Ranking Every World of Goo Level BY DIFFICULTY

[@BortLoco]

As of when I'm writing this (July 31, 2024), I have officially completed all levels with OCD! Here are my plans going forward: - Make a gaming series for World of Goo 2; my OG audience will know that I made gaming videos with text commentary starting in 2014, and I retired that format a few years ago but I'd be happy to bring it back for the occasion - Make a ranking video like this one, but for World of Goo 2 (64 levels from easiest to hardest, same criteria) - Make another ranking video after that, but it's all 111 levels across both games, based on how difficult the OCD's are to achieve, where I also address some of the strategies you guys have mentioned here in this comment section I hope I don't get burned out from moving my attention to the WoG franchise, since those who have known me for a long time know that I have plenty of hobbies as well. With that said, thanks for 1,500 views and 100+ likes! It's the fastest any of my videos have reached these numbers, pretty much ever!

[@wufoz]

Hey, GG! Found this video at a great time!

[@PersonOfRandomnesss]

@@BortLoco I was one of the people who left a comment about doing 100% it and you did it! That's awesome! Can't wait for any of those videos too. Just please don't burn yourself out over this - I know I just said I can't wait, but take priority of yourself first and foremost.

[@b_megamaths]

It feels like people don't talk about this game nearly enough, which is a shame

[@lowestpaper4186]

Hopefully the 2nd will get the attention it deserves

[@d3v_gaming128]

True

[@MariaVasquez-kd9ww]

i agree

[@dunsbrowelo]

True...

[@pixelator5312]

weirdly enough, mom's computer was the biggest roadblock I remember running into as a kid, by an absolute landslide

[@trevoreyre2775]

Same here. I guess we weren't good at stacking blocks.

[@checkrly3989]

20:37 “87 balls” this reminds me of something- THE BITE OF-

[@MariaVasquez-kd9ww]

87?

[@respect_my_autoritah]

I remember playing this game as a kid and having troubles with at least half of the levels; the Fistys' ones, the Tower od Goo and do on. After returning to it, now as an adult, I can safely say that the only really hard moment of this game is Infesty the Worm. Very solid list btw!

[@GenesisLover2002]

Agreed, Infesty the Worm is the most difficult level in the game imo

[@Thatkid_143]

i WILL be getting world of goo 2 at launch. great video btw!!!

[@BlairSFX]

Horizontal Transportation Innovation Committee had me IN TEARS when I was a kid

[@ignor_]

i wonder if they bring back all of exploits and glitches back, it was really fun to mess around with them and try to get the best possible OCD. You can throw goo-balls to structures to balance them, or to make them fly; you can quiclky tap on balloons to make weird gravity for them; time bugs are also make quirky things with the balloons. Would be so cool to discover something similar in 2nd game!

[@chrislashwa6266]

I can confirm, those kinds of glitches do work in the sequel.

[@fossil98]

@@chrislashwa6266 Really like some of the ways the physics are changed while the core gameplay is the same. Halfway through the game and the rubber on my mouse is almost gone, yep this is world of goo :)

[@PersonOfRandomnesss]

As someone who got full 100% OCD, I'd love to see a ranking purely by that. I also find it interesting because my PERSONAL ranking ended up surprisingly different to yours, and I wonder if thats why. Its been years since I've played it, but seeing some of those levels legitimately made me tense up with rage/trauma reliving either just beating them or OCDing them. With our differing opinions, Im excited for your list for 2 when it comes out to compare to my own when I get around to it lol

[@randomannoyance]

upper shaft OCD with no tutorial is the hardest thing in the original unmodded game, its actually brain damaging

[@maskofcuteness3234]

This is still my favorite childhood game to this day. With others like castle crashers, glow fish and super meat boy and more. Thanks for making a video about WofG! keep up the good work.

[@PaxAlessandro9Thunder]

This game is one of my favorite games, and the fact that its receiving a part 2 drives me crazy

[@tunnelmannen]

Nice video! Absolutely hate bulletin board system personally. And I never knew you could attach the birds to the top on the last level!

[@lucasc8972]

Horizontal Transportation Innovation Committee has weird cheese that makes it easier, similar to infesty the worm

[@ItsTempoYT]

bruh i never knew about that easter egg with beauty and the electric tentacle 😭

[@Lume5731]

8:41 What? This was one of the first OCD completions a made in childhood, it's like ×3 times easier than "Fisty's Bog" and "Fly away.." just spend some attempts until you stick it, no tortures with constantly replacing balls and physics 🤔 9:09 and this one is actually one of game's hardest levels, no joking 12:29 OMG so many memories from childhood about trying to beat the level, my logic wasn't strong enough to realise how to do it 16:36 Its actually very easy, just makes the base wide

[@NickAndriadze]

I love this game so much, one of the most nostalgic ones for me. Glad to see at least some resugrence of content made around it in hype of the sequel's release. Great video, I think you ranked these pretty fairly. The windmill level and *especially* the trash compactor level definitely stick out as the toughest for me.

[@30-50FeralHogs]

For HTIC, a way to make it easier is, when the tower is falling towards the pipe, to repeatedly switch between putting the balloon on the structure and violently throwing the balloon against the structure to push it forward a bit faster 10:57 also I think the word you mean is "regurgitate"

[@BortLoco]

@@30-50FeralHogs I wanted to use a different word to reduce redundancy with the level's name lol

[@30-50FeralHogs]

@@BortLoco Ohh ok that makes sense

[@Gooballer]

Solid list bro!

[@alexyz9430]

I haven't watched till the end but Horizontal Transportation Innovation Committee had me stumped as a kid and was the only level that demanded a walkthrough for me to figure out what to even do (it also has the funniest name for me)

[@BortLoco]

I had to watch a walkthrough to beat this level when I previously skipped it during the main recording this video uses 💀 I recorded the footage back in December of 2023, and then some additional footage this month to fit what I had in my script

[@infi-nerdy]

I got stuck on Red Carpet because i didn’t realize you could launch gooballs offscreen

[@glengalloway2508]

I remember as a kid literally spending 3 years on second hand smoke. Because I was doing the wrong thing. I thought you were supposed to build straight down with the red balls a immediately and quickly get the black balls into the pipe before the fire destroys it and I just could not do it. Finally I was old enough to realize I could just look up a walk-through on youtube and I was honestly shocked when I found out you were supposed to build around and let the white structure fall. Lol. Second hand smoke is my favorite level as of now.

[@nathoghazi5026]

deliverance being at 27 and mom's computer being at 34 really shows me how hard i relied on skips when playing world of goo as a toddler

[@DCcopter]

Can we talk about how dark the burning man is? You burn him causing his eyes to explode and die

[@BortLoco]

burning man creepypasta

[@DCcopter]

Like the whole thing is just and industrial nightmare chapter 3 specifically

[@Jblade343]

little tip for some hard OCD's Incineration Destination, You can actually remove the bombs and move them instead of letting them stay, so if you put them on fire, you can detach them, and leave them next to the explodable wall without attaching it, you can explode both without building a second structure above it. Horizontal Transportaion committee: a well known trick is that if you are fast enough, you can build a triangle at the bottom, purposefully kill the attaching goo with the spikes, then use the balloon to transport the line to the pipe, the balloon can wake up goo so you have 12 more + whatever you feel like using Super fuse challenge time: Instead of immmediately building up, store 4 gooballs on each cloud as fast as you can, when the fuse catches up, on the right side of the build, immediately when the structure is barely in fire, attach 2 gooballs to make a base, from there, complete the rest of the level without having to stress out about a time limit

[@BortLoco]

For Incineration Destination I think I did do that once but I couldn't find a way to fit that in the video That trick in HTIC is more unreliable tho For Super Fuse Challenge Time, that procedure seems incredibly bizarre lmao

[@Jblade343]

@@BortLoco kzbin.info/www/bejne/iobGaqptqtJ4rcksi=_6hKQJA4u5H-XeFP this is where I found the idea for super fuse, and if done right, is easier, but you'll need luck and a bit of speed

[@sacredyveltal4688]

I love the fact the top two are from the epilogue and the easiest one too, I think it reflects the game progression oveerall and the variety of level design across the four worlds! There's always trials and easy levels everywhere! Also, yes, ivy goos are the goat ! Alice, Bob and the third party was a level that stumped me on my first play throughs, I always skipped it even though the solution was "easy"

[@aretmaw]

Great video man! This got me even more hyped for the sequel!

[@Cubl]

i used to think water lock can be only beaten by making a white square sticked outside the hand tilted in a specific way, until i saw this video...

[@Alefen]

Really good video. Gave me something to watch to reduce my impatience over the next day lol

[@rly_spolarium]

Only now I learned about the tactic of throwing goo balls for balancing. I didn't think of it before in childhood

[@peterduprey7286]

“I won’t be taking OCDs into account” (Proceeds to mention OCD for almost every level) Great, well edited video tho

[@BortLoco]

he totally didn't mention it wouldn't be a conventional OCD ranking !

[@imusic-z6h]

Please make a video of World of Goo 2 levels!

[@BortLoco]

I haven't finished the game yet.

[@HaloZombiesGD]

this is a really good video! can't wait for wog 2 :]]

[@dan_man3087]

Fun fact, but despite being the easiest level in the game, you can still... fail at the Observatory level! It's stupidly specific, and happened to me only twice(and the second one was still considered a win, since the station did fly up high enough). Basically, sometimes the station may just... crumble, if you attach all the balloons in a very specific way: the part of the tower may come off from the island and float away with all the balloons. One time the left tower somehow was torn before i completed the level. And one time the main tower broke off while island was already in the sky during the fade-out (and the way island tilted was funny to watch)

[@BortLoco]

There are 1820 different ways to attach all the fish to the island! I've never had the left tower get torn as much as I wanted it to, and the main tower breaking off is what's called the "telescope bug", discovered in 2009.

[@aceae4210]

I remember when doing red carpet, I couldn't workout how to weight down the Pressure Plate so what I did instead was jam go balls into the leaver and make it eject it up instead.

[@trevoreyre2775]

5:35 Bro this had me laughing out loud.

[@marydearmas1631]

8:39 this level was HELL as a kid

[@WeredogCanivir]

As someone who is trying to get every OCD on mobile. I can confirm, ODE to the bridge builder is a nightmare, and I don't wanna talk about how horrible the rest of the hard levels will be... The game does get rather hard, and collecting the OCDs has been horrible so far. Also this video has shown me some great techniques in action, ones I can't wait to try out.

[@chenalna]

16:10 I didn't find this trick till now!

[@butter0989]

0:44 The most true skill issue of all time

[@Kids_Scissors]

I feel like it's a 50/50 chance that your next playthrough of You Have to Explode the Head will be fun and intriguing or intensely frustrating

[@dunsbrowelo]

OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!!

[@КарлКарыч]

Very nice and interesting video! I hope it gets more views

[@bigshrekhorner]

For Beauty and the Electric Tentacle, you can also abuse the physics system when rewinding (it sometimes likes to fling Beauty around). If you are lucky enough, rewinding a move may fling the Beauty to the right, so you can get the OCD without making that long of a tentacle

[@BortLoco]

wow what a crapshoot

[@d3v_gaming128]

As someone who has 100% completed World of Goo, I can say that your difficulty ranks are very accurate.

[@Nachiebree]

When I was a kid I always thought whistler was the only level you could whistle on...

[@squiddu]

You know what's funny? I beat the #1 level on this list really quickly. Assuming the hazards made it impossible to make a bridge, when part of it snapped off due to hitting the bottom kill zone, I was able to carry over a single stick of goo over to the other side by abusing balloon physics.

[@cheezhed46]

broo i thought i had to do that for ocd once, lol.

[@redwes1]

I finished the final chapter levels by sacrificing most of the goo balls and ending up with a floating platform of 2-4 attached balls on a balloon. I beat the game twice and never knew the intended solutions until now. o_O

[@betoverse8370]

20:33 That's sick

[@MyZimeCharts]

Incernation destination, alice and bob and the third, ode to the bridge builder, upper shaft were the most diffiult levels for me

[@moavideogamer8417]

I struggled with You Have To Explode The Head when i was a kid

[@moavideogamer8417]

I'll also agree with number 1

[@MewPurPur]

Pretty solid list, but I actually find Tower Of Goo's OCD pretty easy. I played it for the first time since I was a child the other week and instantly got like 5 goo balls above OCD, while I really struggled on the level with the long bridge. Also the levels you described as annoying were among my favorite lol, to each their own I guess.

[@ALXCHTZ]

The hardest level of world of goo happens to be my absolute favorite gameplay wise and music wise ❤

[@BortLoco]

The hardest level according to my ranking, or your personal hardest?

[@ALXCHTZ]

@ to ur ranking 🖤

[@BortLoco]

@ALXCHTZ HTIC's music is just the Chapter 1 music which itself is just okay imo

[@MyZimeCharts]

Road blocks war very difficult for me

[@elli6220]

Good video. Don't disagree with many of the rankings here.

[@hg5172]

21:24 I knew this would be #1

[@FMB_Player]

I was wondering why I had recommendations for this game after so long, mever knew there was a 2nd game actually on the way.

[@BortLoco]

The sequel has been out for a month now

[@boxoid5230]

WE ARE SO BACK!@!!!!!!!!!

[@boxoid5230]

tf how is the vertical level the hardest? this is imo by far the easiest epilogue level (excluding the last one)

[@BortLoco]

​@@boxoid5230 how is it the hardest? well, that's explained in the video, really

[@MikkyIGuess]

i thought incineration destination was a modded level (oh also the robot head level)

[@clairevalentine9220]

Disagree with #8 beauty amd the tentacle, not as hard as it seems and it's possible to utilize a glitch to make the beauty fly to another side.

[@subspacetripmined99]

Please tell me you can play World of Goo 2 with a Wii remote, I haven't figured out if I can connect it and I just NEED to play World of Goo 2 with the controller that quite literally could 😊be made for it

[@BortLoco]

It appears Blomquist didn't port the game to WiiWare this time. You'll have to do some homebrewing

[@ahumanb3ingthatexists67]

I LOVE GOO!!!

[@uiopgamer4647]

THERE IS GOING TO BE A WORLD OF GOO 2????????!!!!!!!!!!

[@BortLoco]

It was released three days ago!

[@JrIcify]

The best way to find out about a game.

[@TheRealJackee4]

Dude what in the world are your other videos

[@BortLoco]

KZbin Poop Tennis

[@poppybubbles.]

HARD disagree with tower of goo being #9 most levels you shared before it are significantly harder than it, its a very interesting choice in my opinion

[@poppybubbles.]

actually same with sever farm its a lot simpler than you make it out to be

[@MariaVasquez-kd9ww]

estoy acuerdo con muchos estos xd

[@Argonwolfproject]

I hate server farm so much. So, so much. I don't know why that level owns me so hard but it does. I hate it with a passion.

[@JrIcify]

The way I originally beat it was by wrapping a firm grip around the whole platform and just letting it spin whichever way it wants. I built from whatever point was closest at the time and eventually something came around that was long enough to reach the pipe. The worst way to solve it but it worked. Maybe a spoiler for wog2: there are multiple new levels that require balancing >_>

[@Argonwolfproject]

@@JrIcify I bought WoG 2 this morning and finished the campaign already, no levels skipped (not even the optional "extremely difficult" levels that weren't that bad IMO) but very few OCDs. I didn't notice any levels similar to server farm, but some of them did piss me off. My least favorite level in the second game is all the weird point-and-click adventure ones in World 4, because seriously what the hell was that crap doing in my delightful slimy puzzle game?

[@JrIcify]

@@Argonwolfproject I was mainly thinking about that level where it's a chain on a rotating head. But I can't think of any others now. I agree that point and click game sucked. I skipped every level of that except the non-optional finale. It has fantastic writing but I wanted to be playing world of goo. I saw a funny post on the wog subreddit where someone said they opened wog1 in another window and switched whenever they stopped hearing dialogue in wog2 and that's how they got through it.

[@Argonwolfproject]

@@JrIcify I just knuckled down and played them all, I usually like point and click adventures so I didn't terribly mind sucking it up through a bit of a talking simulator, but this one was bad on so many levels. The excessively flowery dialogue, the jarring style and tonal shifts, and the faux-sarcastic self-referential "humor" that just came across as "Original: the Pretentious Indie Game (Do Not Steal)". Granted this game's storyline, if it even exists, is really hard to follow so I wasn't super invested in continuity but it all really spoiled the latter half of the game for me.

[@Freda_Productions]

the fact that the final level is an easy one is kinda anticlimactic honestly

[@BortLoco]

I don't have a problem with that at all personally, the level is there only to advance the story which is one of the game's stronger points

[@Freda_Productions]

@@BortLoco alr

[@JacobTheCroc]

WOG2 is EGS exclusive. Well, time for the game to die and in a year get a steam release with everyone forgetting it existed. Almost as if the Devs wanted this game to fail.

[@BortLoco]

This is a way to catastrophize things. There is regardless a community around this game which wouldn't have existed without Epic Games funding it. I do think a Steam release would've been great, but right now we just have to make do with what we get.

[@JacobTheCroc]

@@BortLoco You do realise most people refuse to buy games on EGS? The only way they earn money is though fortnite and it's store as it causes a massive comp amongst kids who are willing to buy vbucks for limited time cosmetic items. Those kids won't be interested in buying anything that isn't in Fortnite, won't be interested in buying games on that launcher either, plus there is genuinely no incentive to use that launcher over steam so in long term, nobody will buy it except for the DRM free version on their website which is what I might end up getting.

[@BortLoco]

@@JacobTheCroc Epic funded the game, that's how it got made. I am grateful for that even though it's not the exclusivity we wanted. If only Steam would follow suit.

[@JacobTheCroc]

@@BortLoco Epic only funded it to be exclusive. Steam doesn't do that.

[@AdrianZapata-c2j]

Try playing moms computer on Wii.

[@ttaffred]

Remember my 6 y.o. self building all over the top of the MOMs level to see what‘s up there. Only when i was 17 (when i was nostalgia replay session) i managed to do this only to find one single sign 🫠

[@BortLoco]

I could never do that lmao, I know there is a sign way up there but my tower would just buckle without knowing how close I got

[@UndefinedFantasticCat]

@@BortLoco you can use tall blocks, you need twice as less than with squares, and it's not that hard to make the straight pillar not buckle at all, patience is key