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Garlic

Garlic

Released: 7/7/2023

Dive into this addictive hardcore platformer, You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess that grants a wish to the heroes who reach the top.. But this time it seems that things are not going to go as planned, (wow what an unexpected story) Don't wanna spoil you all the game but there seems to be something with the Cyber Goddess Why not talking a bit about gameplay..? Wall jump, dash, tons of traps and some enemies too, with lot of moving backgrounds, one screen stages and large stages, many checkpoints to not get frustrated in a simple n fun mechanics, with possibility of advanced gameplay performing amazing combo dashes (just try it out by spamming the dash button into walls, floors and even ceilings!) inspired by Super Meatboy, Celeste, Gato Roboto....

Dive into this addictive hardcore platformer, You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess that grants a wish to the heroes who reach the top.. But this time it seems that things are not going to go as planned, (wow what an unexpected story) Don't wanna spoil you all the game but there seems to be something with the Cyber Goddess Why not talking a bit about gameplay..? Wall jump, dash, tons of traps and some enemies too, with lot of moving backgrounds, one screen stages and large stages, many checkpoints to not get frustrated in a simple n fun mechanics, with possibility of advanced gameplay performing amazing combo dashes (just try it out by spamming the dash button into walls, floors and even ceilings!) inspired by Super Meatboy, Celeste, Gato Roboto....

Dive into this addictive hardcore platformer, You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess that grants a wish to the heroes who reach the top.. But this time it seems that things are not going to go as planned, (wow what an unexpected story) Don't wanna spoil you all the game but there seems to be something with the Cyber Goddess Why not talking a bit about gameplay..? Wall jump, dash, tons of traps and some enemies too, with lot of moving backgrounds, one screen stages and large stages, many checkpoints to not get frustrated in a simple n fun mechanics, with possibility of advanced gameplay performing amazing combo dashes (just try it out by spamming the dash button into walls, floors and even ceilings!) inspired by Super Meatboy, Celeste, Gato Roboto....

Critics
80
Steam
89

Score Breakdown

80.1

Critic Average

11 reviews

89

Steam User Score

392 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-8.7
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-8.7

Average of both sources

Review Timing

1 early (9%)10 launch window (91%)0 late (0%)