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I only saw this game randomly on a Let's play video, so this serves as a good example why Let's Play videos are actually a good thing and not a content piracy matter, as many big companies seem to perceive it right now. Otherwise I would not have become interested in this very beautiful and fun game. If you liked Speedrunners then you will probably like this.
If Nintendo released this people would be like "oh meh gawd, best game evar", it would be heralded as a return to form, the game is that good. In the absence of any HYPE, 135 positive Steam reviews and 2 obligatory negative, played for 5 minutes / "joke" reviews pretty much sum up how good this game is. There are no half measures, everyone that played it doesn't like it, they LOVE it. The rest are too engaged in the game to write a review. I have a few games in my library which could be compared to it, Speedrunners would be one, Trials Fusion would be the other. Action Henk fills glaring gaps that exist in both these games. As well as having multiplayer it's enjoyable in singleplayer as a leaderboard game. The tracks are fun, the visuals are quirky and for something which looks so simple the game mechanics are completely unique with a devilish skills gap the reason why singleplayer and leaderboarding are so addictive. I can't recommend the game enough.
Action Henk is an awesome game honestly very good connection in multiplayer never even crashed once! Reminds me of those action figures in the 90's. Extremely creative characters the main character in this game is henk who is the original character in the whole game as you play the game the maps get funner and you unlock cooler characters. This game is awesome 10/10 Buttslide to victory!
By far one of the best platformers ever made. Highly reccomended for everyone to at least give the game a shot. I will warn you this is the video game equivilant to herion, except it won't kill you (hopefully) The community behind the game is amazing as well. They are all very helpful when new people want to get into the game. 10/10 best game ever.
Trials HD/Bike Baron gameplay, with a Toy Story aesthetic. What's not to love?
This game is fantastic! If Joe Danger and Sonic the Hedgehog had a child it would be this game. Tons of fun and easy to play for short sessions (if you can pull yourself away).
This is a really fun game, i have tried out the create mode and the main game mode. Both are brilliant and are really well built, this game is worth buying. (Recomended by PokeYourEyesOutGames)
This game started as a friend coming over to my house on release day and literally forcing me to purchase it, to that night spending 8 hours taking turns with the controller beating each others times. After rainbowing all of the original levels I fell away from it for a few months. Then with the introduction of the new levels and multiplayer I have not been able to stop playing this game! I'm now in the top ten and have a WR on a level and have no intentions of stopping as there is so much I can do and play. The multiplayer is perfectly done, you can chat, throw in a taunt and see what others are doing. If you were good enough then you can gloat from the podium. I haven't even mentioned the level editor that allows you to make your own levels that are downright devious or just flat out fun! The level designs are fun, yet challenging. The earlier levels are easy to play hard to master, and the later levels are just plain challenging. It is vibrant with lots of colors great animations and environments, and tons of amazing eastereggs. The developers of this game obviously made it as a passion project. It is a hotwheels meets speedrunners and is just incredible. BUY THIS GAME! It is the next huge indie game IMO and these devs deserve every penny!
This is honestly one of the most amazing games I have ever played. GAMEPLAY: It's a perfect example of how the principle "easy to learn, hard to master" should be implemented into a game. It only has a very limited amount of controls, only run, jump, reset (to start or checkpoint) and, in some levels, hook. That means you don't have to remember much. Finishing the track at all isn't hard at all (excluding the very last set of levels). But getting a time good enough to beat the gold medal (for beginners) or the rainbow medal (for more advanced players) gets very hard very soon. And even IF you manage to beat all normal tracks with the rainbow medal, defeat all your opponents in challenges and collect all the coins of the bonus levels in time, that doesn't mean that the game doesn't offer anything anymore. There is still an online multiplayer to play with friends or meet new ones. You can build your own tracks or play some of other members of the community. You can try to further improve your time on tracks to reduce your combined time of all tracks to get a better rank on the global leaderboard, or to get a top 10 time on a track, or maybe even a world record. Once you master all the little mechanics that might be hard to pull off, but save you alot of momentum and time when done correctly, you can spend countless hours grinding levels to get a better time. And when you think you got everything done, then someone finds a new mechanic, a new route or a skip, and it starts all over again. COMMUNITY: The members of the community are all awesome people. Never have I found people that are more friendly than the Action Henk community in any game. Once you reach a certain level of play, and you get in touch with some of the higher ranked members, you get tips and tricks on how to get better times pretty much daily. On top of that, the developers are extremly supportive in every possible way and really try to give everyone the best possible experience. I've never seen devs so nice anywhere (thanks for the awesome time at Gamescom while I'm at it <3)! WHAT IS BAD? Sadly, multiplayer is pretty empty most of the time, but that's not the game's fault. Also, if you are not into grinding, doing stuff over and over again until it's perfect than the game doesn't offer much to you after a while. SHOULD I BUY IT? If you are impatient, get upset easily and can't stand doing stuff over and over again, then it's questionable. Getting the rainbow medal everywhere is certainly not easy and will take quite a long time, so if you only want to go for completion, this game offers you probably between 30 and 60 hours of gameplay, depending on how good you are. If you like getting stuff as perfect as possible and if you are a competitive person, then this game offers you at least 200 hours of gameplay, but probably more, as more routes and strats are getting found weekly. For the little price of this game you get more gameplay than in alot of AAA titles that cost 4 times as much, so I would definatly say: Buy it!
Action Henk is really addicting, as you have the global leaderboard where you can try to improve your run and become the number one player on each level. The game controls are fairly simple, but setting a good time can be really hard. Hopefully they will release some new maps soon, as the original game now has about 17 maps. 7.5/10
A speedrunning dream. There's a lot of optimizing to be done in each level. The responsive controls and mechanics will help you get there. If the gameplay previews look fun to you, and you enjoy replaying levels for better times, you're getting exactly what you expect with this game.
Amazing Running game, so much fun to find the best way to gain as much momentum as possible. + you can choose to play against a ghost with either Bronze, Silver or Gold medal. + the hookshot is really amazing and so much fun to use. + Steam Workshop means infinite levels to play. + replaying a level is fast without any loading time. Highly recommended.
At first, Action Henk looks like a small, simple game, the type that you would play maybe once or twice a week if you got bored. But there's just something about it which just makes you want to play it more and more. This is a very addictive platform speedrunner that encourages you to get the best times possible, matching you up against bronze, silver, gold and even rainbow AI 'ghosts', to play against. You can learn from the ghosts and get better at the game, you can race your friends live on online multiplayer or try to beat their best time. Local multiplayer is also an excellent feature as you can simply gather some friends around (when you have nothing else to do!) and see who is the fastest of them all. This game is very fun to play when you get into it, and there is a huge online Henk community building up. There's a steam group, a discord server and a speedrun.com site that I would strongly recommend if you have gotten all the rainbow medals and are looking for something else to do. Basically, this game is amazing and I love it. What would I say about Action Henk in general? Well... let's just say, I used to play other games.
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Fun to play when you just want to play a relaxing game. I' d recommand a controller and big screen for playing.
As i have only put a few hours into it i have found that everything about this game is outstanding as long as your name isn't nick. 1st off- the sound is outstanding. the different sound track alone make the game easy to play for hours 2nd - the levels at the end are alright, they could should be a little harder, after you play through them maybe 5 times there just no challenge left unless your name is nick 3rd - this game has a wonderful community and the dev's are always willing to help you with any problem you might have and fix any glitches that you find. everyone is friendly and playful and as long as you are willing to put forth the effort it can be competitive unless you can't take the fact that everyone is always striving to git gud then you better just stop with the main levels and build some for a while nick 4th - there is no end to gaining world records on levels, i would get one and the next day someone would beat it and i would have another challenge to look forward to nick 5th - the dev's did an amazing job with design and sound and mechanics, the feeling of making it smoothly through a level just feels great, there are a few glitches that could not have been forseen but they are already being worked on 6th - although some have found a way to cheat the mechanics nick, most people play fair and still do better which make the people who do cheat madder nick. all in all the is probably the best game i have bought in my entire life, i would still probably recommend this game even if it was 60$ (not suggesting that). if you ever want help with it add me and i will make sure you learn to enjoy the game and not just hate it for the people that try to ruin nick. or the people that spend .1 hours on it and say its a boring game. in no way is this game boring if you love to go fast.
Very nice graphics, great sound. Extreely polished Early Access game. Feel suuuuuuuper good. Like Trials. And dat quick restart button! And. Dat. Gut. Very much looking forward to the final version of this game. The studio is very talented, and I can't wait to see what's next! Highly-recommended.
This game is amazing. I can't find a fault with it. SEGA need to learn a thing or two from these guys on how to make decent games.
This game is basically Sonic 1 meets something akin to Trackmania. It's a race to get the fastest time in the levels to gain medals and progress. The game doesn't have the most mechanics, mostly consisting of the track its self, sliding and occasionally a hook shot, It starts off relatively simple and it gets much, MUCH harder as you go through the game, all while listening to a fantastic heart pumping soundtrack. There are 10 zones in the game with 9 different themes, starting off with the easy going early worlds, and ending with face paced levels that will test you, and you will fail, many times. As you go you will unlock more characters to play as (6 in total), you unlock them by doing their challenge at the end of each world, the later ones are instead different costumes for the characters which you can unlock and use yourself. Getting all golds in a world will also grant access to a bonus level of which you must pass by finding the most efficient way of going around the track while collecting gold medals to unlock more skins for each character. Some skins are also unlocked through achievements. Despite all that there are some flaws. -No re-bindable controls (at time of writing) -Tricks that are nearly necessary in the later worlds are often taught though random loading screen tips (using the ghosts as a example can be hard to follow let alone watch without these tricks) -The physics can feel a bit floaty at times, especially on the grappling hook -Crashes a fair amount during multiplayer (atleast on my side) Despite all this, the game is fantastic and is great fun to play and is constantly challenging you throughout the many worlds and I'd highly recommend it if you're into this type of game.
10/10 Got blisters in my ass now but that's the way I like it.
Awesome game with a cartoon vibe It is a must buy on steam