Woah Dave! Reviews

EDIT: So, aliens are attacking, and Dave needs to try and stay alive by throwing unhatched alien eggs and exploding skulls. At first, this game injects a giant "WTF!?" in your mind...but after a few tries, you start to get the patterns. There's a strategy. Trying to keep everything in order. But it can all go haywire quickly. My family and I have got immense enjoyment out of this game. I can't stress enough how fun it is to play in your living room taking turns. Super Addictive, wonderful design, cool music, and it's from Santa Cruz!

With it's smart visual design cues and tight controls Woah Dave not only looks like our memory of those 80's arcade classics, but it plays as well as the best of them. This one is an easy recommendation if you are looking for a challenging game that will quickly have you chasing your next high score, and cursing under your breath as Dave falls again to exploding skulls or flying eyeballs. Extra mention for the fine music in the game, it's quite well done and certainly enhances the experience.

Retro style arcade platform game where you try and survive aliens that hatch from eggs, while you collect as many coins as you can. I got the game just to kill some time and ended up getting addicted to it instead. 10/10

A sweet little Vlambeer-esque arcade game with fun, streamlined dynamics, slick little noises and frantic, fast gameplay. Really enjoying it as "distractionware", goes great alongside Nuclear Throne and Super Hexagon. Sweet job guys!

this game is as basic at it get it looks like something straigh out of a 80`s arcades and i could not been any more happier we need more lil gems like this so many games try so hard to be the next revolutionary thing than sometimes is refreshing to have something cute and simple to pick up and play this <3 hope they port space dave too

This is the most tragic game I have ever played. The premise: You're Dave. As a child, Dave had no friends due to his quirky behavior, and so videogames became his only company. They filled his imagination and made every day an adventure. The floor was lava. Adults were alien creatures. One day, Dave's parents realized he was no longer pretending. Touching the floor resulted in shrieking anxiety attacks and catatonia shortly thereafter. His tendency to pelt adults with breakfast food went from cute to terrifying once he developed the strength to put a classmate in the hospital with a hard-boiled egg. Dave was diagnosed with schizophrenia. His mental illness proved unresponsive to standard medication. He had to be involuntarily committed. But captivity did not suit Dave. Venture forth from the confines of the psych ward and take your vengeance on the aliens who seek to deprive you of your freedom and self-determination. But beware, getting too close allows them a chance to dose you with their sedatives. Three doses and you're once again at their mercy, your ears filled with the wailing siren of your oppressors. But no jail can hold Dave forever.

This game feels somewhat like the arcade classic Mario Bros, but is considerably more fun. It would feel repetitive if it weren't for how fast paced it is; seriously, you have to constantly act quick or else you'll lose a life, and that's partly what makes it so fun. The music can get a little bit repetitive, though, and while the extra stages in "Woah Dave Deluxe" add a little more variety to the game, one such stage (West Haven) is such a pain to play in my opinion that it's not fun. The others are fine, and overall the game feels worth playing if you enjoy fast paced arcade style experiences.

A simple but addictive single-screen arcade game that can stand toe-to-toe with the [i]score attack[/i] greats of old. As Dave Lonuts, delusional maniac and former laid-back '80s bro (I'm not joking), throw "eggs" at "aliens" and rack up those pennies until the level morphs and the UFOs come out. I got to $4.00. Can you make five bucks -- or dare I even mention it -- [i]ten whole dollars[/i]? I'm not a Dave fanatic, but I feel the urge to return every so often; there's a lot of appeal in such a pick-up-and-play game. But inevitably, I get bittersweet feelings thinking about "the times Dave had there" or the "rad pizza just around the corner." For real.

Woah Dave is an single screen arcade game along the lines of the original Mario Bros. It is just Dave vs aliens. The game randomly drops one of two things from the top of the screen. Either an egg or a skull 'block.' You can pick up either one just by running into them and then throwing them with the throw button. There's a catch though. Both objects have timers. When the skull block flashes, that means it'll explode soon. When the egg flashes, that means it will hatch. Both mean death for Dave if he's holding either one. You can throw the skull blocks into the eggs to smash them revealing a coin for you to collect. You can throw eggs into aliens to defeat them and leave a coin. While you're combating these aliens, the bottom platform is melting away with lava. Once the floor is gone, the lava slowly rises! If a green hatchling alien falls into the lava, it gets wooshed up to the top of the screen and turns red. Making it a fast alien. When the red aliens hit the lava they get thrown back to the top of the screen again. Then they are blue and can jump from platform to platform. If the blue aliens hit the lava again, they turn into Dave seeking eyeballs that can float through platforms. In a way it feels like Super Crate Box, without the guns, extra levels or extra characters. Every once in a while a POW block will drop from the sky. When you smash it against anything but lava, it destroys everything, leaving a coin behind. What are these coins for? A high score of course! Its an arcade game! No points, just coins, which seems like a wasted opportunity. If you get $1.50 in coins, you unlock the bonkers difficulty level. Once you gather a certain amount of coins, the UFO will appear for you to defeat. The controls are simple, jump and throw. The weird thing with this game is its gravity. It just feels like there is super gravity or something odd with how fast things fall back down. It doesn't play as well as other 80s arcade games. There are no phases, its just one long level. You're in it until you use up all 3 of your lives. The real downside to the game is once you've played it for three lives, you've seen all there is to see. Except maybe the UFO. The level changes color, but there's nothing to unlock like new classic arcade games. It feels one dimensional. Mario Bros had bonus levels and a variety of different enemies instead of an evolution of one enemy. If you can keep killing eggs as they spawn from the sky, it makes for a slow, tedious game. If you have a lot of enemies on screen, then it can make for some frantic fun. Then cap it off with a POW block to clear them out and go back to spawn killing them. There is only one song in Woah Dave, and its a great new wave sort of 80s clappy sort of beat. There is a local two player mode where two of you on a single screen fight for to collect the most coins before time runs out. There are online leader boards showing the top 10 globally and your friends. For such fierce competition, the scores are far apart. Not just that, but some people have the 10,000 coin achievement, but no one on the global leader board to back it up. I grew up in the arcade days where every three lives cost you a quarter, so the $5 seems about right. I can't imagine this fitting in shoulder to shoulder with the old classics or even the new ones. It feels like a hastily made cash in that needs some depth and extras. Also, for a game that tries so hard to pattern itself after arcade cabinet games, why do they recommend a 360 or PS controller and not an arcade style joystick?

A good game worth your time if you are a fan of classic co-op arcade games in the vein of Mario Bros. The game has a local co-op mode that looks very promising but I haven't been able to try that out yet. Not much else to say here but that the game gets more and more hectic the higher you score until you die so it's all about improving your high score and competing for the top spot among your friends and global leaderboards. If that sounds fun, get it, if not pass.