GAUGE: According to the Steam entry "Gauge is an experimental and minimalistic sport game. The end does exist, can you reach it?"

In this game you press space, and try not to die.

Pressing Space increases your GAUGE, releasing it decreases the GAUGE. And the Gauge moves fast. If it hits a marker, you lose a life. Lose all your lives, and the game is over. Restart to play again.

Sometimes, you can gain a second gauge. With this one you press CTRL and rack up bonus points, or let it fall off to zero and vanish. You don't lose a life for this as far as I could tell. Just no more bonus points.

I got one achievement: For keeping two gauges running for 90 seconds.

There are a lot of achievements. And a very low % of players who have gotten them. The highest one was around 20% of players having two gauges to stay up for a specified amount of time, and that was the only one I was able to get.

This game is hard. Not due to the pressing space and timing, but to all the visual effects and assaults it presents you with.

If you have epilepsy or suffer from seizures: STAY AWAY

Even for someone who does not, this was difficult to focus on without feeling ill due to the various patterns within it.

In the end, I could not last 86 minutes with this one, and retired at around 23.

There appears a lot to unlock if you can manage it, and there's the leaderboards if you are into it.

But truthfully. The game was far too difficult to focus on in order to play. It will have a very niche audience what will love it. Everybody else will want to avoid.

Oh, and the music starts getting really groovy the longer you can last with it.

Game Acquisition: Purchased on Sale (Bundle Stars)
Platform Used: Steam
Tweet Thread: 1 2 3 - 14 February 2016
PC Used: Scorptec Venom 2009

OS: Windows XP
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: Compatible DirectX 9.0c
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 100 MB available space
Sound Card: Audio standard