LIFTED

An extra-credit favor turns into a cheerfully chaotic mission across history, as student Ari gets roped into helping physics professor Raventhorpe impress the school’s history teacher. The result is a story-led platform adventure with Saturday-matinee energy: romantic stakes, a missing tiara, shady opponents, and an elevator capable of dropping its passengers in entirely the wrong century. Rather than treating time travel as solemn science fiction, LIFTED plays it for warmth and comic misadventure, with 1980s-inspired charm and a cast that includes the suspiciously well-informed chinchilla Julius.

Play centers on steering Ari through colorful historical locations, following leads, collecting what is needed to retrieve the tiara, and solving route-based environmental puzzles. Movement is designed to feel quick and responsive, so platforming remains central whether Ari is escaping an avalanche, navigating unstable scenery, or scrambling past dangerous enemies. The Anytime Elevator acts as the adventure’s unusual hub: choosing a floor sets the time period, while map choices determine where the ride may land. Raventhorpe supplies scientific guidance from the sidelines, but progress depends on reading the environment and making the right moves under pressure.

LIFTED stands out through its deliberately wholesome tone and the way it mixes classic point-and-click-style clue hunting with more hands-on 3D platforming. Its time periods provide room for changing scenery and playful historical setups, including a pirate-filled stop in Tortuga, while the voiced characters give the quest a stronger personality than a purely mechanical collectathon. Players who enjoy the approachable exploration of A Hat in Time or the storybook mood of older adventure-platformers should find plenty to like here. It suits newcomers looking for a light, guided adventure, while veteran platforming fans may appreciate its faster danger sequences and puzzle-driven detours.