• Stick It To The Man!
  

  5 hours playtime

  10 of 16 achievements

what a delightfully silly game! i don’t remember where i first heard of this one, but using a weird stretchy pink hand coming out of your head to grab stickers and put them on other characters looked like fun, and then i won a copy on steamgifts!

the story, as i said, is silly in a way that really worked for me. it’s not entirely complicated and all centers around getting the pink hand and then having people after you trying to get it away from you. in addition to grabbing things with the hand, you can also use it to read minds. that adds to both the silliness and the gameplay, as many puzzles involve manipulating thoughts or moving stickers between thoughts and the real world.

the art style is that everything is made from paper and cardboard, which makes sense with the stickers and is embraced through save points being printers which spit you out on a piece of paper you’re already cut out from. it’s satisfying enough watching the rest of the page fall away that i didn’t even mind that i accidentally put a sticker on a guard when i was attempting to grab a pushpin to jump to . . . or at least i minded less.

i played with my controller and the controls weren’t entirely precise. i’m not terrible at platformers, but i certainly failed to land on a platform that wasn’t all that narrow a couple times. usually that wasn’t an issue because i didn’t need to be all that precise. what frustrated me the most was that it’s difficult to tell which target the hand is going for, and sometimes not easy to get to the one i want, even if there are no enemies and i’m just trying to read the minds of each person in a small group standing together. maybe if you play with mouse and keyboard you’d have a cursor and actually click on the one you want, though with guards chasing you they could still run in front of a pushpin and have you pick the wrong one.

it’s a little short: i finished in about 5 hours and wasn’t at all tired of it. it’s also less than $10 and a lot of fun, so worth adding to your backlog.