This review contains some spoilers for UNBEATABLE.

“You’re just a part of my life...”

UNBEATABLE is a very personal experience to me. It shows a beautiful look into a life truly worth living in spite of all the ♥♥♥♥ it may throw your way. I absolutely adore it and all it stands for.

As a game, it’s really damn great. Looks beautiful, sounds absolutely delightful, and the writing is some of the best stuff I’ve seen in a while. As of writing this (20/12/2025) it’s a little more buggy than I’d like it to be, but at the current point in time it feels not only as a flaw, but a nice reminder that human creation is alive and kickin’. I’m so glad a collective of people fought to create. I love love love that.
UNBEATABLE is a reminder that, if you truly want something to exist, you can make it. Even if it takes years. Even if it takes blood, sweat and tears. In the face of such a tall task, to create something, especially something so beautiful, stylish, and touching, D-Cell succeeded and created what I would consider the best game of 2025, even with competition like Silksong.

For me personally, the voice acting is some of the best. It’s some of the most genuine sounding stuff I’ve heard and while not every line is voiced, the ones which are have so much impact because of how good it all sounds. I wanna thank the voice actors in particular because it’s something I want to do myself at some point in my life and it’s inspiring to me hearing how incredible it is in this game.

Heavy tone shift. In June of 2023, my mother passed away. In our final weeks together, I felt tense, got upset, and ended up staying in my room most of the time, trying not to think about the situation she was in. It was exhausting for everyone involved, and while I don’t blame myself for my behaviour around the time, it’s something I wish I could go back and change.

Beat is someone I closely relate to, for the obvious reason above. Controlling her going through so much hardship, yet meeting new people and bonding with them, becoming friends, creating things together, just talking, makes me feel so in touch with myself, in a way. Like I’m consoling the younger versions of myself. The ones still hanging out with mom, the ones who have only very recently lost her, and the ones who wanted nothing but to just be on their own. It’s like I’m telling them that, no matter what, no matter the hardships, life has its beautiful moments, big and small. And that it’ll all be okay.
Beat’s backstory being presented in the way it is might be one of the best moments I’ve had in any game. Her talking to Quaver and trying to comfort her while trying not to break down herself is unbelievably beautiful. The lyric “You’re just a part of my life and I can’t get rid of you” is so, so beautiful, especially during the final performance where they sing it together. To me, the lyric reminds me of my mother and how I can’t get rid of the memories. The pain that comes with them and how sometimes, I wish I didn’t have them so I wouldn’t remember how it feels to have lost someone so near and dear to me, but in the end I’ll always be happy to have them and cherish them.

Maybe I’m overdoing it, but I don’t care. This is genuinely one of the most touching things I’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing come to life and experience. Thank you so much to everyone at D-Cell for creating and never giving up. Thank you for touching my heart.

“...and I can’t get rid of you.”
(and that’s okay. <3)