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Ziggy is a new platformer game across 30 levels in 5 worlds (or biomes, as it says here), and numerous ways to die, as you run, wall-slide, dash, jump and double-jump!
It’s one that has that ‘just one more go’ factor, although to be specific – just over 1200 more goes, since I’m dying MANY times throughout the game!
But that’s what it’s all about, in what’s referred to as a “pixel-precision jumper”, which is almost correct, but you do have to figure out how to get from A to B, and so on, and it’s far from easy. I feel like I’m dying as many times as Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, in that awful episode where he spent about 2 billion years banging through a wall.
It also has a memorable soundtrack that I can’t get out of my head, like a rave track taken from one of the Pet Shop Boys’ Disco albums, or something in the middle of The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.
In the end, I did get Ziggy to his final destination and, oddly, it was some of the levels in the middle which were a great deal more difficult than those towards the end!
My complete gameplay below will show how I achieved this, so check that out and buy this game! I played this through the Windows Store, but as I type, it’s on Steam for £1.69, so it’s an absolute must-buy!
Thanks to our friends at Afil Games for the review code for this game.
Ziggy is out now on PC/Steam, and the respective online stores for the Windows Store, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S.
Important info:
- Developer: Afil Games
- Publisher: Afil Games
- Players: single-player
PC specs:
CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.