The Shrine

I bought this indie game for $10-11 bucks on Steam the other day and am now three hours into it. Its a very pretty puzzle game that has a Limbo and Braid feel, but set in a space station. The atmosphere is bleak and creepy while the story slowly unfolds as you run around solving 2D platform puzzles. Your toolis a sci-fi gun that can make copies of yourself with a right click and then it can also move your 'consciousness' into one of the clones with a left click. The clones can die off and everything is ok, but you cant die with the body you are 'in' or you game over.

I'm enjoying this game and i'm sure it will only be 4 or 5 hours long, which is all you expect from a cheap indie puzzler. The atmosphere, music, voice, and sound effects are all top notch and you get absorbed. What is slightly annoying is the fact that this game exists, though. There should be a whole new genre of puzzle game called indie puzzler where you get one gimmick and then have to complete a dozen or so levels with it. Braid, Portal, Winterbottom, this game... they all just take a few tricks and turn it into a game. Granted, they do it beautifully with great graphics and an intriguing story, but games like this never used to exist 5 or 6 years ago.

I think we should come up with a clever... thing... and make levels around it. It seems to be the new way to make a million bucks in indie gaming.

So you fixed it? Nice, I added it to my Wish List

Eric wrote:So you fixed it? Nice, I added it to my Wish List

Yes, i think the 3rd option you posted fixed it. I posted a reply in that thread, i think it was a resolution issue.

Sort of proud of myself for completing this game without having to look up any of the puzzle room answers. Maybe they werent all that hard, but even still, like most people, i had to look up a few solutions to games like Braid and Portal/2.

This game is phenomenology animated and the gameplay itself is very top notch. Atmosphere... total absorption with the lights low and sound high. I would say its worth your $10 (maybe the sale is over and its back up to $15). The story is rather convoluted, and intriguing, but in the credits i saw that Jonathon Blow was a play-tester, so maybe he had a hand in its Braid-esque feel.

Yeah, just finished it. (And Otto thanks nobody.)

Very good game, even if I wished the gameplay had, errrr, faster elements. Unlike something like Braid or Portal, this is strictly a puzzle game, but it's one with dripping with intrigue, enough to keep you playing and figure out the puzzles.

The ways you abuse and dispose of the clones seems almost unreasonable. I mean, just to get above various ledges and move about around the ship involves killing dozens of clones. You get used to it, but that's the disturbing part.

End game spoilers:

This game was good. I thought the ending was really well done and clearly thought

It's on sale on steam for $7.50 atm.

Everyone should buy this who owns a PC and enjoys puzzle games and cool ass stories.

And yet nobody is taking my recommendation to go buy and play Antichamber.

SineSwiper wrote:And yet nobody is taking my recommendation to go buy and play Antichamber.

Sir, sir....Antichamber is good, but it's not on sale atm. :p

Yeah I'm happy with my bounty from the summer sale and GW2. I've got Total War Rome 2 in a month, too mmm