Sisyphos 4+
A game about pushing a rock
Florian Grolig
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
Screenshots
Description
The ancient Greek grandmother of all fidget toys.
Sisyphos lets you experience the joy and pain of pushing a rock up a mountain.
"A lesson in humility—a destruction of the human ego" - killscreensdaily.com
"Utterly ridiculous ,utterly pointless and utterly brilliant" pocketgamer.com
What’s New
Version 1.2
Sisyphos, the Greek grandmother of all fidget toys, now has a Fidget-Mode. No challenge, just the meditative joy of repeatedly tapping to move. One foot at a time. For all eternity.
Ratings and Reviews
Philosophical
Love the animation and sound design, the points system is a nice touch. It’s just a game about a guy pushing a rock so don’t expect anything else. It would be cool to have different themes/landscapes, or some music that you could turn on. It would also be nice if you got to see the rock rolling all the way down the hill when you lose. Other than that, does what it says on the tin, keep at it Sisyphus, I’m sure you’ll get up the hill one day. “One must imagine Sisyphus happy”
Great concept, not so great execution.
Long story short this game has the potential to be really cool, the concept is excellent and if you’re someone like myself who enjoys a challenge, hates losing and is too stubborn to give up you would find yourself spending hours playing this title trying to best your previous score. However that’s where the problem lies, bad mechanics and technical issues (crashing etc) would prevent you from being able to do so. I didn’t play for very long but even in that short span my game crashed 3 times which makes absolutely no sense for a game of this size and it isn’t a hardware issue either as I regularly play Diablo on max settings, also the game has responsiveness issues which are a very big deal for a game like this and puts you off playing it because it feels broken. If your taps aren’t being registered when you do them you cannot go very far at all in the game therefore making it impossible to play as intended. If these issues get fixed then rating would most definitely be at least 4/5 but as of right now the game is pretty much unplayable. Thanks and say hi to the wife and kids for me, cheers for reading.
A stoic’s pastime
With elegant, minimalist animation and a deceptively simple control, this really captures the spirit of the myth of Sisyphus. It starts off almost achingly slowly as you idly tap the screen and watch Sisyphus roll his rock up a gentle slope. By the time you reach the snowy peaks you are fully focused on the timing of the push and step, wondering if you can just get that little further, maybe see the peak, maybe even get over it.
But no. For me, pushing Sisyphus and his rock any further than the first few steps of snow could well be impossible. But I’ll keep trying.
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Information
- Provider
- Florian Grolig
- Size
- 85.6 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Florian Grolig
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- A MODEST OFFERING £0.99
- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED £5.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING £2.99
- A MODEST OFFERING £0.99
- THE GODS ARE DELIGHTED £4.99
- A GENEROUS OFFERING £1.99
Supports
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Game Center
Challenge friends and check leaderboards and achievements.