Neon Depth

Neon Depth

released on Sep 08, 2021

Neon Depth

released on Sep 08, 2021

In this puzzle-platform game, you must make mistakes in order to progress. Place blocks when you fail, and shape the level in your favor. Discover how to use blocks with different effects to escape from within yourself while learning to live with your mistakes.


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The premise was really neat but the theming and bgm are ass and the vague little story they tried to tell got on my nerves

It's a game about depression, your failures don't define you but build you up to rise after the failure is the message of the game but the levels are filled with these instagram tier motivational quotes that feel like they've never had a failure in their life.

I do like the gameplay gimmick tying into this narrative even if it's more like using your past corpses to ascent since these intentional deaths (except the ones from the slippery physics that are useless) can't really be considered failures but stepping stones, and failures in the real world are never 100% progress and you can just be bumped down to nothing at someone else's discretion at any point in time, while the only failure here are the red spikes. That said, I thought the stuff with the yellow flag was really smart.

Interesting puzzle game and concept but the way the message is shown just rubs me the wrong way.