Q.U.B.E. is a fantastic little indie title from Toxic Games.
You can buy the game from Steam, Desura, and gamersgate.
Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion has a clean aesthetic. White, bright colours and clean lines. The game looks brilliant, nothing special, but it is simple and just works.
There isn't a story as such, you simply wake up in an elevator, once it stops you are let into a room with challenges you need to complete to precede to the next level. The story is yours to figure out as the game simply throws challenges at you.
The challenges, as one would expect, start of easy, and then proceeded to get much much harder. The gloves on your hands control the coloured blocks.
Making the red ones go in or come out three block, the yellow form stairs and the blue launches you through the air. There are many more, but those are for you to figure out.
The blocks must all be used together, using one to reach the other to push the third, block riding, gravity bending and rotating entire rooms are all things you can expect in this puzzler.
Unfortunately I did come across a fairly annoying bug. On one level, there is a section towards the end, where if you fail too many times, the blocks are too offset to win the level, and you have to restart the entire level from the beginning. Other parts of this level have a reset button on the wall that return the blocks to their original position, but it seems to be missing from this section for whatever reason.
Apart from that the game is a work of art, a puzzle that requires critical and spacial thinking to solve.
Of course, it does share many things with Portal from valve, and we could not go though this without discussing that fact.
The bottom line is, Portal was a brilliant game, and being inspired by it Q.U.B.E. is no different.
The gaming world needs more creative games along the lines of Q.U.B.E..
It has its own atmosphere and it is fantastic, its only missing a story, something to edge the player on to find out more about the mysterious blocks and the suit he seems to be wearing, but it is a small notch in a game as fine as this.
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