Hyperbolica Reviews

It's a very unique experience. Definitely worth a try.

An environment that rewrites the laws of physics is pretty impressive on its own.

Fascinating game with truly unique geometry (takes some getting used to!) and an interesting, personable story to boot! Really nice little game, definitely worth adding to your collection!

Hyperbolic geometry sounds interesting, but in terms of gameplay it's just regular geometry with more volume crammed in. There are only 2 places where it really has a direct impact on the gameplay, one of them is pushing a box in circles for 2 minutes, and the other is actually spherical geometry. That's if you don't count basic traversal challenges, just getting from point A to point B. The rest is a whole lot of walking around, clicking on each of the dozens of NPCs trying to figure out which of them is going to progress the story, and occasional scuffed Unity platforming. The biggest impact the hyperbolic geometry has it that it makes it take way longer than you think to fully explore an area, so you will just be walking around for an eternity with your agonizingly slow movement speed. I'd only recommend it if you've watched the development videos and want to see what the final product looks like. The technical aspects are cool but it's not fun to play.

this game doesn't really have much going on. It plays a little like a tech demo and not a full game. It is a good introduction to the neat visuals, but sadly that's all they really seemed to be, a visual gimmick. If you strip away the visual gimmick, the world is empty and not very interesting, the characters assume you care about them when you really don't, and the quests I experienced were more like warioware minigames. I was expecting a much deeper experience than this from something that tries to do something so new with visuals, but sadly it was quite shallow.