Supraland Review Summary

Excellent puzzles, rewarding exploration, and clever level design are undermined by a flawed combat system, overly difficult puzzles, and a weaker DLC.

Excellent puzzles overall: Players consistently praise the puzzles for being interesting, clever, thought-provoking, and well-designed. The difficulty is often described as well-balanced and rewarding.

Rewarding exploration: Exploration is described as rewarding with valuable items, new abilities, and secrets that enhance the puzzle experience. Players find the world interesting and satisfying to explore.

Overall enjoyable experience: General feedback indicates the game is fun, entertaining, and well-made from start to finish, providing a satisfying overall experience.

Easter eggs and secrets: The game is filled with fun easter eggs, pop culture references, and hidden secrets that entertain players and encourage thorough exploration.

Clever level design: Level design is praised for being clever, charming, and genius, with great synergy between puzzles and environments. Players find it engaging and well thought out.

Combat system is flawed: Combat is widely considered to be a weak point, described as easy, annoying, and poorly integrated, with high enemy respawn rates and obnoxious enemies exacerbating the issue.

Puzzles are too difficult: Puzzles in the game are frequently criticized as excessively difficult, illogical, and occasionally unsolvable, causing frustration and confusion for many players.

DLC is weaker than base game: The DLC is perceived as inferior to the base game, offering dull content, few meaningful secrets, and difficulty that feels unbalanced, with some considering it overpriced.

100% completion is tedious: Striving for 100% completion is seen as overly tedious and difficult, with specific requirements like collecting graves causing frustration.

Map system is inadequate: The map is introduced too late and lacks useful features, with related abilities not properly hinted, making navigation difficult.

Metroidvania elements present: The game blends strong puzzle-solving exploration with metroidvania progression, including ability-gated backtracking and a world that expands as new powers are acquired.

Post-game and completion content: The game offers post-game content and full 100% completion opportunities for dedicated players.

Zelda and Portal influences: The game draws inspiration from both Zelda and Portal, incorporating puzzle mechanics and exploration similar to these classics.

Open world sandbox design: Set in an open world sandbox, the game offers a miniature world to experiment in, with many secrets and side quests to discover.

Exploration with secrets: Exploration is heavily rewarded with hidden items, collectibles, chests, and coins scattered throughout the world.

FPS drops and stuttering: Players experience FPS drops, constant lag at low settings (20 fps, 15-25 fps), and worse performance than previous versions, affecting gameplay fluidity.

Steam Deck performance mixed: Some players report no crashes or slowdowns and smooth gameplay with lowered graphics, while others claim the game is not playable on Steam Deck despite running without issues. Overall feedback is contradictory.

Poor general optimization: Multiple users mention optimization issues, spaghetti code, and awful performance, indicating the game is not well optimized and runs poorly on various hardware.

Good hardware required: The game demands strong hardware, needing at least a GPU 950 or equivalent, otherwise it lags heavily; old laptops and low-end systems struggle significantly.

Good settings and options: The game supports fixed FPS options (30, 60, 90, 120, 144, 200), widescreen, high resolution (2K, 4K), and adjustable game speed (0-100%), offering flexibility.

Good value for money: Players consistently state the game is worth its price, even at full price. It is seen as a worthwhile purchase.

Great for puzzle fans: Many players highly recommend the game to puzzle enthusiasts. The puzzles are challenging, rewarding, and offer hours of engagement.

Great for exploration fans: Players recommend the game to those who enjoy exploration-based worlds. The sense of discovery is a key draw.

Great for metroidvania fans: The game is strongly recommended for fans of first-person metroidvania and puzzle games. Hidden passages and treasures appeal to this audience.

One of the best games: Some players consider the game among the best they have ever played. They give it strong, universal recommendations.

Community fair range: $15.00 - $20.00.

Game completion: 25.0h.

Story completion: 12.0h.

Supraland hooks players immediately with creative puzzles and metroidvania progression, but many report that enjoyment declines sharply after the first few hours due to repetition and tedium.

Friction: lack of gradual learning curve; unclear progression path; combat is boring; enemy respawning too often.

Unlock drivers: upgrades; new abilities; new items; progression opens exploration.

Puzzle Solver: Systematic problem-solver, methodically working through puzzles and enjoying the 'aha' moments. Motivation: Solving clever puzzles and feeling intellectually rewarded. Stance: buy.

Exploration Completionist: Thorough and methodical, backtracking with new abilities, seeking every collectible and achievement. Motivation: Discovering hidden secrets and achieving full completion. Stance: sale.

Casual Relaxer: Leisurely, not rushing, exploring at own pace, avoiding frustrating combat or overly complex puzzles. Motivation: Relaxing, stress-free gaming experience with gentle challenges. Stance: buy.

The Windows <8GB VRAM cohort shows mixed performance, with some players able to complete the game despite low FPS, but others encountering freezing and unstable framerates.

Windows <8GB VRAM: mixed. Players report variable performance: a few complete the game without major issues, but many experience low FPS (as low as 15 FPS) and freezing, especially on lower VRAM configurations.

Steam Deck: Supraland on Steam Deck offers a generally playable experience but requires some user adjustments. Performance is acceptable with lowered settings, control configuration may need manual tinkering, and the removal of Linux native support adds uncertainty without preventing gameplay via Proton.

Linux and Proton: Most Linux users report good Proton compatibility on Steam Deck, with multiple reviews stating the game runs fine out of the box. One review notes the developer removed the native Linux depot, creating refund frustrations, but this does not affect Proton performance. Overall, the game works well on Linux via Proton.

External guides: User feedback reveals a strong reliance on external guides due to hidden secrets, obscure achievements, and insufficient in-game tutorials for upgrades and puzzle hints. Many players resort to walkthroughs to progress or find collectibles.

Negative RTS comparison: A sarcastic player comment mocked the game as a poor real-time strategy title, indicating dissatisfaction with its genre execution. This single comment lacks specific detail about what exactly was wrong.

Free Supraworld request: One player explicitly requested that the developers provide free access to the Supraworld content. This is a niche demand with no further elaboration on gameplay improvements.

Turkish localization thanks: A reviewer expressed gratitude to translator Yusuf Mete Cerrahoğlu for the Turkish localization, highlighting appreciation for language support but not offering any critical feedback.