The Entropy Centre

mostly just walking along rewinding falling objects, no danger or thought. then a handfull of puzzles scattered between.

Game started GREAT! Graphics and sound are fantastic! Then you are introduced to the mechanics of the game and the puzzles begin. So far everything is great and I'm thinking to myself: "Finally, I've found a good puzzle game". No sooner said, and it turned into YUCK! WHY? Because, just as I was feeling how great this WAS going to be, it turned into an Arcade game. Remember arcade games? They are programmed so that you die and have to pump more quarters in to see just what the programmer wanted you to do...I HATE that!!! I Love puzzle games that give you the puzzle and, at your leisure, you take your time and solve the puzzle. No Hurry. No Dying. No 'bad guys' shooting at you, etc. AND you can save it any time that you choose and come back to it later. BTW: You can't save it whenever you want to. There are "check points" that auto save. So you may have to do a level Completely Over Again IF you don't make it to the unknown check point. This isn't that kind of game. In ' The Entropy Centre', You will die and have to start over again, and again, and again, until you Finally figure out what the developer wants you to do. (Not a puzzle game, an Arcade game)! OH, and I haven't gotten this far yet because I'm deciding if I'm just going to delete it, but others have said that there will be Jump Timing and enemy confrontations coming up, which will make it even worse! IF you like Arcade games with the rushed frantic pressure that make you do it Over and Over and Over and Over and Over, until you get it the way the programmer wanted you to do, Than you will love this game. However: If you are the type that just likes to be presented with a puzzle and can take your time to just solve the puzzle, You will HATE this game. Your choice. BTW: Portal it is NOT<<<<<<Could have been as good, but the developers chose to make an Arcade game instead.

the dialogue between the two leads is cute and the graphics are nice. the puzzles are fine, some towards the end are good, although a handful suffer from inconsistent physics or poor room readability. but overall i cannot recommend this game. if you're like me and unoriginality annoys you then this game will be unbearable to play. it is far too similar to portal 2 in just about every aspect, and the little that isnt lifted wholesale from portal is underbaked and done better elsewhere. frankly you need to be completly starved for another portal to enjoy this knockoff. in that case i'd recommend some mods or fangames instead.

Very clearly an attempt at a spiritual 'reboot' of classic Portal, but instead of portals, the gimmick is time. It itself is a cool idea, but my main gripe (which persists throughout the entire game) is the classic millennial voice slop. What I mean by that is the dialogue in the game seems entirely unnatural and forced. This games equivalent of the portal gun is actually pseudo-sentient, and banters with the character. That's cool, but NEITHER of them know when to stop talking. The MC hooks the guns "name" into every single sentence, making the dialogue extremely unnatural. It is too jarring to continue.

I'm a big Portal 1/2 player, and so when I saw a similar puzzle game with a futuristic style, comedic dialog, and unique mechanics- I knew I had to play it! The game actually proved to be alot more difficult than I thought how it was going to be. -Not that it was suuuper hard all the time, but these puzzles would actually require you to think, in order to move on! And the game would get progressively harder as the story would progress, as more, and more, elements -(alike portal), would be introduced over time which would create interesting solutions. This game is also quite long as well, so I'd take breaks if needed between chapters. I'd say that it took me a good 6-to-7 hours on my first playthrough! Overall I highly recommend this game if you like the Portal games, I had a really good time solving and learning the story of these two main characters, plus there's heavy use of concrete brutalism in the making of the style of this game which was a cool choice of architecture and world building! Happy Entropy Centre puzzle solving! :D

Portal game with a time-rewind gun with a better story than it needed. If you liked Portal, buy this. The core tool rewinds objects through time, so instead of just placing cubes you're undoing where they've been. It sounds hard and takes a room or two to understand, but once it does, every puzzle becomes a small planning problem rather than a physics trick. Some rooms had me stuck for a while, though nothing ran past 20 minutes, so the difficulty sits in a good place. The story is the surprise. It's set around a catastrophe, and your companion's banter carries the stretches between puzzles well enough that I looked forward to the dialogue. Environments are genuinely nice to look at. Secret messages on the computers made the game more deeper and interesting. No bugs worth mentioning in my playthrough

Great little game. If you like portal then this game is for you :)