Squidding Over It

A slippery squid clambers upward through a punishing vertical obstacle course where every small mistake can erase minutes of hard-earned progress. Squidding Over It is a compact physics-driven action platformer built around tension, persistence, and the familiar agony of watching your character tumble back down the mountain. Its cheerful absurdity—a squid determined to reach the stars—keeps the mood playful, but the challenge is uncompromising. Reaching the summit demands patience, controlled movement, and the willingness to attempt the same treacherous section again after a disastrous fall.

Players guide the squid across ledges, slopes, narrow platforms, and awkwardly placed obstacles, using momentum and careful positioning to gain height. The central loop is simple: make a difficult climb, learn the geometry of the next hazard, and try to recover when a slip sends you downward. Progress comes less from upgrades or combat than from mastering the controls and memorizing the course, so each successful shortcut or clean landing feels earned. Failure is always part of the design, with the threat of returning close to the start turning even routine jumps into nerve-racking decisions.

What makes Squidding Over It work is its commitment to a single idea: overcoming a brutally unstable climb with a character that seems uniquely ill-suited to it. The squid theme gives the game a more cartoonish personality than many rage-platformers, while the towering course provides a clear, satisfying long-term goal. Fans of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Only Up!, or other precision platforming challenges will immediately understand the appeal. Newcomers should expect frustration and repeated failure, but players who enjoy testing their composure and gradually improving through practice may find its ascent surprisingly addictive.