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Developer: Dumb and Fat Games (Yup, that's correct.)
Steam Achievements: No.
Steam Trading Cards: No.
Steam Price: 2.99€
Indie Game Stand "Today's Deal": Until July 21st
As you might know if you keep up with our twitter feed, No Review Left Behind is currently partnered with IndieGameStand. This collaboration aims to bring you, the gamer, clear and transparent reviews of the indie titles that IndieGameStand features on their "Today's Deal", these sales work under the "pay what you want" principle, this feature alone makes them awesome for the gamer that gets to play and discover a new indie title for a low-low price while at the same time contributing to charity.
Seeing as their work has the chance to gain a bit more recognition even developers win with the "Today's Deal".
The game under the microscope in our first collaboration is actually really adequate I would think, Perfection oozes indie all over the place, it's clearly the vision of one guy (Greg "Banov" Lobanov) that just wants to provide gamers all over the glove a slightly different experience when it comes to puzzle games.
Perfection is a minimalist and very soothing puzzle game where your objective is to cut randomized shapes in order for them to fit the outlines displayed on the background of each level. There's no time limit, no complex storyline and not even a set of levels through which you can progress (they're all randomized), it's actually a very relaxing experience overall and that's the goal here, Greg, the developer, actually describes his game as: "A minimalist, zen puzzler about cutting shapes".
As far as I am concerned mission accomplished.
Talking about Perfection and omitting its soundtrack would be a huge mistake on my part, I can safely say that the tunes composed by Omni-Psyence (find them here: Link) are one of the game's strongest points. Every track combines in an almost symbiotic way with the relaxing and chilled out gameplay presented to us in every randomly generated level.
While the aforementioned gameplay is incredibly simple, it does have one flaw that I could point out almost from the get go and that's the way the game determines when the shape is correctly cut or not, sometimes you're dead on and it still doesn't allow you to move on, other times you're way off and the game accepts it as the correct "answer". It's not a very big issue since you can't actually lose in Perfection, still it's something that you'll have to deal with and adapt to when playing the game.
Perfection is an experience that's meant to be enjoyed in short bursts more than a real game, if you're the "completionist" type of gamer then steer clear, Perfection is not for you. On the other hand if you're looking for something a little bit different, a game that you can play and relax with every so often then go right ahead, Perfection might just be what you're currently searching for.
Should you get it?
Yes and No.
It's such a quirky game that I consider it a personal choice really, read the full review and maybe watch a few gameplay videos, if it's something that seems to interest you then go right ahead, even if you miss the "Today's Deal" the regular price on Steam is super affordable.
Perfection. Official Website: Link
Dumb and Fat Official Website: Link
Omni-Psyence Bandcamp: Link
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