VVVVVV

VVVVVV builds its platform challenges around one crisp idea: reverse gravity instead of jumping. At $0.55 from Eneba, it suits a solo play plan without any need to coordinate multiplayer sessions. Consider whether that movement and challenge-focused design are what you want before weighing the current price against your budget; a later announced Steam sale is an option, not a reason you have to wait. Compare $4.99 from Eneba with Steam's offer; Dec 17, 2026 – Jan 4, 2027 is the next announced Steam sale window, though participation is not guaranteed.

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96%Steam Reviews6.7K reviews81Metacritic/10081OpenCritic/100

Released: Sep 7, 2010

Pixel Graphics · Precision Platformer · Platformer · Indie · 2D Platformer

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Historical Low~ $0.652026-07Current Low Across Stores~ $0.55EnebaAt its historical low now

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01About VVVVVV

VVVVVV sends Captain Viridian through a platforming world to find and rescue scattered friends. Its central twist replaces jumping with gravity reversal, which you use to tackle each level's hazards. Steam player rating: 96% from 6,694 reviews. The Steam PC version supports these interface languages: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Arabic, and Spanish-Latin America. Released September 7, 2010.

Credits

LEAD DESIGNER

Terry Cavanagh

video game designer

NotableVVVVVV · Don't Look Back

Composer

Magnus Pålsson

Developer

Terry Cavanagh

Publisher

Terry Cavanagh

Steam player reviews

96%positiveOverwhelmingly Positive6,694 Steam reviews

Lowest recorded in 36 months

$0.652026-07-30 · KinguinBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.

Language support

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Simplified Chinese	Yes	—	—
Traditional Chinese	Yes	—	—
English	Yes	—	—

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Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
French	Yes	—	—
Italian	Yes	—	—
German	Yes	—	—
Spanish	Yes	—	—
Dutch	Yes	—	—
Japanese	Yes	—	—
Korean	Yes	—	—
Polish	Yes	—	—
Portuguese-Brazil	Yes	—	—
Portuguese	Yes	—	—
Russian	Yes	—	—
Turkish	Yes	—	—
Ukrainian	Yes	—	—
Arabic	Yes	—	—
Spanish-Latin America	Yes	—	—

Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-23

02Before you buy

Play style

The Steam PC version is a single-player platform game with full controller support.

Extra modes

It includes time trials, a no-death mode, and a level editor.

03Frequently asked questions

What is the goal?

As Captain Viridian, you search for scattered friends, bring them to safety, and save the universe.

How does movement work?

Instead of jumping, you reverse gravity to navigate the platform challenges.

Are there checkpoints?

Frequent checkpoints mean you do not have to replay challenges you have already beaten.

Popular Steam reviews

Native-language selection · 10 reviews

Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.

RecommendedSteam player

01/01/2014

THIS GAME HAS BEEN ON SALE FOR 49 CENTS MULTIPLE TIMES. YEAH, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. 49 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CENTS. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO USE THAT CHANGE ON YOUR STEAM WALLET FOR? TRADING CARDS? GET THE ♥♥♥♥ OUT. IF YOU SEE THIS GAME ON SALE IT IS YOUR DUTY AS A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD TO PURCHASE IT.Show moreShow less

1.2 hours at review308 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

01/15/2016

Time for a controversial review. I’ve played this game on and off for the past 5 years, and I’ve gradually come to realize it's not that great. I’ll try to explain why. To get one thing out of the way, the music is fantastic. The chiptune album “PPPPPP” is a true modern classic, catchy and energetic and well-produced. The game sells for $5, but I’d be willing to pay $20 for the soundtrack alone. It’s that good. Even after hearing these tunes for 5 years, most of them still haven’t gotten old to me. But chances are you’ve already heard the music and know this for yourself. To get another thing out of the way, I think the visuals are awesome. The minimalistic art throws back to a time older than the NES, and the ever-changing neon colors are strange and mysterious in their simplicity, and demand to be explored. In a way, the game itself is a fitting music video to one of the greatest chiptune albums there is. So, what do I dislike about this game? Well, where do I start…? The game is built around a novel idea – flipping the gravity of your character instead of jumping – and then spends an hour or two trying to pretend this mechanic has no crippling limitations before just giving up. And I’m not exaggerating here: the entire game can be consistently beaten in about 30 minutes. The first time I played it, it took me about 50. Finding all the hidden trinkets can take about an hour more, depending on how many tries it takes you on the “Prize for the Reckless” and “Veni, Vidi, Vici” challenges. Most games which are built around a central gimmick will try to expand it with additional game mechanics. VVVVVV comes up with about four new mechanics to complement its gravity-flipping gimmick: conveyer belts, automatic-flip lasers, auto-scrolling rooms, and rooms that wrap around the edges. It then uses each of these mechanics in a tiny dungeon area and almost nowhere else. Two of the game’s areas use a somewhat irritating mechanic where you have to lead a friend around, with the level design poking fun at the fact that your friend has no common sense and you have to do everything for them. As far as new ideas are concerned, that’s pretty much it. The central hub area, which comprises the majority of the map, is mostly just empty space: no enemies, no platforming puzzles, nothing but a few spikes here and there and a few of the collectable trinkets hidden away in corners. Even the interesting mazes are scarce. The hopelessly catchy track “Passion for Exploring” plays in the central hub, but in this case, “exploration” means just repeatedly falling through dozens of empty screens and searching for the next dungeon entrance. The overworld is also littered with dozens of checkpoints and teleporters which you will never use because there’s just nothing out there. They could have removed it entirely, replacing the hub with a series of teleporters to the dungeons, and the game hardly would have lost anything. The game is touted as a “super hard” and “tough as nails” platformer. If that’s the case, it’s the easiest “super hard” platformer I’ve ever played. Some parts are hard, but there’s no steady sense of progression; the difficulty is mostly just limited to a few problem rooms which may take hundreds of deaths each, but otherwise the whole game is smooth sailing. If you want real difficulty, you can try no-death mode or the time trials, but it just amounts to repeatedly playing the same ridiculously short game until you get it perfect. In this case, the difficulty is mostly just self-imposed rather than the work of a level designer. Personally, I’ve spent the most amount of time on the Super Gravitron, a fearsomely difficult mini-game that was probably the spiritual precursor to Super Hexagon. The game’s story might as well not be there. I can summarize the story as follows: “You are some kind of captain of some kind of crew piloting some kind of ship, which crash-lands on some kind of planet due to some kind of disturbance. In order to escape, you need to deactivate some kind of device located in some kind of alternate dimension.” I’m not exaggerating. Nothing is explained. This story could have been mysterious and compelling, but instead it chooses to go the “self-referential humor” route by having the characters poke fun at checkpoints and the level design, while they’re not busy talking about nothing. And for those who say “Why would you play this game for the story?” I propose that you consider this: the game’s story could have been better if you removed all of the dialogue. The story is told perfectly through the visuals. The explosions, lost crew members, and alternate dimensions are all self-explanatory, and it would have left all the details up to the imagination. Captain Viridian would have made a great silent protagonist that you could have projected your own motivation into. Instead, the characters are all given completely needless speaking lines which don’t convey anything, and I’m just left wondering why anyone bothered to write dialogue. TL,DR: Aside from the superb music and the visuals, VVVVVV feels like a game that was hastily thrown together. The difficulty is schizophrenic, rather than a fine-tuned progression curve. The overworld map is mostly empty space, as though the level designer had tried filling it with enemies and mazes but finally said “screw it, nothing works” and deleted everything. The story had no effort behind it. Interesting game mechanics are few and far between, and are only used for a few rooms each. The bonus game modes are needless masochism that are far too great of a difficulty jump from the main game. Overall, it feels more like an hour-long proof of concept than a full-fledged game exploring the possibilities and implications of its main gravity-flipping gimmick. Yes, it was influential. Yes, it rode the very first wave of indie games back when Steam was gaining steam. Yes, the music is crazy good. All things considered, I respect this game. But after five years of playing and reflecting on it, I can’t help but see it as a short, pointless waste of time with no interesting gameplay statements to make (even for its time) and no heart put into it. It’s style-over-substance. But hey, it’s got a great style, so I can’t quite fault it for that. I know a lot of people love this game. I loved it for a while, but now that I've noticed its flaws I can't shake the sour taste this game leaves me with. I know that few will agree with my sentiment, but hopefully I’ve explained my thoughts adequately. And finally, all achievement hunters but the most dedicated should stay far, far away. This is one brutal 100%.Show moreShow less

32.3 hours at review232 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

01/22/2014

I hope you understand the gravity of the situation.Show moreShow less

11.2 hours at review159 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

09/09/2014

OK, a serious review this time - maybe this game simply wasn't *for* me. I've never really been a fan of retro-styled platformers, probably because I didn't grow up with them so the nostalgia doesn't really do anything for me. I've tried to play some of the classics but the ones that do hold up (Mega Man, Gimmick!) still have plenty of gameplay flaws that their indie counterparts don't seem to want to let go of. VVVVVV has a great, great soundtrack (I even bought it) but it's an immensely frustating game in a way that it's arcade contemporary Super Meat Boy is not. You respawn instantly, like that game, but with an irritating sound effect that feels like a punishment for dying. The odd control scheme is slippery and feels inconsistent, although I'll admit some people have mastered it enough to speedrun it. And, unlike many of Super Meat Boy's levels where you see what is coming far before tackling it, VVVVVV by design blindsides you with its Zelda-style screen scrolls into traps you have no time to prepare for. Veni Vidi Vici is the quintessential example of this design philosophy in action. What this results in is a game that is entirely based on trial-and-error. That's really all it has - the actual platforming isn't fun due to the slow pace and iffy controls, so what it does instead is throw a bunch of gimmicks at you while you slowly inch your way through an Atari-skinned meat grinder. There's some elements of exploration in the hub world (one of the songs is even called Passion For Exploring) but nothing to really do in it, making it just a fancy version of a level select. This could all be fine if the game was charming or interesting enough to make up for these flaws (Gimmick! is also a frustrating game with a lot of trial-and-error) but, unfortunately, it really isn't. The characters are literally stick figures. The world is mostly blocks and spikes with an occasionally cute theme or object in a room, reinforced by the nice touch of giving every room its own name, but its very barebones. Obviously, many people have enjoyed VVVVVV a lot, and saying something binary like "this game is the worst thing ever" is silly and unfair. But my honest opinion is that it's just not worth the short time you put into it.Show moreShow less

3.4 hours at review64 people found this helpful

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