Press Ctrl

A mind-bending puzzler where your avatar controls another avatar via an in-game keyboard.

Press Ctrl is a puzzle, difficult and 2d game developed and published by Idan Rooze.
Released on March 16th 2021 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 530 reviews of which 478 were positive and 52 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Press Ctrl into these genres:

Puzzle Difficult 2D Cute Top-Down Funny Psychological Horror Linear Casual Minimalist Pixel Graphics Family Friendly Logic Philosophical Indie Atmospheric Singleplayer

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel i5
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce 1650
Storage: 60 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Simple Premise but a quite hard task that makes you think. Worth it if its ~$1. Will kill 1 hour 6.1/10

Nov. 2024

Rainbow 6 Siege made me less mad than this game. 10/10 would 100% recommend there is no reason to not get this

July 2024

First, it's $2. Expectations were and should be very low, and did not get higher. However, it's great! Charmingly simple, first level takes all of 5 seconds. Little drop of dopamine, ya did good. Second level, you go "Oh, thats what's going on here, that's cute." might take a little longer to get a grip, but still fun. Third level, you realize why this game is tagged as "Difficult". I hope you learned well from the first two. Fourth level probably took most of my game time, made me want to pull out my spine and nerve endings with every narrow mistake, and generally hated existing. 10/10 would recommend.

Feb. 2024

I think this game is great. The concept is novel and really quite challenging. Sure, it's pretty short. Your entire experience may take under an hour. I normally don't write reviews, but I encountered a bug that I was hoping would catch the dev's attention. After level three, my screen goes blank and will not let me start level four. However, I can still "play" level 3 underneath the blank screen. I can tell it's the same layout because of how long it takes to cross the room, running blindly into the esc key, etc. Also, when I close out of the game and re enter, I get put back to Level three even though I have completed it. I am still giving this a positive review because, despite this one bug, it is a very great game!

Jan. 2024

Ah yes, the limits of the human brain implemented as a psychological short circuit... simply brilliant, if excruciating.

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Steam data	26 December 2024 00:36
SteamSpy data	17 January 2025 03:01
Steam price	22 January 2025 20:34
Steam reviews	22 January 2025 03:55

1.99€

8.4

478

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Developer

Idan Rooze

Publisher

Idan Rooze

Release 16 Mar 2021

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