Fit check
Is Super Cable Boy worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Retro platformer fans who want cable-based grappling movement
- Players who enjoy unusual playable characters and surreal stories
- Action players seeking jumping, dashing, flying, and collectible-focused traversal
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a conventional protagonist instead of a living handheld gaming system
- Players who prefer grounded presentation over strange visual effects and alternative dimensions
- Players looking for a climbing-focused puzzle journey like Jusant
- Players seeking multiplayer shooting and weapon customization like Abyssus
Our take on Super Cable Boy
The focus on cable movement and retro platforming gives up the slower, meditative climbing pace found in Jusant. Its unusual console premise and visual style also leave less room for the weapon-driven combat emphasis described for Abyssus.
What is Super Cable Boy?
Control a sentient portable console in a retro-styled platforming adventure, using its attached cable throughout the journey.
Gather game cartridges to increase strength while chasing the Glitch, an enigmatic being said to endanger the world. The character can leap, dash, soar, and swing the plug across gaps as a hook. The journey includes visits to alternate dimensions, onigiri pickups, distorted old-school visual sequences, an eccentric narrative, and platform-focused challenges built around cable movement, airborne navigation, collecting, and confronting the world-threatening foe.
How Super Cable Boy plays
- 01Cable Grappling
- The plug can be thrown like a grappling hook during traversal.
- 02Cartridge Collection
- Collected game cartridges increase the character’s power.
- 03Alternative Dimensions
- The adventure includes places described as alternative dimensions.
- 04Aerial Movement
- Flying appears alongside jumping and dashing as a movement option.
- 05Onigiri Collectibles
- Onigiris can be collected during the platforming adventure.
Super Cable Boy compared to similar games
Super Cable Boy focuses on platforming with jumping, dashing, plug-based grappling, flying, and alternative dimensions. SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER is a runner with shooting, while Sundered: Eldritch Edition is described as a chaotic metroidvania with a different structure.
Super Cable Boy: platforms & release
Is Super Cable Boy worth it?
It is worth it if: retro platformer fans who want cable-based grappling movement. Skip it if: players seeking a conventional protagonist instead of a living handheld gaming system.
Where can I download Super Cable Boy?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Super Cable Boy's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Super Cable Boy on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
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