Boo! Greedy Kid is a casual indie puzzler with a very simple-to-understand, yet challenging levels.

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One day, you ask your father for some change to get that can of soda you really want from the vending machine. Your father declines your request in a rather impolite way, causing you to lose your temper, scare him to death and collect his money. As it turns out, you still don't have enough, which means that you have to do the same to everyone in the 99 level building you reside in as you did to your old man.

First of all, I would like to mention the really cute intro. This is where the game teaches you the ability you will be doing for the next two hours: scaring someone from behind. The controls stay the same for the rest of the game - the only thing that changes is the difficulty, which steadily rises through the 99 story (with the occasional spikes).

The controls are quite clumsy if you don't play with a controller - everything is cramped together on the left side of the keyboard. Luckily, the Settings menu allows you to change all bindings to whatever you prefer. I have one more complaint regarding the controls: the game never tells you how to do a roll. You are simply shown that you have to sneak past the policeman somehow, but you are never told directly that you can simply roll past the enemies. I was stuck on the 10th level for quite some time before I noticed that there is indeed such a thing as a "dodge roll" in this game. I opened the keybinds menu, where I finally discovered that pressing Q does the trick. Playing the game suddenly became much easier.

I'll focus more on the gameplay now. Since just scaring a ton of people to death is obviously too easy, there are also different enemies who are able to harm you. There are two types of police officers - one charges at you until he hits you and the other one shoots at you. You have three lives available, which means that you can only take two hits until you die. Some people also have more than one life. After you scare them, they start raging and running around. If they hit you while in "rage mode", you will lose a life. In some of the levels, you might also encounter doctors - those do not need to be scared to death in order to progress to the next level, but they can bring the scared people back to life if they see one. Doctors have two lives and if you kill them, you get a one heart recharge.

In later levels, you will also encounter the SWAT units - a much more dangerous form of police officers. Their ability is to climb up and down between floors without having to use the door, which means they can sometimes trap you in an uncomfortable and unpredictable spot. Still, they aren't much of a nuisance once you get used to them. Robot-cops, however, are a nuisance. They only appear in about five levels, but they are much harder to pass. The will shoot at you on sight with an extremely fast bullet which kills you in a single hit. These levels usually include a lot of hiding and require perfect timing if you want to win.

Each level consists of multiple floors between which you can travel using doors. Two doors of the same color are connected and it can sometimes be tricky to find the right path to the last remaining living person while trying to evade the police. After each level, you are given one star by default. The remaining two stars can be obtained by getting to the exit elevator in a small enough amount of time and getting all of the possible money from the levels. In most cases, getting the money isn't that hard. However, trying to finish in the required amount of time is usually quite demanding, especially when you have to deal with robot-cops.

After beating every single level, you are taken to the final cutscene. Personally, I was quite disappointed as the kid did not get his soda after all. My best guess is that I would have to beat every single level with 3 stars, which I certainly do not intend to do as some levels have quite unrealistic demands.

For those who love achievements, this game offers 20 of them. The ones I got were fun to achieve and weren't too difficult. Be aware, however, that in order to get every single achievement, you will need to beat all levels with all three stars.

If you love creating your own content and sharing it with your friends, this game also supports Steam Workshop. After subscribing to user-made content on Steam, you can it accessible in the game from the main menu. When you launch the game, you are also given the option to use the included level editor. I opened it and played around with it for a minute or two just to see if it works and it looks like a good enough tool for making the levels for this game.

Finally, I would like to mention the soundtrack and the graphics. Boo! Greedy Kid is really a gem when it comes to that. The exciting, yet repetitive music puts you in just the right more for scaring people and the graphics are certainly worth looking at.

Overall, I have to say that I enjoyed this game. The levels were just challenging enough me and the player feels like it, trying to get every single star is certainly a goal which would require even more patience and grind.

Although I had absolutely no problems at all with the controls after changing them in the menu, I have to say that I feel a bit disappointed how the game didn't inform me about the ability to do a dodge roll. I almost quit playing because of that since levels were becoming too difficult to beat without rolling past the enemies.

If you like playing casual games and just want to have some fun, Boo! Greedy Kid might be the game for you. I completed all the levels in about two hours without repeating too many of them. I'm not too sure about the $5 price tag, but you should consider purchasing the game should you ever see it discounted.

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BirdCute

Note that my copy of this game was obtained for free for reviewing purposes. However, this did not affect the quality and objectivity of the reviewing process.

A retro arcade-style game, with tight controls and good level design. The game is very fun to speed-run( in order to get under par times in every level) and even though the Kid's moveset is limited, there are ways to minimize your times, f.e. rolling through an open door to close it, instead of stopping in your tracks and pressing up. My only 2 small gripes are:
1) the level select cursor moves very slowly, so selecting later levels takes a bit ( a big contrast to the overall 'snappiness' of the game) and
2) the sole music track for the level select screen and levels, though fitting to the game's style, is small in length, so it loops around often and can end up getting irritating. I suggest muting the in-game music and playing anything you enjoy from your desktop instead, for maximum enjoyment.

Played just a little bit of it but I can already say it's pretty good (and I suck at it :B). Every level is a fast dash of skill to get it completely right and variables like characters' placements/behaviors don't repeat if you restart, so you can learn a level's layout but you'll have to adapt on the fly to new elements. Also, the level of polish is just beautiful. Boo!

'Boo! Greedy Kid' is a cool little puzzle game where you scare the s*** out of old folks so that that they fall into stroke-like fits and spill their pocket change for you to steal. However, some old folks don't go down easy and will give you a smack in a spat of anger if your first attempt at spooking them doesn't do the trick - of course, you can always just hide for a bit and try again >:). Of course, you'll also need to contend with security guards and the like who won't want to put up with any of your shenanigans and will chase you around on-sight.

The gameplay is fast and simple but the game provides added completion-time and money-collection goals for those looking for an added challenge. The music is fun for the first 30 seconds but gets super repetitive and a bit grating after that - I would liken the quality and infectiousness of the music to the popular children's anthem, "Baby Shark."

'Boo! Greedy Kid' has 99 levels in the game so the fuil-price might be a good value if you consider how long it'll probably take to finish the game but I definitely recommend picking it up on sale. In my opinion, it's definitely a $1-$2 USD type of game.

Boo! Greedy Kid is a challenging one for me to accomplish, especially if you are the player type who mostly aim on completing the game with the achievement being done too. For my own opinion, it was actually fun and strategic to begin with. You can play modes such as campaigns and other steam workshop contents created by other devoted players. Each levels were comprise with system-default difficulties as you encounter and passed them from time to time.

I am glad somehow, that I as a player and a customer of this game, manage to complete the game with full stars achieved and unlocked all game achievements. It was exhausting to play, yet it does worth out to burn some of your valuable time.

Thank you developers and creators of this game! Love your work! ^_^ Recommend this one! Buy and Install Now!

P.S *This game review is not sponsored.

A nice little game featuring a bratty kid and lots and lots of soda.

Boo! Greedy Kid, follows well... a Greedy kid as he goes from floor to floor shouting behind elderly backs frighting them and swiping their pocket change for some sweet, sweet fluids. As in lots and lots of bubbly Soda. But he'll also need to avoid plenty of obstacles in his way in a sizable 99 Level Campaign. Boo! Greedy Kid also has pretty detailed pixel art which is pretty nice on the eyes.

Gameplay, in Boo! Greedy Kid starts off like this. The kid arrives on a new floor and it's up to you to guide him through the level and take down all the elderly in the level to swipe them of their cash and doing this quickly and without getting hurt for 3 Stars. Now there are a few different type of foes the Kid will encounter during his devious journey, Female Elderly, who aren't hostile and will go down in a single scream, Male Elderly who will be provoked and angry once screamed at and will need 2 hits to take down. Medics, who will revive any downed Elderly in their line of sight and drop Medkits once defeated. Police and Military units, who will chase down the Kid on sight or attempt to shoot at him. Luckily almost of the attacks can be avoided by hiding behind furniture or by doing a well timed dodge roll.

It is fairly easy to get 1 or 2 Stars on your first time through a level but you'll probably need to have some practice when attempting to get all 3 on the more difficult levels since all of the NPC walk around randomly and can go through doors randomly which can mess you up if you weren't expecting it. Also take in the fact that there are 99 total level each which 3 Stars each.

Lastly, Boo! Greedy Kid has Workshop Support which actually surprised me, however, it hasn't gotten that much attention which is a shame since there is quite some potential in a level editor in a game. (Though it also only locked to the Windows Version)

Overall, Boo! Greedy KId is a nice little arcade-like indie game, has a awesome pixel art style, and some tight and easy to pick up gameplay. I think the only negative I have is that it can be quite frustrating if you're actively trying to get 3 stars on all 99 levels but it's still a nice game I was able to grab for free!

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I like the pixel art visuals but that's about it when it comes to what I like, the gameplay is just kinda boring and not at all fun.

This is a solid title. I bought it blind, as is fun to do sometimes, and was mildly delighted with what I found.

The graphics, though yet ANOTHER entry in the pixel style glut, add a lot to the game. In particular, the animations actually provide helpful information about what works, how to do things, etc. I can't fault the designers here, stylistic approach worn thin or otherwise.

The audio is nearly as good, but not quite. It matches the presentation, but isn't as full or detailed. I muted it eventually to make room for listening to audiobooks.

The controls never let me down. The simplicity of everything at hand does a lot of the lifting here. That I don't even remember how the controls work, button for button, testifies to that - it's all so fluidly natural that I never even pondered it.

You run around as a brat, slipping and dodge-rolling behind innocent old folks, nursing home staff, security, and a host of more dangerous fellas, screaming to scare them. You make the old people faint, snatch their cash, and make for the exit. There are doors and environmental objects at your disposal to help aid or mask your activities. The challenges of each level arise from the way all of the elements are clustered. Arcade stealth silliness.

The only mandatory part of this challenge, which is to say the gate-keeping element of the game, is having all of the geriatric sprites knocked out of commission simultaneously for a moment, which opens the elevator doors to the next level. The nursing staff, in their ability to resuscitate the old folks or each other, are the biggest obstacle to this, forcing you to retrace steps and waste precious time if not careful enough in your planning. The aggressor NPCs provide mostly obstacles to your movement, in their myriad ways.

There are time and cash challenges for each level, which contribute to the old 'out-of-three' star rating given each completed level. As far as I could tell, a perfect run of star ratings never unlocked, advanced, or otherwise contributed to anything but whatever stock one puts in 'gamer pride' (none, myself) so I abandoned my perfect streak around level 95 of 99, as the levels started to get a little absurd for my level of commitment. However, if there are more endings than the one which I saw, this star rating is the only possible metric to affect it, and thus presents its place in the design.

Whatever compromise I made there was quite unpleasant, let me just say. I'd like to say something about the ending.

I'm not totally thrilled with the weirdly spiking violence that occurs at times through the game. It's not painfully tasteless or dark in tone - some moderating hand did its work here, one senses - yet there is still the matter of a small child (even criminal unruliness of the child does not excuse here) being shot and maimed in a few brutal death animations. For example, there's a 'robotic police officer' type enemy (it's no mystery) that kills you instantly if it sees you. You WILL die at least a few times at its merciless hands, and the results are ugly. It's just discordant to the rest of the game, which is overall very impish, but not so doggedly edgy.

The ending I saw employs the same eye-rolling edginess in a move motivated, I suspect, by misguided appeal to gamer humor. What was the point?

I liked the game well more than enough to overlook these few stupid decisions. It's short (in a good way), to the point, and fun.

There is absolutely nothing fun about this game.

But it is competently made.

Get it for your kid when it's on sale.

I will not be playing this because it's boring AF