Game » consists of 9 releases. Released Sep 01, 2009
Spelunky is pretty amazing. I die so often, but i keep coming back. I stay to long and ghost comes to kill me. Oh look i found a jet pack. I took a leap of faith into a pit of lava. I hate hired help. Omg, i found a robot! Holy, an entire level of gold. Aliens! There are Aliens in my temple. Why? See this game is amazing!
I've played around 30 hours of Spelunky at this point. I am worlds better at it than I was when I first picked it up. But on my best run I still haven't even gotten to the final world yet. More often than not I can't even make it past the second world. Truth be told, I just died on the very first level on the last game I played.So why am I giving Spelunky a thumbs up?Because the game is fun. And fair. Mostly fair, at least.Let's get this out of the way: Spelunky is a hard game. 30 hours in and ...
Tough but fair. This is a game that rewards players who develop good habits (as anyone who's died for the nth time to a spider inside a pot can attest to...), and who like their sense of progress to come from learning new skills as a player, rather than collecting XP points until your character is buff enough to cakewalk the boss. It also gives more than a nod to the Indiana Jones series throughout, as well as other films such as Independence Day, Aliens and Evil Dead.You'll take on 4 (or 5, dep...