Spaced Out

-This game includes bright flashing lights-

Controls: A & D to move, LMB to punch or shoot lasers, Q to Swap Items, E to Advance Dialogue, RMB to dash,  Mouse to Aim.

This is a micro-metroidvania made in a week  for Major Jam 4: Cosmic, where the limitation was that the player must cheat, and the theme was cosmic.

In it, you play a guy who got kidnapped by aliens and is now trying to escape, using the help of a convenient Cheat Master.

The limitation was implemented through the player picking up cheat codes to advance, but also that you can lie in dialogue. (Though the ladder did not really go anywhere.)