THE MULLER-POWELL PRINCIPLE

What I wanted was a cool sciency game in the vein of Portal and Half Life with some unique mechanics and puzzles. And The Muller-Powell Principle is kind of that. The issue is that it seems to have forgotten what makes solving puzzles fun - and that's solving them. The game has a huge amount of potential that's constantly squandered by characters who suffer from 'won't shut the ♥♥♥♥ up syndrome' and talk to you non-stop spoiling exploration, puzzles, the story, etc. I have extremely low patience for any game that doesn't respect my intelligence enough to play their game and feels the constant need to lead me around like a little baby. If I wanted someone to always tell me everything that was going on, I'd be reading a book. It certainly doesn't help that the voice acting is really not up to par and the graphics have that weird Unreal Engine blobbiness that's pretty hard on the eyes. Maybe if a patch released that turned off all the constant chatter I could give this another go, but it's gonna be a no from me dawg. So sad, because this is exactly the type of game I should fall in love with.

The good: The graphics are OK, and the premise of being on a space station going through a spooky disaster is an appealing story. The gun is a cool concept. The bad: - It's as if it didn't have playtesters separate to the developers who already know the levels. Even basic navigation through the levels is mostly painful and not intuitive. - The story / dialogue is fairly weak. - There's not much going on / the world seems pretty empty. Unfortunately I can't at all recommend it in the slightest. If they ever make a sequel then maybe it would address the issues and be good, but currently it seems unfinished.

it's like a 2/10 indie project being sold as a legitimate game

I know there are hard spots, but if you like portal like games with a little more, then this is the game for you.

I've been trying to finish this game for months. Every time I play it I get bored after about 10-15 minutes so I don't recommend it. I had to mute the voices once the annoying yank woman started moaning on the radio constantly, I will probably never complete this but I hope there is an option to kill her at the end of the game if I do.

What if you mix Half-Life, Portal, and a little of BioShock? You get Muller-Powell. A good game, with a ton of references to the games listed above. The story is quite convoluted, but at the same time interesting. I read all the notes and all the emails on the computers (to my surprise). Perhaps that's the only reason I understood the story better. It's clear that this is an indie game and the budget is very limited, but I would have liked the story to be told through gameplay and some dialogue or cutscenes, rather than notes. But what can you do, notes are everywhere now. The graphics are quite nice. You can carry all sorts of things, which comes in handy for solving many puzzles. I got stuck on 2-3 levels in the entire game because their solutions were kind of absurd, in my opinion. The levels are completely different, and I personally didn't get bored with them. I've completed all the endings. I wonder which one is considered canon. I got all the achievements. The one about the electric kettle was the funniest, especially when, towards the end of the game, I found a real photo in a frame with a melted kettle. I definitely recommend playing it.

I bought this game for $7.49 during the Winter Sale and it was worth it. Fun game, good concept, interesting story. However, there are a few negatives: 1. Some of the puzzles are not intuitive at all. I spent at least 30 minutes trying to solve one puzzle and I eventually just brute forced it because there were no reasonable clues given 2. There are only autosaves. There was one point where it had been 20-30 minutes since my last save and the game crashed. That sucked. (It was at the color puzzle right before the achievement "That's a bit immoral" - which was also a puzzle without any real clues. This is not against the publishers, but a warning to those who play this: The walkthroughs on YouTube are out of date. Sometimes they match the puzzles in the game, sometimes they don't. However, overall this is a fun game. It has Half Life/Portal vibes in the best way.

It's a kind of Portal game where you are playing a sort of Gordon Freeman like scientist. With a lot of multi-dimensional ideas. If you like this type of game with great graphics and awesome lines to listen to... the game is for you. It's a shame than the game didn't had more visibility on steam.

Видимо разработчики данной игры вдохновились играми Portal и Half Life Xen. Я по крайней мере много увидела от туда разных отсылок. Вселенная ктулфу так же нас преследует постоянно. В игре есть три концовки. Что до геймплея, в некоторых местах мне хотелось убить разработчиков! Или просто разбить клавиатуру в дребезги! Ах да, имейте ввиду что на уровне с огромным большим кристаллом у вас будет горизонтальная выдвижная платформа, а не вертикальная. Бог в помощь и по больше нервов для решения этой самой отвратительной головоломки. В общем то рекомендую игру однозначно купить и по играть.

Pros: • Generally good game with [b]Half-Life 1[/b] vibes. Although it reminds me [b]Soma[/b] and [b]Moons of Madness[/b] too. Cons: • Some game-breaking bugs • Some unnecessarily high difficulty peaks Summary: An OK game, but require some polishing. And TESTING.