SQUAREISH
SQUAREISH is a minimalist puzzle platformer in which you control a cute little square that can squish down to get through narrow passages or squish back up to jump.
Solve puzzles to collect pixels in 35+ colorful levels with progressive difficulties and switches, gravity portals, pushable boxes, teleports, spikes, pressure plates, sliding doors, and hidden secrets I can't tell you about otherwise they won't be secrets anymore.
Disclaimer: levels become pretty difficult after about level 20, so if you encounter problems or get stuck you can ask other players for help or contact me at oddeyesgames@gmail.com.
Please let me know what you think about the levels difficulty or the game itself with either a review or a comment: this is the first game I ever released, I need your help to improve :)
I made sure that you can play the entire game for free with all of its levels and features in your browser, but there are two catches:
- It may lag since it is running in the browser;
- you can't save your game progress since I couldn't find an easy way of letting you do so while running the game in a browser...
If you are smart enough to be able to complete all the levels in a single playthrough, or find a way to save your progress in your browser, you can play all 35+ levels of the entire game for free!
You can purchase the full game for the price of a cappuccino and brioche in an average italian bar to download it instead of playing it in your browser.
There are at least 4 reasons why you should purchase the game:
- This will let you save your progress and discover the super secret game's ending if you are smart enough to complete the game or find solutions for the levels on YouTube;
- Playing the game in your computer instead of running it in your browser should make its performance at least 14x better, and this is a 100% verified and totally not made up number.
- There is a cute square in the game;
- Downloading the game helps me financially, and helps itch.io too since I give them a percentage of whatever you decide to donate for the download.
If these 4 reasons are fair to you and you decide to purchase the game, I will be forever grateful to you! ❤︎
If you can't afford to pay the price for the downloadable game, or you simply don't want to pay for it, reach out to me at oddeyesgames@gmail.com and I will try to send you a free copy of the full downloadable game as soon as I can.
You can find a press kit for the game here.
Purchase
In order to download this cute game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Version 2.0 is here!Nov 07, 2023
- 6 years to complete a bad game - SQUAREISHSep 30, 2023
Comments
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Squareish Walkthrough
Many thanks to the creator of the game, who was always available for any questions and help with the game.
Many thanks to you for being so dedicated to create a walkthrough for my little game :D
A couple of remarks on the walkthrough:
Level 19 was solved in a different way than the one I envisioned, but that's an ok way to do it too.
Levels from 32 to 35 were also solved in different ways than the one I envisioned, and apart from level 33 (for which that way of solving it was still ok) for these levels the solution was easier than the intended one... especially for level 35 as you could probably understand.
Now these ways of solving levels are ok, you basically beat the developer (me) at its own game, which I think is the ultimate goal for puzzle games.
But now the developer (still me) will need to defend himself by releasing an update to patch the unintended solutions on the levels that are supposed to be the hardest ones of the game :P
By the way there are still some things left to be found for the other players for a 100% completion (and more) of the game.
First of all there are 3 missing hidden flowers in the last 9 levels that still need to be found.
Then there is also a super secret easter egg level that you can get to by receiving a hint from a seemingly unreachable bird in a certain level...
But anyways, thank you for playing and for recording :D
Yes the game it does not work save,
In the browser version of the game, you cannot save your progress.
In the downloadable version of the game, the actual game, you can.
You should have emphasized that the goal is money.
this game when you close the computer starts from the beginning.
Save works if you download the game, as written in the game description.
The browser version of the game is supposed to be a demo of the downloadable version, where you can in fact save your progress.
the hint they are completely useless
Sad to hear that, and sad to see your negative review too...
The hints are supposed to tell you how to position your character and the other elements of the level to get closer to the end goal or tell you if you are on the right track with your solution, while still leaving room for the challenge of figuring out how to complete each level yourself.
I do know after the first 20 levels the game gets pretty challenging, and hints should ease the completion of the harder levels, but this is still supposed to be a challenging puzzle game in its core, even with hints that make the game slightly easier.
Sorry to hear the challenging aspect of the game is not for you, hope you still had some fun solving the first levels :)
SQUAREISH Gameplay
Thank you for playing :D
For the level you got stuck on (level 07) you can try squishing down to go through the gap at the center of the level, under the spikes :)
Loved the game!
Thank you, glad you liked it :)
nice game. tho the fact you can die if you release under a hight to short for you is a bit janky instead of you just staying crouching
Thank you!
Yeah that was a mechanic I had to put in the game for better puzzle design (so that you have to think before squishing down in certain levels, since the only 2 things you can do after squishing is jumping or get squashed by a narrow passage if you release inside one).
I agree it might feel a little bit odd to see your cube die this way though...
Anywys, thank you again for the feedback, and for playing :D
tho level 4 has a janky cheese in it
very funny and addictive.
Thank you very much!
This game is very fun and very beautiful
Thank you :D