The Gaming Vault Review: Spelunky (XBLA)

When people talk about Spelunky they far too often refer to it as some sort of ‘death-grind’, where all you do is spawn and die and that’s somehow that’s the single, solitary hook that keeps you playing like some sort of brutal exercise in platforming S&M.

For me, it wasn’t the notion of getting flat-lined just to try again that kept me coming back, it was something a little more subtle than that; the concepts of greed versus survival and risk versus reward... 9/10

[kasasensei]

I'm waiting for Platformines, which will be much better for me! :D

[segamon]

you may want to also try:

PLATFORMANCE: Temple Death
PLATFORMANCE: Castle Pain

their both on Indie Games

anyway, Spelunky is awesome.