![]() ![]() That may sound a little too simple for some, but thankfully there are plenty of elements that stop Dude, Stop from outstaying its welcome. It may go against the grain to cut a pizza in an symmetrical manner or deliberately fail to complete a tower of hanoi, there’s nothing that’s going to stop the player from moving onto the next stage. Although things get a little more complex as the user gets through each of the twelve batches of puzzles, none are exactly taxing. It goes completely against what every game, from major releases through to free mobile games, has taught over the years, but it’s quick to pick up In part this is down to how basic the puzzles of Dude, Stop are. The player is tasked with something very straightforward: to fail each and every puzzle that gets thrown their way. ![]() The premise of Dude, Stop is simple but effective. This includes timeless references that only our weird programmer can understand. Just kidding, you will mostly be just clicking stuff and dragging and throwing it all over the screen Self-aware humor that simply tries waaay too hard. You can ignore or mute it all you want, it’s still there All kinds of shiny rewards and achievements assembled by a hungry underpaid developer in a basement just so you can feel justified breaking another level and giggling for five seconds Many moments where you will be saying “What?”, “Why?” and “Preordering videogames is good”. Who cares, buy the damn game Fully voiced narration of both good and bad solutions. Some of them relatable, some of them not. Sure, the items you get for behaving are better, and you do need to behave to go forward, but you’re clearly meant to annoy the narrator as much as possible before bending to their whim.ĭude, Stop! is available now on PC, Mac and Linux.Or both at once.Dive into countless* puzzles carefully made by the developers. Listening to the narrator get more angry and frustrated as I continued to mess up the clearly perfect world they were trying to create was a real highlight in Dude, Stop! The voice acting and general feeling of the narrator is perfectly done - the whole game begs you to do stuff incorrectly and even rewards you with junk items to look at. ![]() The narrator doesn’t seem to care enough to comment on this part of the game, but I am sure they would be delighted with the completed puzzle once you find all the missing pieces. You can attempt to find all of these pieces to put together a puzzle, if you wish. You can get a hint as to what you need to do by scrolling over the outline, though some super-secret shelf items don’t have an outline and rely on pure luck or creativity to find.Īlong with the multiple objects to earn each level, the different stages have puzzle pieces randomly hidden within them. Shelves also have spaces for various objects unlocked via side quests. If you continue to make the narrator miserable, on the other hand, you still get stuff to put on your shelf! They’re just less shiny and more crappy - these items reflect how the narrator feels as they lose the bet. If you do everything correctly, you get shiny items to put on your shelf, showing off how wonderful you are. The various stages in Dude, Stop! have a number of levels for you to play, along with a shelf representing the level. Now, with a much happier guide, I was able to continue in the game. Then, at some point, the narrator stopped unlocking new stages for me, forcing me to go back and replay the previous stages as they had originally wanted. Their frustration increases, as does their sarcastic nature and the way they treated me - becoming frustrated beyond belief at decisions and feeling like I couldn’t get anything right. As I did these tasks incorrectly, the narrator seemed to get more and more frustrated. I took the time to ruin everything the narrator wanted me to do, cutting pizzas incorrectly, not sorting candies and leaving Lego on the floor. You’re unsure who this bet is with or what the finer details are, however you are free to do what you please in each test. This narrator seems to have some sort of bet going on involving your ‘testing’. All the while, a narrator continues talking to you or speaking out loud, judging every move you make. Taking its original game-jam concept, its lets you complete simple and straightforward tasks incorrectly or correctly, depending on how you feel. Dude, Stop!, which originally started as a Ludum Dare 33 game, has since had a full release on Steam. ![]()
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