Buy Bliss

I played almost an hour before writing this review. Passed the 1st part of the game (meadow).

Trial-and-error 2d Platformer.

There's no introduction, its just bam: you're in the game. While playing you'll understand what youre supposed to do.
You can walk, jump and freeze time. Thats it. (EDIT: a boomerang is added later in this game)
While time is frozen you can destroy little "heads" by jumping on them. Clearing all heads in a puzzle means the gate gets opened -> proceed to next puzzle. Its all about common sense and timing. You miss a jump or take too much time you have to start over. Luckily there are plenty of these spawn points, and always in front of a puzzle.
I think I spent about 15 minutes on one of the puzzles, dying over and over because my brain couldnt solve it (I blame the Belgian beer). Turned out to be pretty easy. Hah.

There's no text and no speech in this game. There's just some soothing and very nice background music. You could call this relaxing if there werent these annoying puzzles. Irritating, annoying, but addictive.
Could have been called Bliss: Prepare to Die.
Graphics are nice but repetitive.

Its pretty damn cool just 1 guy made this in this free time (during office hours he works for a AAA developer). I have a lot of respect for that.

The good:
- Simple controls
- Nice music
- A challenge

The ok
- Graphics. Could use some variation.

The bad
- No controller support. I like to play my platformers using a controller.
- No graphics setting option. There should be at least the option to change the resolution or play full screen.

Its an ok 2D platformer with some nice challenges. And nicely priced.
Recommend? Yes: 70/100

Bliss is a lovely 2D puzzle platformer with some very interesting ideas. The levels of the game are meant to represent the five stages of grief, so each level is with different music, color palette and introduces new gameplay mechanic.
Everything starts with denial - it's all sunshine and lollipops with a cheerful colors, as you learn, that you can freeze time. Confusion is next, where you can drop from the bottom of the screen and instead of dying, you come falling from the top. In Anger, angry sculls are coming to get you,when you use the freeze time. In bargaining a ripped off teddy-bear's head follows your cursor around and tries to get ya, once you freeze the time. The depression level can get depressing, as you learn to complete different tasks with each hand.
At the end of each level but denial, there is a boss waiting for you, with quite different mechanics and can be somewhat challenging. Once you defeat a boss, you can then replay it from the "main menu" (if you can call it that, the game really does not have any interface) in a "challenging" mode - a slightly changed up boss fight with pretty big increase in the difficulty.
The game saves automatically, and the checkpoints are pretty close at first and quite reasonable towards the end, and I never felt, that I'm replaying something too much. I would love to see more than 1 save slot though!
The game controls are pretty tight. I wish, that I am able to rebind them, as I died a lot, trying to jump and pressing space, but that freezes time instead :p I found the music pretty fitting for each of the levels and generally enjoyed it, especially the main theme!
Overall a pretty solid puzzle platformer - yea the game could use some polishing, like a fullscreen option and some interface elements, but I still enjoyed it and can recommend it!
I enjoyed the game so much, that I created a let's play :
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353739105
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353759015
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353759014
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353759012

If you like slow-paced and somewhat challenging 2D puzzle platformers you should try this game. Beautiful music and graphics.

I want to relax and play a game. I want to be stimulated and challenged. This is easily becoming my go to game when I just want to chill out. The platforming concepts are simple yet the puzzles range from "i got this" to "i hate you." It is the best of multiple worlds with an amazing soundtrack backing it. There is a deep story to be told here as well but I will leave that to you once you purchase the game.

Live playthrough to come soon.

This game is absolutely brilliant! Great soundtrack too. Has lot's of potential, great concept with the time stopping thing.

HOWEVER:
Here's a video I made with some gameplay, so you can decide for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMBxVdBkFB4

The only thing I dislike about this game is the fact that you have to use the up arrow to jump, as I am totally used to using the spacebar. The spacebar is used to do your matrix thing and freeze time for everything but yourself.

Bliss is really fun game with a rather theme; it's not clear at first what the game is about. The platformer takes the player from comfortable nostalgia into deeper and darker levels. The music is very enjoyable (hopefully they'll release the music), and the hand painted textures are wonderful.

Having spent a few hours and I'm really enjoying the game so far, the puzzles are chanllenge&fun. A dying souls journey is cool concept that has barely being done before, and I think the art, level design and music together really sold the spiritual vayage idea to me!

I am currently at level 2 right now, the puzzles are getting harder and harder as I progress, but I like spending time& figuring those out!

I saw this game on green light before release and it looked very interesting. I bought it recently and tried it out, and all I say is that it’s a very relaxing game with amazing art work. The game is easy to get into, with simple controls. Although the story is not very clear in the beginning I feel like that once you get a little deep in to the game, the story opens up.

The game reminds me a lot of other indie games, especially Limbo. However, I love the art work in this game a great deal more. I definitely recommend this to other indie lovers!!

Great music, relaxing to play, I would recommend it, its different and calm to play. It's to bad it does not support gamepad or higher resolutions. I think that might stop some people from buying it, but I still recommend it.