Optika Reviews

If you like cool light effects and EBM this puzzle is for you! [b]PROS:[/b] +Good visuals. +Innovative! +Satisfyingly relaxing. +Well thought tutorial. +160 levels. +Gratifying sounds. [b]CONS:[/b] -Broken Steam achievements. -Ultimately a matter of trial and error. [b]SCORE: 6.8 / 10[/b]

I like it, but I have a number of complaints: - The hit boxes don't register well enough - The mouse sensitivity is too high and the angles change on their own when you've only clicked and not moved the mouse - The light particles move too slow, it makes it feel like a laggy fps - The levels aren't that creative, just asinine in difficulty from crap controls

A super fun light optics puzzle game with plenty of pieces. It's not just about bending the lights correctly. There are different color lights that need to go to the correct sensor. Some sensors require a specific light speed. Some pieces split light into colors. The tutorial is simple yet effective. I played the tutorial and five levels. I love these kinds of puzzles, and you might as well.

Optika is a casual physics-based puzzle game that's fun and colorful throughout. The gameplay mechanics are interesting, albeit not well explained by the tutorial. There's a lot of levels here, but the game is unfortunately easy and the game doesn't demand that you understand its mechanics completely in order to complete the puzzles. In this way, the game encourages experimentation that makes it easy to see everything Optika has to offer; on the other hand, it makes solving the puzzles less satisfying in places. Still, for $5, Optika is worth your time and money. The soundtrack is fantastic and the vibe of the game is both soothing and cheerful. Would recommend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaN-hDW5Lzg

[h1]Gameplay:[/h1] Not really fun to play and hardly a puzzle game at all. Since the photons are already flowing while you're playing and you get the exact assortment of necessary items (lenses, mirrors etc.) beforehand, all you do is move/align the given items and fine-tune until the beam hits the targets. Planning ahead and logic falls flat, you don't build your own solution, you just tune a given setup. It's too easy, too limited, totally one-dimensional and boring. Could be good for kids, but isn't because of inaccurate, laughable physics ("photon accelerator") and spelling errors. [h1]Design, Controls:[/h1] Beam movement, colors etc. look unphysical and unrealistic. The item design is ugly and bland (just abstract, white symbols) and lacks clarity, so that the real "difficulty" is not finding the solution, but rather trying to recognize the items and what their function is. Because of poor mouse control (which cannot be adjusted), getting the desired angles is another frustrating "difficulty" that shouldn't exist. The whole design looks cheap and loveless with a minimal interface and menu options, as if the game was put together on a single weekend. [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] Amateurish, a total failure. It's an insult to charge money for this, since there are much better flash physics games for your browser out there which are actually FUN to play and FREE of charge.

the puzzle design is really bad. One moment way too simple and other even with an example you can't beat it edit: Just don't buy it at this time (23-03-2025) achievements are broken so only way to get them is by reverting to a old version And you need to have your monitor an 16:9 otherwise certain puzzles are unsolvable

Had a great time solving the problems with my friends. Indie games like this deserves a lot of appreciation.

This game is disaster.. I didn't even finish the tutorial. And not because it is so difficult, but because it is total bulls**t. Mainly, it's not about the optics in the meaning of physics. Even if I accept the non-intuitive marking of the used "optical" elements and their chaotic appearance, or the misuse of the terms emitter and collector, I'm not able to accept the bending of a light beam by a magnet or even the function of slowing down light speed by adjusting the emitter. I originally wanted to show the game to my children to learn something about physics, but this is just a bunch of wrong principles that absolutely ignore the physical nature of light. As an addition, the game was lagging on my i7-9750H / RTX2060.

Bought it while on sale and got a space background for 500 points in the points shop. Nebula Y background is beautiful, but the bottom part doesn't really blend with Steam (check my profile and try scrolling down). There's another background which is pretty similar and apparently blends well with the rest of your profile, it's name is Rare Nebula something. If you're planning to buy it just for the background, wait for it to be on sale or buy the background in the community market

After adjusting mirrors and lenses the whole day to hit the desired spots with a laser, I go home, start my PC and adjust mirrors and lenses the whole evening to hit the desired spots with a laser. In Optika, you solve geometric optic puzzles by adjusting optical elements such as mirrors, lenses, frequency conversion crystals and a few others. While there are many games out there, especially mobile games, that do exactly the same, Optika seems to be the only one (correct me if I'm wrong) approaching it with single photons forming a beam of light, which gets closer to the particle-wave characteristic of light than just a solid beam. Then again, it lets you change the speed of light, so the real physics stop as fast as they started. Pros: - Lasers - epic colors (you can take some really nice screenshots) - frequency conversion (it's even cooler in reality) - Lasers Cons: - the magnetic fields make you go crazy and their amount of influence on the photons is unrealistic - changing the speed of light gives away the realism (changing the speed of the photons is only required because of the magnetic fields, removing the first would solve the latter) TL:DR As an engineer developing lasers, I rate this 8/10 (not 10 yet because of unrealistic mechanics)