Love 3

released on Dec 06, 2021

LOVE 3 is a precision platformer where you control fiveEight, a lone survivor searching for others in a mechanical, apocalyptic world. Face challenging obstacles, discover hidden secrets, and try to find hope within the hopeless as you overcome each new danger.


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I played through the first two Love games while imprisoned in my bedroom while I was riddled with the 'vid a few years back. The brainfog that gave me must've somehow made me a more patient man coz without the virus in me I cannot be fucked with this

Has all 3 LOVE games included, which are all great experiences. Short and simple titles but great speedgames and surprisingly addicting for how basic they appear.

This isn't the type of game I thought I'd ever say this about, but the presentation is absolutely outstanding here. I've been following this series for quite some time (I think I came across it on Sonic Retro) and they're all very solid mechanically compared to a lot of the mediocre 2D platformers that end up on Steam. I always appreciated the musical and visual variety but this newest entry is on another level. Each level has its own song, all of them bright and cheery electronic that's a bit reminiscent of old video game jams if they were made with 90s analog synths.

Love is a very simple game in every sense of the word. The game has a trim color palette of one color for the level, black for the background, and white for the player and obstacles/interact-ables. The series was a bit confusing at first with communicating the difference between "hazardous white" and "helpful white" but the design language evolved in the second game and here things are more clear than ever. But the real impressive stuff is the level visuals. Each level really captures the imagination in representing spaces in these strict limitations, in ways I never would have expected.

Each Love game comes with more stuff and features the older games included. This one lets you go down memory lane with the new features and animations, or switch the style to be more classic if you wish. It's a great value proposition and also lets you appreciate how much these games have improved over time. But it also shows how solid the design always was. For a game trying to capture a fantasy history in which old PCs had platformers as smooth as the consoles of the time had, Love 3 nails that "rose tinted glasses" approach with such grace that it's convinced me to give more time and attention to the throwback indie movement I've been neglecting for a while.

Short precise platformer with tight controls and banging soundtrack.

love 3 is a good 2d platformer. the premise is that you can make a checkpoint/respawn point anywhere, which is a pretty interesting (and i'd say good) approach to difficulty.
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well, it does put some limits on where you can make a checkpoint... this leads to the premise being undermined sometimes, but this isn't a really a flaw, as the game is still pretty generous.
the game also includes all the levels from the previous games in the series, so it's the perfect starting point! (there is some exclusive content in the other games, and it's always nice to support a dev, so if you end up liking love 3, perhaps consider purchasing them as well).