Antichamber 2013

Is it still worth playing?

Alexander Bruce's first person puzzle platformer, released on Steam in January 2013. Many puzzles are based on impossible objects made by the game engine, such as passages that lead to different places depending on which way you face. Brief messages of advice help with solutions and with life in general. You start in an antechamber with four walls. One is a menu with a ninety minute countdown timer, and another is a map that fills in as you visit rooms and lets you jump to any room you have been in. Bruce has said that breaking down expectations of space and then remaking them is essentially the core mechanic. Laser beams control doors, which may need the beams blocked or unblocked. A space that breaks your expectations of space still sends you back to look again.