Overall, players have overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Webbed, praising its delightful graphics, cozy gameplay, and satisfying mechanics. Many mention the enjoyment of swinging around as a spider in a charming setting, while a few critiques highlight a desire for longer gameplay and more diverse challenges.
A physics-driven platformer in which every strand of web is genuinely spun: Webbed casts the player as a peacock spider chasing the bowerbird that stole her boyfriend, and hands over a silk line instead of a jump arc. Anchoring, swinging and re-anchoring is the whole vocabulary, and the same threads that carry momentum can be rigged into bridges or hauled onto objects, leaving a signature across a hand-drawn fantasy Queensland. An arachnophobia mode swaps the cast for coloured blobs.
Critic coverage is thin: Metacritic holds too few reviews to post a score, and the handful there land in the 70 to 80 band, praising the swinging while flagging padding and vague direction. Players are warmer, and the IGF made it a 2022 finalist for both the Grand Prize and Excellence in Design. The caveat is scale, not quality: a standard run lasts only a few hours, which suits anyone after a movement toy worth mastering rather than a campaign.
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Overall, players have overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Webbed, praising its delightful graphics, cozy gameplay, and satisfying mechanics. Many mention the enjoyment of swinging around as a spider in a charming setting, while a few critiques highlight a desire for longer gameplay and more diverse challenges.
Based on 42 reviews from steam
I Became A Totally Accurate Spider and Ate Everything in Webbed
