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This is technically a demo (BLAEO doesn’t even register it as being in my Steam account), but I seem to remember reading somewhere that this free version is the same as the paid version. Looking at the screenshots on the store page, this seems to check out.

Platformer. No controller support; left/right keys move you, and the Z key does a quadruple-jump, which sounds like overkill before you realize your jump height is only half a unit.

When I started, the game pretended to fullscreen but was actually stuck in a tiny window in the upper-left corner. Luckily, there was a fix in the discussions: run with Windows 8 compatibility, then alt-tab out and back in. The game was still duplicated in the upper-left corner, but it didn’t conflict with the properly-fullscreened version due to its 4:3 aspect ratio.

As for the game itself? It’s pretty easy and short (Steam says I only played for a minute or two), with a noticeable chunk of your brief playtime being waiting on the constant autoscroll to show you what’s coming up. The hardest part was at the very beginning, where it’s easy to fall past the switch that unblocks the way forward, and not realize that’s what it even is due to it having the same color palette and general shape as regular solid tiles (on my first try, I was caught by the autoscroll and died because I thought there was another action/input I was missing; on my second time, I fell on the switch by accident).

It’s okay for a free game; wouldn’t recommend paying for it, though.