The Pedestrian

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Total Reviews: 15

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VSG Recommendation: Skip It

Critics Consensus: The Pedestrian is charming, competent puzzle game that truly feels fresh and different.

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Critics Recommend

Critic Reviews: 15

Critics Consensus

# Reviews: 15

The Pedestrian is charming, competent puzzle game that truly feels fresh and different.

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Critic Reviews for The Pedestrian

Reviews

High Score - 90/100

Low Score - 70/100

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Eurogamer)

Recommended

“A serene, quietly uplifting afternoon’s entertainment for urban explorers and platform fans alike.”

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Hope Corrigan (GameSpot)

7/10

“The Pedestrian is a charming game that asks you to puzzle your way out of the dimensional bounds of street signs.”

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Jordan Hurst (We Got This Covered)

3.5/5 stars

“There’s more to The Pedestrian than meets the eye, but its best parts are the simple, obvious pleasures it offers.”

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
33bits	Jon Andoni Ortiz	80 / 100	01-29-2020	The Pedestrian is a competent puzzle game, perhaps a little short, but with a personality and intensity that you don't normally see in this type of title. Recommended for anyone who enjoys puzzle games and wants something fresh and different.	Read review
3DNews	Иван Бышонкoв	7 / 10	02-09-2020	The Pedestrian is a cute little game, with great visuals and interesting puzzles. Relatively short, but elegant.	Read review
Eurogamer	Edwin Evans-Thirlwell	Recommended	01-30-2020	A serene, quietly uplifting afternoon's entertainment for urban explorers and platform fans alike.	Read review
Gameblog	Gianni Molinaro	9 / 10	02-01-2020	The Pedestrian is a wonderfully crafted puzzle game. As it shines visually and with its very pleasant soundtrack, it offers a simple but brilliant concept, with a great difficulty curve and new ideas that make it simply unique and absolutely lovely.	Read review
GameMAG	Unknown	7 / 10	02-08-2020	The Pedestrian is a bright and addictive puzzle game with great music, but only when you play it in small sessions. This project will be perfect in a portable format when Skookum Arts finally releases it for iOS and Nintendo Switch.	Read review
GameSpew	Becca Smith	8 / 10	01-29-2020	I’ve nothing but praise for The Pedestrian.	Read review
GameSpot	Hope Corrigan	7 / 10	02-07-2020	The Pedestrian is a charming game that asks you to puzzle your way out of the dimensional bounds of street signs.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Jordan Helm	4 / 5 stars	02-19-2020	Even with its unfortunate dip in visual quality from time to time, that aside, a lot of the points held against Skookum Arts can be admittedly put down to personal aspirations not met, rather than some fundamental flaw the game is undeniably guilty of.	Read review
Paste Magazine	Holly Green	8 / 10	02-10-2020	Ultimately, it delivers exactly what I desire from games in its genre: a brain busting experience that challenges the limits of my creative problem solving skills without exhausting them.	Read review
PC Gamer	Phil Iwaniuk	75 / 100	02-10-2020	Novel presentation and a masterful complexity curve, but The Pedestrian's very shy about storytelling.	Read review
PC Invasion	Unknown	9 / 10	01-29-2020	The Pedestrian is visually, audibly, and almost completely mechanically sound. Be warned, though, there isn't much in terms of hints along the way. But in the end, you'll be surprised at how far you can make it with drive and a little brainpower.	Read review
pressakey.com	Tim Bissinger	Recommended	02-06-2020	The Pedestrian is a highly creative, well-balanced and pleasantly challenging odyssey through the sign forest of a big city	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Alice Bell	Recommended	02-10-2020	The Pedestrian is surprising and astonishing and delighting, it’s true. But for about the first hour and the last.	Read review
VGChartz	Daniel Carreras	7 / 10	02-13-2020	A unique and charming puzzle game, The Pedestrian may not break any boundaries in the genre, but its charming gameplay and unique aesthetic elevates it against its rivals.	Read review
We Got This Covered	Jordan Hurst	3.5 / 5 stars	02-10-2020	There's more to The Pedestrian than meets the eye, but its best parts are the simple, obvious pleasures it offers.	Read review

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Game Info

Game Description / Storyline:

The Pedestrian is a 2.5D puzzle platformer that takes “puzzle platforming” literally. You play as The Pedestrian (aka the male bathroom symbol) who works in a restroom sign standing beside his Beloved (the female symbol). When she disappears, you must escape your day job and embark on a perilous journey where you progress by piecing the “sign world” back together in search of the one you love.

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