Shutter (2023)

This is a free indie puzzle game made by a group of students. The graphics are great. The scenery is beautiful in the space-age research center you are in. You might expect to meet George Jetson while you are in there. You play as Keith, a brand new employee of this research center. You will solve puzzles, collect documents and recordings, and find cool suits and hats to wear. You will explore 5 floors, which are numbered as Floor 0 to Floor 4. You have a weird camera. When you take a picture of an object, that object disappears. You then use the camera to make the object reappear, and in doing so can change the size of the object to make it either smaller or bigger. Many of the puzzles involve putting an object on a pressure plate to open doors and stuff. The game should take between 60 to 90 minutes to get all of the achievements, IF you can get them all the first time. Some of the collectibles ([i]documents, recordings, and hats[/i]) are easy to miss, and missing those means missing achievements, so you may have to play multiple times. I had to play it 4 times to get all of the achievements because the game was quite buggy for me. The first time through, I missed 2…

[h1] Love games like this. Nice mix between puzzle, exploration and platforming, just like in Portal! Take picture of object and release it from the photo somewhere else. Perspective changes how big the object is. Some boxes, cubes and pressure switches to press. Level design is interesting and remind of some futuristic but mundane scenery with cafeteria, maintenance rooms and such. Really worth playing. [/h1]

Peculiar university project! Similar to the famous Superliminal, Shutter takes the concept or perspective to craft a puzzle game, where items shrink and grow by just adjusting the camera angle. It is fun to see how this core mechanic is applied in a 70s Space age environment, rich in colours, style, and personality. Being Shutter a student project, it is fairly brief, to complete in about an hour, yet being also free to play I definitely cannot complain. I can see such a project pushed forwards in a still small but complete experience, one that can kickstart these young creators.

A charming, bite-sized puzzle game! It's on the easier side and takes roughly an hour to beat, but the beautiful graphics and the fact that it's free make it well worth your time. Highly recommended if you have an hour to kill. I encountered some minor camera bugs, but nothing that detracted from the overall experience

Very cool and beautiful game, it's Portal + Superliminal. I'm impressed that students created this game !

fun puzzle game, not too hard and theres the beginning of a story here, for a free game its great, but I hope if this were ever made into a full game that the story was more fleshed out and the camera ability had more of a thematic reason behind it rather than just a vague mix of scp and portal with the game play of superliminal