Maiz
Critix Studios · 2023 · Casual, Adventure, Puzzle, Platformer, Point & Click
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 18
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About Maiz
Maiz is a first person puzzle game.
Hajar is lost and the villagers life is at risk. Save them from the sun by solving all the puzzles on your way to find Hajar.
Solve the puzzles of a room to access another one and discover the story of this oasis marking the opening of the Sahara desert.
Lasers, blocks, button to activate, physics to count on. All of this is awaiting you in the world of Maiz. To solve the puzzles you are going to have to use laser reflexions, button pushing with either youself or blocks to move and even take advantage of physics.
Maiz is completely developped under Unreal Engine 5 fully using technologies such as Nanite or Lumen so expect beautiful graphics.
Hajar is lost and the villagers life is at risk. Save them from the sun by solving all the puzzles on your way to find Hajar.
Solve the puzzles of a room to access another one and discover the story of this oasis marking the opening of the Sahara desert.
Lasers, blocks, button to activate, physics to count on. All of this is awaiting you in the world of Maiz. To solve the puzzles you are going to have to use laser reflexions, button pushing with either youself or blocks to move and even take advantage of physics.
Maiz is completely developped under Unreal Engine 5 fully using technologies such as Nanite or Lumen so expect beautiful graphics.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It seems like a nice game. Great graphics. Have to move triangular blocks to reflect lasers to hit stone pillars that open doors. The blocks are very difficult to manuver. There are little recorders that play messages. The messages are spoken in a type of Arabic, and the translated caption is in French. No English at all. Can't change the language in the Options. I quit after finding the 2nd recorder.10 found this helpful
Main menu, English. Introduction screen, French with English subtitles. Game is in French including subtitles. Not mentioned in product description. Not designed for QWERTY keyboard. Also unmentioned in description. No option to set key bindings. Controller, hyper sensitive, unusable. No useful options apart from resolution and graphic quality presets. Gorgeous graphics for what they're worth in an unplayable game. Waited to long between purchase and first play so no refund on an unplayable game despite numerous comments in community hub to the effect it is unplayable. Thank god it was cheap. Lesson learned: play game at least once immediately after purchase to make sure it at least functions, otherwise cha-ching! Steam thanks you for your money, sucker. But if you give us more money for a Steam Deck the game may work, though you still won't know what anyone is saying. Sucker.4 found this helpful
Used Razer Synapse to remap keys to make it playable, but it's still super janky. After about 8 puzzles, I arrived at a puzzle that was seemingly impossible, so I "solved" it by clipping over a wall to reach a button, which apparently beat the game. I have no idea what the 8GB of disk space is for, as there's basically nothing here.3 found this helpful
Store page says that English subtitle are available, but this is false. Unplayable unless you have a French keyboard and speak either French or Arabic.2 found this helpful
Controls default to the AZERTY layout and cannot be rebound to QWERTY. The dev doesn't care enough to implement such a basic feature.1 found this helpful
It's a neat little game with a less than ideal control structure. The puzzles are fun to figure out. It's setting is very good, it unfortunatley suffers with it's language. For French/ Maghreb/Arab speakers it's story is understandable. To anglophones it is not It's worth like 2 bucks
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