Epic Games is giving away FREE copies of Limbo for one week, starting today and lasting until July 25th 2019. With Super Meat Boy, Subnautica, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Jackbox Party Pack, Axio... Free to grab: Limbo is free at Epic Games Store
DL'd it, played it, got off the boat, hit a wall, couldn't (after ten minutes of trying) get past this 2nd screen, uninstalled it.
It was the 2nd screen of a computer game! Do you really think I am going to sit there for more than ten minutes hitting every button with no recourse? No. Not me, someone else, but not me.
Damn, I remember playing this game way back in about 2012, it felt like a real adventure this game, and it felt like there was some atmosphere and meaning to it beyond the simple game, but I don't know/remember what it was! (I did get to the end & completed it). Definitely worth playing & finishing (without internet googling help for tips). EDIT: just googled the game to refresh my memory of it....yep, absolutely, do not google this game at any point when you play it, just play it fresh & knowing nothing!
Limbo and Inside the best indie games that I've played. I never give up when I hit the wall in games and always try to find the solution on my own.
Asks me for a verification code when I log in, says it's sent to my email but not arriving, the last time I tried it never arrived either. And no it's not in my spam box. I guess I'll just never log into my Epic Games account. I suppose their decrepit hamster powering their server can't handle more than a few people at a time.
Hit every button? There's only 3 controls: left joystick (move/climb), A (grab/trigger), and B (jump). You pretty much learned all of the game controls by the time you got off the boat. The basic controls and being 2D + grayscale leaves you very limited in what you're capable of doing. The game didn't win so many awards because it was easy to walk to the right the whole time.
I know. That is the point. I hit every button in every direction and said 'screw it' because if a game freezes me on the 2nd screen, I dread to think how many other screens they created to artificially make the game longer than it needs to be. Now, I can tell you almost to the micro-second how to play 'another world' from beginning to end, and to a much lesser degree 'flashback', but not this, no thanks.
You can beat the whole game in about 3 hours. Only the first like... 3 minutes of the game is just mindless walking and waiting. So no, there's nothing artificially lengthened other than the intro. It's somewhat of a puzzle game, so, however long it takes is up to you.