A stopwatch and a line that says platforms lie back at you
A hand-drawn timed platformer from Erythm where the ground itself might not be telling the truth, out now on itch.io.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Every screenshot Erythm has put out for Lying Platforms carries the same four pieces of text: a stopwatch ticking in hundredths top left, a level number top right, and a single line of controls along the bottom. That clock is the whole pitch. This is a platformer built to be timed, and built, going by its title and its own description, on platforms that do not do what they look like they do. The levels shown run from 5 to 11 to 19, which puts the game at nineteen levels at a minimum and probably more beyond what has been shown. Each one gets its own two-colour scheme: pale green on dark gre...