Such a great addition to Apple Arcade’s lineup. The game is simple and just plain addicting. Beautiful 8 bit style game, with easy controls and power ups to make everything interesting. It can get challenging very quickly. I took one star away because the left and right controls have made me lose several times. I wish I could modify the layout a little so my left and right movements wouldn’t cross over when I didn’t want them too. I feel like the controls should go to two rows instead. Left and right should go across the bottom of the screen entirely, and then tapping or holding anywhere above that row might be easier?All in all, I love this game. Really happy it’s on Apple Arcade cause I never would’ve heard of it otherwise.

EVERYTHING in this game is determined by a random number generator… including you getting anywhere in it. At least, until you reach the Catacombs area where your game is GUARANTEED to end because there’s so much garbage flying at you that you have no chance of avoiding because it comes at you from every possible angle, and you can only shoot DOWN, leaving you completely defenseless. And it’s SCRIPTED to do this because it ALWAYS happens in the Catacombs. This game isn’t endless because that’s where the game forces itself to end, masking itself as an “avoidable” game over. Not helping any of that is the fact that your only option is playing in portrait mode with a control display that takes up half of the screen, and yeah you can turn the display off in the options but then you DON’T KNOW WHERE YOUR CONTROLS ARE. Not that it’d matter anyway since the amount of things flashing and flying across the screen at mach 20 makes it impossible to see what you’re doing at ANY point in the game, while also giving me some of the worst sensory overload i’ve ever dealt with in a game.I may not have wasted money on this since it’s free on AA, but I do strongly feel like i’ve wasted TIME that I would like to have back, and I feel that anyone reading this is better off spending their time with a game on AA that’s actually good, which Downwell is objectively not.

This game is surprisingly addicting to play for how simple the mechanics are. Three things I think that can improve gameplay:1. Remove the slow-motion when taking damage or make it less slow. It hinders the gameplay momentum.2. Make the final bubble room of every 2nd level the shop and all other bubble rooms weapons. I say this because although the world generation is random(which is great)I think the player pickups and shop should have some kind of structure that is predictable for the player. Something to “expect” keeps the player engaged by creating goals and milestones.3. Finally, I think there should be some kinda of overworld map that the player can see that indicated when levels will change themes or introduce new enemies. And possibly the ability to, “purchase with game currency”, skip ahead to levels previously visited. For example when jumping in the well have an option to jump to world 3 for a price. This would help players learn the new enemies quicker rather than spending a whole lot of time getting there and learning the hard way.Overall great game, and would play it daily!Ps. I’m a game developer myself, are you guys open to hiring? Or doing collaborations?Thanks

So this game is really difficult and that’s what makes it fun awesome game great and simple controls played for maybe two or three years but Genuinly (trying not to spoil anything for others reading this) not expecting what happens on abyss-1 still died but had a blast on it (pun intended) I don’t understand why people leave bad reviews on games for the difficulty skill issue to be honest. One more thing most people fail to realize how much easier the game is if you become a pro at the game getting use to using the floaty style