I Wanna Be the Guy cover art

I Wanna Be the Guy

2007 · Kayin · ~6h to finish

Built on traps that cannot be seen coming the first time, so progress is memorising your own deaths. The save points are the only concession it makes.

platformerPC
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty8.1NIGHTMARE

The game is the antagonist. Good luck.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Execution
9.2
Punishment
9.2
Reaction
8.8
Obscurity
8.8
Learning Curve
7.5
Grind
3.0
Puzzle
2.5
Strategy
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST

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Screenshots

IGDB

Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/0 SOURCED

No assist or accessibility options recorded. That is a gap in our data, not a statement about the game — check the store page before buying on this basis.

What it is

I Wanna Be the Guy: The Movie: The Game is a 2D platform indie freeware video game created by independent developer Michael "Kayin" O’Reilly for Microsoft Windows using Multimedia Fusion 2.

Where to go from here

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