
Prepare to embark on a journey of reflection, where you’ll seek answers to profound questions and uncover the ultimate truth: What truly lies within the black box?
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Prepare to embark on a journey of reflection, where you’ll seek answers to profound questions and uncover the ultimate truth: What truly lies within the black box?
In a world overwhelmed by stress, information overload, and endless media, our minds grow weary. This game offers a sanctuary of true intellectual relaxation—a space where you can escape the noise and immerse yourself in a meditative atmosphere. It invites you to ponder questions you haven’t yet thought to ask and guides you toward deeper understanding. No distractions, no endless streams of content—just you, the black box, and the answers it holds.
Prepare to encounter secrets, puzzles, ciphers, and much more. Those with keen eyes and sharp minds will uncover hidden messages and Easter eggs, each layered with deeper meaning and significance.
With patience and focus, you’ll unveil what lies within the enigmatic black box. But the ultimate question remains: was the journey—and the discovery—worth the wait?
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian +1 more
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
Themes across 40 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
This is not a game, this is an advertisement for an upcoming game. This is an advertisement that costs money. This should be free.
Nota Geral [1 a 10]: ⭐ O jogo não é bom! Leia o motivo de estar positivo. Sem sentido e sem objetivo nítido. Existe um ensinamento no MENU que não serve para nada. Recomento somente pelo item steam colecionável que ganhará instantaneamente ao iniciar o game. Até que o desenvolvedor explique o sentido do jogo de forma clara, não compre caso não seja um colecionador de itens. ✼ Jogo: ✅Ruim (nota 1 a 3) 🔲Aceitável (nota 3 a 5) 🔲Bom (nota 6 a 7) 🔲Excelente (nota 8 a 9) 🔲Perfeito (nota 10) ✼ Gráficos: 🔲Ruim (nota 1 a 3) ✅Aceitável (nota 3 a 5) 🔲Bom (nota 6 a 7) 🔲Excelente (nota 8 a 9) 🔲Perfeito (nota 10) ✼ História: ✅Ruim (nota 1 a 3) 🔲Aceitável (nota 3 a 5) 🔲Bom (nota 6 a 7) 🔲Excelente (nota 8 a 9) 🔲Perfeito (nota 10) ✼ Jogabilidade: ✅Ruim (nota 1 a 3) 🔲Aceitável (nota 3 a 5) 🔲Bom (nota 6 a 7) 🔲Excelente (nota 8 a 9) 🔲Perfeito (nota 10) ✼ Trilha sonora e efeitos sonoros: ✅Ruim (nota 1 a 3) 🔲Aceitável (nota 3 a 5) 🔲Bom (nota 6 a 7) 🔲Excelente (nota 8 a 9) 🔲Perfeito de cinema (nota 10) ✼ Complexidade: ✅Necessário ter paciência. 🔲Jogo da velha é mais complexo 🔲Fácil de entender 🔲Fácil de aprender, difícil de dominar ✼ Dificuldade: 🔲Seu PET consegue 🔲Fácil 🔲Mediano 🔲Difícil ✅Impossível porque não é bom. ✼ Tempo de jogo: ✅Até 5 minutos pois depois irá desinstalar. 🔲Até 6 horas 🔲Até 12 horas 🔲Até 48 horas ✼ Bugs: ✅Nenhum pois desinstalei depois de 5 minutos. 🔲Pequenos bugs 🔲Muitos bugs 🔲Pode ficar irritante 🔲Estragou o game ✼ Publico: 🔲Crianças 🔲Adolescentes 🔲Adultos ✅Tudo e todos ✼ Vale a pena comprar? 🔲Sim 🔲Não ✅Compensa somente com desconto caso seja um colecionador de itens steam
"What is in the Black Box?" is a set of short simple puzzles that allows you to interact with a Steam inventory item... and the reward for finishing this short tech demo? You get advertised to. Yes, the Russian asset flippers at SQRT are pushing an advertisement on Steam, for money, with fake/paid reviews on it, so they can then sell another product to try to get your money for a bunch of Unity asset store assets. Let's put the disgusting advertising aspect of this aside and consider what you get for buying this simplistic minimalist "puzzle" advert. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features lazy minimalist/untextured low-polygon "retro" assets and visuals, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. The lack of textures is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, and that's just another reason to avoid it. The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here. This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all). Regardless, for all intents and purposes "What is in the Black Box?" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. "What is in the Black Box?" didn't appeal much to the people who own a copy of the game, either. It has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game didn't really capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Get a Black Box", starting the advertising, trivial to get, but less than 3 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. Hardly a success story, even the people who own this game weren't interested in it. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was [b]only 4 players[/b]. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 130,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this advertisement for another game? Is this one of the best of the 130,000+ games on Steam? "What is in the Black Box?" is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. On a purely unrelated note, recent US FTC rulings mean that review manipulation and fake reviews are now federal crimes. Interesting, isn't it? Regardless... take the review score of this game with a grain of salt. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]
[h3]N'ACHETEZ PAS CA ![/h3] [hr][/hr] [b]NOTE GLOBALE[/b] 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 Jeu fini en 15min sans effort. Aucune recherche, aucune technique, aucun sens, aucun intérêt. Quelle arnaque ! [hr][/hr] [table] [tr][td][b]Gameplay[/b] 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]👍[/b] - ... [/td][td][b]👎[/b] - Enigme creuses - Des texte écrit par une IA bourrée. Ou par des posts Facebook de grande tante de 60 ans. [/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Histoire[/b] ❌[/td][/tr] [tr][td] Aucune histoire [/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Graphismes[/b] 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]👍[/b] - Fais travailler les IA [/td][td][b]👎[/b] - Fais travailler les IA [/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Musique/SoundFX[/b] 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍[/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]👍[/b] - Gamme de do majeure/20 [/td][td][b]👎[/b] - Tout [/td][/tr] [tr][td][b]Prix[/b] 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍[/td][/tr] [tr][td] 1 centime c'est déjà trop. [/td][/tr] [/table] Vidéo Youtube de mon test : https://youtu.be/yVueDcItPjE [i]Cette évaluation ne reflète que mon point de vue sur le contenu et le temps que j'ai consacré au jeu. Il n'est ni objectif, ni absolu.[/i]
adsfgsdgsdghwepiutew0q9uit-02398tn -0weuity09ujew9=0qt unew2089qrtu j09q2euitfjn09sdiajagasfd-]ihgkwa-,d0gi[999u-23q,ke m-unewtmg А потом попробуйте найти в этом глубинный смысл. Нет, не поймите неправильно. Я люблю загадки. Но когда меня заставляют расшифровать рунный алфавит, где буквы не сочетаются с предложением, и ты боишься, что теперь придется ещё и на английском играть... Или я дебил, и все остальные легко поняли, что за 5 символов нужно нажать, чтобы открыть коробку? Проходимость - главный параметр загадки. Здесь загадки слишком разнятся от легких до непроходимых. Извините, это неиграбельно
游戏的想法很好,只是我不知道它想表达什么.....
Нечего не понятно но очень интересно)) будем разбираться
Um die Frage zu beantworten, ob es sich lohnt, heraus zu finden, was in der schwarzen Box ist: meiner Meinung nach nein. Immerhin, das Spiel kann sich freuen in meine Liste der seltsamsten Spiele aufgenommen zu werden. Dabei ist es nicht mal etwas, was das Rad neu erfunden hat oder so. Es gibt viele sehr banale Rätsel, und dann irgendwann eins, was sich nicht lösen lassen möchte. Im Spiel gibt es meiner Meinung nach dafür einen Hinweis, aber ich habe diesen ausprobiert und war damit nicht erfolgreich. Nun, das ist mein Pech. Bin ich halt nicht schlau oder geduldig genug. Wenn man hier durch die Levels wandert, wundert man sich einfach nur. Über hohle Sprüche z.b. Man denkt, da muss doch noch was sinnvolles kommen, aber es bleibt seltsam kalt und komisch. Man startet manche ein zweites Mal und entdeckt weiteren sinnlosen Quatsch. Das Spiel enthält KI generierte Anteile. Mich würde es nicht wundern, wenn es komplett von einer KI erfunden wurde. Das würde dieses seltsame Gefühl erklären, es hier mit etwas zu tun zu haben, was sich nicht wirklich greifen lässt. Emotionslos, irgendwie, kalt, steril. (Wobei ich KI auch schon ganz anders erlebt habe - witzig, tiefgründig - und generell kein Problem mit KI habe.) Aber vielleicht ist es ja genau das, was das Spiel vermitteln möchte. Dann wäre es perfekt gelungen. Mal ein paar Beispiele der Texte (ggf. überspringen, wenn du es noch nicht wissen willst): "Die künstliche Intelligenz hat das genaue Datum berechnet... Moment mal, das ist ein Irrtum. Vergessen Sie es." "die Welt um uns herum ist eine Simulation, aber warum so wenig DLC" "Als Cyberpunk 2077 mit Bugs herauskam, war das kein Fehler. Sie wollten zeigen, wie das System in der realen Welt funktioniert." "Auf Reddit sind Informationen über ein geheimes Spiel aufgetaucht, das die Spieler auffordert, die verborgene Geschichte der Menschheit zu erforschen. Die ersten Leute, die das Finale erreicht haben, berichten von seltsamen... Sorry, der Beitrag wurde aus dem Speicher gelöscht." "Im Juni 2028 kam ein Team von Wissenschaftlern zu dem Schluss, dass Bewusstsein .... Informationen aus ethischen Gründen zurückgehalten. Es tut mir leid." ... *Schulter-zuck-emoji* und sich ausbreitende Gleichgültigkeit Die Errungenschaften funktionieren auch nicht. Aber immerhin, ich bin jetzt im Besitz einer schwarzen Kiste und einem Schlüssel (steam Inventar). Zwei soll man im Spiel noch irgendwie finden, um sie zu öffnen?! Vielleicht bin ich in ein paar Jahren ja würdig und der Geisteslichtblitz trifft mich noch. Danke dennoch für 3 Stunden Seltsamkeit. Wirklich weiter empfehlen kann ich das aber nicht.
Чёрная коробочка. Не знаю что еще сказать. Сложные загадки уровня ЧГК
к сожалению, не оценил
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