I Wanna Maker

I Wanna Maker

Steam Deck Playable

The Elephant Crew · Precision Platformer · Nov 10, 2023

Yes, worth playing.

It's free to play.

95%
Overwhelmingly Positive
5k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 55 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 5k player reviews · updated 2 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
75% of themes are praise25% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
I've only played 15 hours of it at the time of me writing this and I have enjoyed every single minute of it.
55 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
The gameplay can be split into 2 sections, the campaign and user content, the campaign from the small section i played seemed really engaging, i think its well thought out, presented cleanly, and is accomodating for newer players as well as seasoned players, the user content i say this with entire sincerity is absolutely unplayable, level design is for developers who know what they're doing with the game, not random people who do not know the game, this results in almost every level, being subpar garbage, which wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't highly encourage you to dig and find random stuff such as with the roulettes and challenges, it really highlights the core concept of user made content without moderation or curation just simply isn't engaging enough to be enjoyable, in the sample of 25 or so levels i played, one crashed my game so if i had that at the end of a roulette or such, my hard work would be instantly null and void, its not like i could get past it, another one had a 10 minute waiting room for no reason, just generally nothing gives off the impression that the content made would ever be worth playing unless made by the very clearly competent devs.
10 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The rest if im honest i don't see the point in covering, but out of respect for the developers, the graphics are stunning and polished to a fine art, high quality while still capturing the charm of the original iwbtg, and the music picks are a good mix being suitable for relaxing levels or intense ones too.
7 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Story and characters55 reviews
Gameplay10 reviews
Graphics7 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty22 reviews
86%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
95%
Overwhelmingly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
46
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.