This is one of those weird titles where you actually begin to wonder if they were made mostly to be easy fodder over on the other consoles for achievements because they’re not just very brief, but also so lacking in any personality of note. Sure, at a budget-friendly price perhaps there isn’t a need to do more than just deliver the goods, only even in that mindset I’d argue that the library of indie games already out there may have a better option or two already, even in terms of play.

The idea here is that you’re hacking into “something” that’s “somewhere”, and apparently requires you to get through 64 levels of challenge before you succeed. I do understand how games can work on the strength of play alone, not needing a real story (hello, golden arcade years), but in this case there’s no doubt that some flavor could have added something to the mix to make the experience a bit more interesting. As it is, you’ll just get thrown into the first screen, left to sort of figure out what you should be doing at all… and given all of the numbers and visual noise on the screen I assure you that just pressing up, down, left, or right and following what is highlighted is the least interesting possibility I could see there.

Things do get more complicated the further you go, with different systems detecting your mucking around and instituting a variety of increasingly-aggressive routines to try to stop you. These distractions do range pretty wildly and some will require you to make adjustments, but overall it won’t typically take you all that long to adapt. If you fail, thankfully there’s a checkpoint system in place so you won’t lose all of your progress, just get knocked back a number of screens to try to prepare yourself for the challenges once more. Then, once you get far enough… it’s just sort of over. 

Again, given the lack of an overall narrative or something more interesting driving you’ll just have the gameplay to satisfy yourself with, but it’s honestly not all that interesting in the end. If you’re looking for something that is somewhat in the same direction, on a budget, and offering simplicity but some challenges, you may instead want to consider Not Not or its sequel, which are also simple but will make you think much harder. If you’re just looking for something to test your dodging skills there are a wide variety of choices as well, ranging from Just Shapes and Beats to Discroom, and a variety of other titles. In the end, this feels almost more like a mobile game, with so much simplicity and so little to get you engaged, that even finishing it I’d consider it quickly forgettable.