Total Reload

A robot plummets from a transporter high above the ground, its descent ending in a violent crash that knocks its systems offline. When the internal repair software finally completes its automated routine and the machine reboots, the artificial intelligence that governs it, an entity known as Hawking—, makes a startling discovery. Although the robot’s central processor survived the impact, the repair process has split the AI into two operational halves. Hawking still possesses control over cognition, speech, and reasoning, but the robot’s motor functions, its ability to walk, interact, and manipulate the environment, are no longer under its command. Instead, those functions have somehow been assigned to you. Hawking is your sole companion in this desolate facility, and your relationship with it evolves as you progress through the world. It reveals fragments of its purpose, its history, and its mission, though not always in a straightforward manner. Throughout the environment, you’ll encounter mysterious symbols etched into walls and panels. These symbols become conversation triggers: by focusing on one, you can ask Hawking a question tied to that symbol’s meaning or context. The game’s central mechanic revolves around energy transmitters—small pedestals rising from the floor and marked with a lightning-bolt emblem. Interacting with a transmitter causes the same icon to appear on your interface, indicating that you’re now holding an “imaginary wire,” a kind of flexible energy link. With this wire, you can create power connections between the transmitter and other elements within a room: doors, switches, elevators, or any device featuring the matching bolt symbol on its surface. When you successfully connect two points, a visible wire materializes, forming a live electrical link. Disconnecting or rerouting power is simple. If you decide that a connection isn’t useful, you can sever it with a button press or carry the wire to a different outlet. The mechanic becomes inventive when you realize that the system allows for persistent connections. For example, suppose a transmitter powers a door. You can open the door, grab the wire from the outlet beside it, and walk through the doorway while still holding the wire. The door remains powered until you reassign the connection elsewhere. It’s even possible to swap wires between devices without interrupting their energy flow. Most power links use blue transmitters, the standard energy nodes. However, you will also encounter red transmitters, which function differently. A red transmitter comes with at least one pre-attached wire that cannot be removed, while the other is either red or blue, though only one of these outputs can be active at a time. Some devices require a single energy source, while others demand multiple. This limitation is what turns simple wiring into true puzzle-solving, forcing you to choose which device receives power at a given moment. Puzzle rooms branch off from the primarily linear main stage, and progress is frequently gated until you complete the challenges within these rooms. Entry into puzzle zones is handled through black, inactive screens that act as portals. These same screens also let you travel between distant sections of the main facility, gradually revealing how vast and interconnected the environment truly is. However, you're always pushing forward, and there's no backtracking. Inside each puzzle chamber, your objective remains the same, which is to deliver the required number of blue energy connections to the exit screen. Doing so sends power back into the facility’s central hub, unlocking new pathways in the main stage and bringing you one step closer to your ultimate destination. As you delve deeper, you’re introduced to energy cubes, which you can manipulate using a specialized tool. When placed near large black tiles on floors or walls, these cubes activate the tiles, energizing smaller adjacent tiles that serve as new wiring anchors. Later, they can be used to block laser beams and either activate or deactivate moving platforms and elevators. Distance is irrelevant for wire placement, the system will automatically route the connection even across large gaps, though barriers like metal grids can block your passage while carrying wires. Similarly, forcefields will prevent you from moving through them when holding a cube. Despite the complexity of its puzzles, the game remains remarkably fair. Falling off platforms into the liquid below doesn’t result in significant punishment; you respawn close to your last safe position, retaining all your progress. There’s no repetitive backtracking or repeating the steps you’ve already done. Puzzles are smart, occasionally requiring timing and some platforming skills, but they’re all manageable. Overall, the game has generous content, and it'll take you around 8-10 hours. The main critique is the voice, which sounds monotone and robotic. While that’s understandable given the context, it could still be improved. Additionally, the absence of secrets, achievements, or even little things that would reveal more about the lore makes the game quite boring. You’re just going through puzzle rooms and listening to a robotic voice until you come the end.

While I did get stuck in a couple of puzzles, I really enjoyed this game! I love the music in it (has a few different rotations which is a plus in my book) and the puzzles are unique! Can't wait to play more of it!

The game is super dope. If you’re into puzzle games, this one’s an absolute must-play. The level design is insanely clever. I love how the game keeps introducing new mechanics without overexplaining anything. It just throws you in and lets you figure things out on your own, which makes it insanely satisfying when everything finally clicks. Visually and sound-wise it’s on point too: the atmosphere really pulls you in and helps you stay focused on the puzzles. No useless fluff — just a clean, stylish vibe that fits the genre perfectly. 100% recommended for puzzle nerds.

Total Reload is a puzzle game full of increasingly complex switch, lever,and gate puzzles. It's first person, features some simple but polished graphics with a spacey robot theme. Gets hard! But fun. Starts simple but gets complex as more interlocking and sequential layers are added. Definitely worth checking out if you're a puzzle gamer. For more niche curation, follow me at: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27440015-CSH-Picone/ Want more honest niche & indie reviews? Check out: https://www.cshpicone.com/gaming

This was my free key from Endix. I tried to like this but I became bored fast. It didn't seem as fun as portal imo.

I ended up winning this game in a drawing and was eager to see what sort of game a two man team could put together. Total Reload plays on the nostalgia of Portal with its focus on logic puzzles. The demo mainly shows off the wire puzzles, but once you dig into the core of the game different mechanics are introduced with energy cubes, lasers, and gravity switches which slowly step up the difficulty and complexity of the puzzles. Visually definitely dated, but it doesn't get in the way of the experience and the voice acting was as expected from a project of this scope. The puzzles were entertaining and I sunk about ten hours into my first completion (though I can't remember if I left the gaming running unnecessarily so that number could be off) The progression of the puzzles was fine and I feel a lot of people will breeze through the beginning section of the game with little to no difficulty. The challenge does increase with each "stage" and I'd say once you acquire the gun it'll be more noticeable. There were moments where I would need to stop and think about what I was doing or even stop the game and walk away after I had a proper think. I enjoyed it though because it wasn't easy and I understood the choices I was making to solve the puzzles. Meaning, I wasn't able to brute force my way through. My only CON during my play time is I wish stages were more defined because I had no idea how far into the game I was at any given time. I don't know why, but it bothered me not being to gauge how far into the process I was. I really was Hawking connecting wires and dropping cubes with no clue to how close I was getting to the trigger.

[h2]前言：Total Reload？！Total Reload！！[/h2] 当看到本作的第一眼相信很多人和我一样，直接幻视"传送门"系列。无论是纯白的房间，还是宣传图中主角拿着的那把酷似《portalgun》的武器，都不难看出作者确实从中汲取了一定的灵感。但实际体验下来不难发现其实整体区别还是较大的。 [h2]剧情：我是谁？我在哪？[/h2] 首先从故事层面来看，本作的叙事方向与《传送门》并不相同。它并未着眼于因企业恩怨而酿成的人工智能悲剧，而是有些接近于《塔洛斯的法则》那样，围绕“宇宙”这一本身就充满哲学韵味的主题展开。玩家在游戏中醒来，发现自己身处一个秩序崩坏、混乱不堪的环境，可说是灾难中的灾难。而你作为一名孤独的人工智能，必须独自探寻这一切背后的真相。 [h2]玩法：赛博马里奥会梦到电子2077吗？[/h2] 在玩法方面游戏的整体机制非常好懂。玩家需要通过接电的方式打开一扇扇锁住的门，最后打开传送装置一点点朝着终点迈进。流程中我们可以获得一把形式"portalgun"的武器，不过它的实际作用并非是穿越空间，而是能够吸附住一些玩家无法拾取的铁方块来辅助破解每一关中的各类谜题，没错，实际上它是一把重力枪！ [h2]解谜：好——但话又说回来了[/h2] 而谈到谜题，本作的表现可以说是好坏参半。其谜题本身质量不低，甚至展现出比较高水准的设计思路，挑战性十足还很锻炼思维能力。但对于谜题的把控程度可以感觉是有些失衡的，加上游戏的引导存在着比较大的问题，几乎为零的模糊指引再搭配上大面积纯白色的布景，很容易就会让我在解谜过程中犯迷糊。 举个例子就是游戏中的接电线玩法，我一开始完全没弄明白右键和E的互动到底有什么用？研究了好一会才明白，原来是两个供电口，玩家做的就是切换电路输出，接着搭好线了后用鼠标右键切换。我想这应该和最影响游戏体验的粤语和字幕的缺字有关系，游戏中的字幕缺字非常严重，虽然有中文但却是粤语配音，这让我一个粤语苦手在游玩过程中会非常吃力。我去听，听不懂，我低头看字幕……又少了几个字。 [h2]总结[/h2] 在《Total Reload》中能够看到不少解谜游戏的影子，并自身也展现出不错的水平。玩家作为一名人工智能，在这个乱七八糟的世界中探寻真相。玩法虽然是以简单的接电解谜推进，但谜题设计的还挺精良，富有挑战性。但在谜题难度把控上有些失衡，结合引导严重缺失与纯白环境很容易让人感到迷糊。此外，严重的字幕缺字也影响着玩家的游戏体验。如果制作组能够将这些问题逐一修复，那么本作确实是一款不可多得的优秀作品。 [quote]欢迎关注『 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45525570/] 桃你欢心 [/url]』 [b] 桃影扶风评百戏，落墨如歌写人间[/b][/quote]

dude! if you like to think with your head play this game. Good gameplay, good soundtrack, and a good story.

Total Reload is a good experience in the puzzle game genre. You help an AI (not the bad kind that steal artists' work on the internet, don't worry) to reload the universe and start it all from 0 again. In order to do so, you jump from room to room and plug cables to finish a grand mechanism. The puzzles gets increasingly harder and new mechanics get added regularly to keep the concept fresh, such as gravity changes, presure plates or lasers... The game also feeds you some lore about its world, which is a nice addition and adds to the immersion. In my opinion, there is a couple of QUOL improvement that could be made, but nothing that hinders the gameplay itself or the overall experience. The gameplay loop can become a little repetitive and sometimes I felt a lack of clarity as my overall progression in the game. But its lengh does not make those issues impossible to overcome. Overall, I would say that this game is a good experience, especially for puzzle game enthusiasts who like to scratch their brains once in a while. You never get stuck really long on a puzzle and some solutions can be really clever. Even if Total Reload did not reinvent anything in the puzle game genre, what it does, it does well and for that, I say great job to the devs! If this sounds like the kind of game you would enjoy, you should definitely give it a try!

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