Fit In is a runner ARKit Augmented Reality (AR) game for iOS. The player needs to guide a dancing line-drawing guy through holes in walls. The game features over 70 different wall designs, so it’s not an endless runner.
Gameplay
To make the guy pass through the hole you need to change his posture so he can’t perfectly fit the stencil on the wall. Use the right or left bottom to make his body bend in the right direction and tilt your iPhone or iPad mobile device to make him move horizontally from left to right. There is also a colorful star located on different sides of the niche. You have different ways to pass through, but only one will grand you with a bonus score if you are able to tilt in a way that your body touches it. The bonus score stacks up, so the more stars you collect consecutively the higher the bonus multiplayer, which is 1x for each star you collect.
Although the controls are simple, the game is very challenging. When I did my first runs I was failing after just a few walls. This game requires a great hand-eye coordination and response time. The walls are coming towards you at quite a fast speed, so you need to quickly change the posture and move the character preferably at the same time. If you spend time doing the two moves separately, you have a better chance to fail.
After like 10 tries I think I’ve got the hang of it but still one wrong move and it’s game over.
I never played an AR runner like this and I really liked the unique tilting gameplay mechanic and how it applies to the character. Once you get to it, it flows well.
Graphics Quality
Fit In feature very simplistic graphics with simple low-poly shapes and a stickman character. Still, the use of a simple design and the right placement and combination of colors gave it a distinctive and charming look.
Trust me, I’ve seen some developers taking the same route and they came up with really bad results. Even if you use simplistic visual style, you still need to make it look attractive and you can definitely do it in a low-poly scene but with the right art style direction, In Fit In the design worked and worked quite well. I didn’t feel that I was playing a game that was taken from an ARKIt learning book even the home screen designed to reflect the overall art style.
Fit In Game’s Difficulty
Fit In will satisfy those who love challenging casual mobile games. It’s not as difficult as “Flappy Bird”, actually much less, but I promise you that you’ll definitely find it challenging trying to top up the global leaderboard.
When I was going over 1000 points, I thought that I was beaten all the other players, because it really took me some time to get to that score. I was in the Top 10, so not bad, but the first guy nailed it with 5,320 points, holy crap.
This is among those type of games that really don’t offer a lot of features and focus solely on the score at the end of the game and the satisfaction comes due to the very high difficulty and the need to conquer the top global leaderboard.
Fit In AR Experience
Nothing special to report here, only that the game can be played in a very small area due to its size. I didn’t fund any way to resize the level nor rotate it. That being said, I was able to enjoy playing it on the window’s porch, on the floor, on the table—actually everywhere I like without ay problem.
By the way, the music is nice and fits the gameplay’s rhythm well.
Conclusion
The game isn’t impressive as an AR game to be completely honest. Having said that, I still enjoyed playing it. I love the original gameplay mechanics for fitting the body of the character into the hole in the wall. I personally would have preferred playing this as a spaceship flying in mid-air and needs to be rotated to pass through, I think the flow would look and feel better overall, but that just my personal preference, I still really liked the tilting control quite a lot.
It’s a good ARKit game for those who don’t have a lot of time to invest in a long and complicated game and love playing casual yet challenging games. There are quite a few players who played the game and it won’t be easy to conquer the top place—Good game overall, try it out.
If you love challanging AR games, you might also want to try out AR Robot Runner and Leap: Endless Run as well.