Five reviews. Five positive. One concurrent player.

The Melty Way launched two days ago and carries a perfect 100% rating on Steam. It also has approximately the same active playerbase as a private Minecraft server running on someone’s dorm laptop.

Here’s what makes that absurd: every single reviewer has something genuine to say. “The movement is fun, the mechanics are original and the artstyle is pretty noce,” wrote one player with 1.7 hours logged. Another, at 3.6 hours: “Im impressed with this game! It is amazing! I would highly recommend. Its cute, fun, and has just the right amount of difficulty. I am 60% of the way done and already wish there was more to play!” A third, with over five hours in, called it “really challenging but that’s part of the charm, really amazing platformer puzzle game.”

The game itself is a designer’s thesis done right. You play as a liquid-simulated slime where every movement costs mass. Slide, shrink, dash — each action literally consumes your body. Size management isn’t a side system; it’s the whole point. Developer duo G Doublé (Gabriel R. Paquette and Gabriel Bélanger) built something French gaming press compared to Super Meat Boy in terms of sheer difficulty, layered with a “Flavor Tree” system that adjusts how you approach levels based on surface physics and temperature. Neon-soaked visuals and a funk-electronic soundtrack round out the package.

The premise is appropriately unhinged: aliens stole Earth’s ice cream, and you chase them across the galaxy armed with a spoon.

At $5.99 — currently 25% off through May 29 — this is the textbook impulse buy. Windows, macOS, Linux, full controller support. Raijin.gg estimates roughly 3,800 wishlists, meaning thousands of people bookmarked it and simply moved on.

The Melty Way is everything right with indie platformers right now, and almost nobody is playing it. Fix that.

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