Chroma Zero

A real gem. The entire game is spent within these three giant colored rings, and you get three colors you can combine and/or apply on various objects. Your red thread will be trying to find this charming extradimensional ball of colored shards, and simply acquiring more information. The music is really good. The mechanics are very simple and yet used in all different and very satisfying ways. The puzzles are pretty hard, so you might get stumped at least once or twice (spent more than an hour on reminder 7) but they never feel cheap or illogical, there's a logical combination of actions you have to figure out, and sometimes all you really need is more information. If needed there's a very good hint guide, with hints going from reminders, vague direction, to the exact solution.

(Time played does not reflect completion, as I played on another platform first) I had a delightful time with this colourful little puzzle box of a game. I would consider it one of the purest metroidbrainias in the genre. It was just the right level of challenge, with satisfying epiphanies and a great sense of reward after hours spent working out a solution (sometimes in my sleep) and then successfully executing it. While it is light on story, the game still has a lot of heart, and I got surprisingly attached to my little atemporal hint buddy. The music also brought chills on at least one occasion.

The rush of figuring out this game's mechanics from a beautiful state of ignorance, through to becoming intimately familiar with every piece of this world, reminded me very much of Outer Wilds. In that it blends puzzle, exploration, and 'tinkering until you Figure It Out', the only thing this game lacks is graphical fidelity. If you're the type of gamer who can look past that to the mechanics and enjoy the beauty, there's something great here.

Cool exploration puzzle game! Enjoyed it a lot, though I must say that get into magenta tower part was probably harder to figure out than literally anything else in the game [spoiler] And it generally feels like making a leap "I can bend the rule "there is always one white solid portal, so I cant turn red one into white and end up there reliably" by breaking the white portal and leaving by dropdown" is the main culprit there. And I know that you can portal to solidified white without breaking, but this is guesswork -- if you try to solve it in your head and then execute, you either figure out that you can break everything on starting platform and then rotate from below or you rule out the solution and either find the unintended one or get stuck [/spoiler] Aside from that part it was quite interesting and fun. The only thing I could ask for this game is to be bigger without the quality compromise

A truly fantastic Metroibrainia. If you have played Outerwilds and want another experience similar to that I HIGHLY recommend you play this game.

Peak, as anything somewhat similar to outer wilds is by default. I beat the game without using the built in 3-hint system (which I didn't even realize existed until after I beat the game). No puzzle was overly simple, yet I never felt completely stuck. My only real complaint is that when using the core mechanic of the game, it creates white objects with a grid pattern, It reminded me of the default unity texture every time I saw it. could've been better to use more of the color they are supposed to represent instead of being universally white. It may seem like I wrote more about my one negative point rather than the positives, but I cannot say what I liked about it in fear of spoiling the game! JUST PLAY IT!