Klym Reviews

Assassin's Creed eat your heart out. 7.5/10 I like the setting

It's simple, fun, and strange! At the price you can't go wrong! Klym is about climbing buildings and leaping from building to building to find ducklings and then bring them back to their mom! The controls are, well, interesting to say the least; To jump, you must hold left click, drag the mouse opposite where you want to go, then release, and off you go! With general movement (WASD), you don't have a method of preventing you from falling of an edge outside of avoiding the edge (thanks captain obvious), so you can accidentally walk off an edge trying to make a long jump. Don't expect much replay-ability from this game, as there's not much to do other than explore and wear ducklings on your head to transport them to their mom! The game has 4 achievements, two of which you have to put effort into achieving without playing the game "normally".

A short, but enjoyable game with a simple premise, simple controls, and simple fun.

Short and sweet, a really fun tiny climbing experience. The camera jitters a bunch and the controls are a tad rough, but I had a good time nonetheless!

Very enjoyable short game. If you just play through the main game, it shouldn't take more than 20-30 minutes, but if you want to get all of the achievements, you can expect around an hour to 2 of playtime. There is one achievement for completing the game within 4 minutes that is quite hard, but definitely doable and worth some tries. I found the game a little frustrating at points, as sometimes something you think should be a small enough gap to climb isn't, leading to a lot of dead ends and wasted time. Still great and a good purchase for the low cost. And it looks pretty.

Very fun little game, with a great and unique art style. At first the controls felt very unintuitive and clunky. With some time I got the hang of it and even grinded for the really hard speed run achievement. Would definitely recommend for this prize even though it's only around a 20 minute experience.

Much of the Sokpop library is filled with games that are especially simple and bite-sized. Even so, I find Klym to be almost too simple and unexciting. Compared to something like dino game, where placing the player right into the game to figure everything out for themselves, that game had more of a puzzle aspect to it. Klym almost has that, but there's not much to interact with and trying to find the right path up the towers here I wouldn't count as "puzzles." The experience is partially marred by surely simple but baffling and slightly unintuitive controls. The controls themselves aren't really the problem though, it's the content of the game. Sokpop already has titles for the same price that have far more to offer in terms of content and stimulating gameplay. The gameplay is barebones to a fault. Outside of Sokpop's own catalogue, there are free titles on steam, even demos, that have far more content on display here. Sure, $3 is not much, but there's far better ways to spend that money in my eyes.

It's a fun little climbing game, some ledges can be a little buggy/ not register jumps, but ah well, just gotta persist. If you do end up trying the "That quick?" achievement" you may run into a loop of relaunching the game a bunch. Also, if you press ESC it'll immediately close the game.

I would rate this game neutrally if I could, but certainly not against it. The exploration of the city through climbing is well crafted, and it always feels good to reunite baby ducklings with their mamma. However the controls are very underdeveloped, and there are often odd small bugs that get in the way of a seamless experience. If you like the city exploration and climbing of earlier assassin's creed games, you might like it here, too. The speedrunning achievement was infuriating, and I might prefer it be raised to something like four and a half minutes to compensate for the random issues that get in the way of your experience, as you'll undoubtedly be pretty pressed for actions and restarting the game just for an additional attempt is exhausting. But this is sokpop, and the lack of polish is part of the brand. All in, it's not bad, but certainly not great.

A cute, mostly relaxing little game. One thing to note is that the Steam page poorly explains the controls, which will lead to frustration. In order to jump, you must hold the left mouse button, aim in a direction, then release the button. This concludes my public service announcement to help you rescue this mama's baby birds without frustration. (Edited on 21 January to note that the Steam page's control description has since been updated, and is much more clear now. Thanks for doing that!)