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Have you ever jumped into a game and immediately questioned all your life choices? That’s basically Give Up 2 for you. It drops you into a minimalist world filled with deadly spikes, swinging blades, and lasers that somehow always know where you are. You control a little stick figure who looks way too calm considering the lethal obstacles around him, and you’re expected to guide him to the exit without turning him into a sticky mess.

The controls are so simple it almost feels like a trap in itself—tap to jump, hold to make those jumps a bit more impressive. But simplicity is where the fun starts, not where it ends. Each level teases you with an easy opening stretch before revealing some fiendish contraption designed to test your reflexes and patience. And just when you think you’ve figured out the pattern, bam—you’re sliced in half by a hidden blade or yanked into a pit by some cruel mechanical arm.

What keeps pulling you back in is that sweet loop of near victories and epic fails. You get three lives per level, so you can’t just steamroll your way through; you actually have to learn each deathtrap’s secret. And if you do manage to snag the elusive gold tokens sprinkled along the way, you unlock new skins for your poor doomed hero. Those little cosmetic treats somehow make every retry feel just a bit more rewarding, even when you die doing the exact same thing for the twelfth time.

By the time you finally beat a particularly brutal stage, you’ll feel like you’ve climbed Everest—even if it was more of a short, spike-filled hill. Give Up 2 knows exactly how to balance frustration and satisfaction, and there’s a strange joy in sharing your battle scars (and hilarious glitches) with your friends. So if you’re looking to flex your quick-thinking skills and don’t mind dying over and over, this deceptively simple little platformer might just be your next obsession.