Разработчик: Digital Melody
Описание
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Grab Lab — безумная смесь аркады и головоломки. Пройдите все уникальные уровни: от простых до самых сложных. Спасите мир, починив гравитацию и законы физики. Шипы, пилы, лифты, желе, рычаги, катапульты — просто не будет. Grab Lab усложняется с каждым уровнем. Это серьезная головоломка, в которой не обойтись без быстрых решений и хорошей реакции!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, spanish - spain, portuguese - portugal, russian, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7
- Процессор: Intel Core i5-4440 (or equivalent)
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: nVidia 320M or higher, or Radeon 7000 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 or higher
- DirectX: версии 9.0
- Место на диске: 450 MB
Отзывы пользователей
Cute graphics, challenging puzzles that require quick reflexes. Just uses one button.
Game has a good concept, but there are two big issues in my mind: input timing and handling of levels that can not fit entirely on screen.
Regarding input timing, you will have many scenarios in-game where you want to grapple and then immediately grapple again (for example, to pick up a bolt/potion that is below you then immediately return back to where you were). However, there's no input buffering of any kind: you have to wait until you've landed and already started walking to start your next grapple. This becomes a big issue when you are grappling to a block with spikes directly in front and need to get back, as you have a split second to issue your input before dying.
The other issue is large levels, as the game uses a forced zoom and camera placement to handle large levels, with no way to zoom out or examine the entire level (you only get to see it for a few seconds upon first loading the level). This makes half of the challenge in these levels figuring out the level layout, which is not a satisfying source of difficulty in a game where you're expected to know what the map looks like.
Together, these issues make for a frustrating experience and a game I would not recommend to others.
Grab Lab is a mediocre 1-button game and I can't recommend it even if it is on a big sale.
The game has a couple of decent puzzle levels but the majority of levels are way too easy or tedious.
Despite the fact that the game uses only one button the controls don't feel good. In theory you could move back and forth without ever taking a step however you can't because half the time the game eats your input and the game also doesn't allow for buffered inputs.
The next issue is that the game works on a grid base, so if you are in-between 2 blocks when you press the button the game rolls a dice and yanks you one way or the other.
Once the game introduces larger levels the camera is often messed up and you can't see where you are going. The game zooms out at the start of the level but you have about 2 seconds to memorize the entire level which is a joke. So basically you have to die to learn the layout of the level until you memorize where to go so you can beat it.
The UI is terrible, once you unlock your first character the game proudly shows you that you can assign a character to x and z and if you do that the game hard locks and you have to alt + f4 to restart it. However that isn't the only problem if you die in a level the game has a 6 seconds countdown that urges you to use a continue even if you didn't make any progress at all. The normal retry option which you would want to use almost always is hidden behind the 6 second wait or by pressing escape.
Simple puzzler with a 1-button interface that makes it great for partially disabled users. Player constantly moves; all you can do is extend the grappling hook which moves you to the ceiling/wall directly above you and switches directions. Manages to feel retro due to the color design, even though it's not pixelated at all (its all vector art). Supports mouse/keyboard but I couldn't get my controller to work with it.
gets unreasonably hard by level 68, IMHO, due to the long string of moves you need to make without a single mistake (no checkpoints). I think making the levels that large in a game without checkpoints is a mistake.
This game is an absolute delight! I don't really play a lot of puzzle platformers, but this one is so well-designed, I couldn't help but enjoy it. The game features a simple grappling hook mechanic, and the controls are very tight. It's the kind of game where if you die, you'll know why, and you'll know it was your fault, not the game's. There are plenty of unlockables and I liked the lab where you blend your currently unlocked characters to make new ones. There's just so much to like about this game, and considering how little I paid for it, I consider it money very well spent indeed.
It's a fine game that cost me a grand sum of 75 cents on sale. In my opinion Grab Lab is well worth 75 cents and the 361 megabytes of space it consumed on my hard drive.
And it's fun to say Grab Lab.
Try it with your friends.
The core gameplay involves you pressing a single button which activates the grapple of your ever-walking hero.
The goal is to use the grapple to move your hero onto surfaces, around which he or she always walks in a clockwise direction. Use the grapple to avoid obstacles and traps, and navigate each level in order to pick up strange chemical concoctions.
In some levels there is a special bolt, which really looks like a nut, which you can collect. Enough of these allow you to progress to the next set of levels, and eventually unlock an achievement.
Collecting the chemical potions will allow you to also perform some weird science to change the looks of your hero. If you fail on a level you can alternatively use 10 of those potions to continue without losing your progress, however I think you're best to save them for weird science.
The puzzles are simple. Few are very challenging although many of them require good timing on your single button press. A few require diabolical timing. This is really the only challenge of the game, however the whole experience is relaxing.
I recommend playing Grab Lab. And I recommend saying Grab Lab repeatedly. Just say it. Grab Lab. It sounds good.
Grab Lab.
Great little game which has been lost in the sea of steam games.
I grabbed this game about a year ago on sale and forgot about it.
Recently i went back through my library and thought this looks like a fun little game with a catchy title ill give it a play.
Between things for about 2 days i have played 30min sessions before i 100%ed it.
Game is short but sweet and not too complex with your only actual movement control a grab button.
Your character walks on his own and your goal is to grab the collectibles in the level and dodge the hazards while stages become more dangerous and complex along the way.
There is 105 levels to play and in each level there are potion bottles as the main collectible and some stages also have a secondary collectible, a cog to unlock which can be used to skip other stages if you wish.
There is also a bunch of heroes to unlock some which can be found in levels and others fused in the lab to make unique heroes. All the heroes are just cosmetic but they have really nice artwork so its more of a bonus, i played mostly as the hamburger monster thing dunno why but he was my go to.
Overall the game is a short little puzzle game and id recommend people picking it up on sale if its your kinda thing and dont mind a bit of a casual game to waste a few hours in.
Got it on sale for a steep discount and I'm OK with it, though it's an odd mix. Not sure about full price.
There are 105 levels (15 each in 7 worlds). Took me ~2.5h to beat them all, and slightly less to get all the Steam Achievements. Level designs are all sensible and the game is well-built (no serious bugs), but as a whole the game felt a little unbalanced. Only 2 of the first ~70 levels really felt like a challenge. Difficulty only ramped up in the last ~30 levels.
On each level, the puzzle is to use your grappling hook to zip around the screen and avoid obstacles while collecting all the "potions" -- and on some levels, an optional "bolt." You need a few bolts to unlock the next world. You can needlessly spend potions to "continue" a level, or to craft new skins. (None of the skins influences gameplay.) Since the game makes it easy to "continue" and spend potions, it took me an extra 45m of gameplay to collect extra potions to unlock all 35 skins. (Nothing happens when you unlock all the skins.) A lot of the challenge on some puzzles/levels comes from trying to collect bolts, even though most of them are useless, except you need to be holding 50 at one time to get one Achievement.
**It is worth noting**
that the "arcade" elements of the game are a little weird. You cannot actually control the walking movement of your character: the level begins and you start walking along at a constant pace, never stopping. Your only input during gameplay is when to fire the grappling hook, which always fires "up" over your head, regardless of which direction you're facing relative to the board. In the trailer, all the walking you see is automatic. The "arcadey" aspects of gameplay (and the main challenge on later levels) arise because you'll often need to grapple rapidly to avoid upcoming obstacles that your character would otherwise automatically run into like a dope. "Arcade" here means: "timing is critical."
There is no in-game narrative whatsoever: the Steam Store Page description is the only place that delivers any story.
Graphic design is sleek and cute. The soundtrack is short loops that re-start with every level, varying only between worlds. If the game were longer, this might get repetitive, but it was fine. The track in the trailer is the one with the most character.
Settings are minimal but adequate. (You can toggle sound on/off, no sliders).
Outside of core gameplay, there are some really basic, really irritating, "quality of life" issues. The game boasts "Full Controller Support," and I played on an XBOX 360 controller. During gameplay you're just tapping one button to fire the grappling hook, so the full controller is irrelevant, but that one button works well. When it comes to the menus, it's bit of a shit show. The main game menu is difficult to navigate, since options are scattered around the screen and pressing up/down/left/right on the D-pad doesn't always get you where you want to go. But that ain't all. While playing a level (see bottom-right), pressing "B" pauses. (Fuck knows why it isn't the start button that pauses, but OK.) Once you've paused, "A" restarts the level, "Y" goes to the level-select map, and "B" returns to game. By contrast, if you die and go to the "Game Over" screen, all button-mappings have changed for no reason. "Y" restarts the level, "B" goes to the map, and "A" is useless. It seemed like I was constantly doing what I didn't intend. Frustrating. Pick a function for a button and stick with it.
Frustration aside, core gameplay was alright.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Digital Melody |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (8) |