Meanders is a somewhat decent indie game. You platform around trying to shoot balls through hoops or balloons or whatever else the level decides, and then when you're done you move onto the next. Nothing special. At least on the surface, because after you complete the game, you get to add a rule. I'm not talking about stuff like an extra jump. I'm talking about porting the basic mechanics from a whole other game like Space Engineers or Serious Sam into this game and playing through the whole thing again like that. It is honestly insane to think that this game brought together other indie titles like never before and implemented them in a somewhat faithful way, with level design to facilitate it. For example, my first choice of added rules was No Meander's Sky, an obvious play on No Man's Sky in it's somewhat original form, so instead of holding a ball you get a gun with 5 shots, and instead of a double jump I got a jetpack.

I really don't have much more to say about this game than that, the mechanics are fine and the level design is adequate if simple. There's a fun little bit of personality to it where the text on the screen keeps putting you down for being slow. And the game does have a level select and a speedrun mode if you're into that sort of thing, but I'm really not. The music mixes between not really noticeable and kinda funky, but again it's nothing super special. There is one thing that bugs me, and that is that there seems to be absolutely zero movement tech in the game, which is a damn shame. In fact, it seems they purposefully limited the speed at which you can go, because any bounces that create speed is immediately capped by your jetpack. As I said before, the game itself is mediocre when you get down to it, but what it does with implementing other games' mechanics into it is really special, and I hope to see more games do the same in the future.