I no longer fear hell, for I have played aMAZE Untouchable.

I've played a lot of games, but I think I can safely say without exaggeration that this is one of the worst things I've had the misfortune to ever play on Steam. It's not even that it's bad in the same way as a game that's a cheap, lazy cash-in or an asset flip, or broken in a way that it's literally unplayable. It's bad in a very special sort of way that separates it from those other, cynical, eye-rolling experiences, and transcends into something that's uniquely loathsome.

At this point we're in the seventh game in the aMAZE series, where, for the most part, they try to mix up the basic maze navigating gameplay with new gimmicks and aesthetic themes. This time around the genius notion is to have a maze where you can't touch the walls or you'll be reset all the way back to the beginning of the course. There's room for a decent enough game to make use of that mechanic and be a fun, challenging experience... This is not that game.

It's hard to know exactly where to start listing what's wrong here, so numerous are its flaw. But I guess the most immediately noticeable thing about the game is it's absolutely hideous. Its searing, bright, pulsating, flashing rainbow colours throughout are a literal pain. I've played ten hour-plus sessions of games before and never had eye strain that comes close to what this induced within less than an hour of play. It's the only game I can immediately think of that would actually be improved by having literal sh*t smeared across the screen, just to reduce the garish assault it intensely vomits into your face non-stop. The only thing worse than the way it looks is the way it controls... My GOD, the way it controls!

Just like all the previous games, you use the keyboard to move a ball around vertically or horizontally. While this has never been perfect at any point in the series, it's sufficed just because there was little real penalty for crashing into walls. In fact, it could even boost your speed in a way. But here, it's just not fit for purpose. The movement is so imprecise - in a game that requires absolute precision - that many of your failures won't come down to player fault, but to bad design and/or programming. This isn't helped by the fact the ball has this weird inertia that means if you press the key down for any longer than the tiniest fraction of a second, it will continue to drift briefly after you've taken your finger off the button. On more intricate stages this results in gameplay devolving into an agonising marathon of cautious taps as you move the ball around a millimetre at a time. Oh, but it doesn't end there!

The ball itself isn't even a solid colour as it has been in every other entry up to this point. Instead, it's now rainbow-coloured AND oscillates in colour as it moves. The effect being that it actually makes it incredibly difficult to clearly visually define the ball's physical dimension and makes it hard to judge how close or far away you are from a wall, made all the harder by the multicoloured, flashing backgrounds and maze walls that make everything a nauseating blur. And just as a little cherry on top, you can't even change direction from left to right without the ball simultaneously juddering up or down, too... or move up and down without going left and right. Way too many times than I care to remember, I'd move in one continuous direction down a long corridor to pick up a gem that unlocks the exit, press in the opposite direction and be shunted into the wall because I was involuntarily thrown into it, losing several minutes of progress. No matter how quick your reflexes or how clear your judgment, if you mis-tap the key, there's practically zero room for course correction and you'll be met with failure. In fact, I'd even swear some of the collision detection is busted on top of everything else.

It's hard to tell whether this is gross ineptitude on the developer's part, or a massive troll as they intentionally try to infuriate players and charge money for the privilege. Or maybe it's a genius move where they intentionally sabotage their game with a dog sh*t entry so as to make us appreciate all the others by comparison and be grateful for its simplicity and its "return to form". But either way, I never want to see, hear or even think about this horrible experience again for the rest of my life. And after spending the three hours it took me to complete it, quite frankly, I want a f*cking medal for it, along with some counselling.

Untouchable, yeah, that actually describes this game accurately. DON'T TOUCH THIS

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Product contains:

Life threatening amount of rage induced saltiness and cursing
which may lead to heartattack, inside hemorrhaging or both.

I bought this product since i just wanted something casual to play for a few hours between some of the more "hardcore" games, however this hot piece of garbage turned out to be stuff of nightmares, it's unnecessarily cruel and frustrating than some of the actual hard or difficult games i've played, but not just thanks to the game, of course not.

Premise is to just move a ball in a maze to a certain point, click forward and you get a new level, or that's well as basic as it gets. Hooooooowever, now they've decided that if you touch the walls, you'll be thrown back to the start. Which would be still fine. Where i do have a freaking problem is with the controls/coding once again... In this game you press your up-key, and you go straight up, down, same thing, left and right, you get it...

However what you do notice is that when you go directly up, and say want to go directly down without touching anything else, the game throws you few frames/pixels to the side, and that's usually what's enough to screw you over, especially in the later and much larger levels, where you have to navigate some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ level of narrow twisted tubes, hoping few minutes of your time didn't go to waste, once again.

To Developers: If you have a game like this, make sure you have consistently working product without hiccups like with the weird throwing few frames to side and getting a lagspike every now and then.

I can't recommend this title to anyone, eventhough i've purchased other titles from the same franchise.

This is, by far, the most stressful game I have ever played. Holy hell. Recommended for masochists, not recommeded for people looking for an easy game. Achievement hunters, beware.

Warning: Some mazes have bright flashy colors..not recommended for people with epilepsy. (This needs to be put on the game btw)

This game is a bit suspenseful and not like the other aMaze games where you can go quickly and finish a maze..this one has a nice twist to it..you cannot run into the walls..if you do this, it will make a loud noise and make you jump a foot each time because you are trying to concentrate on the ball and the maze. (I flip off the screen every time lol) The controls are pretty good thus far. I do tend to get ahead of myself from time to time and run into the walls lol..Anyways I give this game a 9/10.

Good game.

A maze game with 50 levels to solve. I wouldn't mind it, if it wasn't for the fact that you are not allowed to touch the maze walls which make the game extremely frustrating and therefore unenjoyable.

Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (5.0-7).

+rep

Just look at the screenshots for this game, and realize that the ball must be controlled through the wavy wall stages with only arrow key movement. Also, I'm underselling how ♥♥♥♥ this game is.

The First: This game is ugly as hell.

The Second:
This game is hard in some ways, and to easy in anothoer ways. Just an another indie game.

Got this for £0.39 and must say it wasn't bad for the price. In fact, it was actually really enjoyable to play through. The visuals are nice, the levels get progressively challenging in fair ways without being tedious, and the music is also nice.

A few very minor gripes, however:

• The lack of a simple "Congratulations!" screen upon completing the game gives very little satisfying sense of accomplishment.
  
  
• The ball seems to jump a very small space off its current position when you press any of the arrow keys. Not sure if this is a deliberate design choice, but it got a little distracting at the more narrow intricate sections of the levels with wavy boundaries.
  
  
• The lack of statistics. It would have been neat to know how much time was spent on a level and how many times I had hit the boundaries overall.

With that said, these are trivial matters that didn't water down my experience. If maze games are your thing, I think it's well worth checking out.