Never Give Up Reviews

Never Give Up is ranked in the 67th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9 / 10.0
Aug 23, 2019

Never Give Up is clearly inspired by games like Super Meat Boy, right down to details like blood from previous failed attempts splattered across the levels. That's a bar that many indie developers aspire to, but this is a game that's mostly worthy of that lofty comparison. Switch owners are spoiled for choice when it comes to platformers, but this is one that stands out as worth playing.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 2, 2019

A lot of fairly standard platformer stuff is given a whole new kind of charm in Never Give Up and it comes together to make a smart, funny game that really works.

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8.5 / 10.0
Sep 17, 2019

The challenge of Never Give Up is enough to drive any player crazy, but a sense of pride and accomplishment await you at the end!

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8 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2019

All in all, Never Give Up is a fun, unique take on the platformer genre.

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Aug 22, 2019

If you take pride in showing off your 2D platforming skills then Never Give Up will be a perfect fit for your gaming library.

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79 / 100
Aug 25, 2019

With clever quips from our characters, the solid controls to the satisfying jumps and evades, get ready to jump through missiles, slide through hammers and evading charging rhinos, this is definitely a title worth picking up.

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7.6 / 10.0
Sep 3, 2019

Never Give Up is a proper progression from its predecessor, Give Up. While the gameplay may be simplistic in nature, there is still a lot of challenge here that will certainly appeal to more die hard retro platformer gamers. The pop culture and humorous comments are certain to lighten the experience of what would otherwise be a, sometimes frustrating, monotone title. Still, Never Give Up sets the stage to challenge and delight the right kind of gamer. Perhaps the type that enjoys difficult platformers as well as those that might be mildly masochistic.

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7.5 / 10.0
Aug 15, 2019
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7 / 10
Aug 13, 2019

It's not quite fluid enough to stand toe-to-toe with Super Meat Boy, but Never Give Up is nevertheless a solid platformer that offers up highly inventive, ludicrously challenging levels along with a smattering of dry humour that's well suited to the style of the game.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 19, 2019

Never Give Up offers a platforming experience that’s both fun and challenging, but it lacks that SOMETHING to help make it stand out as an essential release. It’s not that it does anything bad (although some of those repeated levels may frustrate some gamers), but rather that it doesn’t do anything that you wouldn’t have seen before. Still, if you’re itching for a fix of trial and error-based masochistic platforming action, it serves that up in abundance. It might not stand out in the crowd, but Never Give Up certainly gets the essentials right.

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7 / 10.0
Aug 13, 2019

Ever since Super Meat Boy hit the indie scene developers have been scrambling to recapture the addicting and aggravating qualities that can make almost constant failure and punishment engaging...

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Aug 13, 2019

Never Give Up is a moderately challenging but unremarkable platformer that still looks, sounds, and plays like a browser game from the mid-2000s.

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