Good Game

Good Game is a cartoon-style 2D run-and-gun platformer. You move through levels, running, jumping and shooting enemies while building speed, blasting energy waves and trying to reach each level’s boss with as much health as possible.

Running and fighting

You can jump on enemies and projectiles, and taking hits or falls is more forgiving than in a game where you have only a few health points. Impacts with enemies or projectiles reduce your top speed in standard levels. Special speed-run-and-gun levels let you raise your base speed after reaching certain top speeds, eventually building toward a very high speed in their final sections, with no top-speed limit.

Levels can feature large numbers of enemies and projectiles, so you must decide when to shoot and when to run. You can also fire energy waves. Timing, predicting trajectories and sometimes luck with randomizers help you avoid attacks and make progress.

Levels and bosses

You choose from multiple levels on a map. Each level has a boss, and progress saves at the boss. Enemies and bosses change from level to level; many are based on familiar flowers, vegetables, fruits and insects. Their run-and-gun attacks can make it useful to keep moving rather than save your shots.

Difficulty and replay

You can select or change the difficulty for each level. Difficulty changes the level substantially, including its randomizers—especially for enemies and the boss—and the amount of health and ammunition you start with or can gain. Easy modes provide many lives and shots, while the Totally Mad mode gives you one life and one shot more than the typical three in hard mode, along with more hidden lives to find. At a boss, your shots fully recharge for firing at its projectiles, and you can earn additional lives in various ways.

The game has cartoon enemies and bosses, old-cartoon-style sound effects and piano music. Its difficulty options are intended to make it playable by children as well as more experienced players, with tougher variations for replay.