Game isn’t fun
Tue Nov 28 2023 gayshrek69This game isn’t fun, and that’s okay. Not every game needs to make you feel powerful. This game is meant to make you feel the frustration and despair that the character “Sisyphus” would feel. It does that pretty well, at the beginning at least. You don’t know what to do, do you follow the tutorial. You quickly learn how to beat the game system after ten minutes filled with despair. You learn that any failure is your fault alone, which I feel takes away from the intended feeling of the game. My opinion is that personal failures are less frustrating than those by pure chance, and much less than those by the choices of others. I think that it would be much more frustrating if there was RNG in the game, a VERY small chance of randomly failing through no fault of your own.
Fun to a point
Fri Apr 19 2024 ZVizzleCounter to a lot of reviews, I found this game fun initially. The fun game from having a goal. First, learn the rhythm. Then crest the mountain. Then make it back. Then build a streak. However at that point you basically have no reason to continue. Sure you could build your multiplier to infinity and top the leaderboards, but I’ve found that I’ve no desire to return to this game that I consider good. Maybe that’s the point and that’s fine. My gamer brain just craves more goals to climb towards. The irony is that it would be more fun if it wasn’t possible to get to the top
Amazingtastic!
Fri Aug 23 2024 iarfan600Note: The title is a combination of the word Amazing and Fantastic.
Yeah, this game gives you exactly what it says in the description. I know right? Most games don’t do that. Anyways, I would recommend this game if you’re in a car ride or if you have no internet but I just downloaded this game because I have seen countless amounts of Sisyphus memes this year and because I thought it would probably be fun to see a man forced for all eternity to roll a boulder up a hill only for it to fall down and see all his efforts broken for the 100th time. But in the myths Sisyphus has no obligation to roll the boulder up the hill, he just does so because he actually thinks he can do it. Anyways, download this game.
Interesting. Great comment on the human condition.
Sat Oct 11 2014 writingtiredThis game is not fun; however, if you are familiar with the myth for which the game is named, you should not expect it to be fun. The developer has asked you to spend $.99 to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill. In a Flappy Bird-style score mechanic, your score is based upon your willingness to continue a monotonous repetition of taps that move your boulder up and over the hill. The skill required for this is very limited. Patience is much more important.
The trick: you can't stop if you're pursuing a high score. There are no levels. Just a strength meter that increases (+1) every time you successfully push the boulder over the hill, and a stoicism meter that increases at a trivial rate (+.2) every time you fail. Your score is multiplied by both numbers after you fail. Your stoicism carries with you when you fail, but your strength resets.
This game gets brutal fast. There is no relief as you attempt to achieve a high score. Just the unforgiving fact that your failure is only inevitable if you choose to give up. However, you will give up, so failure is inevitable.
Great game.
What you would expect
Fri Mar 15 2024 VoyagedKnightThe expectations coming into this game weren't the highest, I push a rock up a hill destined to never reach the top. When I first initially started I was confused but quickly understood the steps, I got up 5 times in a row before finally mistiming and I realized that every time you "complete" the level, it resets. You start again, and again, and again. The same thing every time and you get used to it, and then you fail. It gives a good lesson that I can relate to a lot. Comfortability will ruin everything, life isn't supposed to be comforting but it will continue, and the sun will come up again.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
Fri Aug 23 2024 SaladManAwayIt does as I expected, as all should expect, it puts you through misery, knowing that you are the failure, you are the one who couldn’t keep pushing. But it gives you the feeling of being Sisyphus, you have one goal, one purpose, you know your purpose, and even if it is to try and try again, to never truely succeed, would you rather have no purpose at all? Or would you have one given by the gods themselves. One must imagine Sisyphus happy, this game helped me understand that.
Meditative. Like Daddy Long Legs, but somber
Wed Apr 10 2024 SiolnatineI don’t find this game frustrating. It’s in the same category as Daddy Long Legs, Verticow, Drop Not, Skyward, etc. The point is to get further each time. There are only a handful of achievements, and no cute, silly collectables most games in this category accrue.
The biggest difference is that the pace of Sisyphos is more meditative. I can narrow my focus down to the placement of his feet, little changes in the path beneath him, and the pace of my breath.
Is this therefore not fun fun? I suppose not. I find it restful, though. It’s worth the “offering” for that.
Absolutely miserable. It’s perfect!
Sat Mar 16 2024 IonlyrateifIamangryJust like Sisyphus rolling his boulder uphill for eternity, this game offers an endless journey of monotony and despair. The constant tapping and attention needed to continue pushing the boulder makes you feel more trapped in a cycle of pain than any other infinite runner. The only small moment of relief and joy you feel in this game is the small moment between when the boulder rolls back down the hill before you have to start again. Just what I was looking for! 5 stars.
great but hard
Fri Mar 08 2024 TieflingBoiit is not meant to be a game where you can say oh look I won cause you can’t there is no way to win, that does not change the fact that it is a great game. it didn’t take long for me to get over the hill the first time, and instead of the game saying you won you had to go back up the hill and go back to the starting point all in all a great game, just hard.
Good idea but the concept is only half there
Fri May 10 2024 Kuro OctoberIf you are one of those that expects this stoic excercise to also acknowledge Sisyphus’s decent back to the bottom, (as in the moments of reflection and ease as he returns to resume the torment)…it’s not there.
You’ll push the rock and then be teleported in defeat back to the bottom. Yet somehow also have a scoreboard to drive you? Which ironically is a sort of reward and accomplishment.
I would have given five stars had there been a walk down and no scoreboard whatsoever. If there is ever a change there I will correct my rating.
