Super Meat Boy cover art

Super Meat Boy

2010 · Team Meat · ~12h to finish

The purest execution test on this list and also one of the gentlest, because the retry is faster than your regret.

platformerPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 87
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty6.0STEEP

Real resistance. Expect to work for it.

Price on Steam

$14.99

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Execution
7.9
Reaction
7.0
Learning Curve
5.5
Grind
4.0
Puzzle
1.5
Punishment
1.3
Obscurity
1.0
Strategy
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 1.7 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 55% · ~6hExecution

    the world where the levels stop looking survivable at a glance

    12
  2. 100% · ~20hExecution

    the mirrored harder version of every level, unlocked by beating them well

    0

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Rewind / instant retry [unsourced]Death to respawn is under a second, and levels are measured in seconds.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

A precision platformer of three hundred-odd very short, very lethal levels built around a wall jump and a run button, with a replay that shows every attempt at once.

Where to go from here

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