Refunct

This is a bit of a weird one in that it doesn’t really feel like a game, more like one of those things they put it to entertain you during excessive loading times. I bought Refunct on sale for less than £2 so it didn’t cost anything in the grand scheme of things and that’s a good thing as I’ll come on to in the achievements.

The idea of Refunct is that you have to jump and half-parkour around a strange map with blocks that come out of water. You have to make your way to switches that prompt more blocks to come out of the water and then you have to find your way to another switch. It’s essentially a bare-bones puzzle platformer.

When you jump to different platforms, they change colour. Every time you start a new game, the colour scheme of the level changes. There are also some power cube thingies that don’t do anything other than fulfil a collectable function. And that’s about all there is to it.

Achievements – 1,000 Points – 10 Achievements

Despite the small amount of content within the game, there are a couple of achievements that can be quite challenging. I’ll come on to that later.

As I mentioned above there is a set of collectible cubes and collecting all of them in one game will get you five achievements. There is achievement for completing the game as well.

That just leavers four things to do. There are two related to how much of the ground you colour in. The first of these is relatively easy. You need to make sure the entire world is coloured in so as long as you track what you are doing and get everything you need to before pushing the next button, this becomes straightforward.

The flip side of this is one of the harder ones. You have to complete the game only colouring 33% or less of the world. This means that you have to plan your jumps carefully ahead of time and take specific routes from one button to the next.

The last two are speed runs – for completing the game in less than 8 and 4 minutes respectively. The first of these is relatively easy but the second is quite challenging and took me many attempts to get right. It’s essentially a case of practice makes perfect as you have to memorise the jumps you and where you need to go. There is one major issue I had with this though. At one point you have to jump on to a ledge from a crouched position and the game is quite funny about how you do this to get it right. Luckily on my run where I got this, it let me make the jump on the first attempt which saved me valuable seconds.

This is where my comment about the price comes in. Considering you have a speed run achievement that means it’s possible to complete the entire game in less than 4 minutes, a price of £2 is appropriate for the content on offer.

Downloadable Content – N/A

While not long, Refunct offers a little bit of fun and challenge in the puzzle platforming genre. There’s not a lot of replay value though as it only offers the one map for you to explore. For the price though, you get what you pay for.