New at the Gym

Editorial Meh

New at the Gym is a short, animation-focused experience built around four interactive scenes featuring high-quality art and voice acting—the work of a known animator making their first game. Community consensus praises the visuals and character design consistently, but the game is explicitly *not* a narrative or gameplay experience: it's a brief, auto-playable showcase (roughly 2 minutes of content) with simple minigame interactions layered on top. The persistent complaint is a design tension—the minigames, especially phase 3's drag-and-follow mechanic and the fast-paced cum bar, demand focus that pulls attention away from the animations players came to see. Some reviewers suggest a gallery or free-play mode to solve this; others accept it as-is. Opinion divides cleanly between those who value the art enough to overlook the mechanical friction, and those who find the brief runtime and shallow gameplay loop hard to justify at the $4.99 price point. On iOS, the game is essentially unplayable; Android users report occasional crashes and install issues. For players who simply want to watch polished animations with minimal interaction, it delivers; for anyone expecting a game in the traditional sense, reset expectations.