Celeste
2018 · Extremely OK Games · ~10h to finish
Frame-perfect demands wrapped in the kindest failure state in games — you will die two thousand times and each one costs you half a second.
You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.
Price on Steam
USD · United States · checked 1h ago
The fingerprint
- Execution drops 2.4 points — you handle this better than most.
- Reaction drops 1.7 points — you handle this better than most.
- Assist options shave roughly 5.3 points off, if you use them.
These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.
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IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT- 45% · ~4hReaction
the mid-game chapter that introduces the mechanic everybody remembers hating
▲ 29 - 100% · ~15hExecution
the optional remixed version of every level you already finished
▲ 11 - 100% · ~30hExecution
the free post-launch chapter that is harder than everything before it combined
▲ 36
Assists & accessibility
0/6 SOURCEDCHALLENGE RELIEF
- Granular assist sliders [unsourced]Individually tunable: game speed, dash count, stamina, invincibility.
- Invincibility toggle [unsourced]A single toggle inside Assist Mode.
- Game speed control [unsourced]Down to 50% in 10% steps.
- Generous checkpoints [unsourced]Respawn is on the screen you died on, in under a second.
MOTOR & INPUT
- Fully remappable controls [unsourced]
COMFORT & SAFETY
- Reduced motion / camera shake [unsourced]Screen shake at full, half or off.
Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.
What it is
A precision 2D platformer about climbing a mountain, built on a single air dash and hundreds of single-screen rooms, with an unusually direct story about anxiety.
Where to go from here
Argue with these asksNearest fingerprints in the catalogue. The same demands, a different game.
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