Quantum Odyssey

As someone with a fair depth of knowledge about quantum stuff, I am so amazed at how the developer has managed to materialise the truly mind boggling features of qubits into a very visual puzzle game. On the other hand, I am equal parts vexed by the distinct lack of edge my education in this field gives me at solving the puzzles ! It just goes to show that quantum stuff is counterintuitive for everyone, and is therefore an equal opportunity supplier of confusion. To reiterate. You do not need any kind of scientific background in order to play this, but you do need to be ready to face some challenging puzzles that require you to build intuition progressively. If you do want to delve more into the science of it, the game comes with tons of actual documentation on the subject, which is well worth reading. A solid recommendation for anyone who enjoys abstract logic puzzles.

I dislike the game. I got through the beginner puzzles and some of the easy ones. The problems themselves are similar to ones I did for homework for my computing degree. You have a function, the function takes some input, you define to functions behavior by filling out its body. You have operations like "then, flip the third bit". The whole web of colors and lines is a distraction and mostly detrimental to look at past the first couple. There's missing UX. On a puzzle, I have built in gates (green and yellow Xs). I want to know what they do, so I can design a solution. I mouse over the gates, no pop up. I click on the gates. I right click. Still no name still no info. I open the in game encyclopedia. None of the entries have pictures listed. I read each entry to try and find a match. It (seems?) I haven't unlocked the gate officially and can't learn what it does. I search online for at the the name (searching "quantumn odyssey green and yellow x gate") and get nothing relevant. The writing and frequent quotations are tacky and overdone. The gist is "you are a smart person so smart because you play this game". Other games I enjoy in this genre (opus magnum, factorio loosely, human resource machine, golfing in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, etc..) pull me in by being intriguing/compelling within the first hour of gameplay. This is unable to deliver a compelling mechanism or satisfying puzzle solve in the first hour, and so I will not continue playing it even though other reviews and marketing promise a big payoff down the road. TLDR, you could take the core puzzle of this game, and put it somewhere very boring, like a mostly static html page with links for the puzzles, and dropdowns for the gates, and it would be improved -- free of the slop around it.

Early rating to spread it across steam while the sale is still active Loving it, it's a brilliant puzzle game. Unlike the actual study of it, it's Intuitive as said, easily translatable to irl terms ect. It's actually kind of amazing. So with that it's a must, especially if you like zach games (although you don't get to code) I'm unsure about the scoring. It may be based on just unlocking all gates, then coming back to x level, but they do say it's a mess and may be changed in the next update. So I wouldn't focus too much on the number at the moment. If you have it on 8x speed and 1 cycle fails before you pause or slow it down, then you lose points and have to restart anyway, kinda bad imo. Game? Confident recommendation

I want to recommend this game, but it's very hard to in its current state, especially for nearly $20 usd. While the puzzles are fun for a while, there are some interface elements which massively detract from QOL while playing. - No easy "back to level select" from a puzzle if you want to change up what you're doing. Gotta back out to main menu then back in. - Stuttery flashy visuals which cause eye strain - Long tedious puzzle unlock animations - No tooltips when hovering over gates (PLEASE) - No hotkeys for placing gates (ALSO PLEASEEE) - Zooming in and out feels clunky especially when displaying values On that note, why are we rounding 1/sqrt2? At least having a toggle of sqrt2 to a negative exponent would be very nice. A game would be the perfect place to explore movement around the bloch sphere via nice animations, especially alongside one qubit systems. Kinda a missed opportunity. Instead you're meant to read tedious blocks of text for something that can really be quite intuitive. In retrospect, I would've waited for a 50% off sale to grab it.

Will probably go back to uni at some point in the next couple of years, specifically because this game reminded me how fun REALLY REALLY DIFFICULT physics is.

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Approachable, cleverly fun, and educational. Would love a Mac port if possible, this kind of game would be great on that platform!

Great game, good for logic puzzles. I would highly recomend.