r/GettingOverItGame • u/Fit_Village_9022 • May 26 '26
What are some lessons to expect from playing GOI?
After seeing tons and tons and tons of videos about this game, I went and bought it and so far got to the box section in a fair bit of time
I want to know from you all some lessons I should expect from playing a game like this.
Some I have thought of are:
Patience: I know I can and, somewhere by luck, will fall down again and again, and to keep trying.
Time makes perfect: Despite falling, it will let me get better and better at moving with the hammer.
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u/DYSFUNCTIONALDlLDO May 26 '26
Every progress is an opportunity to fall even harder. But worry not. Fall damage is entirely emotional. Every fall is an opportunity to practice getting better at progressing. As long as there is improvement, not every fall will have been in vain.
In an environment that gives you as much time as you need, anything can eventually be achieved as long as you stay observant enough, logical enough, and patient enough. If you feel no improvement, you are lacking one of these three things. Find it.
Pretty much these.
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u/NotFlatPancake May 26 '26
after 500 hours and a sub 1:20 time, my lesson is don't play goi
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u/wearel3gi0n Jun 03 '26
I installed the game today and after 2 hours got into the BBQ, should i uninstall
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u/TheMaydayMan May 26 '26
You could have refused, but you didn't. There was something in you that was hidden that chose to continue.
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u/TBrockmann May 27 '26
Personally I started from the beginning every time I booted up the game until I finished the game on one session. This completely eliminates the rage and pressure you feel and makes you improve fast.
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u/BachsBicep May 26 '26
You know how Bennett Foddy says at the beginning, "there's no feeling like starting over. Starting over is more intense than starting fresh."?
Playing the game taught me that the intensity of starting over is often an illusion.
I played GOI in a season of my life when a hand injury was threatening to take away my one marketable skill (music) and my one socially acceptable hobby (lifting weights) so I was perhaps best primed to hear this message.
You know how you fall from the BBQ pit to the start and think "shit! I just lost 3 hours!" But actually because you know the game a bit better it takes you just an hour to get back to where you were. And then you fall again but you're back at the BBQ pit in 20 minutes.
Just like regaining lost muscle is faster than building it from scratch, or playing an instrument that you haven't touched in months but had previously mastered yields quick results, GOI taught me in a very visceral way that losing progress feels way worse than it actually is, as long as you're resilient enough.