Posted on: May 23, 2021

kud13

Jeux: 1699 Avis: 23

Wacky puzzler with JRPG flavour.

Play as Robin, a young mechanic in a sci-fi world ruled by a religious cult. Since the cult attempts to control all technology and assigns everyone their jobs (on the penalty of death by a crushing meteor), Robin's fascination with machines (inherited from her deceased father) and her desire to help everyone around her forces her into opposition to the regime. In her journey she encounters several characters and learns more about the world, the machines that keep it running and the mysterious "Ivory oil" that powers all of the world's machinery. Iconoclasts is a metroidvania with a heavy emphasis on puzzles. Your main character is a mechanic, so her primary tools are her wrench and a variety of projectiles. The wrench is your melee weapon, your tool to control mechanisms, and also your main means of traversal, as it gets additional upgrades. There's some backtracking across the levels to find more hidden crafting materials that allow you to build "tweaks"- various swappable upgrades that primarily help with combat; but overall the game has a pretty linear structure, with a really good pace taking you from a set of platforming and puzzle challenges to another boss fight or escape sequence set piece. Although the story does the usual JRPG thing and goes a bit bonkers towards the end, I still enjoyed the overall pacing. There are a couple of hidden bosses that require you to visit certain hidden areas in each "level" in certain order, and are easily missable, which encourages replays, but overall the game's pretty linear and makes for a fun 20 or so hour experience that's a nice change of pace from the more combat-focused games that make up most of the genre.

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Posted on: March 9, 2021

Dreadjaws

Jeux: 503 Avis: 43

Overstays its welcome

Iconoclasts is a beautiful looking game, no question about it. And it's commendable that it was all made by one person. But many people thinks this somehow excuses all the problems the game has, and I beg to differ. Sure, it excuses the author from not having the time or resources (even though it took him 7 years) to iron the kinks, but the problems still exist, and it's necessary to acknowledge them. The game is a puzzle platformer with light metroidvania elements. You can go back to previous areas, but mostly it's used to gather collectibles, as the game progression is extremely linear (save for a few forced backtracking parts). At the start the focus is on puzzles in order to advance, while later parts of the game rely more on combat. On graphical and audio design the game shines. The visuals are crisp and colorful and music and sound effects are satisfying. On the gameplay department, things are a bit more mixed. You have three different guns to use, with two different effects each, and a wrench for melee attack and environmental use. All of these tools can also be used to solve puzzles and, for the most part, they're well balanced. The problems come out of the game refusing to explain things. I commend that it doesn't hold the player's hand, but it offsets this by being deliberately obtuse and confusing to the point that many parts have no choice but to be solved by trial and error. This succeeds in padding the gameplay time, at the expense of frustrating the player. This is compounded by the schizophrenic boss fights. I applaud that the game doesn't just recycle battles, but in its attempt tp make things different, it relies on going out of its way to make the player bonk their head until they run into a solution, and many times depend on controls that just aren't responsive enough. Make no mistake, it's a game worth experiencing, but don't feel bad if you feel the need to abandon it before finishing it. I finished it, but I don't see me returning to it.

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Posted on: February 5, 2019

iriyap

Jeux: 258 Avis: 15

Not a metroidvania

Played this for 3 hours. You won't believe how fed up I am with wrench and bomb puzzles by now. You have to do these even during the boss fights. This is not a metroidvania, you'll be doing obnoxious switch flipping and box moving puzzles in every single room, sometimes up to 10 times in the same room. Who the hell thought this was good gameplay? The story is also completely nonsensical, perhaps in part due to the poor translation. I've literally no idea what the story is about. 2 stars just for the pixel art.

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Posted on: June 21, 2025

Blatsuura

Jeux: 10 Avis: 1

The Art Is So Good, It Hurts

absolutely beautiful and charming game, very polished and well paced.

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Posted on: August 12, 2025

sir_sojans

Possesseur vérifié

Jeux: 83 Avis: 3

Fun and engaging

I just came to Iconoclasts looking for a fun simple game and I found an engaging and emotional story with political commentary besides the fun metroidvania gameplay. It surprised me and I love it for it.

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