- Publisher: Adult Swim
- Release Date: Jul 9, 2015
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Jul 9, 2015Traverser is an intriguing game. While it doesn't do that many great things with its gravity glove, it makes up for it with the clever story, novel premise, and the emphasis on sneaking around. However, some ambiguous moments and the presence of a few awkward boss fights weigh it down.
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Jul 13, 2015Traverser provides a sweet experience, but doesn't provide a challenge compelling enough to return to.
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Jul 11, 2015Traverser offers a very well planned gameplay in terms of puzzles and enemies, but a short although intense experience, seasoned by a striking visual appearance.
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Jul 9, 2015Traverser is keen to demonstrate that a submission to genre norms isn't an admission of exhausted objectives. Physics puzzles, light stealth, passable platforming, and a decent run of boss fights—it's all well covered ground, but Traverser's endearing characters and engaging fiction make it easy to pass through.
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Jul 20, 2015In the end, Traverser is a game that shows great a deal of promise in the early going, with its interesting setting and accomplished visual style making the game tremendously easy to get into.
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Jul 15, 2015Traverser has a lot of charm, and the voice acting and world itself kept me intrigued. Puzzles are either simple or a bit more complex, but never absolutely hair pulling. Controls are the biggest frustration factor, along with trial and error moments concerning puzzles and bosses.
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Jul 9, 2015The challenges in Traverser are not poorly designed, merely underwhelming.
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Jan 20, 2016Traverser looks beautiful, but it's not nearly as fun to play as it is to look at.
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Jul 30, 2015Traverser creates a compelling world with numerous interesting quirks and a solid story. While the puzzles aren’t what they likely could be, given the intriguing design and mechanics, they’re also not so awful as to make the experience entirely dull.
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Jul 13, 2015Were it better able to traverse the gap between an attractive presentation and engaging gameplay, Traverser would be a game to remember.
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Jul 13, 2015A wonderful art style and interesting setting can’t make Traverser’s shallow puzzles and exasperating stealth sequences acceptable.
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Sep 25, 2015Traverser is a game with a few alluring elements that never manage to fuse into the sort of smart and memorable 3D physics puzzler Gatling Goat Studios intended.
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Jul 10, 2015It's a mix of many different styles of gameplay, but the result is far from interesting or original.
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Jul 7, 2015There’s the outline of a great game here—one whose aesthetic would likely attract audiences young and old—but it only ever appears in glimpses. Traverser’s creative premise is worth celebrating, it’s just unfortunate that actually playing the game makes this so hard to see.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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