Flux Caves Reviews

Fair puzzle game. Not hard, nor too easy. Simple mechanics and really low priced,

Peaceful puzzle game that involves moving blocks that carries pipes at the right place to put the balls at the end. Thats all.

I enjoyed playing this game, moving tubes about. Its not too difficult to solve but can get a bit tedious moving tubes to the right position finally to get the flow correct. I finished all 18 levels and the 6 openworld puzzles but could not get the escape ship to blast off as one red orb remained red. Not sure why. Anyway, a nice little game.

Relaxing puzzle game with a much larger world than needed for what it is. You can just go walking in the woods to piano music if you feel like it (I don't recommend that as thrilling gameplay- but you can).

You enter a level, quickly look around where all the pipe pieces are supposed to go, and then you spend 10 minutes slowly pushing them to their correct positions. The game is ugly and very buggy. Re-entering a level resets it and locks you out until you've completed it again. I almost got stuck out of bounds, but luckily was able to get back in time so I didn't lose any progress.

Great game to hop in and solve a couple puzzles at a time. Puzzles don't have too many moving parts, so they aren't overwhelming, but you do you have to move them in the perfect order so its still challenging. And because of that, you need to solve the whole thing in your head first and then act. (Or just use the undo button if you can't brain it out beforehand) But yea, I really enjoyed this game. Perfect level of difficulty imo. I especially liked the outside puzzles because the scenery was pretty. I think I have two puzzles left, so about 4.5 hours of playtime for me. Well worth it if you like puzzle games!

Flux Caves is a 3D puzzle game that involves moving pipes and getting balls of space fuel throughout the map into your spaceship. No idea why it was not called rocket fuel in the game. This is not revealed until you further progress through the world puzzles. There are 18 main levels and six open world puzzles. As well as cakes hidden on each of the main levels. The game can be completed in under three hours on the first play through. Beyond impressed on the amount of effort put into making this challenging and exciting. This game has taken inspiration from many other popular games such as Portal. The achievements can be completed easily without any difficulty as long determination and effort are made into solving the puzzles correctly and finding all the hidden cakes. This time it was not a lie! Rate 8/10

This feels someone's first attempt at making a game, and if that is the case: kudos on the effort, keep trying, I'm sure you'll make something great one day. That said, there is really nothing worth experiencing here for fans of first person puzzle games. The puzzles are more tedious than puzzling, taking a ridiculous amount of time to push each block one space at a time into the right position, and then forcing you to wait while the solution confirms that it is correct several times in a row before allowing you to progress. I guarantee you will spend more time inputting solutions than you will trying to figure them out. That might be forgivable if the puzzles were innovative or interesting, but there are simply no new ideas here. If you've ever pushed blocks to solve a puzzle in a videogame before, you've seen everything this game has to offer, and have likely seen it done way better. Graphics, sound, etc range from barely serviceable to annoying/obstructive. Honestly, if you're a puzzle game addict like me, the low price tag will probably entice you to check it out anyway. But if you really want to know if this game is worth spending an evening or two messing around with, the answer is no.

Cute little game. A bit rough around the edges. Encountered several graphical glitches, managed to fall out of a level while searching for a cake (and of course it hadn't saved the fact that I had finished it). The most serious issue was that in one level (17 I think) most of the balls actually flew out of a corner pipe. The game is very cheap though, so I'll take a few bugs. Having an open world to find your puzzles in was nice though. If you're a player of puzzle games like The Talos Principle, don't expect a challenge. At no point will the puzzles get difficult at all. Finding puzzle 18 was probably the biggest challenge in the game. Played on Ubuntu Linux at ultrawide resolution without issues.

This is a relaxing puzzle game. You assemble pipe segments by pushing them, but it's in 3D so the pipes can't trap you just each other. I really liked that each level was handcrafted -- too many games in this genre come up with 100 randomly generated mostly similar puzzles and it becomes a slog / chore. This one you have a sense of progress & progression, and it never got tedius. The big drawback is that this game a one-person game. So it doesn't have the optimization or fleshing-out that you might expect. It also has a few glitches/bugs (the top tier on level 14 seemed almost random where the blocks would push too). So this game is difficult to place -- I'm writing this review just before the Steam Summer Sale when hundreds, perhaps thousands of top-tier excellent games will all be on deep discount, and will likely offer better value per money. And yet honestly I'd rather support an underdog who has made a credible though imperfect one-person game rather than reward a large corporation that has focus-tested and polished their microtransaction slot machine. I'm giving this the thumbs up because (1) support your local starving artist and (2) I played it and enjoyed it, and you can't ask for more than that.