Mountain Climber: Frozen Dream 9+

Good mobile game, but very obviously a Celeste clone.

It’s better than I expected, but it’s clearly based off Celeste. I do like that it has its own added mechanics and clever ideas. The developer did a great job, and I’m impressed. But Celeste is a masterpiece, and this doesn’t come close. But for a mobile game, it’s pretty great. The fact that the controls are all tapping is also really good. Developing a game is hard, and the one person who made this probably put a lot of work into this.

Developer Response ,

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Terrible Game

It’s no secret that this game is meant to be a straight copy of Celeste. It basically reuses the exact same artwork and puts a calming piano song in the background. Problem is, this game fails at copying one thing about Celeste, that one thing being that Celeste is a good game, while this is a major cash grab meant to be as unfair as it can be to force you to pay money. To give credit where credit is due, I do not think the programmer did a bad job. The physics work mostly fine, but I think that’s the only thing that’s just ok in this (I still wouldn’t be surprised to discover the physics were not written by the programmer). Now onto the big issue with this game, is it isn’t meant to be fair. You are given limited lives, you die if you fall below where you previously were, and spikes have unfairly massive hit boxes. On level 3, if you dash in an area with moving spikes, you are dead. I thought something seemed weird, so I screen recorded, and sure enough, I died even though there was 0 spikes around me. If you wanted to play a pixelated platforming game, pick up Celeste. It’s gonna cost you a lot less than this game is forcing you to pay and you’re gonna get a lot more game. I wouldn’t say this game is worth installing.

Too many ads

Pretty good game but the amount of advertising in the free version is obnoxious. Ads are inserted into the gameplay in three separate ways: banner ads, ads when you lose all your lives, and then randomly after any death. One of these might seem fair, especially the 30 second ad you have to watch after you lose all of your lives, but the other two—the banner ad that runs constantly on the bottom of the screen, and the random forced ads when you die (but haven’t lost all your lives yet)—are awful and annoying. One might see this and purchase the ad free version but this level of in game advertising is so reprehensible that not only will I not pay for the ad free version, but I will abandon the game entirely because I’m so soured by the grossness of the in game advertising. Why would a developer accept this level of adulteration to his game?

Developer Response ,

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