The Pedestrian

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User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 72 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 72
  3. Negative: 3 out of 72

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  1. Cyber_Angel
    Jan 22, 2022
    5
    Very interesting idea, fitting music, hard puzzles, but the game is really boring.
  2. alivemau5
    Mar 29, 2021
    5
    great innovative puzzle game that slowly gets more complex. Eventually though it does get repetitive and eventually i lost the motivation to continue doing the same puzzle but in a different form. The novelty of it eventually runs out of steam.
  3. TitaniumDragon
    May 20, 2022
    5
    The Pedestrian is a fairly straightforward platform/puzzle game with a limited number of mechanics. At its heart, it is reasonably stylish puzzle platformer, with quite decent art for an indie game. It is a short game – perhaps four hours long – but even at that, maybe it is a little too long.

    The core of the game is that you are a little pedestrian symbol who can move around and jump    The Pedestrian is a fairly straightforward platform/puzzle game with a limited number of mechanics. At its heart, it is reasonably stylish puzzle platformer, with quite decent art for an indie game. It is a short game – perhaps four hours long – but even at that, maybe it is a little too long.

    The core of the game is that you are a little pedestrian symbol who can move around and jump between platforms on signs, but you can only jump so high. You can also rearrange the signs that you are on, and draw connections between doors and ladders – a ladder going up must match with one going down, and a door going left must match with one going right. Redrawing these connections resets everything, but there are some puzzle elements which allow for persistence.

    It is these other puzzle elements which serve to mix things up a bit, but unfortunately, the game’s core mechanics really don’t end up being all that variable – you just keep doing the same things, over and over again, with something new tacked on, but that new thing often is just adding a slight complication. Some of these are more interesting and clever than others, but a lot are just kind of there.

    The result, sadly, is that the game ends up feeling a bit repetitive by the end, despite its short length. It was okay, but not great, and while the very final level manages to mix things up and add a bit of novelty, it wasn’t enough to put it over the top. Overall, I can’t quite recommend it, but it isn’t bad; it is just kind of okay, but a bit ephemeral.    … Expand
  4. ErdemMT5
    Feb 17, 2022
    6
    The pedestrian, is a platformer puzzle game.
    Game's core gameplay mechanics and even the puzzle design is a bit too much simple. Game's whole point is art design and some beautiful visuality ideas.
    In the begining of the game, our character starts into a signboard, and player's city adventure begins with that signboard. Game's goal is traveling around the city in a linear way and    The pedestrian, is a platformer puzzle game.
    Game's core gameplay mechanics and even the puzzle design is a bit too much simple. Game's whole point is art design and some beautiful visuality ideas.
    In the begining of the game, our character starts into a signboard, and player's city adventure begins with that signboard. Game's goal is traveling around the city in a linear way and collecting some power sources for main character's device. During this journey, game present us some joyful puzzle plartformer level's and a closer look to city parts.
    It was a short and beutiful game, and if you like some chilling out you can try this game.    … Expand
  5. Giwon
    Aug 16, 2023
    6
    퍼즐게임으로써 가져야 할 기본기는 탄탄하다. 하지만 짧은 플레이 타임에도 지루함이 느껴지는 것이 아쉽다.

    This game has a good basic for a puzzle game. But it is sad about boring in spite of a short playtime.
  6. HandsomeJ
    Jan 4, 2023
    5
    The design is beautiful and the platform style is charming by itself, but the game expands the gameplay a bit too much.

    Somehow I felt like trying random things at times and that is not good for a puzzle game which the main point is make you feel smart with few hints.

    Unfortunately I was too tired of the puzzles at the very end and decided to see the rest on Youtube. And I don't regret it...

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#53 Best PC Game of 2020

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. GameCritics
    Mar 27, 2020
    80
    I don’t think that The Pedestrian has a grand point to make, and that’s okay. Even without a message or an emotional hook, this is a beautiful, fiendishly clever little puzzler that surprised me at every turn, and that’s more than enough.
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  2. CD-Action
    Mar 17, 2020
    85
    The game’s strength lies in its simplicity. The Pedestrian keeps evolving up until the end and the graphics are both very clear and very pleasant to look at. [04/2020, p.66]
  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    Feb 25, 2020
    70
    A solid puzzle game with an interesting hook, though it lacks that special something to make it truly transcend the genre.
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