Tight, satisfying controls and movement
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Controls feel amazing, levels are perfectly designed for flow, dying and restarting is istant, the difficulty curve is beautiful”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗
Super Meat Boy
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 94%Very Positive · 94%Team Meat2010Precision Platformer · Platformer · 2D Platformer
The verdict
A brutal, fast precision platformer with tight, addictive, instant-restart gameplay. Skip it if slippery momentum, no jump buffer or rage-inducing no-death achievements put you off.
Great for
Patient platformer fans who enjoy trial-and-error, speedrunning and hard-but-fair challenge
Main risk
Slippery, unbuffered controls and extreme difficulty can turn the game into pure frustration
What players love
Hard but fair, very rewarding
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“Tough as nails, but extremely rewarding. Every time you die it feels like it's your fault.”
Steam review · 109.1 h played ↗
Addictive instant-restart gameplay loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews
“The game instantly reloads when you die, meaning you're not waiting for loading screens or animations to try again.”
Steam review · 24.3 h played ↗
Great soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“the soundtrack is one of the best among all platformers”
Steam review · translated · 3.9 h played ↗
Classic with lots of content and replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“This game is ripe for speedrunning.”
Steam review · 609.5 h played ↗
Short levels suit quick sessions
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“Every stage can be completed in less than a minute, allowing very fast paced progression.”
Steam review · 4.7 h played ↗
What players complain about
Slippery, imprecise, floaty movement
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“The momentum based movment is so damn unsatisfying, once im in the air it feels like theres nothing to do but pray”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗
Brutal difficulty spikes and no-death achievements
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“the difficulty spike is vertical at many points of this game”
Steam review · 13.1 h played ↗
No control rebinding, poor controller/keyboard support
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“No rebindable keyboard controls (you're stuck with arrow keys for movement.”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗
Crashes, won't launch, bugs and glitches
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“I have spent hours of my life doing different achievements that the game decides to glitch out and close”
Steam review · 43.7 h played ↗
No jump buffer, jumps don't register
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“lack of jump buffer is REALLY FELT and that sucks too”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗
Frame drops and poor optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 negative reviews
“the physics are tied to fps so the frame drops will put you in slow motion or have you phase through walls and floors”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support300 MB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 (Windows 8 is not officially supported)
Processor1.4GHz or faster
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsGraphics Card made within the last 4 years (Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0)
Storage300 MB
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP / Vista / 7 (Windows 8 is not officially supported)
Processor1.4GHz or faster
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsGraphics Card made within the last 4 years (Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0)
Storage300 MB
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