Lair of the Clockwork God

 Switch
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Cubed3
    Feb 11, 2021
    70
    Fans of adventure games will get a big laugh out of Lair of the Clockwork God. Sadly, the platforming half of the experience is mediocre and unpolished. The experiment of Size Five Games is mostly a success with managing to find a careful balance of platforming and puzzles, but the team needed to refine the experience with tighter quality control. The writing and humour elevate this from being average, to being worth a look towards anyone who enjoys the adventure genre.
  2. Starbit
    Sep 28, 2020
    70
    Lair of the Clockwork God sets a rather ambitious purpose for itself: to successfully merge platforming and point and click mechanics and wrap them up in a funny and enjoyable package with its own brand of humour. It succeeds at the latter, less so at the former. Indeed, platforming and point and click still feel entirely separate from each other in this work, but that doesn't mean they can't be enjoyed.
  3. Nintendo Life
    Sep 6, 2020
    70
    Lair of the Clockwork God is a difficult one to score. What it does well is brilliant – the humour is great, with constant jokes both quickfire and slow-burn – but the gameplay is a more complex matter. While it's not bad by any reasonable metric, it is awkward in places. But, then, this is intentional and comes part and parcel with the story, so do we treat it more leniently? Is there some hubris in presenting a flawed game, but distracting from said flaws by making them... kind of the point? It's a question that not even Nintendo Life can truly answer, but we can put a big number under a review of the game. We do our part.

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User Score
6.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. dan-man
    Feb 13, 2022
    7
    An occasionally hilarious little game, that dragged on a bit with annoying platforming and obscure puzzles, and letdown by its leftistAn occasionally hilarious little game, that dragged on a bit with annoying platforming and obscure puzzles, and letdown by its leftist political rhetoric (caring for your country and race is not racism Dan Marshall, get a grip). Clever writing, however, is affordable and somewhat fun.… Full Review »
  2. Detigepak
    Oct 11, 2020
    10
    The humour in this game is absolutely phenomenal, got it at 25% off on an e-shop sale and would have been more than happy to have paid fullThe humour in this game is absolutely phenomenal, got it at 25% off on an e-shop sale and would have been more than happy to have paid full price. Honest, brash writing, great art direction, cohesive design and a level of self-awareness I haven't seen before from a dev-studio. This is what makes indie gaming such a special thing.… Full Review »
  3. Wbf0004
    Jan 10, 2023
    3
    This game looked really cool when I ordered it from the trailers. Yeah I was wrong. Don’t buy this. Don’t play this. This is a game that triedThis game looked really cool when I ordered it from the trailers. Yeah I was wrong. Don’t buy this. Don’t play this. This is a game that tried to be two things and failed at both. I honestly felt that it was an uninspired mess that made you believe you would be “fighting the Apocalypses’” and instead you are teaching a computer how to empathize with human emotions. It’s boring and downright just bad to false advertise your game like that. The characters need to shut up. The dialogue is juvenile and honestly is just the developers not making a game for the public and a game that is for them entirely. It is jokes that 12 year olds make to each other. It’s bad. The game is not well tested because I had to restart the final sequence about 10 times because it kept locking up or a player would get stuck in the side of a wall. Not talking about the intentional bug they put in when you jump on the adventurer guy. 3/10… Full Review »
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