Quadrilateral Cowboy

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a fantastic and unforgettable game. This is something every imsim fan should play. It touched me in a way few games do, inspiring new thoughts about game design, what's possible, and what should be.

A very fun game about planning and executing heists with all the gizmos at your disposal, and activating them through command lines. It's very refreshing from typical puzzle games, with an amazing wordless storytelling you piece together by taking the time to inspect details, pictures, texts hidden here and there, diving further into that bizarre dystopian universe full of captured memories, simple pleasures and smuggling cats. An indie game i warmly recommend.

Too many games are too cowardly to have working mirrors and show your character in them. Not this one. 1/1, would gawk at character in the mirror again. 🥰 Also it's a very fun game.

I purchased this game nearly 10 years, and barely touched it. After sorting through my steam library I found it again and thought I would give it a shot. It was a marvelous experience, the whole ascetic it goes for with the graphics and music is sublime. My favorite aspect is the complete lack of dialogue which gets replaced with lots of informative signs and stickers. I will admit I had a couple bugs here and there that would require me to restart a level, but all in all a really enjoyable game.

This game offers very unique hacking gameplay and mechanics. Each heist is a puzzle solved with your increasing array of tools, and they're quite satisfying to solve. The game's environments are highly interactable, which encourages creativity in getting into areas and completing missions. The gameplay falls a bit short of its full potential, however. The game would've benefitted from additional, more complex missions that really make the most out of all of its pieces. While what is in the title is really enjoyable, another game using the same mechanics or a mod could eventually deliver on what Quadrilateral Cowboy falls just shy of. The visual design is effective at communicating the function of game elements. The presentation is certainly memorable, offering an analog sci-fi/spy thriller aesthetic found only in other Blendo Games titles. However, some elements fall a bit short, such as tall buildings clearly cutting off at the bottom of the map or the occasional empty background. While it's likely these are in part limitations of the id Tech 4 engine, they're distracting in a game where most levels are set on top of skyscrapers. Regardless, the presentation is otherwise so idiosyncratic and endearing that the graphical shortcomings do not dampen the experience. I find it unfortunate that this game is not more widely known. I made the mistake of letting this game simmer in my wishlist for some time. Try not to be like me.

It is a cute little heist game. And while it starts with having you execute code to enable you to pull off your heists, it quickly moves away from that to new methods that aren't as fun or engaging in my opinion. The game is also terribly short. I completed it in 4 hours and I went around exploring in levels and redoing a few levels to get a faster time. Maybe get it on a sale when it is only a few dollars. But I feel the $10 I spent were not at all worth it.

This game is great; I wish it was longer.

Blendo games has been on my radar for a long time as a quality developer that is capable of making a meaningful and fun game despite lower-tier graphics. I played one of Blendos previous titles: Atom Zombie Smasher many years ago and it immediately struck me as an exceptional game which looked rudimentary initially but had exceptional depth and replay value years later. I picked up Quadrilateral Cowboy when I saw it on sale mostly due to my positive experience with Atom, and also because of the well made trailer, interesting premise, and concise visual design. The full game was completed within 4-5 hours of gameplay, which is a bit short for my liking but I got a deal on the title during a sale so I believe it was worth every penny spent. I absolutely loved the setting and storytelling put forth by Blendo in this game, there is no spoken dialogue or subtitles, yet the story can be understood clearly via situational storytelling and the world in which it takes place is beautifully crafted despite having a low-poly style. The gameplay revolves around "twentieth century cyberpunk" style hacking via a pocket terminal, robotic weevil, remote guncase, CCTV feed links to devices, and more. There's quite a lot of fun to be had while learning the commands and utilizing them better with practice. This is amplified after you notice that your time to complete each level is posted on an in-game thematic mini-leaderboard linked to your Steam friends that have also played the game, so you can refine your techniques and blast through the heists faster than your buddy for bragging rights which is a neat way to add replay value to a game that has a short career mode. I can definitely see myself re-installing this game in the future to experience it again.