Quanect

+++ easy, fast & cheap 100 % Steam Achievement (with Guide) + creative Game-Idea, Level Design, Easter Egg Achievements - some Puzzles to easy (--- No 5 Trading Cards = Not enough Sales/ Thanks Valve) Good for Achievement Hunters & Casual Indie Riddlers https://store.steampowered.com/app/745940/Quanect/

For only $1, a competent Portal-ish clone. Go through fixed portals, use buttons and cubes as well as your "glove hand" to see the other reality in order to make it to the exit. Only real gripes are that movement is pretty much locked when you get launched in the air and a couple of Achievements are a bit iffy as to when they want to unlock. Takes an hour or less to complete.

I really tried to get into this as it has some Portal vibes going on. But the platforming is just so frustrating it makes the game rather unenjoyable.

concept: good execution: bad mechanics: terrible level design: meh. introduces one concept at a time, but a) terribly and b) generally ignores most concepts as the (few) levels progress more info: the big hovering shard thing is 1. weird 2. makes it very confusing no acceleration (?) makes it vomit-inducing if you play for more than 30 mins at a time, tops after level 10 it says "next levels are being developed contact info: twitter (deleted), vk (obscure), gmail (email bad smh) no level select makes the "missable achievements" post necessary and the speedrun achievement annoying, especially if you don't get it but have finished the level already

With the core idea that you can jump from one point in space to the same point, but in a different reality, Quanect has a very interesting and potentially mind-bending concept. In games such as Portal, you would navigate one reality but have to come up with unusual ways of connecting said reality to itself; in Quanect, you have to navigate multiple realities at the same time. Unfortunately, I see several issues with the current (February 2021) state of this game: [olist] [*] The game is still unfinished. After not even a dozen small levels, your progress is blocked by a note from the developer thanking you for playing, and informing you that the subsequent levels are a work in progress that will be released with the next update. This “next update” would have been in the making for almost three years now. [*] The game’s advertising is misleading; [olist] [*] It claims that the device you use “repeats your movements in another reality” (technically not wrong, but it made me expect time loops and puzzles akin to Braid) [*] “Portals serve to work between realities” which they don’t. All portals in the game move you through space within the same reality, except for one in the …

This is an incomplete demo. It should have never been released in this state. On the bright side, it works with Proton on Linux out of the box.