Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is a prime example of underestimating a genre and throwing in a half-baked port to gain some extra money. It is a near broken title with zero flow between balanced gameplay and out of the factory polishing.
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal2016
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal
2016 BadLand Publishing59Mediocre
Playtime
ShortTypically 8 hours
Playable on
- Steam DeckPlayable
- Steam MachineVerified
Available on
- $3.99
- $19.99
- $19.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- October 25, 2016
- Developer
- Drakhar Studio
- Publisher
- BadLand Publishing
Overview
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is an adventure platformer in which you have to rebuild and restore balance to a world devastated by the explosion of a mystical crystal. Face quests and challenges set over 3 worlds and gain powerful new skills, costumes and powers that will help you to defeat the fiercest enemies. Explore, rescue and rebuild. The world is threatened. Are you ready?
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Reception
Press57
Players63
MediocreWorthwhile- OpenCritic57from 13 reviews
Overall, Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is a fun and colorful collect-a-thon platformer with plenty of things to do during your adventure.
The uninspired visuals, clunky gameplay and vastly inferior porting process to the Switch make Ginger: Beyond the Crystal an easily forgotten adventure; it certainly won't be missed.
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal isn’t necessarily a bad game, it just struggles to work very well in most areas. In general it is all light-hearted and fun, it just feels like it needed a bit more time and expertise to help fully realize its potential. If you come in understanding its shortcomings it should be a reasonably enjoyable experience though.
Ginger: Beyond the Crystal is great, but whether you'll like it comes down to whether or not you're okay never feeling challenged. Once the basics are down, it's the same experience throughout. While there's definitely some technical issues, it's still a solid title any fan of 3D platformers should take a crack at - but if you need a game that will...