Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut

7/10 Genuinely solid puzzle game. But unfortunately I will never beat it because lost all my data, and I am not sane enough to go through 5 hours of puzzles when I already suck so bad that I was on the verge of crying in frustration to beat some of them.

- No manual saving - Cannot enable dialogue subtitles - The F1–F12 keys still have remnants of developer/debug functions - The story feels forced and unnecessary - Long, empty corridors and elevators - Some puzzles are simply unintuitive nonsense - Several puzzles rely more on execution than actual thinking A slightly below-average little game that takes around 3–4 hours to complete. A low-budget Walmart Portal.

Q.U.B.E's a sci-fi themed puzzler that was lovingly assembled by people who very clearly adored the Portal games. It has a very similar clinical (but appealing) aesthetic and narrative framings while also inheriting some of the physics based puzzling. It was a decent challenge (granted I'm not great at puzzle games), I found the plot intriguing, and I enjoyed the atmosphere as well as the music, but it isn't anything you haven't seen before if you've played a decent number of post Portal puzzlers OR engaged with even a slight amount of sci-fi. But I will give it points for the ending, which I quite liked. If you're a casual puzzle game fan, there's a good evenings time to be found here, particularly worth it on sale I'd say.

Some of the worst physics "puzzles", not helped by the physics objects randomly glitching out and making you reset

Decend 3D puzzler. Scratches a similar itch as portal, though obviously it's not made by a massive studio.

While I enjoyed this game for the most part, especially as a fan of the Portal games, it certainly had some things that dampened the experience for me. Some of the game's later puzzles, while not particularly difficult, were a bit tedious to complete. On top of that, sometimes the physics of the game, on which some puzzles heavily depend, would just straight up break, forcing me to start over some puzzles repeatedly. Despite all that, I would still say I had a good time with QUBE. Great vibes, solid puzzle design, and a decently intriguing plotline.