The First Day

The First Day

The First Day · June 7, 2019 · Indie, Action, Adventure

The First Day is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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The First Day price

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About The First Day


The First Day is an Indie First Person Puzzle Solving Game.

It is your first work day at the soda company Paaraol. The place turns out to be very strange and isn't how it should be.
Use your new abilities to change the gravitational pull of objects to solve puzzles. You will find several tools that are supporting you, like Boxes, Buttons, Lasers, Quantum Machines, Teleporters and more. Use and combine them to puzzle your way through the Paaraol-Company.

All while you are going on a seamless journey to find the secrets behind your powers and battle your past.

- 64 unique Puzzles
- Change the gravitational pull of objects
- A seamless journey with no loading screens after the intro
- Walk on walls, floors and ceilings

- Use and combine many tools while solving puzzles like:
- Laser
- Projections
- Mirrors
- Beamer
- Floating Balls
- Switches
- Teleporter
- Boxes
- Laser Boxes
- Portal Boxes
- Turrets
- Barriers
- Freeze objects
- NPCs

The First Day — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 31, 2024
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8 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 15, 2024
"The First Day" is a somewhat mediocre first person puzzle game not completely dissimilar to games like QUBE and Portal, only not quite as good. But at least it's free, now. Wander around some possibly asset flipped environments and solve some puzzles. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game co…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 28, 2024
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1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 9, 2023
[h1]Before I played The First Day, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 23, 2019
This game is obviously a passion project! It has some clear inspiration from the Portal games, but brings its own twist on the puzzles (gravity based instead of portals) The game is without loading screens so it pushes the map design and story seamlessly + its smooth and stable The game tries to teach you the mechanics in the early stages, but at times you might skip an important lesson to progress. (keep attention on the tips) The dev on this game loves feedback and will try patching bugs if you find any. I have not found any bugs but I have not completed it yet. At times the puzzles get really hard and will take some effort to figure out.. So if you like games that try to test your puzzle skills and you have a love for soda give this game a go. It's a good price for this project! Will update this when I complete the game
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 17, 2021
Original game but it's fine i guess some stuff is left undescribed but other than that it's okay

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