Recent reviews by › koi.

This game is an experience for your brain. Just play it

I love social deduction games, so I thought I would enjoy this game. But there are some big problems

The game was made free on mobile, so tons of players are non-english speakers playing in english servers, or simply dont communicate. Servers are too small and can't maintain enough users for matchmaking, so I often can't play because servers are full (of people who are playing free on mobile). Killing players takes no effort as well, meaning communication is more important to win. You often feel helpless as an innocent, and people will vote on anything.

Fun game for free, but not worth money if I can't play because the servers are always full of free mobile kids that ruin the community.

Would recommend highly if you have friends and/or discord community to play with, but the game being unplayable due to mobile traffic is still a major problem.

ROCK AND STONE!

Pros:
- Great art and music.
- Visuals are clear and easy to understand.
- Game provides good mechanics, maps, and level of challenge.
- Fun squirrel theme gives the game a lot of character.
Cons:
- Controls aren't good, and your control settings are incredibly limited.
- Movement feels slow and clunky.
- Making your character move the way you actually want is very difficult.
- Game feels unpolished in many areas.
- Some things are rather unclear and unexplained to the user such as controls.

tl;dr, As someone who is a strong advocate for platformers, I'd have to say that I do not recommend this game to someone who is looking for a fundamentally 'good' platformer, however this game does provide some solid entertainment for its low price point.


This game looked fun and challenging, and the difficult trial-and-error style platforming looked appealing to fans of games such as IWBTG or Super Meat Boy. In these types of games, much of the difficulty comes in the intense level design which will have you making mistakes and repeating an area until you can perfect it. This works great in the aforementioned games, however in Squirreltopia that sort of enjoyment just isn't there. Instead of feeling like you made a mistake, it simply feels like the game's poor control and physics is what got you killed. Difficult and precise jumps in Squirreltopia simply feel like a mixture of timing and luck, and is not about the precise movement of your character. What should be trial and error while improving your skills and execution instead just feels like brute forcing your way through an area. You will constantly tell yourself "I could have gotten that if I could control my character better", and become quickly frustrated a you miss simple jumps onto small platforms because you held back a split second early and went helplessly falling into a pit without any chance of redirecting your character midair.

The default controls use arrows keys, left and right to move, and up to jump. You have to use the Enter key to enter through doors, but the game never tells your this anywhere so you just sort of have to try stuff out until you figure it out. You can change your controls to another preset configuration on the main menu, however the method of control I would have preferred using, "Arrow keys + space", did not even work. My space key did not do anything, nor did the up arrow, but interestingly the "WASD + space" configuration does correctly work allowing you to jump with space.

Understanding how to open levels that are locked off is unclear and unexplained. Understanding what the collectibles do or what they are for is incredibly unclear to new players, and you are unable to see which levels you have and haven't obtained items in.

That being said, many of the game mechanics such as the bubbles are fun and interesting. Level design over-all is pretty solid, and the game has a lot of charm and character. In a general sense, this game is actually quite good. However, given the terrible control you have over your character in a game where moving your character matters so much, it's difficult for me to genuinely recommend this game to anybody who truly enjoys intense platformer games.