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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

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Developer Black Forest Games

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a 2012 platform game developed and published by Black Forest Games for Windows. It is the sequel to the 2009 Nintendo DS game Giana Sisters DS, itself a remake of the 1987 Commodore 64 game The Great Giana Sisters. The game was funded through crowdfunding website Kickstarter, reaching its goal of $150,000. The game was ported to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii U in 2013, and… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Audience score

63
Fresh

107 positive · 64 negative
95% range 55–69%

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Steam reviews107640
Bluesky *16054
Lemmy *3011
Mastodon *207

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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
782 of 1,060 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What players are saying

64% recommend · 114 yes, 64 no

Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 178 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,491 of 1,925 positive).

Players praise the game's art style and music as beautiful. [1][2][3] Some find the game frustrating due to imprecise controls and hitboxes. [4][5][6] Technical issues like crashes and stuttering are reported by several players. [7][8]

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  • Imprecise controls and hitboxes. [4][5][6]
  • Technical issues like crashes and stuttering. [7][8]
  • Repetitive gameplay and level design. [13][5]
  • Frustrating difficulty spikes, especially late game. [4][9]
Representative posts
  • [4]Steam user Steam user …4197Steam review · Feb 18, 2023 · Not recommended

    TL;DR --> It would be a precission platformer... if they didn't take the precission away from me. ---------------------------------------------------- Valve really needs to add a neutral review status. I am having a hard time rating this one but at the end of the day, I think I would turn people away from this. Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a 2.5D platformer where you take control of the sisters and have the …

  • [13]Steam user Steam user …4535Steam review · Jul 16, 2021 · Not recommended

    You know those games you play that just exemplify bad game design so well that you recommend it to budding game designers as an example of how NOT to make a game? Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is that game. It starts out fun enough, and then almost immediately makes you realize the game has zero tricks up its sleeve to keep the player interested. You play as two sisters, one with an air-twirling ability and another …

  • [14]Steam user Steam user …0370Steam review · Feb 10, 2024 · Recommended

    I was looking forward to seeing Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams because it was aimed to be the rebirth of one of the most memorable (even if not one of the most widely known) C64 platformers of the 80s/early 90s - Great Giana Sisters. For those of you who don't know, Great Giana Sisters was a platformer done in Super Mario Bros style (some would argue "too much in SMB style", but I believe GGS was a great game in its …

  • [10]Steam user Steam user …9624Steam review · Dec 2, 2024 · Recommended

    It scratches that platformer itch but has its problems. There are two modes you can switch between freely: a slow fall mode and a dash mode. You use those modes to collect gems while working your way through the level. The art and the music change with the mode; switching is seamless and feels good. The game difficulty is moderate to hard. On the easier end for platformer veterans and probably a bit difficult for …

  • [1]Steam user Steam user …7888Steam review · Oct 19, 2022 · Recommended

    breathaking art style ⣼⣿⣿⢿⡻⢝⠙⠊⠋⠉⠉⠈⠊⠝⣿⡻⠫⠫⠊⠑⠉⠉⠑⠫⢕⡫⣕⡁⠁ ⣼⡻⠕⠅⠁⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⠈⠄⠁⠄⠁⣿⡮⠄⠁⠄⠄⡠⠶⠶⠦⡀⠈⣽⡢ ⣿⣧⠄⠁⠄⠔⠒⠭⠭⠥⠥⠓⠄⢀⣴⣿⣿⡄⠁⠠⣤⠉⠉⣭⠝⠈⢐⣽⣕ ⣿⣷⡢⢄⡰⡢⡙⠄⠠⠛⠁⢀⢔⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⡈⠁⠈⠁⠉⡹⣽⣿⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⡭⠔⣠⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣵⡒⠫⠿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣛⣥⣶⣿⠟⢁⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡙⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⠁⢀⠑⠓⠫⢝⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡻⠊⢉⣄⠈⠪⡫⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⠁⣰⣿⣿⣢⢤⣀⡀⠈⠉⠉⢀⠠⠪⢝⡻⣷⡀⠊⡪⡻⣿ ⡫⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡊⢠⣿⣿⡫⠚⣊⣡⠶⢦⣤⣤⠶⠞⡛⠳⣌⠫⡻⡀⠈⡺⢿ ⠪⡪⡫⢟⡿⣕⠁⡫⠝⠊⡴⠋⠁⠁⠐⠁⠂⠈⠐⠈⠈⠐⠐⠳⠄⠹⣇⠪⡻ ⠄⠁⠊⠕⡪⢕⢀⠞⠁⠄⣁⢀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣠⣀⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⡆⠄⠆⢷⠕⡪ ⣄⠄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡎⠄⠁⢬⣮⣕⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⡪⡵⠄⠁⠄⠈ ⣿⣄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡣⠄⠁⣷⣯⣵⣢⠄⠄⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣠⣬⣟⡕⠄⠁⢀⣿ …

Summarised from 34 of the 262 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made

RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account

64% of the 178 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. The complaint that keeps coming up: imprecise controls and hitboxes. Deal-breaker or nitpick?

Critics, per Wikipedia

Project Giana's press demo was met with a favorable reception from gaming news outlets. John Walker of Rock, Paper, Shotgun remarked that the game "looks absolutely beautiful. It's a puzzle platformer in which you can control not only the main character, but also the mood of the world you're in". Audun Sorlie at Destructoid noted "Project Giana is truly a labor of Euro love", and that "the game seems to be shaping into what could be one of the most unique and original platformers in several years". Dustin Steiner of Gamezone noted that "the controls in particular were very polished leaving gameplay a matter of your personal skill with the engine, unlike some other platformers we've seen in…

From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.

Reactions

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  • Chris Trottier @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 23, 2025

    I was a North American kid who grew up without an NES, and for this reason, I have a different perspective on retro video games.. I was a North American kid who grew up without an NES, and for this reason, I have a different perspective on retro video games. The common narrative in retro gaming circles is that the NES was everywhere—that it was totally dominant, and if you didn’t own one, you missed out. But when you look at the sales numbers, the story changes. In North America, 30…

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  • Cut and Obscure Video Game Content @cutvideogame.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    Giana Sisters is amazing! One of the best games i played with 80 levels in it to explore. This game is amazing!

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  • dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Had a blast chatting to Michelle about video game history. Any opportunity I can explain The Giana Sisters is a good time.

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  • atomicpoet @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 24, 2025

    The Euro platformer revival that almost happened. When I was 10 years old, a friend and I went into the forest and started digging. Now, the exact reason why we were digging escapes me. But we often did a lot of digging. Kids—particularly boys—like to dig. It's just fun. Started with sandboxes. But we decided to move further afield. And there we were with our big shovels, just digging a hole. Four feet in, we found something. A shoe. One with a bright red high heel, to be…

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  • LukHash @lukhash.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2026

    MEGAWAVE is out now! 👾 Built around #8bit synths and #16bit samples, it sounds like the soundtrack to a game that never existed, somewhere between Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and The Great Giana Sisters. #chiptune Listen here: fanlink.tv/megawave

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  • EGVroom @egvroom.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    Got lost for 2 hours replaying Cave Dave tonight. Got as far as the C64 Great Giana Sisters cave !:) Sometimes you just go ahead and make the game you wanna play. Some real device footage here📺 #gameBoy #indieDev #GBStudio #c64

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  • Claudia Ponto- Open for commission @claudiaponto.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 7, 2026

    Punk Giana from Giana Sisters game. thanks @zenox1987.bsky.social for suggest me the character #fanart #digitalart #fullbody #punkgirl #videogame #gianasisters

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  • kerrik52.bsky.social @kerrik52.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    My local library was a trip. A third of their game selection was Xbox, they had Transformers Devestation on 360, Switch games were represented by laminated cards in a small box and I heard a little girl be super excited about Super Giana Sisters on PS4. Great place. #Blutoid

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  • Spooky Robb from 8/16/32bit @81632bitretro.comBluesky · Mar 6, 2025

    A list of games that pre-date Tomb Raider and have a female protagonist: Alisia Dragoon Athena Metroid 3d Ant Attack Saboteur 2 Mach Rider Elvira: The Arcade Game Ms. Pac-Man The Great Giana Sisters Feel free to add more below, folks...

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  • Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    Fredo's Game-Os: Back in the day when Super Mario Bros first blew up, there were quite a lot of "mario clone" games trying to copy the formula. Probably the most famous among these was The Great Giana Sisters. Honestly this game was pretty good and was probably written off more than it deserved

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  • Reverend Crush 🔵 @reverendcrush.comBluesky · May 17, 2025

    Kitsune Tails was the first game I specifically bought for my Steam Deck, and it's nothing short of a blast to play! This isn't a Giana Sisters situation. While it wears its love for SMB on its sleeve, it's definitely it's own game with loads of charm! Can't recommend this one enough!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4197Steam reviews · Feb 18, 2023 · 53 h played

    TL;DR --> It would be a precission platformer... if they didn't take the precission away from me. ---------------------------------------------------- Valve really needs to add a neutral review status. I am having a hard time rating this one but at the end of the day, I think I would turn people away from this. Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a 2.5D platformer where you take control of the sisters and have the ability to switch between the real world and the dream world. In a gameplay…

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  • TerryLewds🔞(COMMS CLOSED) @terrylewds.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    allow me to interrupt the horny cartoons to talk about a thing ive been fixating one ive been REALLY into Giana Sisters recently playing through the DS game, still working on beating the original. it's really fucking hard but uhhh here's some art i did :3

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  • arborelia @arborelia.netBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    tonight on my stream, around 8pm! It's a Patreon supporter request by @gameboyf9.bsky.social. I'm going to be playing "The Great Giana Sisters" for the Commodore 64 I already love the title screen music

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  • mischk @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 7, 2023

    Just to see how big or small our community is: Post your all time favorite C64 game.. Mine is Giana Sisters.

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  • 🕹RetroGuyBry🎮 @retroguybry.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2025

    🕹C64 Game of the Day🕹 The Great Giana Sisters (1987) by Time Warp Productions and published by Rainbow Arts. The controversial platformer that everybody seemed to like except Nintendo! A fun game to play but an underwhelming ending. #Commodore64 #RetroGames #C64GameOfTheDay

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  • Steam user Steam user …7888Steam reviews · Oct 19, 2022 · 4 h played

    breathaking art style ⣼⣿⣿⢿⡻⢝⠙⠊⠋⠉⠉⠈⠊⠝⣿⡻⠫⠫⠊⠑⠉⠉⠑⠫⢕⡫⣕⡁⠁ ⣼⡻⠕⠅⠁⣀⣤⣤⣄⣀⠈⠄⠁⠄⠁⣿⡮⠄⠁⠄⠄⡠⠶⠶⠦⡀⠈⣽⡢ ⣿⣧⠄⠁⠄⠔⠒⠭⠭⠥⠥⠓⠄⢀⣴⣿⣿⡄⠁⠠⣤⠉⠉⣭⠝⠈⢐⣽⣕ ⣿⣷⡢⢄⡰⡢⡙⠄⠠⠛⠁⢀⢔⣵⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⡈⠁⠈⠁⠉⡹⣽⣿⣷ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⡭⠔⣠⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣵⡒⠫⠿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣛⣥⣶⣿⠟⢁⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡙⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⠁⢀⠑⠓⠫⢝⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡻⠊⢉⣄⠈⠪⡫⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⠁⣰⣿⣿⣢⢤⣀⡀⠈⠉⠉⢀⠠⠪⢝⡻⣷⡀⠊⡪⡻⣿ ⡫⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⡊⢠⣿⣿⡫⠚⣊⣡⠶⢦⣤⣤⠶⠞⡛⠳⣌⠫⡻⡀⠈⡺⢿ ⠪⡪⡫⢟⡿⣕⠁⡫⠝⠊⡴⠋⠁⠁⠐⠁⠂⠈⠐⠈⠈⠐⠐⠳⠄⠹⣇⠪⡻ ⠄⠁⠊⠕⡪⢕⢀⠞⠁⠄⣁⢀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣠⣀⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⡆⠄⠆⢷⠕⡪ ⣄⠄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡎⠄⠁⢬⣮⣕⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⡪⡵⠄⠁⠄⠈ ⣿⣄⠁⠄⠁⠄⡣⠄⠁⣷⣯⣵⣢⠄⠄⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣠⣬⣟⡕⠄⠁⢀⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⡀⠁⠄⡎⠄⠁⠻⣿⣾⣯⣪⣔⢄⣀⣀⣀⡠⣶⣾⣽⣿⠃⠄⢀⣼⣿

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  • Steam user Steam user …5536Steam reviews · Sep 27, 2019 · 4 h played

    [url=store.steampowered.com/app/223220/Giana_Sisters_Twisted_Dreams/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_1056_curator-tabs&curator_clanid=32162035]Sucessor to the 1987 C64 game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3574Steam reviews · Mar 19, 2022 · 17 h played

    Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is an unreliable, miserable game that hides behind nostalgia and colourful pictures. The gameplay is simplistic, in multiple ways. Way too simplistic for its 23 (?) levels. You have a dash and a twirl, and the ability to change the world around you - sometimes enemies, sometimes platforms, to help you progress. The music is incredibly repetitive, I'm not even sure if there's more than two tunes during the gameplay. And even with these simplistic tools, the game…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9456Steam reviews · Aug 4, 2021 · 1 h played

    Another game that I got recently which was a bad purchase. Note to self - "always check out the discussion forum once before buying a game". This one has lots of hardware conflicts which so many people have faced. The discussion forum is jam packed with people complaining about hardware compatibility issues. The game doesn't run properly. It keeps stuttering or hanging every minute or two.

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  • Kimbuu - The sleepy gamer kitty🐱 @tinypaint.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2026

    Indeed the person working on the ultimate Giana Sisters game station has them all legit. 🧐

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  • Steam user Steam user …2878Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2025 · 4 h played

    giana sisters > mario bros

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  • Steam user Steam user …8798Steam reviews · Dec 24, 2024 · 8 h played

    The game has awkward controls and frustrating level design. The dual-world feature is interesting but doesn’t add much to the gameplay. The game can feel repetitive and lacks innovation, making it less enjoyable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0490Steam reviews · Jan 1, 2024 · 10 h played

    Here I will leave the cat, friends who pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up       />  フ       |  _  _ l       /` ミ_xノ      /      |     /  ヽ   ノ     │  | | |  / ̄|   | | |  | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__)  \二つ

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  • Steam user Steam user …5774Steam reviews · May 16, 2022 · 6 h played

    ~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90-year-old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal ✅ Hard 🔲 Dark Souls 🔲 Understanding Dark Souls' story ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good (nothing special) ✅ Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special 🔲 Good ✅ Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece ~ Gameplay ~ 🔲 Try not to get addicted ✅ Very good 🔲 Good 🔲 Nothing special 🔲 Bad 🔲 very Bad ~ Audience ~ ✅ Kids ✅ Teens ✅ Adults ~ STORY ~ ✅ Not important in…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4535Steam reviews · Jul 16, 2021 · 23 h played

    You know those games you play that just exemplify bad game design so well that you recommend it to budding game designers as an example of how NOT to make a game? Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is that game. It starts out fun enough, and then almost immediately makes you realize the game has zero tricks up its sleeve to keep the player interested. You play as two sisters, one with an air-twirling ability and another with a roll dash. You alternate between them and finish levels with standard…

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  • Michael Conde @brainiac345.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    160) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Owltimate Edition This was another game that was on the Switch backlog for the longest time. I thought that this one was just okay as there wasn’t really anything fun or exciting in this game gameplay-wise for me. #justbeatit @polykillpodcast.bsky.social

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  • Steam user Steam user …0370Steam reviews · Feb 10, 2024 · 22 h played

    I was looking forward to seeing Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams because it was aimed to be the rebirth of one of the most memorable (even if not one of the most widely known) C64 platformers of the 80s/early 90s - Great Giana Sisters. For those of you who don't know, Great Giana Sisters was a platformer done in Super Mario Bros style (some would argue "too much in SMB style", but I believe GGS was a great game in its own right). Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is not a remake of the old game, it's…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1828Steam reviews · Jan 20, 2020 · 16 h played

    fun at start,frustrating towards end gave up on last boss,tedious AF great music though

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  • Steam user Steam user …2741Steam reviews · Jul 23, 2026 · 30 h played

    peanut would love some pets and treats :)      🌸>  フ      |  _  _ l     /` ミ_xノ     /      |    /  ヽ   ノ   │  | | | / ̄|   | | | | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__) \二つ

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  • smeg @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 1, 2024

    [Prime] *Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams*, an indie platformer. > Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a blistering hardcore platformer with contrasting worlds. Warp Giana's vivid dreams to alter your abilities and destroy the twisted creatures lurking within. Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams combines the challenge of retro era platforming with graphics that pack a visual punch and tight controls.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9359Steam reviews · Sep 10, 2024 · 4 h played

    Hitboxes are not precise. Sound design is horrible. As a platformer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is mediocre at best. I would like to give a neutral rating for this game, but since I can't - I tend more to a negative recommendation. My rating 5/10, not recommended.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6193Steam reviews · May 3, 2023

    This game is a great, challenging platformer. I first played it on Xbox Live Arcade, and the Switch port is great. On PC, however, the challenge is getting the game to not crash on launch.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8361Steam reviews · Jan 20, 2022

    Local co op listing is a flat out lie. They should be penalized for keeping this here. **** you.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8073Steam reviews · Apr 1, 2026 · 25 h played

    The game that almost died due to Nintendo, The Great Giana Sisters, has returned in Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. Back in the 80s, The Great Giana Sisters came out on the Commodore 64 and became infamous for looking a little too similar to Super Mario Bros. on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The resemblance was so obvious that the game was quickly pulled from store shelves, turning it into a strange piece of gaming history. For years, the series faded into obscurity… UNTIL NOW… or, well,…

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  • atomicpoet @[email protected]Lemmy · May 1, 2025

    Okay, so I think this impacted by the platforms I owned, which was: 1. Commodore 64 2. Game Boy 3. SEGA Master System 4. SEGA Genesis 5. A bunch of DOS/Windows PCs 6. iMac If I were to consider my favourite games across all these systems, they would be: * Lode Runner * Great Giana Sisters * OutRun * Super Mario Land * Tetris * Sonic 2 * Road Rash * Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? * NHL 94 * Earthworm Jim * MDK * SimCity * Civilization * Heretic * Marathon * Escape Velocity * GeneForge…

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  • Fredo Fabrucci: The Poster's Poster™ @fredo.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    But the point of this post is that this game got a kickstarted sequel in 2012 called Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream, and spoiler alert, this game fucking rules actually. It's a great little old school 2D platformer with a neat swapping mechanic -

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  • flemtone @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 27, 2025

    Giana Sisters was a great game!

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  • Björn @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 16, 2024

    Commodore 64 for me as well. Can't remember which one was the first for me either. Maybe Giana Sisters or Usagi Yojimbo. We had tons of floppies with games and large printouts showing which game was where.

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  • Captain Aggravated @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 11, 2024

    Nintendo is infamously litigious and basically always has been; in 1987 they threatened to sue the developers of The Great Giana Sisters for publishing a game that wasn't dissimilar to Super Mario Bros. No lawsuit was filed but the game was withdrawn from production. They've issued cease and desist letters to makers of fan games, other game developers, fanartists, hell I'm surprised anyone anywhere even tries to work with them. Given the substantial resemblance of Palworld's creatures to…

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  • Vingt Trois Seize @vingtroiseize.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 14, 2026

    The Great Giana Sisters: the C64 & Amiga video game that ruffled Nintendo's feathers—leading to lawsuits and the game's withdrawal from retail shelves.

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  • Charredasperity (commissions open) @charredasperity.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    Now we just gotta get Fabraz to make a Great Giana Sisters game

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  • Paul Eric Morris @paulmorris.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    QTP with a game that made you a gamer in your childhood! (The Great Giana Sisters. Controls were so snappy and smooth for a 1987 C64 game)

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  • Ardens @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 12, 2025

    Don't really want to check release dates. I still play some things from c64, and Amiga... That's probably the oldest games I play. Like Bubble Bobble, IK, Giana Sisters. EoTB and so forth...

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  • Strain42 but on Bluesky @strain42.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    Bubsy 4D is being developed by the studio that made Demon Tides, so there’s definitely a pedigree of a studio that can make a good 3D platformer. Then again, The Woolies Strike Back was made by the Giana Sisters team, so previous successes don’t always account for a good future game…

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  • Rajel Aran @rajelaran.cyberelf.spaceBluesky · Jul 3, 2025

    Day 1: Title screen music This was tough. There's two games that immediately come to mind, but I think I have a third. Most think of the Amiga version, but the Great Giana Sisters I played as a little girl was on the C64, and booted straight to this title screen, and a banger youtu.be/_UAzC-QL9cc

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  • ES-DE Frontend @es-de.orgBluesky · May 30, 2025

    Game of the Weekend: Lets keep going with knock off week and go for the clone of a certain famous 2d platformer that N tried to legal action over. Although all is goon now with later games being released on DS amongst others. The Great Giana Sisters (1987) [C64]

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  • Steam user Steam user …5504Steam reviews · Sep 12, 2024 · 12 h played

    levels are decent platforming, but hitboxes seem very inconsistent and lead to deaths that feel unfair. Controls are responsive, although the option to manually toggle characters doesn't work (no one tried that option?). Final boss is a terrible chore and not fun...

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  • Steam user Steam user …3538Steam reviews · Apr 28, 2024 · 6 h played

    Hitboxes are inconsistent, failure often feels like a fault of the game rather than the player. Unsatisfying.

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  • Digestive_Biscuit @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 25, 2024

    Showing my age here. Chaos Overlords on PC. I used to play it just for the music as a kid. Great Giana Sisters on C64. Turrican 2 on Amiga. Battle Valley on C64. Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0214Steam reviews · Nov 20, 2022 · 8 h played

    Very good platform game and awsome music! Great and fun colourful graphics and pretty unigue idea to change girl in middle so you have to be fast to change on jumps. Good levels and there is difficulty options so you can get more challenge if you want. Playing on controller is best because you need many tight moves. I tried little on kayboard and it was just not working but controller very easy.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1111Steam reviews · May 7, 2021 · 3 h played

    07.05.2021. Game #167 Why don’t I like this game? I am a man who enjoys his platformers. Whether they are 2D or 3D platformers, I generally tend to enjoy jumping my way through a level all while collecting everything and maybe fighting a boss every now and then. On paper, I should be in love with Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams but, as I was playing it, I just didn’t find it that fun. The game does a lot of things really well but, at the same time, I felt really bored playing this game. A…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4598Steam reviews · Jul 23, 2020 · 12 h played

    I rage quit when fighting the final boss. Every boss fight is unnecessary long, despite needing only three successful attacks to defeat each one. I couldn't even figure out how to defeat the final boss until I watched a YouTube video--a video with a duration of 4 min. 32 sec. It took this person 4 1/2 minutes to hit this boss only THREE times! No thanks. I forfeited after trying for over half an hour--couldn't even hit him twice. "Git gud"? Yeah, okay. If you want a difficult action platformer,…

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  • Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    I recently learned about the Great Giana Sisters, the German video game answer to the Super Mario Brothers. Absolutely epic box art

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  • Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    I had to redownload a fun cracked C64 game that was originally a Super Mario Bros. knockoff named Great Giana Sisters, but the crew that cracked it changed the sprites to look like Super Mario Bros.. I think this version was much more popular than the original game: www.lemon64.com/game/super-m...

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  • Kirsche 🐰🐱 (Commissions Open) @cherrypixelbun.gayBluesky · Feb 25, 2026

    I love that Nintendo didn't even take any real legal action just a "c'mon man what are you doing" letter, with the good ending that eventually Giana Sisters would be rebooted starting as a DS game and now on like everything including Switch

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  • N a t @shougoney.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    first game: The Great Giana Sisters latest game: Bloomtown favorite game: Tales of Symphonia worst game: Sea Monsters game i've played most: ToS or some Pokémon game most surprising: I caved in and started playing mobile (only enstars and ptcgp) next game: maybe Unicorn Overlord

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  • Putzi @daputz.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2025

    everything about it is great except for the non-existent physics. they should have stolen it from Giana Sisters and made it a fantastic game.

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  • Daily DS Games @dailydsgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Today's video game for the Nintendo DS is Giana Sisters DS, developed by Bitfield GmbH and published by Destineer! It was released on February 22, 2011. #DS #Nintendo #Retro #Platformer

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  • CrummyLion @crummylion.newgrounds.comBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    The game looks great, but monkeying studio's own games seem to be a running thing with Bubsy Woolies Strikes Back? Giana Sisters. Woolies on the Run? Bit Trip Runner. This game? Demon Tide. Hmmm

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