Human Fall Flat Review

[Guri]

An idiotic puzzle game that will make you laugh and hurt your cheeks. Jam solo or with up to 8 friends and have an unforgettable time. This unity made game is a masterpiece of its kind. Being a puzzle game it accomplishes a good balance between easy and hard mode spectrum. Any age group can enjoy this short game, even on an outdated rig. The game provides 14 unique maps with different puzzles and art style.

Gameplay:

The gameplay is all clumsy, the controls don't seem as though they would work, but weirdly enough for this game they do. Your wobbly character is on a floating level and tries to pass the hurdles without failing. Some of the time, the game wants you to think out of the box, but sometimes there are direct solutions. The game mechanics work in the co-ordination of camera and hands. You raise your hands to grab, pick, or climb over an object. The up or down camera movement determines whether you want to pick an object or climb up your lower body. Spam jumping is quite fun and looks hilarious. As the levels have checkpoints, you can pretty much recover from any mistake. If you are playing with a friend, only one player needs to reach the checkpoint to make everyone spawn from the same spot.

Graphics:

The graphics are not realistic nor too janky. They have a unique clay-ish art style, also known as a solid mesh which is perfectly molded by the designer. You won’t find any incomplete areas on the map. Unity equals all the elements in your design, making sure every element feels like they belong in your design. Initial maps can look somewhat basic, but as the game progresses, the quality increases. The lighting is done cleverly; even if you are passing through a tunnel, your vision will be clear.

Main Pros and Cons:

Pros-

• Low system requirements
  
• Lobby up to 8 players
  
• Light hearted fun
  
• Playable by all ages
  
• Wide variety of character skins in steam workshop
  
• Music/Sound fits the game
  
• If you get skilled enough you can learn new shortcuts
  

Cons-

• Short in walkthrough length
  
• Can feel stressful to certain group
  
• Feels repetitive as the game progresses

Miscellaneous Information:

How you start-
Your character Bob falls from the sky onto a dreamscape. His appearance is all-white with a baseball cap. You can either paint him manually, select pre-made demo characters, or add from the workshop. Then the game proceeds to teach about controls using narration and video tutorials.

Levels-
The game offers 12 main and 2 newly added maps, also termed as “dreams”. Along with them, there are 2 gorgeous lobby maps to roam around till your friend is connected or is AFK. Every dream/level has a certain theme like water, factory, ice which contains puzzles accordingly. The average time needed to complete a map can be around 30-40mins, but it can increase with each level increment.

Steam workshop-
Surprisingly, the steam workshop is immensely filled with character models counting the numbers up to 240,000. You can choose any character from anime to Hollywood movie to dinosaurs to occupation to animals. There are a lot of level designs submitted too, and those numbers are increasing fast due to the popularity of the level editor.

Level editing competitions-
As the game is encouraging people to create some maps for the game through their level builder tutorials, there have been competitions hosted with a prize pool of $10,000. This interaction with the community is highly appreciated, and the winning maps are later on added to “extra dreams”. The factory map was a result of these competitions and is highly liked by the players.

Honest Rating:

After completing the game multiple times, we can conclude that the game has potential, and a lot of things can be enhanced by time. But according to the price and unique concept, this game is worth a try. The game provides laughter, which is all we need these days.

Reviewer: Guri
Fellow clumsy character

Rate: 7.5/10