Mu Complex

This is a really interesting game. Just know that you will be using the "ls" command a lot. The game will also make you use real world things so it is quite awesome.

No es el típico juego de puzzles, eso es lo que me fascina de este juego. Bastante entretenido, que te pone a pensar por horas para obtener una respuesta jaja. Definitivamente no me arrepiento de jugarlo, ta cool.

I want to preface this with a caveat: This is a [b]hesitant recommendation[/b]. When this originally came out on Kongregate years ago, the internet was in a different place. Certain puzzles [i]can no longer be solved[/i] via their intended means, such as a Twitter bot or a newspaper article. However, in both cases the Steam forums or guides will be your friend. Don't be afraid to look something up; the game already expects you to solve some puzzles via searching the internet. With that out of the way, let me say that this is a really clever game with a neat premise. Perhaps a little [i]too[/i] clever for its own good, but more on that later. The mechanic of looking through a computer's files (in-game) to obtain background information, clues, and solutions [i]does[/i] follow through with the notion that you're "becoming a hacker". Of course, this is nothing like Uplink or games which feature huge networks or faux social settings. It is simply going going from computer to computer on the Mu Complex network to figure out what's going on and possibly uncover some secrets. There [i]are not[/i] "hundreds of emails" to read. At a rough guess I'd say there's like 40. This is not a large game, though Episode 2 is longer and more difficult than the first. I spent maybe an hour and a half on the first one, and upwards of 5 hours on the second cause I ran into several puzzles I couldn't initially wrap my brain around. That leads to one of my biggest criticisms: the hints are both terribly vague and take upwards of 16 minutes to unlock depending on the puzzle/computer. When all you wanted was a better understanding of how, say, the bot puzzles worked in Episode 2 and nothing was leaping out.. that's when I was forced to go watch a gameplay walkthrough to see the commands in action. My completely failing to notice the bot is initially positioned [i]downwards[/i] did not help, but that is completely on. :D By and large I think the game is just fine and enjoyed most of my time with it. [b]It's a shame there will never be an Episode 3[/b] that it was so heavily pushing towards, because not nearly enough people could finish the game (in the developers own words) to warrant their time and money making it. That's why I said I felt the game was trying too hard to be clever; it shot itself in the foot. [i]It's not a bad game,[/i] but it has run afoul of the passage of time and some puzzles simply being too obtuse for their own good. I still have no clue how you're expected to discover the password for Olivier Riddle's computer, for instance. The other, and this is a big one, shortcoming is that the game is [i]prone to crashing.[/i] Often doing so during cinematics such as the game's opening logos or the end of Episode 1. Sometimes it will simply crash when I've tabbed out for a few minutes. When it does so, [i]I have to revalidate the files[/i] for whatever reason. But it works and I can move on. Please consider waiting for a sale if you wish to try it. Just be aware of these things.