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2.2 hrs on record
Great game!
Lovely concept
Lots of funny and cute moments
Fun achievements for a bit of extra challenge
Great Easter Eggs.

I'd argue the biggest issue is that it's so short.

The game strikes a great difficulty balance. If you just want to finish it, I'm sure everyone can do it. Even without all the mechanics. If you want 5 star all levels, you gotta be creative, study walking patterns and use your abilities correctly.

Anyways it's a great game, and I'd absolutely love a small 1-5€ DLC (maybe even just cosmetics) to be able to support the devs.
Posted 9 July, 2024.
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1.6 hrs on record
Fairly short and fairly easy chess based puzzle game. Has an interesting amount of puzzle elements. Besides no keyboard support the game is well made, despite the simplicy.

While fun, it's only an hour to 2, which at this price point is just too short.
More and harder levels would make worth the price.

Another thing I would've like was a kind of challenge mode or similar, where the goal is to find the optimal solution, the solution with the shortest path taken or the solution with the least amount of dropping down.

Essentially what I'm really missing from this game is content, difficulty and optional extra challenges on existing puzzles.

TLDR: I really liked the game, I just wished there was more of it.
Posted 3 February, 2024.
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29.2 hrs on record
Decent game. You can tell that this was mostly a playground for a few new mechanics that then was fleshed out into a smaller game.

It's fairly buggy and lacks a bit of polish. Also the pop-in is attrocious, both due to how short the LOD distance is and then that there is a transitional animation, making it insanely noticable all throught the game.

Now the new mechanics introduced here are quite fun. Having different customes with different abilities is quite fun and offers an insterting new spin on the assassin concept. The story is fine and offers an enjoyable experience.
Now you have to keep in mind, that this isn't a full game. Neither in scope, length, nor in polish. But for what it is, it's a fun time.
Posted 19 January, 2024.
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8.9 hrs on record (7.2 hrs at review time)
I really like this mod. You can tell it's a product made from love for the game and the universe.

The puzzles are fun and not too difficult. There's an occational spike in difficulty that's unexpected but overall not a big deal and generally well paced.

Personally I didn't like the story. Didn't feel original, very predictable and the ending was wholly frustrating. What bothered me particularily was, that there was a suggestion to resolve the final conflict, that was never brought up when given the chance.
Regardless of that it does capture the Portal humor and general insanity of Aperture Science quite well and for something community made, I'm blown away. Though I think having gotten an experienced story writer look over the story after the first few drafts would've helped a lot.

Despite my lengthy critique, this is easily a 9/10 mod.
Posted 10 January, 2024.
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7.7 hrs on record (4.3 hrs at review time)
Alles in allem ein gutes Puzzle-Spiel. Der Style von Portal wurde gut getroffen. Die Puzzles sind echt gut.

Die Enden finde ich alle ein bisschen schwach. Da hat mir das Ende von Portal Stories: Mel doch welten besser gefallen.
Posted 1 November, 2022.
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218.7 hrs on record (29.3 hrs at review time)
Komoney has decided to bless us with a digital version of their beloved card game.

And naturally they brought along great improvements in comparison to all the fan made simulators like:
- Microtransactions
- Actually having to own cards (in-game) to be able to use them
- Exponentially falling off rewards for tasks (both getting exponentially more difficult and paying exponentially less), so that if you didn't manage to get your deck within the first 500 packs (around as much as you'll be able to reasonably get at most (aka grinding to hell and back) from in-game rewards), that you're practically forced to go into bankrupcy (a pack costs round about 2€. Getting special offers and in game rewards lowers that, but that's roughly the price per pack at face value)

So in summary they turned it into a pay2win grindfest, which is just like the real thing plus the added benefit of being a grindfest.

Like I always say, I don't need sex because Komoney ♥♥♥♥♥ me every day.
And that now digitally too!

TL;DR: My wife left me, I sold my first born and I'm stuck at Gold III.
9.5/10
Posted 22 January, 2022.
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9.6 hrs on record (7.9 hrs at review time)
Short game, but tons of references and funny jokes.
Posted 19 December, 2021.
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244.9 hrs on record (73.6 hrs at review time)
Ich finde diese Spiel klasse und enttäuschend gleichzeitig.
Die Grafik und das Gameplay an sich sind echt klasse! Es macht sehr viel Spaß und man kann es prima mit Freunden spielen.
Allerdings gibt es sehr viele kleine Bugs und die Mehrspielerkampangne funktioniert nur im LAN. Als AMD-Nutzer sind die Ladezeiten auch extrem hoch.

Alles in allem: Ein gutes Spiel. Hat aber nich Verbesserungsbedarf.
(Hoffen wir mal, dass CA die Bugs noch behebt...)

3 von 5
Posted 26 May, 2014.
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