Suicide Guy Collection

Genre: Compilation / First-Person Puzzle-Platformer

Players: 1

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Review:

Suicide Guy Collection, on other platforms titled Suicide Guy Bundle, is a Compilation of the First-Person Puzzle-Platformer Suicide Guy (released on PC in 2017 and ported to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in 2018), and its follow-up, Suicide Guy: Sleepin’ Deeply (released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2018, ported to PlayStation 4 in 2019, and ported to Xbox One in 2020), with this bundle released on Nintendo Switch in 2020. Both included games feature a premise where you play as the titular Guy who wants to force himself awake by committing suicide within the world(s) of his dream.

Here is what I thought of each of the games in this collection:

Game	Genre	# of Players	Score	tl;dr
Suicide Guy	First-Person Puzzle-Platformer	1	C-	Suicide Guy is a First-Person Puzzle-Platformer where players take the role of a guy trying to wake himself by committing suicide in his various dreams. There are some fun puzzle ideas here and a good amount of personality, but unfortunately the game suffers from massive performance issues, and has some absolutely miserable platforming. There are multiple better options in this genre, so go for one of those instead.
Suicide Guy: Sleepin’ Deeply	First-Person Puzzle-Platformer	1	C-	Suicide Guy: Sleepin’ Deeply, like the first game in the series, is a First-Person Puzzle-Platformer where players take the role of a guy trying to wake himself by committing suicide in his various dreams. As with the prior game, there are some fun puzzle ideas here and a good amount of personality, but unfortunately the game suffers from massive performance issues, and has some absolutely miserable platforming. There are multiple better options in this genre, so go for one of those instead.

In short, both of these games present a nearly identical gameplay experience, with similar gameplay and even reusing assets, making Sleepin’ Deeply just feel like “More Suicide Guy”. Both games do have some good qualities, but those good qualities are hard to appreciate with the games’ numerous performance issues, lack of polish, and terrible Platforming.

At the very least, this Compilation offers a good value for those wanting to get these games, as the normal price of $11 saves you $3 off the combined prices of the two individual games, and this Compilation also goes on sale at the same $2 price point that each of its two contained games does, meaning there’s not really any reason to get these games individually.

I will note one issue this bundle has, though. This is a rare example of a bundle of Nintendo Switch containing games that were released separately on the platform that doesn’t simply give you those games individually when you buy the bundle. Rather, you get a single piece of software containing both games accessible via a static menu screen. Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any way to return to this static menu, meaning that swapping games requires you to exit and restart the game. Irritating, but hardly anything game-breaking.

In the end, the Suicide Guy Collection definitely fares better than its individual games thanks to its more reasonable price point. However, those games themselves still have some pretty terrible issues that make the experience far less enjoyable than it could be. If you’re looking to get any of these games, this bundle is the way to go, but I still think you’d be better off simply playing Portal Companion Collection, The Talos Principle: Deluxe Edition, or Reventure, which all handle individual elements of these games much better than the Suicide Guy games do.

tl;dr – Suicide Guy Collection is a Compilation containing the First-Person Puzzle-Platformers Suicide Guy and Suicide Guy: Sleepin’ Deeply. As a bundle, this is a much better deal than getting the games individually, and these games do have some clever ideas and a lot of personality. Unfortunately, they’re also highly unpolished, feature performance issues, and suffer from absolutely terrible Platforming. You have better options for this sort of game.

Grade: C

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