The Tool
Mikhail Maksimov · 2020 · Casual, Simulation, Experimental, Puzzle, Relaxing
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 16
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About The Tool
A relaxing and educational casual puzzle game. Create your own combinations of world objects, watch and run simulations, create new messages and share your creations with other players. Receive packages from the cloud and unbox it.
The basic concept of the game is the endless equipment. The program screen allows you to interact with living and plant objects, planetary systems and microscopic chemical structures. In the Game you create unique combinations of these objects and launching it in the gravitational dance, then you can name the resulting kits. You can collect the word packages into statements and share them through the Internet cloud. You can download other people's messages and make colorful unpacking.
The game concept is a reinforcement of the human tools and a simulation of progress through additivity. Such a principle of knowledge contradicts The law of conservation of mass and can eventually uncontrollably destroy the ecosystem of human world. This game is a warning about this scenario.
Often we are not able to understand the scale of what is happening, neither at the macro nor micro levels. The additive accumulation of tool properties does not always increase its characteristics. In general, the possibility of exchanging ready-made tools via the Internet and the use of saved instruments in other enlarged meta-instruments will allow us to visualize the basics of human epistemology.
Please read The Tool Guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2256219488
The basic concept of the game is the endless equipment. The program screen allows you to interact with living and plant objects, planetary systems and microscopic chemical structures. In the Game you create unique combinations of these objects and launching it in the gravitational dance, then you can name the resulting kits. You can collect the word packages into statements and share them through the Internet cloud. You can download other people's messages and make colorful unpacking.
The game concept is a reinforcement of the human tools and a simulation of progress through additivity. Such a principle of knowledge contradicts The law of conservation of mass and can eventually uncontrollably destroy the ecosystem of human world. This game is a warning about this scenario.
Often we are not able to understand the scale of what is happening, neither at the macro nor micro levels. The additive accumulation of tool properties does not always increase its characteristics. In general, the possibility of exchanging ready-made tools via the Internet and the use of saved instruments in other enlarged meta-instruments will allow us to visualize the basics of human epistemology.
Please read The Tool Guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2256219488
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]Before I played The Tool, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]4 found this helpful
"The Tool" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game. Typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is not really a game, it's a weird and pointless bit of experimental software from Russia where you take a bunch of flipped Unreal Marketplace/FAB assets and put them next to each other. Like you put a box and a chair and some shelves in the same place and wow, you have made an entirely new thing! The chair-box-shelf! Isn't that amazing? And why would you do this? There is no reason to do this. What a pointless waste of time. This game is essentially a bunch of other people's stock assets rearranged and kitbashed into a "game", so with those "borrowed" assets, at first glance it looks okay. But there's much more to a game than the appearance that other people's game assets can provide. When developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality asset…2 found this helpful
This game taught me about the wonderful world of child birth. In this in depth experience you figure out about mass shooting and aliens while attaching crap to a fetus blob. 10/10 would play again.2 found this helpful
Игра 'The Tool' – это неожиданно глубокий и атмосферный опыт. Сначала механика кажеться необычной, но быстро увлекает. Управление одним инструментом, для которого нужно найти применение в решении головоломок и взаимодействии с миром, создаёт неповторимую связь с окружением. Визуальный стиль минималистичен, но очень эффективен, создавая ощущение изоляции и таинственности. Звуковое сопровождение прекрасно дополняет атмосферу, добавляя напряжения и подчёркивая важные моменты. Головоломки продуманы и поначалу кажутся сложными, но после нахождения решения, чувствуешь удивительное удовлетворение. Сюжет прост, но рассказан через окружение и взаимодействие с объектами, заставляя игрока самостоятельно догадываться о происходящем. Игра короткая, но после прохождения оставляет после себя сильное впечатление и желание переосмыслить увиденное. Рекомендую всем любителям необычных и атмосферных головоломок, а также тем, кто ищет что-то новое в жанре инди-игр.
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