Debtor: Enhanced Edition Review

I’ll get straight to the point with Debtor, one day a debtor becomes sick and loses consciousness. While riding the ambulance to hospital, he awakes in a strange place and is informed that those who are unsuccessful in collecting their debts will end up here and is subsequently tasked with having to fulfil on all his uncollected debts.

Debtor: Enhanced Edition will see the player traverse across 30 levels of pixel art styled platforming whilst needing to collect various coins scattered around within the levels, in order to open the door to the next stage. You are oddly equipped with what is described as a “hard forehead” which will enable the player to headbutt and breaks rocks if needed. Although you will mostly just need to move them or drop them off ledges to reach the coins!

Also in your arsenal are bombs that become very handy for clearing a way through a level or getting rid of a pesky enemy. The moveable blocks are also a handy way of getting rid of an enemy if timed correctly, as the enemies don’t do much apart from pace the level back and fourth.

With Debtor, it’s mostly simplistic gameplay, involving moving some blocks and jumping around. Each level requires a different approach as the difficulty ramps up as you progress, but for the most part it isn’t too challenging and requires only a light bit of thinking. Sadly, the game doesn’t expand upon its basic gameplay from the moment you pick it up at level one, and it accompanied by a repetitive soundtrack that only serves to dampen the experience overall.

The saving grace here is that Debtor: Enhanced Edition delivers the goods in the achievement department, offering up a tasty 1000 Gamerscore for the hungry achievement hunters out there. All achievements are tied to level progression and only require you to complete the first ten levels at a minimum.

Debtor: Enhanced Edition is a decent game to pick up for the achievements alone. Developed by Shark Games and published by (surprisingly not Ratalaika Games) Desert Water, you can pick it up on Steam for £1.69 or roughly around £4 on the Xbox Store, with the Xbox version boasting “improvements to graphics.”

Overall, if you want that easy Gamerscore, then £4 might be worth it for you, but if your looking for pure enjoyment I don’t think you will find it here and if you do, it won’t last very long as it doesn’t take you very long to beat each level.

I can’t help but feel like Debtor is missing something else, something else I can’t quite put my finger on but sadly it feels quite basic with not a lot going for it. Hopefully you can find your own value in it, whether that’s achievements or the pixel style platforming!