solving puzzles to progress through the levels.”
    • “The unique premise, the retro aesthetic, and the intriguing story keep you engaged, even when the gameplay gets frustrating.”
    • “The gameplay is really smooth; I ran this game on a low-end PC and still managed to get a consistent 60 frames per second.”
    • “It starts from a position of mediocrity for its basic mechanics, and then pads it out with filler material, such as slow walking, slow-moving platforms, and long stretches of nothing happening.”
    • “Gameplay isn't quite there yet.”
    • “With some polish on the camera mechanics and a bit more clarity in the narrative delivery, TVS: The Awakening could be a real gem.”

  • optimization

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

    The game suffers from poor optimization, resulting in frustratingly low performance and inconsistent frame rates despite modest graphics and limited on-screen activity. Fixed camera angles further exacerbate the experience, making gameplay feel cumbersome and undermining engagement.

    • “Instead, it ended up being annoying and insufferable at points due to mostly poor optimization.”
    • “Often any attempts at being more game-y are undermined by poor fixed camera angles and a level of performance that tanks far more than the mediocre graphics ought to.”
    • “At times this was in the twenties for FPS, and yet it looks bad and doesn't really have much on-screen to account for the poor performance.”

  • character development

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

    Character development is enhanced through quirky and visually distinct designs that contribute to a vibrant, nostalgic world, though the focus is more on visual appeal than deep narrative growth.

  • emotional

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

    The emotional feedback is marked by frustration due to control issues, specifically the analog stick causing uncontrollable character movement, which disrupts gameplay and requires precise adjustments to regain control.

  • humor

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

    The humor is appreciated for its funny fail moments, providing good comedic content through unexpected mishaps and blunders.

  • atmosphere

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

    The game features beautiful music and immersive atmospheres that enhance the adventure, complementing unique challenges and boss encounters.

    • “Beautiful music and atmospheres accompany you throughout this adventure, where you encounter unique hurdles and bosses.”
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TVs: The Awakening is a arcade platformer game with fantasy and mystery themes. Common tags for TVs: The Awakening include indie, exploration, 2.5d, runner, family friendly and others.

TVs: The Awakening is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

TVs: The Awakening was released on July 28, 2022.

TVs: The Awakening was developed by Capital Digital.

TVs: The Awakening has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked TVs: The Awakening for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

TVs: The Awakening is a single player game.

Similar games include PLANET ALPHA, RiME, What Lies in the Multiverse, Planet of the Eyes, Bionic Bay and others.