Darwin's Test Reviews

Great game

Cheap ripoff of Portal. Not worth it.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] This is yet another first-person puzzler where you put boxes on buttons. There's nothing really special or innovative in this one. The more difficult puzzles are only difficult in that they're long/tedious, not due to any ingenuity. There's a few puzzles that stray from "boxes on buttons", but they're consistently terrible. In one notable example, you have to navigate a completely dark maze using only an invisible noise that guides you. However, the noise only ever moves [i]towards[/i] the exit, so if you get turned around you can easily lose it and get softlocked in a maze you can't see with literally no clues. I had to restart the game with headphones because it was unreasonably difficult with speakers. There is audio, but it's entirely in French. There is a storyline but it's fairly barebones. The story is very similar to Portal but without the humor. Overall, this isn't a terrible game. But it is extremely mediocre.

Unnecessary bad language. Why could the developer not allow a switch to turn this off? There is a bug because I loaded the Software in France and there is no option to turn on English Voice overs.

If you are looking for something fun but with some thinking like Portal or Talos dont bother with this. The puzzles are too difficult to be enjoyable the option to change language has one option... French - so no option. The strange French translation makes no sense so you dont even know who you are or what you are doing. Unless its free or $1 I wouldnt bother, Oh and it wont work in 3D.

So, issues with the game, it's made by a french bloke, that's enough isn't it? :P Seriously though; There's no english audio and the subtitles flash by a bit too fast occasionallly, which wouldn't be a major issue if it wasn't for: The translation is not up to par, it's going for a bit more academic language which just looks horrible when not translated correctly - this is an exact quote from the game; "The surgical repair of your brain injuries is still fresh". The mechanic of grabbing and dropping the box leaves some to be desired as grabbing may not work, if you move too fast you may drop it, having it roll over when it shouldn't, all of this has nothing to do with puzzles, the puzzle should be the problem and not if the game decides that the box should roll into the water even if it is square... Options are odd as well to say the least - with that said, you are allowed to rebind keys for mouse+KBD as well as controller, big thumbs up for that - "Gamepad face button bottom" is what's usually (on the Xbox controller) referred to as "A"... I do believe there might be a nice story and maybe even a good game hiding behind obstacles such as me not speaking French, I won't refund it as I do believe it is a work of love - and unlike Identity RPG I could actually check the settings without crashing the game :O - but I can't recommend it to anyone that doesn't speak French...

The hardest part about the game is the controls. Even though you can change the keybinds (which is a very nice feature), it remains difficult to control the blocks, especially given how far they often roll. Really wanted to enjoy this game, but alas...