Do give Disc Room a spin now it's on Game Pass

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Is there a name for the subgenre of games divided into little levels where you try, die to a seemingly impossible challenge, instantly retry with a button press, die, then retry and die over and over until you nail it and feel like an absolute champion? Disc Room is one of those games, and it's a good one. First released in 2020, it hit Game Pass this week, inviting more folks to dodge through a giant alien spaceship filled with buzzsaws. I certainly recommend having a go and discovering what your insides look like.

You play a cute little explorer venturing into a vast alien disc which appears near Jupiter in the future (nicely, it's coded to always take place 69 years from now). Turns out, this disc is filled with more discs, little and big jagged spinning disc which crave your blood. Each level is a small room where you simply have to survive as buzzsaws bounce and whirr around. See a disc coming? Just move. Easy.

You'll start out with simple objectives like surviving for 10 seconds in a room while a few blades bumble and bounce around. This quickly escalates with murderous new types of saws. Saws which meander. Saws which charge at you. Saws with slowing auras. Saws which spawn more saws. Boss battle saws. Round arrangements of teeth which oh no those aren't sawteeth at all. Alternate abilities unlock across the way, movement tools and other tricks to help face new challenges or give a new approach to old news. Objectives shift too, introducing new conditions and challenges to unlock new rooms in the labyrinth of disc rooms. It's a pleasing way to spread, usually offering several paths to new places if one particular room is too challenging right now. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll get it later.

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