King's Ascent (Highly Recommended)

Title: King's Ascent

Genre: Platform

Completion Time: Forty-five minutes.

An interesting, challenging platform game that is extremely enhanced by its strong story.

Interesting:

You're being chased by a monster, and different types of platforms do various pointy things to the monster once you jump off of them. If you hit the top of the level without having killed it, you're kind of in trouble, so you have to trade off  dropping as many platforms as possible with efficient movement upwards. I'm not really familiar with vertical-climber games, but JayIsGames assures me that this is a novel twist. 5/5

Fun:

This game is loads of fun. The mechanics are exciting, the controls are pretty smooth, and the difficulty was right in the zone for me. I died a lot, but the quick and smooth level reset meant the flow was never broken. 5/5.

Moving:

The game touches on themes of guilt and responsibility that I haven't seen addressed much in a game. The story is also integrated beautifully with the gameplay. It's a little too rough around the edges to get a perfect score, but I found it extremely compelling. 4/5 

Fantastic little short short story of a game. Highly recommended.