On Rusty Trails

If your like me who loves indie platformer games mixed with some puzzle play then you'll definitely enjoy this. Quick, simple and challenging all in one. The graphics, the characters, the story unfolding around the characters and the gameplay are excellent. The downside is the shortness of the game with no additional content except for the art and the digital comic, but besides the shortness it is well worth your time. Pros - Great graphics, characters, and background story of the world - Challenging levels and puzzles Cons - Short, completed the game in 6.5 hours (not in one sitting of course) - No extra content to the game but you do get artwork and the digital comic Hope this helps. Enjoy!!

On Rusty Trails is a simple, short and easy puzzle platformer. It’s also way more fun then many much more famous and highly regarded games. The mechanics minimlistic: your character - a red, pyramid-shaped robot – can walk on walls and ceilings like Spider-man, and switch between his usual “red” form and a blue costume. Most platforms in the game can only be used on when you are of the same color as they are, and will disappear in the vicinity of your opposite-colored form. What you do, is run, jump, and switch quickly from red to blue and back again navigating the increasingly complex, but always very short, levels. While the game does get progressively more elaborate, with new types of danger, platforms that change color, and even boss fights (of sorts), it never gets really difficult. And this is coming from someone who honestly kinda sucks at platformers, so if you consider yourself an expert in the genre you’ll probably find this insultingly easy. And yet… there’s something just fun about it. It’s straightforward, unassuming and unpretentious. I actually like the fact that it’s easy. I like not being frustrated with a game, stuck in the same level for hours and not feeling like throwing my keyboard across the room. I like the fact that it’s not a game that wants to give you bragging rights for beating it, doesn’t have some pretentious meta-plot and doesn’t waste your time by forcing you to start the whole game over when you die “because hardcore”. It requires just enough thought to not be a totally brainless exercise, and just enough reflex to not get slow or boring, but never so much as to stop being relaxing and simply enjoyable. If you’re a platformer veteran, if you’ve beaten Super Meatboy and Spelunky every which way and revel in forcing your way through the grinder you’ll probably not find anything here of interest. But if you just want a fun little game with nothing to prove to anyone, you could certainly do a lot worse than On Rusty Trails.

I like puzzle platformers, but the puzzles in most of them either tedious or obtuse, when a good puzzle game should have a smooth, gradual difficulty curve, and gradually introduce new mechanics, instead of relying on the starting gimmick. This is a good puzzle game. There's not much to add beyond the storepage's description; it's pretty much what it says on the box, and it's actually good!

If you like Super Meat Boy you should try On Rusty Trails. Short levels, red hero and a lot of dying.