Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut

Fiddly, glitchy, unreliable. The slow reaction of the controls and blocks boils my blood. Maybe I lack the brains to get past sector 6, but the molasses game feel is absolutely not helping me think...

Это какая то тотальная хуетень, ситуация с игрой стала ещё хуже. Теперь мы играем за куколда, который молчит и слушает женский голос прямо как в Firewatch. Мне нравилась она только из-за своей абсурдности, туманности, ничего не ясно, кто мы, что мы, 0 звуков, 0 музыки, просто какой то сеанс забвения среди кислотных головоломок, а в конце после супер душного ломания мозгов, красиво улетал в космос, но теперь это штука, которая пытается в сюжет и хочет быть чем то большим, чем скромная инди головоломка про цветные кубики.

A short, highly enjoyable first-person puzzle game, similar to Portal.

Q.U.B.E's a sci-fi themed puzzler that was lovingly assembled by people who very clearly adored the Portal games. It has a very similar clinical (but appealing) aesthetic and narrative framings while also inheriting some of the physics based puzzling. It was a decent challenge (granted I'm not great at puzzle games), I found the plot intriguing, and I enjoyed the atmosphere as well as the music, but it isn't anything you haven't seen before if you've played a decent number of post Portal puzzlers OR engaged with even a slight amount of sci-fi. But I will give it points for the ending, which I quite liked. If you're a casual puzzle game fan, there's a good evenings time to be found here, particularly worth it on sale I'd say.

This review will be covering Q.U.B.E., I will talk here about the Director's Cut, but primarily I will focus on the original. Spoiler alerts for future sectors and their design! Q.U.B.E. is one of the most unique games with lost potential due to the developers losing ideas after one game. A big space station, rebuilding every minute, with tons of puzzles, and your glove, the thing that will help you get through and escape. The art-style in the original is the most unique in the series. White blocks, everywhere, sometimes moving, after you get into Sector 6, the same blocks become broken, most of the time you see them collapsed, with the insides visible. And oh boy, Sector 6. Sector 6 and its predecessor, Sector 5, is the best sectors in the series due to the atmosphere. Sector 5 starts with pitch-black, and only yellow, green, red and blue blocks that can glow and show you where to go, but sometimes even they can be disabled, making you play around with switches to enable and disable them. This puzzle was unique, and it was cut from 10th anniversary, which is why I prefer the original over the so called "ultimate celebration". Sector 6, also dark, most of the time broken, and most of the time claustrophobic, And looking retrospectively on Tough Going, I can say that it wasn't all that bad, however yes, the "grid snapping" for magnets in QUBE2, and for the reason of asset-reuse, in QUBE 10th would help a lot, but even with that, Tough Going is a challenge, yes, a hard one, sometimes random, but it's awesome, and you do feel like you made it through the biggest challenge in the game. The soundtrack is just awesome. One of my favorite tracks from the game, Out of The Darkness, gives the right atmosphere to all that, and same goes for all sectors. And the final cherry-on-top feature - Against The Qlock. The true DLC for Q.U.B.E., not those cheap puzzles from sequel. You got levels that are based on the campaign's sectors, and even two space levels, which is just awesome, and a timer. Yes, you race in this DLC, but it's real fun to learn new tricks and paths to get the golden medal in all levels. Director's Cut, the version you buy, is the same Q.U.B.E. with storyline taped into it, some puzzles changed, Tough Going shortened, soundtrack changed and Against The Qlock built in. It's nothing too big, but I do recommend playing the original first, since it has all the stuff in it. If you love puzzle games, you should give Q.U.B.E. a try.

The best puzzle game ever. It's the game of my childhood 🤍 I recommend it to everyone who hasn't played it yet or is hearing about it for the first time! ⬜️ Immerse yourself in this atmospheric cubic world and solve puzzles ⬜️

Its a small puzzle game in the same genre as portal, talos principle and others. But the puzzles can be a bit fiddle to solve. You have no tutorials or anything that helps you. Just figure it out by yourself...

Decend 3D puzzler. Scratches a similar itch as portal, though obviously it's not made by a massive studio.