VVVV-Make and Play Edition

Brutal platforming, now at no cost

Terry Cavanagh’s VVVVVV has been infuriating paying customers for years. Now a version is available for free. Bad news: it doesn’t contain the base game. Good news: that means you won’t have to destroy keyboards while trying to complete the Veni, Vidi, Vici section.

This is a special edition of the gravity-flipping platformer that includes only the level editor and a selection of user created maps. There’s a huge amount of content to be played, even without the original campaign. These aren’t singleroom challenges, either: there are sprawling, multi-segment creations to tackle. The totality of it dwarfs what VVVVVV originally offered. As always, your job is to collect trinkets and crew members in an 8-bit world of bizarre hazards and repeating geometry. Many of the maps continue the intricate difficulty of the original’s gravity-based challenges. Progress is hard won, but the makers have also embraced the game’s generous checkpointing. Even the most difficult sections need only be conquered the once. PS

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