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qrth-phyl

95% positive of 22 Steam reviews

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Released
2018
Steam Deck
Not tested
Platforms
Steam

Made by Verran.

About the game

Arcade documentary of maze/dot/snake mechanic within changing dimensions, axis locks and the corruption of the system. Collect, grow, avoid your past, find new space, wake up…

Tagged by players

  • Programming
  • Experimental
  • Psychedelic
  • Soundtrack
  • Abstract
  • Procedural Generation
  • Score Attack
  • Arcade
  • Retro
  • Stylized
  • Colorful
  • Atmospheric

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What players say

  • Recommended
    If your only criteria when judging a game is based on something as narrow as "oh, well there's better games now so skip it" then you are doing a disservice to the history of games development as a whole, but mostly a disservice to yourself since you are bound to miss out on all of the thought-provoking classics that shaped the way for what we have now. For those of us who are truly fascinated by theories in game…

    36 min played when written. 37 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    qrth-phyl is the rerelease of an Xbox Live Indie Arcade title originally released in 2012. qrth-phyl includes a variety of low fidelity, abstract effects including glitchy / chiptune-y music, pixelated particle effects in droves, lasers that cut across the entirety of the level and various other brightly-colored obstacles you have to quickly evade in order to continue chowing down on the PacMan esque pellets. If…

    37 min played when written. 13 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    The issue I take with qrth-phyl is that the description written on the store page is misleading. Secondarily, I also think the core gameplay is a bit subpar considering the plethora of awesome arcade scorechasers out there. The game is self-described as a 'Arcade documentary of maze/dot/snake mechanic...'. I specifically interpret the use of the word 'documentary' in this context to sort of walk me through a vague…

    29 min played when written. 19 found it helpful.

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