Q*bert: Rebooted

OMG - They have made the already frustrating control scheme multiple times worse! Digital pads are way too easy to throw Q*Bert straight up or down when you mean to jump in a diagonal ....and the analogue stick simply won't move until you hit the extremely small sweet spot for the direction you are attempting; imagine three Coilys on the screen at once barrelling down on you and you can't move! An autotargeting assist feature is required; auto jumping the player in the most sensible direction taking consideration the player's input at that place and time. I'm also curious as to why so many enemies drop onto the stage at one time and at VERY questionable moments...it feels a bit 'Ha ha, F**k you!'

I'm glad they put the classic version, but the configuration of the gameplay are bad compare to the arcade and colleco vision. The reboot version have a bad level design compare to the Playstation one Qbert. PSone Qbert have canon, arrow good balance of ennemis. The challenge where put on a good level desing not crappy acheivement and not on crappy time record, stars and unfair méchanic with unbalance ennemis. The green creature who where use to reset color are over use and unfair compare to the original franchise. The new levels are too small and repétitive, poor soundtrack compare to Psone version. The fun factor are not there. Psone version, the nes version, the old nintendo Gameboy black and white and Atari Qbert where better. A plateformer with Qbert could have been nicer than that. Psone version : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp52W0oNInw

This game is broken.

Wow, what a disappointment. Let me say that the only reason I bought this was because I played it on PlayStation. The P.C. version is weak by comparison. The music is lame and uninspiring, and the controls are ridiculous. I almost have to wonder if Sony deliberately had the developers make the port purposefully crap. Playing on PlayStation and the music was energetic electronica, not the elevator music drivel that made its way into the P.C. version. And the controls, on the PlayStation the stick would highlight the cube you planned to jump to and so you could be more careful when you hit the jump button. On P.C. you just have to hope you are tilting the stick “juuust right” while it jumps for you. To be fair I have never played Qbert in the arcade so I don’t know which control setup is closer to the original, but really couldn’t both have been made available? Sorry, but short of an update or a refund this is not staying installed.

Das Spiel habe ich schon als ich noch jung war auf dem alten C64 von Commodore gespielt, es ist ein Muß für PC Spieler meiner Generation und ich bin sehr froh das ich es hier bei Steam kaufen konnte.

This has classic Q-bert which I grew up on and a quest type q-bert which is something to get use to..I used to do these with a joy stick so trying with a mouse without falling off the sides is a challenge but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty cool. They did a really good job on it. Thank you for bringing this back.

Q*Bert Rebooted is a barely playable, mobile port cash-in with no redeeming qualities. Q*Bert Rebooted was clearly mobile first, arbitrary progress gates and unlock systems are shoehorned in, options menus are hastily tacked on and controller support is sloppily implemented. Levels were designed for a touch screen, using hexagons rather than squares to create more paths around the pyramid, a design choice they completely failed to attach to any form of control method. Mouse or gamepad it didn’t matter, Q*Bert is sluggish and hard to control, if it decides to move at all. In a classic arcade game where consistent movement and score chasing are the primary methods of player engagement, the only way they could stuff up any more would be, say, not having online leaderboard support, another feat managed in this shell of a game. The music is repetitive, the sound effects annoying and the graphics uninspired, lacking any real charm. The original Q*Bert showed more character just by fuzzily swearing at every death. The classic Q*Bert is included in the package but it is botched as well, a remake rather than a direct port of the arcade code and somehow done worse. Controls are again an issue, you must use diagonal presses even though you only have four movement directions, even the Game Boy port 25 years ago let you use four directions. More time was spent on Q*Bert Rebooted coming up with zany new characters and outfits than on making a decent game, a horrid example of putting premium currency farming ahead of gaming experience. When you strip out that premium currency and instead charge five bucks for the whole package, it just becomes an embarrassing grind. This is an absolute disaster in every sense and needs to be resisted by anybody who may hold any affection for the original Q*Bert.

To the next group of people to try to redo Q*Bert-do better!